who's there what do you want
so I to disturb you I'm staying next
door welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top 10 movies that will make you
paranoid hi Maggie
for this list we're looking to all
genres of film for plot lines that make
us suspicious of everything where are my
friends however we're excluding movies
that Center on real-life conspiracies
alle loose change after September 11th
President Bush had and continues to have
permission to do and say whatever he
wants all under the pretext of 9/11
number 10 Paranormal Activity just
starting yeah just uh it's a little
bizarre with a found-footage premise
this spooktacular film was designed to
inspire what we're calling TGIF or
theater Ghostface you know this after a
San Diego couple experiences rumblings
and mumblings around their new home you
might say their life gets flipped upside
down what's here what are you talking
about healing hailey bringing me as if
it's not frightening enough to imagine a
ghost lurking around the corner it's
even more disturbing to discover that a
loved one has been possessed sorry looks
like something bit you Paranormal
Activity reminded everybody that ghosts
could be waiting to snatch you up and
toss you around the room like a rag doll
when and where you least expect it want
to stay here and sleep this [ __ ] better
you dragged down the hall again I don't
think so
number 9 hostel this Eli Roth horror
flick instantly canceled euro trip plans
for the would-be American adventurers of
the world as did take in three years
later if you're looking for ransom I can
tell you I don't have money but what I
do have
are a very particular set of skills life
was great for college buddies Paxton and
Josh but their sexytime adventures came
to a halt once a crazy Dutchman
approached them for business I always
wanted to be a surgeon
remember mojo holics be cautious of kind
people across the world because they
just might ultimately drill holes in
your chest and break your heart
this could very well be one of the
painful realities of hostel life the
inevitable torture sessions but have fun
while you can
number eight a Nightmare on Elm Street
to Freddy
if you thought pulling an all-nighter to
study for exams was stressful it's
nothing compared to the sleepless nights
this scarred and clawed serial killer
will inspire
meet Freddy Krueger the nightmare of a
Nightmare on Elm Street who will
literally haunt your dreams please stop
this is God in Wes Craven's classic
horror film a group of Ohio teens learns
to leave on both their clothes and the
lights so that Freddy doesn't ravage
their dreams
who needs sex ed class when you have mr.
Krueger to remind promiscuous teenagers
that dreams and sex can be deadly
just tell me who did it I'll go get him
baby Fred Krueger did it number 7
funny games gave me this here's a
suggestion if strangers enter your house
and disrespect you make sure they leave
before the family dog is killed I don't
know what kind of game you're playing
but I don't want to be a part of it in
Mikael hanukkah's disturbing remake of
his own austrian film mom dad and little
Georgie attempt to enjoy some family
time together but a couple of ominous
comedians turn their home into a
stand-up special from hell do you think
it's enough you want a real ending right
with plausible plot development don't
you we won't go into detail but let's
just say there are golf clubs and a
deadly game of tag involved when all was
said and done movie goers learned that
vacation preparation means planning for
potential intruders
especially at Lakeside homes is Tamra
here no no you get the one house you're
sure the American couple from The
Strangers also learned this the hard way
while vacationing at their remote
summerhouse
is us
cuz your home number six buried
yes 9-1-1 buried you have to help me
have to help me make him breathe huh
I'm better covered please help this
debbie downer of a film starred Ryan
Reynolds inside a dark dark coffin in
Iraq from cellphones what's up Oliver
you're calling me from your CalPERS yes
that's right the American truck driver
couldn't be buried alive domestically it
had to be in the Middle East can't
breathe in here armed with only a
flashlight lighter a flask thank God a
pen a phone and glorious glow sticks
Paul Conroy must either decide to get
drunk and call it a life or find his way
out of the darkness good about me can
you chop my sausage we're having a lot
of trouble with youth hmm what do you do
watch the latest WatchMojo clip and then
make a phone call so many options just
don't ever leave home or you could be
buried alive I'm a civilian truck driver
for Creston Roland and Thomas and I've
been taken hostage somewhere in Iraq
number five the conversation for our
