10 Horror Movies That Max Out Your Senses

The horror genre's latest darling and natural peak for sensory cinema, A Quiet Place plays with our hearing in a way that frightening films should all aspire to. When Earth is invaded by monstrous predators that attack sound, silence is the only protection that one family can rely on - though that soon becomes threatened when mother Emily Blunt falls pregnant.

Cleverly toying with sound in varying intensities, we experience the family's hushed attempt at living alongside true, deafening silence, depicting what it would actually be like to live without sound as a given everyday experience. When we do hear noise, we're then trained to be terrified, meaning we're constantly listening out for any potential threat throughout the duration of the movie. It's a simple premise but one made extra effective by involving the audience in its sensory manipulation.

Sound itself becomes the enemy, with even breathing becoming a terrifying prospect in case it draws the attention of a creature. The premise leaves us as the audience silencing ourselves in exactly the same way - truly maxing out our senses as we become a part of the narrative.