10 Non-Horror Movies That Are HORRIFYING
7. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is one of those rare movies that just leaves the entire audience stunned silent by the end, such is the extent of its jaw-dropping impact.
Though there aren't any supernatural monsters or masked murderers to be found throughout the historical drama, it is one of cinema's most stomach-churning depictions of the Holocaust, as seen through the eyes of two children on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence.
While scholars certainly have their issues with the film's approach to history, as a sledgehammer-subtle examination of the Holocaust's devastating human cost, it is a deeply visceral, bluntly effective horror-show of a movie.
Nobody is going into a movie like this expecting a whimsical good time, but filmmaker Mark Herman holds nothing back in exploring the realities of what the Nazis actually did. As such, for many this is a movie they'll only ever feel the need to watch once, not unlike the similarly stunning recent Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest.