Movies that turned the ordinary into a horror

You know the scene — a girl screams, a knife appears and, splat, blood covers the shower wall. All of this because the lady in question couldn't see beyond her shower curtain. In order to prevent this type of murder from happening to you, be sure to rip off your shower curtain and abstain from playing music while taking a shower. This way, you can see and hear every potential knife-wielding murderer who enters your bathroom.

Clowns aren't exactly normal, per se, but they're not terribly abnormal, either. Unless, that is, they're Pennywise. He's a clown with claws and razor teeth who kills children. "It" reminds you to avoid clowns at all costs, since really, anyone of them could be Pennywise, couldn't they? 

Who wants to go to the beach if it's going to result in a shark eating you the second you step foot in the water? This is the threat "Jaws" illustrates, a movie that has made completely innocuous beaches far scarier than they should be for an entire generation of moviegoers.

"The Edge" is a movie that goes to show how nature resorts just bring out the worst in people. From moody bears to cheating spouses and homicidal men with rifles, resorts are just riddled with a whole bunch of bad business. We reckon it's best to stay in urban areas where only one (OK, maybe two) of the three aforementioned parties can potentially put a damper on your day.

Scuba diving's all well and good, as long as you've got a way to get back to land. "Open Water" shows what happens when you don't; when your boat leaves you behind in shark- and jellyfish-infested waters. Spoiler: The flick's got an ending that will mess you up and probably force you to preemptively cross scuba diving off your bucket list.

Let's be honest: Roller coasters are a bit of a horrifying experience all by themselves. Common or otherwise, anyone who rides one knows the risks — you might get flung out, you might derail, you might die. "Final Destination 3" just makes good on these risks by showing a bunch of peoples' deaths at the hands of a roller-coaster experience gone bad.

"The Ring" is centered around a cursed videotape that, if watched, will result in the death of whoever viewed it exactly one week later. So, even if VHS is the best format (seriously, its durability is unparalleled), it's also the deadliest. Thank goodness for Blu-rays.

If you and your crew of friends plan on going camping, just remember the last time some kids thought that was a good idea. "Friday the 13th" (1980) reminds us that Jason Voorhees does not like people entering his campgrounds — or any grounds — period. So, don't go camping. Ever. Stay inside, preferably in a bomb shelter. Jason's never infiltrated one of those, right?

Most of us get into situations where we die — or almost die — in our dreams. Imagine if said situations had real consequences, though, and we couldn't wake up because the psycho killer in our subconscious slaughtered us from the ether. Thanks for ruining the one activity we have absolutely no control over, "Nightmare on Elm Street." If you want a movie that treats dreaming more nicely, try "Inception."

"It Follows" points out that sex, in real life, is pretty scary. Think about it: Chlamydia? Syphilis? HIV? No one wants these things. "It Follows" just disguises said diseases as a "monster" so audiences can be eased into the realization that the movie's just a metaphor for why sex is bad and should be abstained from altogether. Try gardening; it's much safer!

The song "Open up your heart and let the sun shine in" gets way too literal in "The Autopsy of Jane Doe." The movie will destroy your perception of the iconic and, at one time, innocent Sunday school song. While the song is sweet and wholesome in and of itself, every time it crops up in the flick, it's a cue to brace yourself for one of the movie's most brutal sequences. 

Though "Chucky" did it back in the day, "Annabelle" has brought the age-old fear of evil dolls back into the mainstream so that another generation of people can be afraid of harmless children's toys. If you ever see one of these little porcelain harbingers of doom lying around your neighborhood, know this: It can communicate with evil spirits, and it's actively conspiring against you and your loved ones. 

In "Unfriended," a group of dumb teenagers find out that bullying a girl into suicide has deadly consequences — consequences that are doled out over the course of a Skype group call by a tech-savvy, vengeful spirit. Though the movie itself is idiotic, the next time someone's image freezes and mic cuts out during a Skype video call, see if your heart doesn't skip a beat. 

Goats aren't cute, pettable or any of the other things society thought they were. No, as "The Witch" teaches us, they are vessels through which Satan communicates to mortals. Just kidding, they're adorable and harmless — but don't watch "The Witch" if you want to maintain that viewpoint.

In "The War of the Roses," an angry couple in the middle of a divorce indirectly murder each other as a result of their incredible bitterness. If that doesn't make you afraid of marriage, what will? Can you imagine the mental and emotional fallout of knowing your spouse tried to murder you? Or even just the toll of knowing someone you love fails to feel anything for you, anymore? What's the point of human connection? Why are we even alive?

Try opening a UPS package without hyperventilating after watching "Se7en." This movie made the phrase "what's in the box?" one of the most unintentionally comedic (thanks, Brad Pitt) and darkest lines in both cinema history and everyday phraseology.

Nothing's scarier than running into someone from your high school. This is doubly true in the movie "The Gift," wherein an old high school acquaintance psychologically tortures a married couple because of the husband's history as his childhood bully. In case you needed a reason, this flick provides a valid excuse to not attend your high school reunion.

Between psychotic husbands smashing doors down with an ax and old ladies made of withered meat trying to sexually assault you from the bathtub, bathrooms are just not a great place to be in the fictional universe of "The Shining."

If you commute to work via train, maybe avoid watching "Train to Busan" (or don't, because it's awesome). Featuring a bunch of people trapped on a South Korean bullet train during the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse, the infection soon finds its way aboard the locomotive and terrorizes everyone on board. Like we said, it's a great movie, but definitely one that makes train travel a bit unsettling afterward.