10 Non-Horror Movies That Are HORRIFYING

10. No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers' Best Picture-winning masterpiece No Country for Old Men is 100% horror-coded in its bones. This is in large part thanks to Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning, bone-chilling performance as Terminator-like assassin Anton Chigurh, his presence haunting the entire film like a spectre even when he isn't on screen.

And beyond this, there's a general eeriness to the Coens' seminal adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's legendary neo-Western novel that feels distinctly indebted to the horror genre. Horror isn't exactly a new trick for the Coens either, given that their 1984 debut Blood Simple similarly injects a horror-adjacent vibe into a seemingly more straight-laced thriller yarn.

Absolutely dripping with atmosphere from start to finish, and topped by one of the most unforgettably ominous villain performances of the last quarter-century, No Country for Old Men is a horror film that basically pretended it wasn't - enough that the famously horror-shy Academy still dared to vote for it.