10 More Horror Movies So Sad You Can Only Watch Them Once

Surely one of the most criminally underappreciated horror films of the last few years, Relic fashions itself as a fairly conventional haunted house flick from the jump, though leaps off to become one of cinema's all-time grandest expressions of the unstoppable power of dementia.

Relic focuses on three generations of women in a family - played by Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, and Bella Heathcote - the eldest of which is plagued by dementia, embodied here as a literally destructive force threatening the existence of all three women.

Much as the "supernatural phenomena as metaphor for trauma/illness" trope is starting to feel vastly overdone in artsy horror these days, Relic smartly focuses less on spooky funhouse thrills than the terror of a human being having their very essence rotted away.

Witnessing an elderly woman suffering through this, while her descendants are forced to witness her decline, makes for an emotionally brutalising sit that's the furthest thing from escapism imaginable.

If you've got experience with family members suffering from dementia, certainly think twice about whether you truly wish to put yourself through this.