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After watching Daddy’s Head recently, I’ve come to realize that I’ve come to respect what I call family trauma horror. 

I consider family trauma horror to include movies, like Hereditary, where the big bad manifests as a result of tension, grief, or another major familial event. 

It’s almost like the traditional horror components are a secondary character and/or are used as metaphors and symbolism for the bigger issues at play. 

They have a very specific feel to them, and I think you’ll understand what I mean when we get to my list. 

Before we get too far in, I want to go ahead and give some CWs/TWs. 

These movies contain one, if not multiple of, the following, so I advise looking up the synopses before watching, or having someone you trust that isn’t triggered watch first: 

Grief, child ab*s*, child death, SA, incest, extreme gore and violence, r*pe, su*c*d*, murder, child endangerment, child mol*st*t*on, and all like topics 

There are themes and parts of these movies that are extremely heavy, so please proceed with caution. 

And just as a note, please don’t ever feel obligated to watch any of the movies on these lists. Do what’s best for you, and I promise that if these movies are triggering, we also talk about others that aren’t, so take care of yourselves. 🖤

Without further ado, here are 10 family trauma horror movies:

• Relic 
• Possum
• Midsommar
• The Lodge 
• Hereditary 
• Daddy’s Head 
• The Babadook
• Hold Your Breath
• What Josiah Saw 
• We Need To Do Something