Horror is one of the most popular genres of film, despite its ability to terrify its audience. Horror films are known for their suspe🅠nseful storytelling, filled with jump scares or thought-provoking yet disturbing scenes. There's just something enticing about watchinꦿg films that bring people's fears to life — in fiction, of course.

The majority of popular horror films feature real-life actors and elaborate sets.🌊 Animated horror films can be considered hidden gems due to how underrated they often are. With animation, anything can happen... and that's even more terrifying. Some animated horror films deserve more love, but make sure to keep the light on.

9 Coraline

The Horrors Of An Alternate Universe

When you th🐻ink of animated horr💜or films, Coraline is likely the first one that comes to mind. Released in 2009, it's a perfect example of how stop-motion can be used to paint a terrifying picture and is arguably one of the most popular animated horror films to be released.

The film centers on a young girl named Coraline. Her family moves to an old Victorian home in Ashland, Oregon, and it's obvious that they are miserable. While her parents are busy with work, Coraline explores the house and discovers a secret small door with a brick wall♐ behind it in the living room. There, she discovers the "Other World," an alternative universe featuring a happy home and family. Is this universe the life Coraline has always wanted, or is it hiding something sinisꦆter?

8 ൩ Monster House 🅠

The Haunted Neighborhood House

Monster House is another popular animated horror film. Premiering in 2006, it was even nominated for an Ac🙈ademy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but ultimately did not take the trophy home. Still, it's a fantastic horror film that both kids and adults can enjoy.

Horace Nebbercracker is known as the cranky mean elderly neighbor. On th⭕e eve of Halloween, D.J. Walter's parents leave for a convention and place him under the care of teenage babysitter Zee. Desperate to escape, he calls his friend Chowder for a game of basketball. However, wh🌄en the ball rolls over onto Nebbercracker's lawn, the elderly man suffers a heart attack. There, they discover the house is a living, breathing monster; an actual haunted house. With no one believing their tale, the kids must do what they can to stop the house from eating other kids.

7 𝔉 Seoul Station ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ

A Look Into South Korea's Zombie Epidemic

Are you a fan of Train 🤪to Busan? Then you should check out Seoul Station. The animated film is part of the Train to Busan series and serves as a prequel to the main film. It provides fans a look into how🦹 South Korea became swarmed by a zombie epidemic prior to the events of Train to Busan.

Hyesun is a prostitute who is trying to turn her life around. After a fight with her boyfriend, Kiwoong, she ends up at Seoul Station, where a full-blown zombie epidemic has erupted. While Hyesun tries to escape, a man named Sukgyu, who claims to be her father, attempts to find her. Sukgyu an♈d Kiwoong team up to try and find Hyesun amid the growing number of zombies. Will everyone make it out alive? And is everyone who they say they arꦏe?

6 Angel's Egg

A Thought-Provoking Cult Classic

Released in 1985, Angel's Egg is considered a cult classic for hardcore anime fans. The film features very little dialogue, which has led to discourse on the tr𝓀ue mea💟ning of it. It's a science fantasy that isn't meant to be a horror film, but is considered creepy enough to send shivers down your spine.

Angel's Egg centers around two characters, who both remain nameless for the entire film: a girl who scavenges an abandoned city while protecting an egg she believes will hatch an angel, and a boy 🦹who leaves a tank. The film contains several biblical 🎶references, such as a retelling of Noah's Ark and fossils of an angel. The ending only leaves viewers with more questions, making it a must-watch for anime and horror film fans.

5 ﷺ Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 𝔍

Abducted By Vampires

If you're a fan of Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D series, then you need to add Vampire Hunter D: 🅷Bloodlust to your must-watch list. It's a unique dark fantasy tale featuring a world filled with humans and su🐎pernatural creatures, with vampires as the leading race.

After Charlotte Elbourne is abducted by the notorious vampire Baron Meier Link, her father hires bounty hunter D to retrieve his daughter, dead or alive. It's soon dis♏covered, however, that Charlotte's brother also hires the Markus Brothers to retrieve her. The two parties, who are revealed to be rivals, must now race to retrieve Charlotte and fight their way through Meier's guards. There, they discover the true circumstances of Charlotte's disappearance and another danger that could cause major damage.

4 Perfect Blue ꦜ

What Is Real, And What Is Fantasy?

Perfect B🍸lue is considered one of the most popular psychological animated horror films. At the time of its release, psychological horror was not often explored in Japanese animation. Perfect Blue trail-blazed the genre, allowing more animated works regarding mental health to be released in Japan.

Mima Kirigoe, the lead singer of popular J-Pop group CHAM!, is pressured by her management to retire from the group and pursue acting. She acts in a murder mystery show as an assault victim, but her new career choice is met with hate from her fans. Soon, s✱he becomes a victim of stalking, and the people who pursued her career path are being brutally murdered. As she grapples with fantasy and real life, she is pestered by a menacing doppelgänger. Is Mima really being stalked or is something more sinister happening?

3 💟 The Wolf House ꦚ

Based On A Real-Life Case

The Wolf House is based on the case of Colonia Dignidad, an isolated colony where the inhabitants were tortured and murdered during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, under ꦇthe rule of German emigrant preacher Paul Schäfer.

The film follows María, a young girl escaping the Colony after failing to contribute. She finds refuge in an abandoned house and is welcomed by two pigs, Ana and Pedro, who she treats as her own children. The house reacts to María's feelings and Ana and Pedro transform into humans, leaving María feeling pleased, despite the looming presence of the wolf outside their door. However, when resources run out and María tries to leave the house, thi♊ngs take a turn for the worse. Will María find solace in her new home, or will she come face-to-face♕ with the Wolf?

2 The Pl♎ague Dogs 𒈔

Highlighting The Cruelty Of Animal Research

The Plague Dogs was not advertised as a horror film. In fact, it is categorized as an adventure drama film. However, scenes depicting the laboratory used for animal research and the horrible ꦗway the animals are treated are enough to classify this film as a horror movie as well.

Two dogs,𒐪 Snitter and Rowf, manage to escape the research laboratory and try to survive in the wild with the help of a fox named The Tod. In 🍎the wild, they realize it really is a dog-eat-dog-world out there; resources are scarce and food is minimal. On top of that, people are hunting the dogs down after the government spreads rumors that they are infected with bubonic plague. Will Snitter and Rowf be able to live a peaceful life as a free dog, or will they fall back into the clutches of the evil research team?

1 Mad God

Traveling The Inferno

Released in 2021, Mad God proves that sto꧑p-motion animation is still alive and well, and can be used to create ter💯rifying horror films. It flew under the radar when it was first released and is an underrated gem of a movie.

Dressed in an iron-clad jacket and a gas mask, The Assassin descends into a hellish underworld with a map and suitcase in hand. While there, he encounters horrifying creatures that prey on the weak. As he descends deeper into this universe, he is forcibly taken and meets The Surgeon and The Nurse. Will The ওAssassin find what he's looking for, or will he meet his end in this terrible world, like the others before him?