Movie fans have been left “on edge” and “absolutely terrified” by a 2000s horror movie.

Actress Dakota Fanning stars as Robert De Niro’s daughter Emily in Hide and Seek. (Image: 20th CENTURY STUDIOS)Horror film enthusiasts are in a frenzy over a movie that has “scared the daylights” out of them.

At the centre of this highly-praised “suspense thriller” is Taxi Driver and The Godfather II legend Robert De Niro, who portrays widowed psychologist David Callaway.

Following the unexpected suicide of his wife, David and his traumatised daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) relocate to upstate New York for a new beginning.

However, in an attempt to cope with her loss, Emily invents an imaginary friend named Charlie, who proves to be menacing and aggressive, triggering a sequence of unsettling incidents.

But all is not as it appears in the 2005 film Hide and Seek, as fans have been incessantly highlighting its “shocking ending”.

Hide and Seek is a 2005 suspense thriller about a little girl who creates a “violent imaginary friend” after the death of her mother. (Image: 20th CENTURY STUDIOS)