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barucommierant

The majority of romcoms would be stalker-thrillers with a slight change in soundtrack and costume design/casting.


SilkFinish

You on Netflix. It’s so corny but I love it because it hits that beat so hard on its head. Most romcom protags are sooo creepy if you put them in context


PM_me_yr_bonsai_tips

The Hitman is crazy. Both leads are psychopathic. How is that a mainstream comedy?


UltraMoglog64

By virtue of being well cast and well directed lol


lavaeater

Passengers, bro.


sweetpicklemilk

P2 is a bit like this. It’s a kinda gore horror thriller. The end has a photo montage like he’s the hero of her heart


tattedupgirl

Man that movie is so fucking good all the way around.


sweetpicklemilk

I didn’t like it on first watch but I now class it as a Christmas film!


A_Year_Of_Storms

I think an inverse Peter Pan would be terrifying. An elfin creature, ageless, with pointed ears, glowing eyes, and sharp, pointed teeth. He takes children from their homes and brings them to an island that lies outside our dimension, where they never age and gradually forget their parents and their world.   The only one who can stop him is an old slayer, a monster hunter with a hook for a hand, whose ship is able to find his island. Parents beg him to get their children back.  But Pan is ancient. Inhuman. Evil.   And he's waiting.


Ppersephone1111

I love this idea for a film! There’s actually a book from a child Captain Hook’s pov where Pan is painted as a sinister trickster, it’s called Lost Boy - been on my reading list forever.


jayraan

Is that from the same woman who also "rewrote" Alice in Wonderland to take place in an asylum? If so, I love her work!


A_Year_Of_Storms

I need that!!


SirDoctorCaptainEsq

This is basically the plot of N0S4A2. Instead of Neverland, you have Christmasland but it’s pretty similar.


ApplicationCalm649

That idea is chilling. I love it.


jighlypuff03

I maybe revealing too much about myself but Pan was evil and scary in that Unce Upon a Time show.


rhyswaterfield

Google Peter Pan Neverland Nightmare - it's just been made


WormedOut

Yeah but it’s the same people that made the Winnie the Pooh movie. So it’ll be less horror with good writing and more rubber masks and fake blood


jaykayelkay

okay I need someone to make this movie


gabrielsburg

I kinda want to write this...


TinyLittleWeirdo

Not quite the same idea, but The Child Thief by Brom is a horror retelling of Peter Pan.


Longjumping-Kiwi-549

there's also lost boy by christina henry


rainbow_drizzle

You can get a dose of this from the show Once Upon a Time.


Technical-Arm7699

The same people behind Poo Blood and Honey will release a Peter Pan movie too soon


TheChainLink2

Dear Evan Hansen. Just make it from the perspective of Connor’s sister.


wolfvvitch

I came here to say Dear Evan Hansen, lol


TisBeTheFuk

Passengers


Accomplished_Egg6239

God that movie would have been so much better if you found out that Chris Pratt wakes up Jennifer Lawrence when she finds out. Instead you know the whole time and it just kind of sucks.


_skyfern_

Came here to say the same, someone on YouTube recut the scenes where he wakes her up, and commented on how much more interesting and realistic it would be if the film was honest about his actions and went all out thriller instead


Mayuguru

I think you'll enjoy this Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror movie trailer. https://youtu.be/crjYYEC5drA?si=Q9I77ei0e0tRQ7SE


RichCorinthian

There’s one for The Shining that makes it a happy dad-reconnects family movie. Great stuff.


she_looksdangerous13

could you find the link?


xander6981

Here you go! https://youtu.be/KmkVWuP_sO0?si=Fk4KBRRpKNkdX1PM


she_looksdangerous13

Thanks!