session released during the Watergate
scandal but not in response to the
Watergate scandal the conversation
chronicled the devastatingly boring
lifestyle of a surveillance expert and
the San Francisco couple he's been
creeping on killers he got a chance
Harry caul likes jazz but doesn't like
human contact he'll listen to your
conversation but will sweat profusely if
his ethics are questioned well I'm
getting fed up uh did we mention this
film wasn't in response to Watergate
even though director Francis Ford
Coppola swore that 1966 is blow up
inspired the film shouldn't you call the
play that's the body he believed
audiences felt the subject matter was
too similar to the presidential scandal
to ignore sometimes
while Coppola ended up losing the Best
Picture Oscar for this film that year to
himself the conversations legacy is
secure because Harry calls paranoia
rubbed off on all of us
hello we know that you know mr. Cole for
your own sake don't get involved any
further number four final destination
you know I've never dealt with death
before this could all be in our head
it's been said that no one gets out of
life alive and in final destination
death reigned supreme
after a paranoid traveler envisions his
own demise it's all part of death
sadistic design leading to the gray one
by one his unsuspecting friends are
picked off by the big D and it all began
with a field trip to Paris
sidenote in the movies nothing good
happens when high school kids travel to
Paris so why even bother
Dyanne your they would have died yes
just final destination led travelers to
question their own decision-making and
notice all the small things that could
potentially make life miserable the
lesson school culture and travel are bad
bad things
number three The Truman Show good
morning morning good morning oh hey
Truman Burbank did we mention that your
entire life is a sham in Peter Weir's
The Truman Show Jim Carrey stars as the
unsuspecting title character who enjoys
life on a Los Angeles soundstage shoe
minute where they want listen to me
everybody everybody knows everything you
do he was born into the figurative hands
of a corporation which broadcasts his
entire life repeat his entire life to
all of earth
everything all right keep that in mind
mojo holics as a film that preceded the
outstanding cultural gems that are
reality TV shows The Truman Show made
viewers check for cameras at home and
question their entire existence hell
does this have to do anything tell me
what's happening
maybe we're all living on a grand stage
number two
contagion approximately one in 12 people
on the planet will contract the disease
here's a film that'll make you think
you're allergic to everything and
possibly inspire a life of seclusion so
we have a novel virus with a mortality
rate in the low 20s no treatment
protocol and no vaccine at this time it
all started with a Minnesota woman and
her voracious sexual appetite as Gwyneth
Paltrow's character enjoyed more than
just a little Hong Kong during a
business trip then what was it we don't
always know and some people get a
disease and live some get sicker and die
what happens the entire world dies or at
least all of our favorite movie stars do
which is kind of the same thing as of
right now no one has found a good way to
grow the virus themselves is that
because it kills every cell we put it in
Steven Soderbergh freaked out the entire
world with contagion probably made 70
percent of the population gluten-free
don't ask it's real contagion is coming
then she douses everything in hand
sanitizer after I leave
I mean she's overreacting right not
really and stop touching your face days
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions world as it was
at the end of the 20th century it exists
now only as part of a neural interactive
simulation that we call the matrix did
you kill your wife Nick I did not kill
my wife I am NOT a murderer
you know the only thing to do is to walk
out of here before it's too late
never see one another again
I don't see anything are you sure
they're cool
number one jaws it doesn't matter where
you swim it doesn't matter what body of
water you're in jaws will swallow you
whole
well at least that was the general vibe
we got from the release of Steven
Spielberg's horrifying film
we were all born to skinny-dip
but jaws ruined everything by making us
afraid of bloodthirsty sharks even those
poor bastards in Minnesota thought jaws
was roaming their land of a thousand
lakes now that's just a damn shame
screw you jaws you're not real you're
not real right you better need a bigger
potion
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it better what's your favorite movie
that'll make you paranoid drop [ __ ]
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