9 Scary Movies You're Too Pussy To Watch By Yourself This Halloween

9. Sinister

One part supernatural murder mystery and eight parts pants-soiling tension, Sinister's biggest triumph is figuring out an effective and original use for this "found footage" fascination that seems to be all the rage these days. Its second biggest triumph? Causing your unwavering insomnia and too-frequent need for fresh underpants.

Ethan Hawke continues his unlikely career resurgence as a true crime writer, moving to a new house with his family to secretly investigate some horrific murders that happened decades earlier. Using some curiously not hidden film footage of the crime for clues, the author soon finds that although he began researching these murders, now someone (or something) is researching him. DUN, DUN, DUN! But seriously, stuff gets real (and real unsettling) the closer Hawke's character gets to finding the answers.

And the various bits of snuff footage he finds are utilized in ways that will make the worst parts of your body tingle. It gets to a point where you want him to stop sleuthing just so you can fall asleep some time this year. And the soundtrack! Not since the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre has their been background music that will stiffen the hair on your neck quite like this. So prepare to have at least two-fifths of your senses wrecked by the film's end.