10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Dream Sequences
The best dreams sequences in horror movies - Hereditary, Jacob's Ladder & more!
When waking life is as horrible as it is, the last thing you need on top of that is for the dream world to be equally as punishing.
Even whilst being haunted by zombies, ghosts and all manner of other monsters, it seems that some characters just can’t cut a break when they finally close their eyes for a peaceful sleep though.
Your brain may work against you in your slumber to deliver some truly terrifying nightmares, and in many a horror flick we see our protagonists subjected to all manner of torture when the lights go out.
The most famous nightmare villain surely has to be Freddy Krueger, who has been stalking through kids nightmares and bringing about their gory ends ever since Wes Craven bought him to life in 1984.
The dream-based horror doesn’t end there though, with dream sequence fake-outs and other unconscious experiences being a popular occurrence in horror movies.
Trying to step away from the overdone obvious examples, here we’ll take a look at some films that offer up one or more killer dream sequences- the scarier the better!
10. Silver Bullet - A Church Attack
To kick things off we have 1985’s ‘Silver Bullet’, based on Stephen King’s novella Cycle of the Werewolf which was released just a couple of years prior.
As is often the set-up for werewolf movies, this one kicks off in a small, quiet town. A series of gruesome murders in the town put the locals on edge, leading them to band together and form a vigilante neighbourhood watch. The local Sheriff and the Reverend try to dissuade people from taking justice into their own hands, but to no avail.
In wake of this, the Reverend suffers a nightmare in which he is presiding over a service in his church when the congregation becomes rowdy, soon transforming into beasts before overcoming him and ripping him apart.
It’s a bad dream that rolls many of the werewolf-related fears into one neat package: the horror of seeing those you know and care about become monsters, that of a safe place becoming a site of great fear, and the experience of being torn to bits are all hit on here.
Luckily for him, he gets to awaken from this dream - which is more than can be said for some of his fellow villagers.