Why is secretly terrifying

When you think about the plot, characters, or locations, they are actually secretly horrifying. Here are 10 movies that fit that description. This Muppets classic with the brilliant performance from Michael Caine has gone down as one of the best versions of the Charles Dickens story.

In fact, it's almost unrivaled and every year is enjoyed by people of all ages around the world. However, it's also a little horrifying. This is a kids' film, yet the Ghost of Christmas Past is a small child that would give any adult nightmares with her strange animation.

Plus the ghost of Christmas future looks like something from a horror film as well. When you think about the story of the Grinch; a scary creature that lives far above a village, which comes down occasionally to terrify its residents, then you'd make the assumption that this was some kind of horror tale.

This film is actually a pretty scary concept and it's a miracle that the people of this small town actually welcome their monster at the end. The design of the Grinch is also slightly horrifying, with the costume better suited for something like a haunted house.

It's been discussed before but we have to mention it again. The injuries in this film really could kill someone and should do more damage than they actually do. Firstly, the film is about a small child, left home alone with two thieves.

That's already a parent's nightmare. According to Washington's original DCS report—an account corroborated by Walker, the nurse—the 9-year-old had a "weird grin" and walked backward up a wall to the ceiling.

He then flipped over Campbell, landing on his feet. He never let go of his grandmother's hand. The year-old would later tell mental health professionals that she sometimes felt as if she were being choked and held down so she couldn't speak or move. She said she heard a voice say she'd never see her family again and wouldn't live another 20 minutes.

In September of , a Utah teen returned to his home to find his parents and three siblings dead. The list looked as if the parents were readying to go on vacation—items such as 'feed the pets' and 'find someone to watch after the house' were written," The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

It appeared to be murder-suicide, but there was no suicide note, no prior indication that they would do this, no explanation. Police could not figure out why two parents would kill themselves and three of their four children.

For a year, no one knew exactly what happened to the family, or what would drive the parents to do something so unthinkable. In January, police released more chilling details in the case. According to accounts from family members and an investigation by police, the parents were driven by a belief that the apocalypse was coming and an obsession with a convicted killer. As the Washington Post reported :.

Friends and family told police that the parents were worried about the "evil in the world" and wanted to escape a "pending apocalypse. According to trial testimony, he killed the victims at the order of his brother, Ron Lafferty, who claimed to have had a revelation from God.

The story became a book called "Under the Banner of Heaven. Police said Kristi Strack became friends with Dan Lafferty, and she and her husband even visited him in prison. In , ABC news documented a series of cell phone calls to families with terrifyingly specific death threats. The unidentified callers knew exactly what families were doing and what they were wearing.

The families say the calls come in at all hours of the night, threatening to kill their children, their pets and grandparents. Voice mails arrive, playing recordings of their private conversations, including one with a local police detective.

The caller knows, the families said, what they're wearing and what they're doing. And after months of investigating, police seem powerless to stop them. This went on with the Kuykenall family for months, who reported a caller with a scratchy voice threatening to slit their throats. When the Fircrest, Wash. It got worse. The Kuykendalls and two other Fircrest families told ABC News that they believe the callers are using their cell phones to spy on them.

They say the hackers know their every move: where they are, what they're doing and what they're wearing. The callers have recorded private conversations, the families and police said, including a meeting with a local detective. Beware of possible spoilers ahead!

If all these secretly scary games have got you itching to test your nerve, head on over to GAME and get stuck into your next horror adventure!

Shop Life is Strange here. The expectation: Become a brave explorer The reality: Cry when fish spook you. Survival in Subnautica starts out feeling plausible and ends up with you getting electrocuted by a giant alien fish, probably. The expectation: Gentle trip down memory lane The reality: This house is a death trap.

But dang, if I have to explain what a barn owl is, you really need to get out of the city. Of course, once you actually see one, you'll be going right back there as fast as your legs will carry you while using what breath you have left to gasp curses at the absent God who allows such horrors to exist.

Here they are doing something equal parts "sassy black lady neck wobble" and "pre-death-strike snake weaving. And of course, there's the one in the back horking down something cuddly in one go. Even if you know that owls eat like that, actually watching it knock back an entire mammal like it's a shot of Jack is grade A terror fodder. But the creepy silence implied by the GIF probably makes it worse, right?

Here's the sound you're missing:. That's right, they scream at you while they deep-throat bunnies and do the Terror Cabbage Patch. Don't be fooled by Harry Potter -- the owls only looked cute and exotic in that movie because they couldn't sneak a scene in which they savagely chew the hope out from behind Hermione's eyes by the MPAA.

Oh holy shit. That's just not even fair. That dog is so cute that it makes you inexplicably mad. You just want to yell at it, tell it to tone it the fuck down already. I fell in love with you instantly, OK? Now you're just rubbing it in, Captain Buggles.

But hey, all puppies are cute. What does it look like grown up? That is the biggest, dumbest, friendliest dog I have ever seen. If nature was a movie, that dog would be played by John Goodman. Now, here's the scale of the thing:.

Jesus Christ! That is exactly the size of a full-grown person. But look! They're hugging! They wuv each other! Isn't that adorable? Let's look at another picture of hugging!