Top 10 Horror Movies That Made Normal Things Nightmare Fuel

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Hmm... that toaster looks a little suspicious. Welcome to watchmojo.world, where today we’re counting down the Top 10 horror movies that turned ordinary things into sources of pure terror. From common appliances to everyday locations, these films prove that fear doesn’t need a haunted house — sometimes it’s hiding in plain sight.  Featured films include:  Final Destination 3 🎢  Scream 📞  Urban Legend 🚗  And more that turned the familiar into the frightening.  💬 Which horror movie made you afraid of something totally normal? Let us know in the comments, and follow watchmojo.world for more creepy countdowns!

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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 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?

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