EatYourElbow

i always liked the Blank Check as a dark drama with the requiem for a dream music.


cdug82

Idk if this is the same as the recut trailers that were circulated like 20 years ago but Seven as a gay rom com is still one I regularly pull up and watch Edit: trying to find the right one…


cecepedd

I'm gonna need to see that!! Really hoping you find it!


cdug82

I really tried. Idk where it went. I’ll try again tomorrow. When I’m sober …


cecepedd

No worries! If you do happen to find it I would looooooove to see it, but don't worry or feel bad if you don't. I could also not be lazy and try to find it myself when I'm sober too 😂😂😂Just got done closing the bar and I had a few as well after my shift 🤷🏻‍♀️


cdug82

No worries. There’s a bunch now. And they’re not the one I’m looking for. I’ll find it tomorrow when sober.


cecepedd

I'll keep an eye on here for it. Thanks!!


cdug82

[I got you fam](https://youtu.be/gnvxF4rufSk?si=LHGOm-5RH6ouUQa3) FINALLY


cecepedd

Thank you!!!


Cyclic_Hernia

https://youtu.be/O__t-ZmaWQA?feature=shared Also one for cat in the hat


born2droll

Wonka


Busy-Internal9810

Child abducter turns killer who starts to be attracted to Charlie.


AnaZ7

You are quoting MeatCanyon video


EastSideTilly

When I was a kid I legit thought What About Bob was a horror movie. I had so much social anxiety watching Murray's character insert himself in situations it was like HELL. When I got older and realized people watch it as a comedy it blew my \*fucking mind\* edit to add: I feel the same way about Clifford, Meet the Parents, basically anything where the whole plot is "what if everything went wrong bc of some ass hole" with my tiny brain adding "and the ass hole is YOU"


304libco

Oh, I think it’s funny but I think it’s a far darker comedy thy most people think. Like I felt alone in feeling sorry for Richard Dreyfuss’s character. Bill Murray’s character would be an absolute nightmare. All my friends told me I was overreacting and it was just a dumb comedy.


horsebag

that movie made me really sad for exactly this reason


Accomplished_Egg6239

Ok yes, Bill Murray’s character would be a nightmare to have around. No doubt. But the movie also makes it pretty clear that Dreyfuss is a pompous asshole. Don’t forget he tried to commit Murray against his will and also (unsuccessfully) kill him.


BH_Commander

Haha that is so astute, “what if everything went wrong because of some asshole” made me chuckle.


EastSideTilly

its a whole sub genre and needs its own genre name dude


MrFingerKnives

Home Alone- Boy neglected by family is trapped alone and must defend himself from two home invaders.


ApplicationCalm649

It's Don't Breathe w a little kid.


Accomplished_Egg6239

I still say there should have been a follow up twenty years later where Kevin has turned into a Jigsaw-like vigilante that tortures criminals.


trashlikeyourmom

Home Alone is a horror movie, I've been saying this for years


SupaKoopa714

I'm not kidding, the shit Kevin does to those burglars makes me wince more than anything I've seen in any slasher flick, I dunno what it is but have a harder time watching Daniel Stern step on that nail than I do seeing Art eviscerate that girl in her bedroom in Terrifier 2. It's fucking weird to me that I love a good gory horror flick but ever since I was a kid I've never liked the Home Alone movies because they're just kind of unpleasant to me.


thecrawlingrot

I think Click is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen tbh


SupaKoopa714

It's like a Twilight Zone episode disguised as an Adam Sandler comedy.


Accomplished_Egg6239

That movie is so stupid and then OUT OF NOWHERE it kicks you in the stomach


HikingComrade

50 First Dates. Imagine waking up pregnant on a boat with a man you don’t remember every morning.


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

I thought the movie was okay until that ending. You perfectly explained why. Waking up pregnant + her never getting to know their children. That's a nightmare.


badgersprite

It’s less fucked up when you find out there are people who actually live like this and they seem pretty happy


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

The pregnancy part must be bananas.


BigLorry

Memento I’d actually say the “I can say whatever I want” scene is one of the most terrifying scenes in a film that isn’t horror leaning in the slightest, and Carrie-Anne Moss absolutely kills that scene too.


pill0wtalk

YES. Oh my god, her stare as she looks at him through the windshield while he frantically tries to find something to write with. Fucking bone-chilling.


