10 Horror Movies Even More Disturbing Than You Thought

Horror movie can be many things, and of course they're usually intended to leave audiences thoroughly creeped out and disturbed. The clue's in the name "horror," after all.

Yet sometimes filmmakers end up implying something far more torturous than is ever actually verbalised or categorically shown on screen, ensuring those who realise uncover a whole other layer of cinematic trauma.

And that's certainly the case with these 10 movies, each of which weren't merely content to call it a day with the carnival of death and destruction they definitively left in their wake.

No, if you sit down and really think about the wider implications of these movies, things are even worse than they already seem.

From gleaning the full context of a character's "epic" journey through a beloved horror franchise to a story's unhinged eventuality in the wider world and everything in-between, these movies are all way more messed-up than they seem.

As much as these films all showed plenty of horror on the screen, they left just as much to percolate unconsciously in our minds, before bubbling over into a sudden, shocked realisation for the most attentive of viewers...

The original Alien trilogy absolutely put heroine Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the wringer, and though the events of the three films technically take place over the course of 57 years, it's worth remembering that Ripley was in hypersleep for the overwhelming majority of that time.

Let's break it down. The events of the original Alien take place over two days at most, before Ripley is woken from hypersleep 57 years later at the start of sequel Aliens.

Aliens likely transpires over a couple of months given that Ripley effectively re-enters society with a job, while Alien 3 occurs mere days later and lasts for around a week.

So to put this into context, in the span of around two or three months from Ripley's perspective, she watches her colleagues die, finds out her daughter passed away while she was in hypersleep, then finds out her surrogate daughter Newt (Carrie Henn) died in stasis mere days later along with her friend Hicks (Michael Biehn), and later that week sacrifices herself to kill the Alien Queen embryo growing inside her.

Basically, Ripley had one hell of a trauma-filled quarter-year, even if from a temporal perspective the events happened over more than a half-century.