After her divorce Sarah and her teenage daughter, Elissa move to a small rural town hoping to start their lives anew. The upscale community hides some very scary goings on that evidently occurred in the house next door to theirs and things begin happening very soon. Danger and evil lurk behind this small town's sleepy exterior and both mom and daughter soon find their dream home is haunted and teeming with terror and violence. Evidently years ago a girl killed both her parents as they slept in their beds in the house next door. She disappeared leaving Ryan (her brother) as the lone survivor of the family. When Elissa and Ryan get cozy the dangers grow! Elissa is played by Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games), Sarah is played by Elisabeth Shue (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), and playing Ryan is Max Thieriot (The Family Tree). Small towns seem to have more secrets even than large cities or at least they sure seem to have scarier past histories.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a 1992 comedy horror film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui. It follows Buffy, a high school cheerleader who discovers that she has been chosen by fate to fight vampires and save the world. The film stars Kristy Swanson as Buffy, alongside Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, and Rutger Hauer.

"Deep Blue Sea" is a 1999 American science fiction movie about a group of scientists who are experimenting on sharks in an effort to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. The movie takes place on an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean where the genetically engineered sharks become intelligent and begin to attack the scientists. The plot follows the survivors' attempts to escape the facility and the sharks.

A tiny budget, the gloomy plot, outstanding box office, and bam - it is the classics of the genre. Paranormal Activity directed by debutant and filmed almost for nothing in his own house. No staging, no howls of music, almost any sudden movements. Nobody scares you, but it's scary to tingling. You are afraid not of the Paranormal Activity, but of own fears. You are afraid to be frightened, and this is even worse. You are afraid your thoughts that suddenly comes into your head at the sight of a man, just looking at the other and sleeping. As a result, you are afraid of yourself.

The Fourth Kind's storyline is based on pseudo-real recorded on the home camera by the psychoanalyst during his private practice. This archival video is the basic structural core of the movie, and the plot overlays it. It's quite an unusual approach, both components are so deftly and seamlessly woven together, that it produces a very bright effect. Olatunde Osunsanmi blurs the line between fiction and reality step by step and makes it so efficient that the atmosphere of shock, horror, mind clouding and painful dreaming completely fill the mind.

The" found footage" genre was used almost to death in the period of 2005-2012. However, Scott Derrickson's Sinister is something bigger than regular "found footage scary movie". In Sinister, where Derrickson's talent is multiplied on Ethan Hawke's play, the old fashion draggy movie blossoms with new fruitful flowers conceiving the new levels of horror film's quality. The story begins, when the main protagonist, Ellison finds a footage which was made a long time ago by the previous inhabitants of his new house. As it follows from the footage, four members of the family were hanged on the nearest trees, while fifth one; a little girl has disappeared somewhere and hasn't been found since. As the professional writer, specializing on the scandalous crime stories, he begins his own investigation with the help of local deputy sheriff (James Ransone, who may be familiar to you as Officer Thomas Prudenti in The Son of No One). As they excavate new facts and stories about this mysterious murder they find similar cases where entire families was killed besides the little girls which are still missing. Step by step Ellison immerses deep into the horror of these mysterious deaths becoming increasingly unsettled mentally, as the rest of his family show the sings of serious emotional distress. His wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance, who played in Adam Shaw) and 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario who played in People Like Us) hear strange frightening voices that are coming out from the attic where the scary footage was found.