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 that made us suspicious of ordinary objects.
00:11Oh no, no, not misery! Not my misery! No, not my misery!
00:19Number 10, Urban Legend, Drano.
00:22What's wrong? Something 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, but 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, the considerate killer uses a funnel to aim it right down Parker's throat.
00:54The filmmakers ensured that we got to hear every one of the student's pained gurgles as 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 call's coming from inside the house.
01:13Could it be an urban legend?
01:16Am I right?
01:17Number 9, Leprechaun, Pogo Sticks.
01:20Now we're going to play.
01:21Do 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.
01:46I got you in a bandwrap, gonna make you shut you up.
01:50I got you in a bandwrap, you look like a stupid son.
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 with a pogo stick, of all things,
02:02is unforgettable.
02:04If the blood doesn't get you, the crunching of bones probably will.
02:09He'll bounce back in no time.
02:11Number 8, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, Umbrellas.
02:16I think you'll enjoy this.
02:20Garbage Day isn't the only thing that you have to worry about after seeing this bonkers slasher sequel.
02:26Ricky Chapman didn't just inherit his murderous brother's madness,
02:29he also inherited his flair for the dramatic.
02:32My 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.
02:56I see no mention of these two incidents in my notes.
02:58Number 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,
03:13if we've learned anything from horror movies,
03:15it's that everything in a kitchen is a potential weapon.
03:18In the 2009 version of The Last House on the Left,
03:21two parents take revenge on one of their daughter's attackers
03:23by shoving his hand in a garbage disposal.
03:27We are going to get her to a hospital, okay?
03:30We are going to do this.
03:31They are still here.
03:33What if they come over here?
03:34If you've ever lived with one of those contraptions,
03:36chances are you've wondered exactly what would happen
03:38if you've got a finger caught in it.
03:40Well, wonder no more.
03:41As 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.
03:50All right, bartender.
03:52I guess I'll have another hit of that whiskey then.
03:55Number six, 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
04:09to 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
04:19by making the car itself the villain.
04:22Christine is a fiery red 1958 Plymouth Fury.
04:26And that's appropriate.
04:28I'm not going in that car again.
04:31Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
04:32Don't you blame your choking on Christine.
04:34She's fast, furious,
04:35and in one scene, she's even on fire.
04:38The inhuman nature of the threat
04:40is 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
04:47turning against us.
04:48Christine is an unstoppable hunk
04:50of heavy metal and gasoline
04:52that can't be reasoned with or understood.
04:55See, we got the old rust bucket tonight.
04:57Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
04:58I want to watch what you call my car.
05:01She's real sensitive.
05:02The chances of getting trapped in a garage at night
05:11by a vicious, horror-loving murderer
05:14are low, but never zero.
05:16If you were planning on trying to squeeze through
05:18a doggy door in that situation,
05:20or trying to escape via the main door,
05:22forget it.
05:22Scream ruined that one for everybody.
05:24No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface.
05:27I want to be in the sequel.
05:29The squirm-worthy sequence where Rose McGowan
05:32gets stuck in a slowly rising garage door
05:35only to get her head crushed
05:36was instantly iconic.
05:39But it also made the simple act
05:40of walking under an open garage door
05:42enough to give us instant chills.
05:44Number 4, Final Destination 3, Tanning Beds.
05:55Dude, are we like the only cool people
05:57that 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
06:06those big logging trucks after the first sequel?
06:08But as far as everyday things go,
06:10the tanning salon deaths in the third movie
06:12really take the cake.
06:15Sorry, I was too late.
06:22When a bizarre series of coincidences
06:24trap them inside their respective machines,
06:26we watch as Ashley and Ashlyn
06:28are roasted alive due to a malfunction.
06:31With its unnatural light and coffin-like shape,
06:34there's already something claustrophobic
06:35about a tanning bed.
06:37This movie just doubles down on everything
06:38that makes them creepy to begin with.
06:41We may feel that our lives are not our own.
06:45That death controls, frames our lives.
06:49Number 3, The Birds.
06:51Birds.
06:51I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about
06:53the end of the world.
06:55These weren't a few birds.
06:56This Hitchcock classic plays on the seeming
06:59harmlessness of our feathered friends,
07:01and the horror that might ensue
07:02if they suddenly turned on us.
07:04Birds, especially small, common ones,
07:06aren't typically threatening to humans.
07:08That's comforting,
07:10seeing as how there are so many of them,
07:12and they have the advantage of flight.
07:14Mitch?
07:15Why are they doing this?
07:17The birds?
07:18We don't know, honey.
07:20Why are they trying to kill people?
07:22I wish I could say.
07:23Coordinated attacks like the ones in the movie
07:26would normally stretch an audience's
07:27suspension of disbelief.
07:29It's only director Alfred Hitchcock's
07:31mastery of suspense and technical innovation
07:33that makes them utterly terrifying.
07:36After watching multiple scenes of gulls and crows
07:38attacking schoolchildren,
07:40suddenly the otherwise pleasant sound of birds chirping
07:43feels like a threat.
07:59Number 2, The Ring.
08:01VHS tapes.
08:02Have you heard about this videotape
08:03that kills you when you watch it?
08:06What kind of tape?
08:07DVDs were only just starting to take hold
08:09when Hollywood dropped this static-filled nightmare on us.
08:13Adapted from a Japanese film,
08:15The Ring features a cursed videotape
08:17whose viewers die
08:18under mysterious and grotesque circumstances
08:21a week after watching it.
08:22For viewers in 2002,
08:24who still probably had dozens of VHS tapes
08:27lying around the house,
08:28this was a hard one to shake.
08:30He watched the tape.
08:32Who, who watched it?
08:38Our son.
08:40It was a reminder that anyone could record something
08:42and put it on tape,
08:43and you might have no idea what was on one
08:46until you watched it.
08:47Analog horror owes a debt to The Ring,
08:50and it's Japanese original
08:52for keeping VHS technology alive
08:54through sheer force of terror.
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09:19Chucky was far from the first killer doll.
09:32Movies like A Trilogy of Terror
09:34and Poltergeist
09:35had wrung some scares out of the trope
09:37before he came along.
09:38But something about Chucky's foul mouth,
09:40his pre-recorded child's voice,
09:42and his viciousness
09:43made him an unforgettable villain.
09:47Hi, I'm Chucky, wanna play?
09:51His height, his clothes,
09:53his weird little plastic body,
09:55all the things that should have been silly or cute
09:57instead made him that much scarier.
10:00It's pretty safe to say
10:01Chucky ruined talking dolls for all of us.
10:04Even the cutest and most innocent-looking ones
10:06suddenly had us on our guard
10:08and checking for their batteries.
10:09Andy, no!
10:11Please!
10:13We're friends to the end!
10:14Remember?
10:15This is the end, friend.
10:21What ordinary thing did a horror movie ruin for you?
10:25Tell us in the comments.
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