The Best Horror Movies for Halloween—Without the Gore

A list of 10 spooky stories that forgo the blood and guts.

Halloween is my least favorite viewing season because genre is a curse and horror films carry an extra curse—the curse of gore. I consider it a dereliction of directorial duty for horror films to yield to disgusting the viewer—and not only because I’m squeamish.

That said, there’s a formidable tradition of films that express horror according not to a set of established guidelines but to freely expressive impulse, evoking, through far-reaching imagination rather than blood and guts, the emotions of fear, dread, foreboding, and a sense the uncanny. Here are ten of my favorites. Some of these movies start with classic stories; others graft well-worn tropes onto sharply observed realities and, in the process, transform both.

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