10 Awesome Recent Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again

Caye Casas' low budget, Spanish-language horror The Coffee Table is rather unique, in that its horrors are rooted in everyday life. The film opens in a showroom, with a salubrious salesman making his best pitch to sell new parents Jesús and María (David Pareja and Estefanía de los Santos) a pretty hideous, and supposedly unbreakable, coffee table.

Much of the remainder of the film takes place within the couple's apartment, and while the table is set up as a cursed object, and you might expect demons and spirits to be unleashed on the unassuming family, this couldn't be farther from the truth. The table is missing a screw and, after failing to assemble it properly, Jesús is left to look after the baby and wait for the salesman to drop off the spare part. 

María has been gone five minutes when Jesús trips on the half-assembled table, the glass shatters and the baby is decapitated. The next hour or so is spent on tenterhooks, watching Jesús attempt to cover up what he's done while quietly breaking down, all the while ignoring the baby's head under the armchair...

Not since Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt has it been so difficult to watch ordinary people going about their lives, and Casas does a formidable job of balancing his horror with the sense that, somehow, if normality can hold, things might be okay. But they aren't. The ending is bleak, and the experience, though impressive, is not one you will revisit.