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The 100 best horror films of all time.
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The Call (2020)
Seo-yeon, Played By Park Shin-Hye, and Young-sook, Played By Jeon Jong-seo
A woman gets a phone call from a woman living 20 years in the past. The Call is one of my new favorite Netflix finds, and it gave me a new favorite horror villain. Shin-Hye and Jong-seo are AMAZING in this movie and keep it grounded amid the fantastical. The final girl works through a lot and actually fights to save herself and her mom. Jong-seo is delightful with every turn of her character, and I lived for her performance.
The Fear Street Trilogy (2021)
Deena Johnson / Sarah Fier, Played By Kiana Madeira
Netflix dropped a trilogy nodding to the R.L. Stine series that raised most of us. It is still serving YA fiction vibes, but Madeira is the overall lead. Each installment is pretty long, packed with awesome needle drops, and not afraid to get a little (or a lot) bloody. Even if it is not the trilogy for you, seeing a young woman of color fight the Shadyside big bad heals something.
His House (2020)
Rial, Played By Wunmi Mosaku
A refugee couple finds that the horror is not over when they arrive in England. This movie is the most underrated movie on the list. Mosaku deserved all the awards for her portrayal of a grief-stricken woman trying to navigate her trauma. This movie is possibly the best movie to hit Netflix, and so many people have not made time to watch it. Stop reading this article and fix that now if you are one of those people. It is sad, it is haunting, and it is very creepy.
No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
Ambar, Played By Cristina Rodlo
A woman must stay in a horrific boarding house as she tries to make the American Dream a reality. I love that the movie tackles immigration and how hard this country makes it for others to succeed here. I love horror that takes a stand and is on the right side of an argument. I also cannot wait to see what Rodlo does next because I think she is one to watch. Come for the creepy boarding house and stay for someone who might be a breakout star.
Sweetheart (2019)
Jenn, Played By Kiersey Clemons
There are not nearly enough Black final girls in horror, let alone survival horror. Here we get a beautiful lead that is having to learn how to survive the creature trying to eat her on an abandoned island. Full disclosure, this is a movie where I like the actor more than the movie. I do live for the ending battle where Jenn creates a fire circle and decides to put an end to this mess.
Under The Shadow (2016)
Shideh, Played By Narges Rashidi
An unhappy woman finds herself fighting a malevolent presence in her home after her husband leaves. The backdrop of this movie is a 1980s war-torn Tehran which cranks the tension up even further. Seeing this woman realize that her home is no longer safe as she tries to shield her daughter from various awful incidents is heartbreaking. Also, I love that her daughter, Dorsa (played by Avin Manshadi), is involved in the action. Seeing a young Brown girl also drive this one sparks so much joy for me!
So, yeah. These are a few movies currently streaming on Netflix that have WOC front and center. If your favorite is not on here, drop me a line at @misssharai on Twitter in case I have not seen it. Also, check out Season 4 of Nightmare on 5th St. (coming soon) because you know their selections will be almost as awesome as their conversations about them.
