15 Scariest Fairy Tale Horror Movies
Well, who doesn’t love a good fairy tale?! Still, not every fairy tale is made up equally, and in this article, we are bringing you only the scariest fairy tale horror movies you can find out there.
Some of the fairy tale movies on our list will be famous tales just twisted in a horror, scary way, while others will be original fairy tale horror movies. Whichever the case, you can’t go wrong with any, so choose your next watch carefully, as it will certainly scare you senseless.
Tale of Tales (2015)
Once upon a time, there were three neighboring kingdoms, each with its own magnificent castle, from which kings and queens, princes, and princesses ruled. One king was a promiscuous bum, one was captured by the strange beast and one queen was obsessed with the desire to have a child.
Hard Candy (2005)
After three weeks of online correspondence, 14-year-old Hayley meets 32-year-old fashion photographer Jeff in a cafe. They seem to like each other, moreover, Hayley, in her innocent way, begins to flirt with Jeff, which he accepts with pleasure, but also with the necessary caution, because he believes that they have to wait another four years to be together.
When Hayley suggests they go to his place, Jeff can’t refuse her. However, when they get there, Hayley’s true intentions are revealed. She is convinced that Jeff is a pedophile and that he is responsible for the suffering of a girl…
Suspiria (1977)
Suzy (J. Harper) is a young American woman who has just arrived in Germany by plane in order to enroll in the famous ballet school in Freiburg. Arriving in front of the school, despite the ringing of the bell and the unusual woman she sees, no one opens the door for Suzy.
The next day, she seems to have better luck: Miss Tanner (A. Valli), the headmistress of the school, who, although kind, seems cold and reserved, like most of the staff, while the students, although young and visibly interested in dance, open the door for her to suspect that something strange is happening at school.
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Little by little, Suzy senses that some inexplicable phenomena are really taking place in the school – as if someone is walking in the corridors at night, suddenly all the walls appear full of worms, and soon the students start disappearing…
November (2017)
Village girl Liina longs for country boy Hans, but Hans is inexplicably infatuated with a visiting German baroness who possesses everything he longs for. It turns out to be incredibly difficult for Liina to get Hans to love her back in this dark, harsh landscape where ghosts, werewolves, plagues and the devil himself meet, where everyone steals and souls are highly valued but very cheaply bought.
With captivating black-and-white cinematography, Rainer Sarnet vividly captures these colorful lives as they struggle to survive – is anything worth existing if it has no soul?
Good Manners (2017)
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by the mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
In Spain in 1944, immediately after the Civil War, the girl Ofelia (I. Baquero) moves away with her pregnant mother to stepfather Vidal (S. López), a cruel military commander of Franco’s army. In order to escape from the ugly everyday life, Ofelia constantly escapes into her fantasy world. One day, her curiosity takes her to the forest, and to a mysterious underground labyrinth where she meets an unusual being, the mythical Pan (D. Jones).
Pan claims that she is the reincarnation of Princess Moanna – the lost daughter of the underground king and that his task is to guard the portal that should return her to her father. But first of all, it is necessary to check whether her immortal soul has remained unchanged and Ophelia must complete three tasks during the full moon. However, this will dangerously intertwine this fairy tale with the reality of war.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
“Dreamy Valley” is Burton’s last film for which he adapted The Legend of Dreamy Valley, a classic short story by Washington Irving and Walt Disney’s classic animated version of Ichabod Crane. And while in both cases Crane is a frightened teacher, in Burton and Deep, he is a policeman from New York (the time of the action is 1799) who tries to find evidence of a crime through scientific means, especially when he finds himself on assignment in a quiet town in Dreamy Valley, where he must investigate a series of brutal murders.
The victims are of course decapitated, and the locals think the killer is the ghost of Hessian Horseman, a former German mercenary who worked during the American Revolutionary War. Crane does not believe their stories until he himself, face to face, collides with a demonic opponent, some kind of gothic terminator, a malevolent monster that destroys and demolishes everything in its path…
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
In a distant and magical land live a brother and sister who are forced by hunger to leave their home and go into the forest in search of food. After a few days of wandering, the children come across a large house with plenty of food and a place to sleep, and it seems like an ideal place for them to rest.
Soon, they begin to notice strange things around the house and the unusual behavior of the old woman who lives in that house. While they are suspicious of everything that happens around them, dark secrets begin to surface.
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Grandma tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange stories about innocent girls who fell in love with handsome, bushy-browed, masculine strangers with a twinkle in their eyes, stories about missing spouses during a full moon while wolves howl in the forest, stories about babies found in bird nests high up in a tree. .. All stories talk about the loss of innocence and fear and hunger for sexuality. The film is not actually a horror film, but a collection of coming-of-age stories.
Otesánek (2000)
When a childless couple learns that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However, the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
The Lure (2015)
One dark night, at the water’s edge, a family of musicians encounters aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. After assuring the family that they won’t eat them up, the winsome mermaids are recruited to join the Figs and Dates band at a neon-lit Warsaw dance club.
Black Swan (2010)
It is a psychological thriller set in the ballet world of New York in which Nina (Portman) suddenly finds herself in a sea of ​​dangerous intrigues caused by the arrival of her new rival (Kunis). With a director-visionary like Aronofsky, there is no doubt that the viewer is in for an exciting and, at times, terrifying cinematic journey…
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
A dark and creepy version of the famous fairy tale in which young Lily escapes from the tyrannical behavior of her evil stepmother, but will she manage to escape her forever?
The Hallow (2015)
A family that has swapped the hustle and bustle of London for life in a remote Irish village is drawn into a relentless life-and-death struggle with a cruel creature that has lived in the forest since ancient times.
Cinderella (2006)
Yoon-Hee (Do Ji-Won), a divorced plastic surgeon, is satisfied with her life as she has a lovely daughter, Hyun-Soo (Shin Se-Kyung), who perfectly obeys her mother. However, her happiness comes to end as her patients, also friends of Hyun-Soo, commit mysterious suicides in front of her daughter. Hyun-Soo, feeling suspicious of her mother, tries to find clues in the hidden basement of their house.
