10 Amazing Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again

10. Relic

Horror can be the ideal vehicle for getting across huge ideas or concepts. It doesn’t always have to be blood, guts and masked murderers - sometimes the scariest part of a film is the message it sends. Relic is one such horror to use its genre as a medium for its saddest, most universal truths: we all get older, and as we do we lose parts of ourselves until we die.

Depressing? Yep. Incredibly depressing. But it’s the emotion that the film makes you feel that makes it so great, it’s the mark of a well-made film that it’s able to affect you deeply and make you really think about the things it discusses.

Most of us fear the day that our loved ones start showing their age, start disappearing in front of our eyes until there’s nothing left. Relic shows that in a literal way, with every creeping inch of rot and mould being a metaphor for the slow decay of a beloved mother/grandmother’s psyche.

As well as delivering some good scares, it has a sympathetic story to tell. Watching can take a toll on you, by the end leaving you feeling a bit emotionally drained. It’s an important and genuinely beautiful horror experience, but chances are after all that emotion you’ll never want to put yourself through it again.