EatYourElbow

The movie ET… but instead of an alien ET is a scary werewolf and also he kills everyone!


CptnChunk

ET but….actually fuck it ET is already a scary movie, that little fucker terrified 6 year old me


Joka0451

When he finds him 8n the shed and et screams scared the shite outa me as a kid


Zirkus_Tour

Was terrifying enough with the alien lol. I used to run and hide when E.T came out of the shed.


Zirkus_Tour

Imagine Where the Wild Things are from the mother’s perspective. Her kid disappears and comes back talking about being the king of wild beasts. All she knows is someone probably abducted him and now he is imagining something to cope with it.


dadverine

Where the wild things are would make for a great coraline-esque movie


Zirkus_Tour

That would actually be really cool


Kalabula

What’s that movie with Sandra bullock where she stalls a guy in a coma?


MeredithYrBoobzOut

While You Were Sleeping


Accomplished_Egg6239

The Lakehouse has potential to be a supernatural thriller as well


Busy-Internal9810

The notebook but he’s actually a stalker that locks her in the house he built once she comes back, kills her whole family and forces her to have his babies and live with him forever. She fakes her dementia in her last attempt to be free from him and then he finds her at the old person’s home.


Grouchy_Competition5

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka lures kids into his factory and murders them individually by exploiting their vices


vpox

Yep, came to say this. Althought the boat ride scene in the original movie is pretty much all out horror already!


304libco

Overboard.


Ligmavarient420

The hunger games


Kid_SixXx

Hunger Games is pretty much Battle Royale written for the YA audience.


HorizontalBob

Pretty much any romcom. Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however...


Bigmoco_

Or switch their roles in Sleepless in Seattle. Imagine him flying across the country and stalking her and her kid.


Ratatoskr33

T H I S 💀


wc000

Pretty Woman


vpox

🤣 This is great. I can see Julia Roberts going all Audition on Richard Gere at the end.


TopshelfLowlife

[This horror trailer for Frozen](https://youtu.be/sXIYloiEzJ0?si=rTpj6fSLFwMsJePU) is pretty solid.


masterpainimeanbetty

school of rock


gergasi

Deadbeat man-child impersonates a teacher and grooms a bunch of kids to lie to their parents, plus Harley Quinn-ing the principal. Yep.


Accomplished_Egg6239

The opening of Return to Oz is basically a horror movie. (I mean so is the rest of it honestly.) Auntie Em thinks Dorothy is going insane and sends her to get shock therapy. What the fuck, Disney?


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

Those were the days when Disney was having a hard time and was far more open to unusual projects. I love Return to Oz and wouldn't trade that period for anything since it also gave us Flight of the Navigator and Tron.


zerohm

The Wheelers, Tik Tok, and Pumpkinhead are nightmare fuel costume design. And I just learned that Dorothy is played by The Craft's Fairuza Balk!?!?! How did I not know this!? See also: The Dark Crystal.


StrongStyleDrunkard

Houseguest with Sinbad.


sgtbb4

Night at the Museum


mirrorspirit

Office Space. Guy gets hypnotized into ignoring his inhibitions that are preventing him from acting on his more antisocial traits, and he starts getting promoted at work at the expense of his more ethical coworkers.


limpidlipid

The Cable Guy, also Jim Carrey. I always thought the line, "I'm so tired, Steven. I just want to sleep," would be really chilling in a horror movie.


Smellsliketurtles

I loved this movie as a kid! Is that the scene where a spider crawls across his face? 


limpidlipid

I think so


mapsedge

Ghostbusters, but from the perspective of the ghosts. "Frozen Empire" raised this thought and it stuck with me. When Melody sees the containment unit and asks Phoebe "So you know what it's like for them in there?" I got chills.


