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00:00Maybe it's supposed to be colder for the machines or whatever.
00:02A few degrees won't hurt.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the scary movies
00:08that made us suspicious of ordinary objects.
00:11Oh no! No! Not my misery! Not my misery! No! Not my misery!
00:19Number 10, Urban Legend, Drano
00:21What's wrong?
00:23Something you might have heard about mixing pop rocks and soda?
00:27This late 90s offering was chock full of murder scenes ripped right out of modern myths and legends.
00:33At one point, the killer corners a frat boy, Parker, in the bathroom.
00:37Pouring pop rocks in his mouth, the villain follows them up with not soda,
00:41but a drain cleaner chaser.
00:43You're gonna die tonight.
00:47Oh really?
00:48And just to make sure he doesn't miss a drop,
00:50the considerate killer uses a funnel to aim it right down Parker's throat.
00:55The filmmakers ensure that we got to hear every one of the student's pained gurgles
00:59as he swallows the caustic fluid.
01:01You'll never look at a bottle of the stuff the same way again.
01:04Our stomachs burn just thinking about it.
01:07Let's see.
01:09The cause coming from inside the house
01:13could be an urban legend?
01:16Am I right?
01:17Number 9, Leprechaun, Pogo Sticks
01:20Now we're going to play.
01:22Do you want to play with me?
01:25Oh no!
01:27Bouncing on a spring-loaded stilt may not be a particularly efficient method of travel,
01:31but this 1993 cult classic showed us it could be a pretty brutal method of murder.
01:37Warwick Davis' Leprechaun is way more funny than he is scary.
01:40He's constantly going on about his gold and delivering quirky limericks
01:44as he indulges in violence and mayhem.
01:47I got you in a bear trap, I'm gonna make you jumpy up.
01:50I got you in a bear trap, you look like a stupid sub.
01:54He's pretty playful as far as horror villains go,
01:57but there's no denying that watching him batter a shop owner to death
02:00with a pogo stick, of all things, is unforgettable.
02:04If the blood doesn't get you, the crunching of bones probably will.
02:08He'll bounce back in no time.
02:11Number 8, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, Umbrellas
02:16I think you'll enjoy this.
02:19Garbage Day isn't the only thing that you have to worry about
02:22after seeing this bonkers slasher sequel.
02:25Ricky Chapman didn't just inherit his murderous brother's madness,
02:29he also inherited his flair for the dramatic.
02:31My old lady couldn't afford to send me to college,
02:36so I got a job.
02:38Confronting a lone shark in an alley, Ricky makes do with the nearest possible weapon.
02:42He impales the guy right through the stomach with the point of an umbrella,
02:46but he's not done.
02:47Ricky then opens the umbrella, making his victim look like some sort of deranged peacock.
02:52The next time you go out in the rain, maybe grab a poncho instead.
02:55I see no mention of these two incidents in my notes.
02:59Oh my god.
03:02Number 7, The Last House on the Left, Garbage Disposals
03:06Are we there yet?
03:08We are making the turn now.
03:10From carving knives, to stoves, to blenders,
03:12if we've learned anything from horror movies,
03:14it's that everything in a kitchen is a potential weapon.
03:17In the 2009 version of The Last House on the Left,
03:20two parents take revenge on one of their daughter's attackers
03:23by shoving his hand in a garbage disposal.
03:26We are going to get her to a hospital, okay?
03:29We are going to do this.
03:31They are still here. What if they come over here?
03:33If you've ever lived with one of those contraptions,
03:35chances are you've wondered exactly what would happen if you've got a finger caught in it.
03:39Well, wonder no more,
03:42as actor Aaron Paul twitches and screams in agony.
03:46It gives you some idea of how that might go.
03:48It's a torturous scene just to watch.
03:50Alright, bartender.
03:52I guess I'll have another hit of that whiskey then.
03:55Number 6, Christine, Cars
03:58What do you know about that car?
04:02I know that the guy who owned the car before, Arnie,
04:04Yeah?
04:06His daughter choked to death in Christine.
04:08From the trucker in Duel to the maniacal stunt driver in Death Proof,
04:12there have been all sorts of scary movies about bad drivers.
04:15But John Carpenter and writer Stephen King
04:18took it a step further by making the car itself the villain.
04:22Christine is a fiery red 1958 Plymouth Fury,
04:25and that's appropriate.
04:28I'm not going in that car again.
04:30Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
04:32Don't you blame your choking on Christine.
04:34She's fast, furious, and in one scene, she's even on fire.
04:38The inhuman nature of the threat is what makes Christine so haunting.
