ShockTillYouDrop.com’s 10 ‘Killer’ Families in Horror

If there’s anything that horror movies have taught you it’s that one should never stray from the main roads or take a shortcut optioned by a creepy old guy. In The Hills Have Eyes, a family does everything wrong when they decide to cut through the desert and eventually find themselves broken down and stranded with no one to help. After they break down, the family is like sitting ducks to a group of people living in the hills who want to have fun with them, their bodies, and their orifices. The people in the hills are brutal and sadistic in their ways; however, their actions bring the family of victims together and force them to grow mentally and physically, as they overcome the struggle and take down the jerks who ruined their lives.


When you’re young and you are raised to act a certain way by your parents, you will do what they say without question because your parents are right in your eyes. So, if your parents raise you to eat people, eating people becomes the norm and when your parents are helping you to do those things for survival, you’re not going to want to fight them on it. In the Mexican horror film We Are What We Are, a family is raised by their father to eat people and perform rituals. When their father dies, the siblings must figure out how to continue their survival, which means kidnapping and killing people. Cannibalism is creepy enough on its own but when it’s being done by a seemingly normal family living among regular people in society, the topic becomes a whole lot more terrifying. What’s worse is that the kids doing the killings don’t really know that what they are doing is wrong; they are doing what they know. 


Before vampires sparkled or wrote in their diaries, they were ruthless killers who drank blood for survival and couldn’t walk in sunlight. Near Dark introduces us to a family of killers who also happen to be vampires and when those two elements combine, the results are an evil you couldn’t imagine. The rugged nomads not only looked like dangerous individuals – they completely acted the part as well, murdering people at a bar just because they could. Aside from that, the family was made up of charismatic people like Severen (Bill Paxton) and Jesse Hooker (Lance Henriksen) who could both turn off their charm and switch to monster mode instantly, without warning. On the outside, the vampires appeared mysterious and almost worth getting to know, just for the cool factor; however, upon doing so, one would find themselves in an unpredictably awful situation.

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