10 Most Chilling Games In Horror Movies
The scariest games in horror movies! Ouija, Would You Rather & more!
Games are supposed to be fun. Whatever form they may take or whether you win or lose, they’re meant to be entertaining activities to brighten up the mundanity and otherwise joylessness of everyday life. Most importantly, though, no one is ever meant to get seriously hurt while playing a game.
Unfortunately for some horror protagonists, however, the kind of games that they find themselves the unwilling participant of are the furthest possible things from fun.
While some of these horrifying games may take the guise of innocuous playground pastimes, they’re anything but innocent. In these kinds of sadistic contests, losing could cost you your life – or something much worse.
These chilling activities may be traumatic life or death situations for those unlucky characters embroiled in them, but to us viewers they make for some deliciously entertaining genre pieces. After all, it’s not like it’s our life that’s on the line.
Ranging from deadly games of cat and mouse, bloody struggles for survival, and everything else in between, these are just some of the frightening games featured in horror movies that we definitely wouldn’t want to play.
10. Would You Rather - Would You Rather (2012)
The harmless game that this 2012 horror thriller takes its name from is simple: players are presented with a selection of hypothetical scenarios in which the aim is to choose which one they would rather do. The options can be anything that your imagination dares to create. But whatever these scenarios are, the player isn’t obliged to see their choice through.
In this twisted interpretation of the game brought to life by director David Guy Levy, however, the players are forced to play out their choice – none of which are pleasant.
The plot centres around Iris (Brittany Snow), who's in desperate need of money to pay for a life-saving operation for her brother. With nowhere else to go, she takes up an invitation to attend a lavish dinner party hosted by a wealthy philanthropist (Jeffery Combs) where the winner of that evening’s entertainment will be generously rewarded.
Forced with choices of whether to electrocute themselves or someone else, stab someone or have another continuously beaten, or slice their own eyeball, this game rapidly devolves into a sadistic night of gruesome entertainment designed to test how far these people are willing to go for a pay day.