You Need To Pray Before Watching These 5 Scary Movies

we are back with another amazing horror article. I just wanted to say before we jump on into our usual horrifying diatribe, thank you all for being here. Today we will take a look at the Top Scary Movies You Need To Pray Before Watching. Roll the clip. Be it the Buddha, Allah, Odin, Brahma or the omnipotent presence of the universe itself there are some horror movies out there with such demonic tones that you need to say a prayer or two just to get through them. Well, let’s take a look.

So Let’s Take A Look At 5 Scary Movies That You Need To Pray Before Watching 

5. The Hallow

As you may know, I’m a huge proponent for British horror mainly because the only thing we’ve really got to do over there is looking out at a grey sky through a rainy window and well it makes for some pretty terrifying horror cinema. No more so than in 2016’s ‘The Hallow’ written and directed by Corin Hardy the man recently responsible for The Nun. Also if you’re a fan of Game of Thrones then this film stars both Joseph Mawle AKA Benjen Stark AND Michael McElhatton AKA the brilliantly morose Roose Bolton. Great stuff.
The Hallow plays out as a folklore tale of old a family from the city, a newborn baby and malevolent creatures out in the deep dark woods with strangely twisted intentions. It’s also a breath of fresh air from the cookie-cutter creature feature that we see in modern cinema and the departure from full-blown CGI with instead using old-school practical effects made for some terrifying on-screen moments, bringing creatures from Irish folklore to a nightmarish reality.

4. The Omen

Ahhhh jeez this film. Admittedly as I get older the impact of The Omen becomes less and less, but there’s no denying that Damien Thorn AKA the Antichrist himself is one of the most demonically fear-inducing kids to have ever stepped on screen. And the first time you see his twisted little smile is something that you’ll never forget. Here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man and his number is 666. Pretty metal right?

Well, in essence, that’s what Richard Donner’s onscreen demonic onslaught really is, it’s a religiously charged meandering tale that drags us along through the hallways of hell on Earth. Now I’m talking of the wider franchise in this case because the original film starring Gregory Peck is a much more subtle and creepingly quiet beast. The strange spacious audio track. The wide lingering shots and an absolutely terrifying performance from a four-year-old Harvey Spencer Stephens. I wouldn’t necessarily advocate saying a prayer before you watch this film, but I wouldn’t tell you not too either. Really a great scary movie.

3. The Wailing

South Korean cinema just can’t seem to make a bad horror film and at the top of that pile is ‘The Wailing’, written and directed by Na Hong-jin. In essence, this film is about spiritual belief and the inner conflict of the soul. It weaves differing competing threads of spiritualism throughout shamanism, ritualistic sacrifice and Christianity boiled down further good and evil, angels and demons. Which one ends up on top?
Well if you watch the film you’ll find an answer of your own. What you will find though is an occult masterpiece into the weird world of Korean folklore. This film does a pretty stand up a job at keeping you on edge throughout its lengthy two and a half hour runtime, feeding you tiny scraps of narrative right up until the very end. Also, we haven’t even talked about the murder, demon, zombies or the exorcism or the cave scene. Yeah, I really don’t want to ruin this film for you if you haven’t seen it but take it from me it’s worth the nightmares.

2. The Babadook

Are you terrified of creepy shadow monsters that lurk behind your wardrobe door? Then please sit down in a dark room and watch The Babadook! An Australian psychological creature feature from Jennifer Kent. I say creature feature in the loosest sense because of guys seriously, what the hell is The Babadook? I still don’t know and it’s got me pretty shook. That, in essence, is the success of this film through the fear of the unknown the strange otherworldly sense that you get as a child trying to fall asleep in a bleak unfamiliar house. Really scary film.
It blends the supernatural with the surreal with a pinch of Native Australian folklore to boot. Plus also if you’re a fan of the kid fighting back against the monster then you’ll be thrilled at six-year-old Samuel played by Noah Wiseman who absolutely steals the show. I appreciate that people have tried to find further meaning in this film’s plot, it’s ending in particular. And while I think that there are wider cinematic elements that tie this film’s plot together without all of that it’s just a gutwrenching knees weak palms sweaty kind of horror movie. You know the best kind. It’s a suspenseful slightly off story about confronting their darkness that lies within.

1. The Witch

You know what? I get it if you don’t like this film, I understand the criticism that it received, but let me tell you-you’re wrong because this film is possibly the most unnervingly, unexplainably brilliantly strange piece of horror cinema of recent times. It ticks every box on my list and I’ll tell you why. This film is impossibly bleak. It plays like something forbidden something that we just shouldn’t be watching a glimpse into a long-forgotten world where the Devil reigns. It begins with the banishment of a New England family in the 16th century where we briefly get a glimpse of Colonial Era society and a newly found North America, but that world is soon shut off and all we’re left with is the woods and the witch.
And It is one of the most scary films of all time. So this our list of scary movies that you should pray before watching.