Throughout the entire thing, you’ll probably be feeling some kind of tension in one way or another.

The experience is a tense one, but itsalso a noticeably devastating movie to watch.

This film is instead intimate, eerie, and filled with dread.

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Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) on a boat in ‘Jaws’

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Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) holding a sledgehammer in Misery.

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A man at night looking intently off-camera in i-saw-the-devil

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Kurt Russell using a flamethrower in The Thing (1982)

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Hannibal Lecter, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, is restrained with a muzzle in The Silence of the Lambs.

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Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette and Alex Wolff in Hereditary looking at a large candle flame

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Danny (Danny Lloyd) turns his head to look behind him while sitting on his Big Wheel in The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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The xenomorph coming out of the smoke in Alien.

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The Exorcist