10 Best PG-13 Horror Films

Unbearably tense, The Office star/ David Foster Wallace adapt-er John Krasinski’s 2018 post-apocalyptic horror A Quiet Place is bleak and brutal, but nowhere near as bloody as you remember.

This one had an easier time than most PG-13 horrors in pulling off its story successfully, and there's two reasons for that.

First off, the movie opens with the audacious decision to kill off a small child. Yes, it happens offscreen, but it's nonetheless a line many R-rated horrors never cross, and as such it's immediately clear Krasinski's vicious flick isn't messing around.

Second, the premise of sound-sensitive monsters, although it was fumbled by the same year's The Silence, allows the filmmakers to build endless tense set pieces out of the possibility that our tiny cast may be discovered.

Where gorier slashers and even many monster movies such as the same year's lesser Bird Box stuff the screen with characters only to off them, the tiny cast of A Quiet Place ensures that every potential death carries massive emotional weight. This negates the need for more gore and makes for a far scarier, more involving cinematic experience.