10 Terrifying Dream Sequences In Horror Movies
7. David's Double Dream Inception - An American Werewolf in London
Did this one deserve the top spot? After all, John Landis' 1981 horror comedy hit An American Werewolf in London is the only movie on this list which pulls off the infamous "double dream" reveal.
In what must be the most genuinely scary scene in this classic, Landis leaves his likeable protagonist at home with his family, with the whole brood congregated together to watch The Muppets at Christmas time. One ring of the doorbell later, the family are besieged and brutally slaughtered in short order by monstrous pig-faced Nazi werewolves.
Poor David wakes up shook, but fortunately his love interest and personal Florence Nightingale figure, Jenny Agutter, is sitting by the bedside ready to reassure her poor Yank.
That's when she yanks open the curtains and promptly gets a-gutted (sorry) by another Nazi werewolf, a horrifying spectacle which prompts a shattered, shaky David to wake up again.
It's a movie that knows how to deliver a scary sequence, dated effects and all.