10 Horror Movies That Don't Start As Horror Movies

10. Sinners

Let's kick things off with the most recent movie on this list.

Ryan Coogler's Sinners was unambiguously marketed as a vampire film, enough that many were surprised to see how relatively subdued the film's horror elements ultimately were.

Coogler spends a long, long time introducing viewers to his world and the characters within it, all of it so utterly engrossing that you're unlikely to get impatient waiting for the blood-suckers to show up. Even so, vampires are only barely glimpsed at the end of the first act, while the second act is all about building suspense, before Sinners finally morphs into an outright horror movie in the grisly final reel. 

Sinners is such a captivating stew of a movie, and between the mesmerising visuals, stunning music, and phenomenal performances, few are likely to feel short-changed by how little horror there actually is in the first half. Ryan Coogler masterfully trojan-horsed horror into a film that really owes just as much to Westerns and musicals.