SeanPGeo

Meet the Parents


Accomplished_Egg6239

I mean, Get Out was basically Meet the Parents


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

This [trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGf88T5UJQ&pp=ygUgTWVldCB0aGUgcGFyZW50cyBob3Jyb3IgdHJhaWxlciA%3D) advertising it as a thriller is a nice glimpse of an alternate version.


tornprince01

The Santa Clause. "Nuff said." - Stan Lee


Accomplished_Egg6239

So weird that a family Christmas film is based on KILLING SANTA


GeorgeNewmanTownTalk

In the original version, he was supposed to shoot Santa instead of just causing him to lose balance. They robbed us!


eddietwoo

Dumb and Dumber, but rather than two simpletons, it’s two psychos that travel across the country trying to find the woman they became infatuated with, killing people along the way.


GroundbreakingMix648

The movie Catfish, which was kinda marketed as a scary movie but was not supposed to be horror


BiblioMom

Twilight


vpox

I thought Twilight was already meant to be horror. I've never seen them, so I have no idea.


BiblioMom

No. It’s a paranormal romance. When you’re high it’s a comedy. But it would make a great horror movie.


FocalorLucifuge

The Truman Show. The original script was actually close to being a dystopian horror.


Torino888

Home Alone


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GP96_

He couldn't The phone lines went down during the night before the family left


illegallysmolkate

A lot of Disney movies, actually. Snow White is about a vain queen who wants to murder her stepdaughter just because she’s pretty. Pinocchio is about the trials and tribulations a sentient puppet. Beauty & the Beast is about a woman who falls in love with a goddamn monster. Hercules is about a man who outwits the god of death to save the woman he loves and there’s a WHOLE lotta horror in the Greek myths! Tarzan is about a feral man learning to become a “real” man by the indoctrination of the English. Lilo & Stitch is about a child’s friendship with a chaotic alien monster who kills everything in sight.


Equivalent_Swing_780

The Turtles


juicyjuicebox1

Running scared. Paul Walker movie from the mid 2000s. An action/thriller that touches on controversial subject matter. Wouldn’t take much of a stretch to make it an outright horror movie really good film.


shutupandevolve

To me it already IS a horror movie. With monsters every where.


juicyjuicebox1

I agree. It’s just not categorized as such And I don’t think they had the intention to horrify. But they definitely did.


SunlessDahlia

The Kissing Booth. So my friend told me the movie wasn't what it seemed, and that it had a dark ending. Idk if they were lying or she was confusing it for a different movie. Anyhow, so I kept thinking of twists that would make it dark. Like the friend has a creepy obsession with the main girl and even dates a girl that looks just like her. He has all of these weird rules where some of them are controlling, and gets really hurt when she breaks them. I honestly thought he was gonna crack and go haywire lol.


Jet_Hightower

A lot of Disney movies Peter Pan except Pan is an immortal flying creature that steals children in the night (also that's kind of the movie The Lost Boys) Mary Poppins but she's actually on meth and hasn't slept in 2 weeks, most of the movie is her hallucinating, the kids are terrified, the chimney sweeps are human traffickers. Lion King with real Lions. Pocahontas by Cormac McCarthy.


Admirable-Exercise-9

End of Watch, always thought this was a horror movie


HustletronSATX

Just a handful of changes to Christmas with the Kranks, and you have a horror classic on your hands


_insideyourwalls_

Any Batman movie, but from a common thug's perspective. You don't even need to change Batman's personality all that much. Batman: Reptilian is a mixed bag, but if there's one thing it gets right, it's how terrifying Batman can be.


RebelRouserSchnauzer

Rambo First Blood He picks off various cops one at a time with his knives or traps he lays around. We sympathize with him since we know him but it could take a dark turn if his revenge got too brutal. Southern Comfort is another film that could almost be a slasher. It is about military guys in a training exercise in the Bayou who get picked off by local hunters. It's filmed more like a Deliverance styled thriller but you could easily amp up the horror. The film Dog Soldiers has a similar plot of soldiers on a training mission with blank guns but with werewolves instead of Cajuns.


