Are you the kind of person who likes to be scared? Do horror and fright films hold no secrets for you? At the Cannes Film Festival, scary films are generally well received - and sometimes it takes something like that to wake up a droning selection (and we can say, that was the case this year!), or simply to wake up the haggard journalists who go from one screening to the next and don't know where they live by the end of the day.
If we've drawn up a list of films that will make you laugh, cry, think or even be astonished among the films we've seen at this year's Cannes Film Festival 2025, on the scary side, there are 5 films that made our hair stand on end. They're American, French, Portuguese and Palestinian, and they play on fears that may or may not be well-founded, primal and visceral.
Are you tempted by the experience? Then discover, as soon as they are released in cinemas, these works that will make you grit your teeth.
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