10 Scariest Movie Moments Of 2019

Horror has been a popular genre since cinema began, but recently its had a bit of a boom. Often coming with a lower budget than other seat fillers, horror movies made on a relative shoestring have become some of the biggest movies of the decade, like Get Out or IT.

While 2019 didn't perhaps have anything quite on that scale, it had a lot of smaller features with gripping, intense moments, with enough pants wetting scares to fill a swimming pool. IT did get a sequel, of course, while Jordan Peele followed Get Out with Us, both providing solid movies, even if they didn't hit the heights of their predecessors.

Horror is a genre which continues to grow and surprise us, even while a few others begin to feel stale. There's so much movies can do to scare us now, that we never quite know what to expect.

Some movies brought out the screams several times throughout the runtime, but with so many great horror flicks this year, it only seems fair to stick to one per film.

Whether they're slow burn chills, sudden jump scares or terrifying revelations, horror certainly provided in 2019.

Happy Death Day 2 U is about as funny as it is scary. Horror comedy has been a hugely successful genre down the years though, and both Happy Death Day movies nestle in their quite comfortably. Perhaps not a movie for die hard horror fans, but still a great film if you like a little chuckle to break up the creepiness.

There's certainly an argument to be made that the death montage, which features Tree killing herself in ever more elaborate ways to try and break the cycle, isn't scary at all. It's all done with a very offbeat humour to the soundtrack of Paramore's indie pop hit 'Hard Times'. It's comedy, pure and simple, right?

But horror and comedy aren't too far apart, especially in a film like Happy Death Day 2 U.

At face value, watching the main character drink bleach, drop a hairdryer in her bathtub, jump out of a plane and leap off a building should be utterly terrifying. Through the tone of the movie, it comes off as hilarious, but that's only because of how absurd it is.

Though it was more likely to get a giggle than a scream, the death montage remains a scary idea.