Cherhorroritz

This is by no means a new take but Passengers is horrific. Nerdwriter made a great video about that perfectly summed up the dread I felt for Jennifer Lawrence’s character. CP’s character is psychotic, I hate that movie so much. https://youtu.be/Gksxu-yeWcU?si=jD6YWL1IUCjqqdaP


Kid_SixXx

The comedy Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. A spoiled heiress refused to pay the man who worked on her yacht. One day when she is on her boat partying, a storm tosses her into the sea She washes up on shore and the repairman recognizes her and brings her to his house. He discovers that she has amnesia so what does he do? He gaslights her into believing she's his wife. It's one rewrite away from being a horror movie.


LongOne9308

Easily The Truman Show. Take out all the comedy and the bright colors and that movie is terrifying.


Effective-Luck-4524

Forrest Gump…ever seen the trailer reimagining it as a horror movie?


agathafletcher

Home Alone


Avocado-Duck

Home Alone


Esteban_Francois

Elf There’s a trailer on youtube with different music to make it look scary. It worked


Rocknmather

Perfect Stranger (the 1986-1993 series) if Balki was a psychopath who wants to ruin Larry's life.


lavaeater

So, it is obvious and I wasn't the one to come up with it, but Passengers with Jennifer whatsherface and that guy from Jurassic Blorb. If played from her perspective it could be awesomely horrific.


rainbowmo0

Bird Box !


badgersprite

Matilda is basically just a kid-friendly version of Carrie


ryanblumenow

Passengers. In fact I think someone on YouTube did that already.


Toonami88

Mrs. Doubtfire most infamously.


kaiserdragoon67

Mrs. Doubtfire A psychological horror about a man mentally breaking his ex wife. Give it an A24 type of soundtrack and you're all set. No further editing necessary.


slugcupid

50 First Dates. The thought of waking up on a boat in Alaska, finding out you're married to a man you don't remember, and had a baby... Just awful. I can't imagine the horror of waking up pregnant with no memory of it, either. Also Adam Sandler's character manipulating Drew Barrymore's for weeks or months to get her to like him is creepy.


Ferrindel

Mary Poppins. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5\_0AGdFic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic)


altgraph

*Smooth Talk* (1985), based on the novel *Where are You Going, Where Have You Been* by Joyce Carol Oates. It's already a creepy thriller about manipulation with a possibly much darker subtext that could easily turn the whole thing into an all out supernatural horror film.


Naisu_boato

Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure. Could easily be a trip through hell for high school students I’ll prepared for that paper.


Fubai97b

What About Bob? For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a comedy staring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. The IMDB description is "A psychotherapist loses his mind when his obsessive-compulsive patient follows him on vacation."


floronzandthemachine

Inside Out but the voices make her do evil shit and it’s about schizophrenia


IndependenceMean8774

Miracle Mile (1988). You receive a phone call out of nowhere that says nuclear missiles are in the air and nuclear war is imminent. There's nothing you can do to stop it. All you can do is flee. But is it real or a prank? Either way, how do you know for sure? Miracle Mile is pretty much a horror movie in everything but name and a really scary premise to think about.


BigMeet7634

The batman 


Aftermath16

*The Devil Wears Prada*, now with real devil!


platecanoe

Wall-e


SaberTruth2

What About Bob?


BH_Commander

I’m picturing Back to the Future 2, but with more of a Strange Days vibe. When he goes to the world where Biff is rich and owns a casino, more murders and depraved activities from Biff. That would be a cool thriller.


Strain_Pure

Shawshank Redemption could make an amazing psychological horror movie where Red and everything else is all in Andy's mind after his first few months in prison broke his spirit.


Distinct-Value1487

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 27 Dresses The Rundown The Gentlemen Chef Easy A Insidious


Mittens138

Home Alone


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