10 Most Fear Inducing Horror Movies To Watch Alone

The second Japanese horror to make the cut, Pulse is a strange, unsettling experience and possibly the weirdest entry on the list. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Pulse takes our addiction to technology and the nature of an internet spread virus, and cleverly presents it with sci-fi esque, speculative terror.

When Taguchi mysteriously commits suicide, his friends begin to realise that there is literally a ghost in the machine. With shadows and slow motion techniques put to unsettling effect, Pulse is a unique and disturbing film that manages to combine our fear of disease and technology going haywire, with the dread of the supernatural. After nearly two decades, Pulse still feels eerily relevant.

One stand out sequence has a character trying to save himself by hiding behind the sofa (safest place in the world, besides under the duvet) as a malevolent spirit advances from the shadows. Filmed in painfully slow motion from the point of view of the victim, we live the moment through his eyes, as he desperately grabs for the furniture to defend himself.

When watching this alone, there can be no doubt that Pulse will have exactly the same result. The film lingers in the mind long after viewing, like the mechanism of the deadly virus itself, making Pulse a sci-fi horror gem.