04:42There's not much rhyme or reason to her.
04:44She's simply a case of human-made technology turning against us.
04:48Christine is an unstoppable hunk of heavy metal and gasoline
04:52that can't be reasoned with or understood.
04:55So we got the old rust bucket tonight.
04:57Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
04:58You wanna watch what you call my car?
05:00She's real sensitive.
05:025. Scream – Garage Doors
05:05What movie is this from? I spit on your garage.
05:08The chances of getting trapped in a garage at night
05:11by a vicious, horror-loving murderer are low, but never zero.
05:16If you were planning on trying to squeeze through a doggy door in that situation
05:19or trying to escape via the main door, forget it.
05:22Scream ruined that one for everybody.
05:25No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface.
05:27I wanna be in the sequel.
05:29The squirm-worthy sequence where Rose McGowan gets stuck
05:32in a slowly rising garage door only to get her head crushed
05:36was instantly iconic.
05:38But it also made the simple act of walking under an open garage door
05:42enough to give us instant chills.
05:524. Final Destination 3 – Tanning Beds
05:55Dude, are we like the only cool people that come here or what?
05:58Uh, yeah.
05:59We could do an entire list with this one
06:01with only entries from the Final Destination series.
06:04After all, who didn't avoid driving behind those big logging trucks
06:07after the first sequel?
06:08But as far as everyday things go,
06:10the tanning salon deaths in the third movie really take the cake.
06:15Sorry I was too late.
06:22When a bizarre series of coincidences trap them inside their respective machines,
06:26we watch as Ashley and Ashlyn are roasted alive due to a malfunction.
06:31With its unnatural light and coffin-like shape,
06:34there's already something claustrophobic about a tanning bed.
06:37This movie just doubles down on everything that makes them creepy to begin with.
06:41We may feel that our lives are not our own.
06:45That death controls, frames our lives.
06:493. The Birds, Birds
06:51I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world.
06:55These weren't a few birds.
06:57This Hitchcock classic plays on the seeming harmlessness of our feathered friends
07:01and the horror that might ensue if they suddenly turned on us.
07:04Birds, especially small common ones, aren't typically threatening to humans.
07:08That's comforting, seeing as how there are so many of them
07:12and they have the advantage of flight.
07:14Mitch, why are they doing this? The birds?
07:18We don't know, honey.
07:20Why are they trying to kill people?
07:22I wish I could say.
07:24Bird attacks like the ones in the movie
07:26would normally stretch an audience's suspension of disbelief.
07:29It's only director Alfred Hitchcock's mastery of suspense
07:32and technical innovation that makes them utterly terrifying.
07:36After watching multiple scenes of gulls and crows attacking schoolchildren,
07:40suddenly the otherwise pleasant sound of birds chirping feels like a threat.
07:542. The Ring – VHS Tapes
07:57Have you heard about this videotape that kills you when you watch it?
08:00What kind of tape?
08:02DVDs were only just starting to take hold
08:04when Hollywood dropped this static-filled nightmare on us.
08:08Adapted from a Japanese film, The Ring features a cursed videotape
08:12whose viewers die under mysterious and grotesque circumstances
08:16a week after watching it.
08:18For viewers in 2002, this was the first time
08:20For viewers in 2002, who still probably had
08:22dozens of VHS tapes lying around the house,
08:24this was a hard one to shake.
08:26He watched the tape.
08:28Who? Who watched the tape?
08:30Our son.
08:34It was a reminder that anyone could record something
08:36and put it on tape,
08:38and you might have no idea what was on one
08:40until you watched it.
08:42Analog horror owes a debt to The Ring,
08:44and if you're a fan of horror movies,
08:47Analog horror owes a debt to The Ring,
08:49and it's Japanese original
08:51for keeping VHS technology alive
08:53through sheer force of terror.
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09:31Chucky was far from the first killer doll.
09:33Movies like Trilogy of Terror and Poltergeist
09:35had rung some scares out of the trope
09:37before he came along.
09:39But something about Chucky's foul mouth,
09:41his pre-recorded child's voice,
09:43and his maliciousness made him
09:45an unforgettable villain.
09:51His height, his clothes,
09:53his weird little plastic body,
09:55all the things that should have been silly
09:57or cute instead made him that much scarier.
09:59It's pretty safe to say
10:01Chucky ruined talking dolls for all of us.
10:03Even the cutest and most innocent
10:05looking ones suddenly had us
10:07on our guard and checking for their batteries.
10:13What ordinary thing did a horror movie
10:15ruin for you?
10:17Tell us in the comments.