I Love Horror, but Even I Can't Watch These 10 Movies With the Lights Off

I'm a lifelong horror fan who loves the genre, but movies like Sinister and When Evil Lurks are scary enough to make me want to keep the lights on.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Lauren Lyons

I have always had a deep love forhorror.

Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was still menacing, and he wasnt yethosting 1900 numbersfor trivia battles.

A colorized version exists, but the only way to watch it is in its original black-and-white glory.

Carol Anne from Poltergeist with the quote

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Adding color takes away the nightmarish quality of the monochromatic visuals that give the nightan inky, foreboding darkness.

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Freddy Krueger’s claws are about to attack Nancy in the bath in Nightmare on Elm Street.

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Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface wielding a chainsaw outside in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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The three killers look at their two victims, who are tied to chairs in The Strangers.

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Olivia Hussey as Jess Bradford in Black Christmas speaking on the phone.

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A horde of zombies walks towards the camera in Night of the Living Dead'(1968).

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Jay is tied to a chair in her bra with a man with a flashlight behind her in It Follows.

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Madison Bowen (Kennedi Clements) stands in front of a TV with hands on the screen in ‘Poltergeist’ (2015)

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A bloodied Jimi is inside a car with the windshield broken in When Evil Lurks.

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A creepy figure stands behind a little girl in a dark room in Sinister.

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John Trent smiles while watching a movie at a theater in In the Mouth of Madness.

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