10 Insanely Intense Films Any Horror Fan MUST See

Are you having marital problems? Then don’t ask Lars von Trier, director of this 2009 psychological horror, for any help.

That’s right – we all know that a horror movie doesn’t need blood and guts and murder to be a nerve-shreddingly intense experience. I mean, sometimes it helps, but…

Be that as it may, Antichrist is another devastatingly intense film full of strange, impactful imagery and one that tells a tight, succinct story. After the death of their child due to their own negligence, a couple retreat to their cabin in the woods so that they can process their grief. She wants to complete her university thesis on gynocide – the murder of women – but she begins to develop pathological beliefs and overwhelming fears about the evil inherent in nature, which she calls ‘Satan’s church’.

Everything unravels, of course, in a nightmarish crescendo at the film’s climax. Tools, violence, her husband’s genitals: you know what that means…