Horror Movies Scarier Than Your Midterms

Watch the horror movies listed below to get your mind off upcoming midterms. Photo Credit / Kathleen Kraemer Watch the horror movies listed below to get your mind off upcoming midterms. Photo Credit / Kathleen Kraemer
Watch the horror movies listed below to get your mind off upcoming midterms. Photo Credit / Kathleen Kraemer
Watch the horror movies listed below to get your mind off upcoming midterms.
Photo Credit / Kathleen Kraemer

By Alexa Stephens
Staff Writer

“Sinister”

This 2012 British-American supernatural horror film follows a true crime writer named Ellison Oswalt who moves into a new home with his wife and their two kids, Ashley and Trevor.

The family discovers that their new home was the previous site of the murder of a family who were all hung from a tree in the backyard.

Intending to use the murder as a plot for a new book, Ellison starts doing research, which eventually opens up a whole chain of horrifying events the family cannot escape.

“Evidence”

This crime thriller follows two detectives as they investigate a set of brutal murders through recording devices found at the crime scene, and two survivors.

The murders are shown through clips as the detectives recover video taken by the victims before and during the crime, revealing that there was a group of people heading to Vegas when their bus flips near an abandoned set of buildings.

The group, stuck alone at night, fights to survive while being picked off by an unidentified murderer.

As the detectives start to uncover more and more, they begin to question some of the victims and struggle to find out who really committed the crime.

“A Lonely Place to Die”

This 2011 British thriller begins with a group of friends hiking through the Scottish Highlands. Not long into their hike, they discover a young Serbian girl buried alive in a small box.

The group decides to rescue her and bring her to safety, but soon realize they are being followed by her captors, who hunt them down one by one.

Fighting to escape the dangers of the terrain and those hunting them, the group tries to make their way out of the wilderness in order to get help for the young girl and themselves.

“Amber Alert”

This 2016 drama thriller revolves around a young man taking a bus full of children hostage.

With his mother sick and without money for treatment, Calum devises a plan in order to get what she needs.

He substitutes as a bus driver on his mother’s normal route and takes the kids as ransom.

While a negotiator works to help get Calum what he wants and get the children to safety, the police start digging up more of Calum’s elaborate plan, eventually uncovering a twist no one ever saw coming.

“Kristy”

This American horror film follows college student Justine, who is the only student staying on campus over Thanksgiving break.

Not long into her private stay, a gang of hooded thugs begin to terrorize Justine, calling her Kristy and telling her to run as they try to kill her, recording it all on their phones.

Justine soon realizes that in order to survive she must fight back, which she does by trying to single out members and killing them off.

But during her fight, she uncovers the reason they are after her, and the reason they are recording it all on their phones.

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