10 Scariest Horror Movie Opening Credits

10. Nope

Jordan Peele's 2022 sci-fi-horror masterpiece Nope is a tour-de-force of tension - a riveting, introspective film that examines the relationship between art, suffering, and exploitation, as well as the craziness that is "getting on with it" in amongst it all.

Peele doesn't render each of these themes individually in the opening credits for Nope, which drop following a startling cold open where Otis Haywood Sr. (Keith David) is killed by debris from the sky, but he does enshrine that connection between cinema and trauma by situating the camera within Jean Jacket, enveloping the lens in what we later discover are the muffled screams of the creature's victims before settling on projected footage of Animal Locomotion.

All of this is marinated by the subtle, haunting tones of Michael Abels' score, as well as Jean Jacket's tissue rippling in the wind. On a first watch it's unsettling, but with the reveal of what Jean Jacket actually is in mind, it's downright haunting.