Mike Flanagan had already built a reputation as a rock-steady horror filmmaker by 2016, but the sense of "holy crap, this guy can do anything" became set in stone once he took on a prequel to a critically-derided movie about an evil ouija board and made one of the scariest movies of the last decade. Ouija: Origin of Evil takes us to the 1970s, where fake psychic Alice Zander (Elizabeth Reaser) and her two daughters, Lina (Annalise Basso) and Doris (Lulu Wilson), perform seances for paying customers in the wake of Alice's husband dying. Doris, the youngest, spices up the act with the introduction of a ouija board, but the cursed item makes things all too real when it not only sends a dark spirit into the girl's body but exposes the deep-seated evil ingrained in the Zander's house. There is, to be very clear, absolutely no reason for Ouija: Origin of Evil to be good at all, so it's a downright shock that it's this horrifying and effective. And, because it's Flanagan we're talking about here, there's also a potent dramatic heart beating underneath all those bumps in the night. --Vinnie Mancuso
It's a common trope: a little kid has a crush on their sexy teenage babysitter. But Netflix's original flick The Babysitter turns that on its head, by making the hot babysitter also happen to be part of a Satanic cult. The cult - who has brought their ceremony into young Cole's house - will stop at nothing to prevent Cole from spreading their secret. It's not really a "scary" horror film; it's more goofy, super gory, and a kind of throwback to the campy horror of the 1980s. - Alyse Wax
The first installment of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy of films is an absolute blast from start to finish. Very much drawing influence from Scream, this R-rated slasher takes place in the town of Shadyville, where people going back decades have a habit of going on violent killing sprees. Rumors swirl that it's all to do with a witch's curse from the 1600s (which is covered in the third movie), and in this 1994-set film a group of teenagers find themselves the target of a bevy of masked killers as the try to figure out what's going on and how to survive it. At the center of the story is a queer romance that sets this apart from many other slashers of its ilk, and there's enough comedic relief to keep this from being bogged down as a horror film of the self-serious type. Again the Scream comparisons are apt, so if you're in for a spooky good time that also sets up a mythology that is concluded in the next two Fear Street movies, give Fear Street Part One: 1994 a whirl. - Adam Chitwood
It's tempting to loop all of the Fear Street films into one entry because they're such a satisfying (you might even say limited series-like) whole, but they're also so stylistically distinct and uniquely effective, they're worth singling out on their own. As for the second installment, 1978 takes audiences back to another Shadyside massacre, this time inspired by the summer camp horror trend of the 70s and 80s. Anchored around the story of two estranged sisters finding their way back to each other despite their differences, 1978 unleashes the Nightwing killer scene in the first film while investigating the story behind how he became a cursed mass murderer and deepening the established mythology and character work in the process.
I wouldn't recommend watching them out of order on your first watch but if you're looking to head back into fear Street and don't have time to watch the whole trilogy, 1978 is easily the most self-contained of all three, but good luck not immediately hitting play on the next one. - Haleigh Foutch
The final film in the trilogy, Fear Street Part Three: 1666 brings it all together by traveling to the origins of the curse, so if you're looking for a bit of period horror with a big action payoff, this is your best bet. It's stunning how writer-director Leigh Janiak created a distinct language for each installment, not just cinematically, but in the horror traditions she employs. In keeping, 1666 is the darkest of the three, delving into the rotted core of society behind the Shadyside curse. But Janiak keeps a tight tonal command, never fully abandoning the fun spirit that makes her trilogy such a treat.
It can be tricky pinning down the best Netflix horror movies. There's so much to choose from on the streamer that it's hard to know where to start when you plonk yourself down on the sofa and decide you're in the mood for some scares.
With so many spine-tingling titles available, how do you narrow it all down? Well, you're in lucky, because we've done the hard part for you... Whether you're after a gory, comedy-leaning affair or a chilling ghost story, there's something for everyone on our list of the platform's genre must-watches. There's 25, so you can either make your selection from there, or work your way down throughout the year. In short, you never have to waste time scrolling through Netflix's catalog again.
We're cheating a bit here. The Fear Street trilogy is, well, a trilogy of horror movies, so we're cramming three into this one entry, but they work as a singular whole piece incredibly well. There's almost no chance of you finishing the first entry and stopping there, such is this gripping neon-colored slasher.
Taking more than a pinch of inspiration from Scream, Fear Street: Part One introduces us to Kiana Madeira's Deena, a teenager from Shadyside whose lover, Olivia Scott Welch's Samantha Fraser, has moved to the neighboring Sunnyside. However, the pair get mixed up in a curse that's haunted Shadyside for hundreds of years, and now they must work with friends and family to rid the town of the horror once and for all. The first movie takes place in the '90s, while the sequels go back to the '70s and 1660s, revealing more and more about the curse of Shadyside. This is one trilogy not to be missed, and is absolutely one of the best horrors on Netflix.
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