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Janita Locklin
But, as with anything, there's the good stuff and the bad stuff - and that's where we come in. We're plucking gems from the Netflix library in a specific genre. This time around, we're looking at horror.
'Hush' follows a deaf and mute writer who retreats into the woods to live a solitary life with her cat. She must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window. Made on a $1 million budget, it stars Kate Siegel, who Netflix horror fans should recognise from 'The Haunting of Hill House' (same director, by the way, in Mike Flanagan, who Siegel is married to). 'Hush' is one of those high concept, low budget horrors that's done really well.
Blumhouse have developed quite a rep for producing low budget horrors with high returns. One of its more successful series are the 'Insidious' films and another is 'Sinister'. Starring Ethan Hawke - who also is the lead is another of our recommendations, 'The Purge' - it portrays a true-crime who discovers a box of home movies depicting grisly murders in the attic of his new house. Then scary sh** goes down.
It's kind of extraordinary to think that 'Us' is only Jordan Peele's second feature after the groundbreaking horror 'Get Out'. In case you're unfamiliar, 'Us' follows a wife and mother-of-two (Lupita Nyong'o) on holiday with her family in Santa Cruz. The beach vacation turns horrific when a family of doppelgngers begins to terrorise them. Written as well as directed by Peele, 'Us' inspired nationwide discussions as to its many layers and meanings.
Not only a brilliant horror but just a brilliant movie in and of itself. From the twisted mind of Ari Aster, is one of 2018's most warped movies, starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne, and one of production company A24's most profitable creations. When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter Annie (Collette) and her family (Byrne, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff) begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. If you feel like a double bill from the director, 'Midsommar' is also on Netflix now.
'Gerald's Game' is a truly haunting horror that gets stuck in your head for days after watching it. Based on a Stephen King novel, it stars Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood as a married couple whose trip away to a remote lake house goes horribly wrong. Directed by Mike Flanagan (also the man behind 'The Haunting of Hill House' and the aforementioned 'Hush'), it's powerful but dark and graphic. The scariest parts are not what you'd expect.
Something of a comedy as well as a horror, 'The Cabin in the Woods' was written by Drew Goddard, who also directed it, and Joss Whedon. They'd collaborated previously on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' so that gives you an idea of the degree of horror we're looking at. Five friends - including Chris Hemsworth and 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jesse Williams - go for a break at a remote cabin. They get much more than they bargained for.
'The Queen's Gambit' star Anya Taylor Joy plays one of three teenage girls who gets abducted by a man with 24 different personalities (James McAvoy in possibly his career best). It's the best project M. Night Shyamalan has produced in years in line and recalls much of his earlier work - clean, unfiltered, and without any of his lofty ideas or faux-intellectualism. It's genuinely thrilling.
Before James Wan took on 'Aquaman' and before 'Furious 7', his bread and butter was horror. 'Insidious' was the second of his horror franchises, the others being 'Saw' and 'The Conjuring', and possibly his best. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are two parents who are struggling to understand their children's issues. Soon they realise it's much more than just imagination - it's demons. Far less gory than 'Saw', 'Insidious' works more on horror and scares being just out of frame. Which, as we know, is more terrifying than seeing something head on.
Over forty years later, 'Jaws' is still a go-to horror and movie classic in many households. Helmed by the legendary Steven Spielberg, it portrays a summer resort town which is being terrified by a man-eating great white shark. Its terrific ensemble includes Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton. For the knock-off inferior version, '47 Metres Down' is on Netflix too, if it takes your fancy.
Carolyn (Lili Taylor), Roger (Ron Livingston) and their five daughters have just moved into a new farm house, and it's not long before their plagued by paranormal activities. They call in Lorraine (Vera Farminga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson), a couple who specialize in these types of investigations; she's a powerful psychic, he's the only non-priest demonologist recognized by the Catholic Church. They need to find physical evidence of a possession within the house before the Vatican will approve an exorcism of their home, and boy, do they find some evidence.
Everyone remembers 'The Blair Witch Project', right? That 1999 horror movie recorded on a video camera that scared the living hell out of people because we all believed it was real for a while, and barely had the internet to tell us otherwise. Hard times. In fairness, the found footage horror still works exquisitely and really gets under your skin thanks to those excellent performances, effective pacing, and ominous use of light and sound.
I think It Comes at Night is one of the scariest movies ever made. I could say that, and while it would be true to me, the odds of it being the same for others would be decidedly less likely. Like Skinamarink, The Babadook does rank as the 16th scariest movie ever made (according to science), but the physical metrics used to make that determination are, too, constrained in their own way. A movie can terrify me without accelerating my heart rate. In fact, a lot of what The Babadook does most successfully would be hard to measure on any psychosomatic scale.
The Silence of the Lambs stars Anthony Hopkins as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster as ambitious FBI rookie Clarice Starling. Starling enlists the help of Lecter to get inside the mind of a copycat killer, but soon learns that Lecter's help always comes with strings.
Want more Hannibal Lecter? Then press play on Red Dragon. The sequel to The Silence of the Lambs is just as chilling as the first, and stars Edward Norton and Ralph Fiennes alongside Anthony Hopkins.
Awkward Carrie White seems to have the cards stacked against her. But who could thrive with a hyper-conservative mother, school bullies at every turn, and, oh yeah, newly discovered telekinetic powers? Little do her peers know, you should never mess with a girl who has superhuman powers and a taste for revenge.
This slow-burn Netflix original starring Bird Box chronicles the utter breakdown of society when invisible monsters take over the world and kill everyone in their path. Bird Box leaves you breathless as you watch Sandra Bullock silently traverse an empty world to find the last bastion of safety with her children.
A coroner and his son begin an autopsy on a beautiful young woman whose injuries don't make any sense. They set to work, only to find themselves in the middle of a mystery and right in harm's way. It's a horror/thriller that's one of the scariest movies ever. It stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch. It'd be perfect to watch on Halloween.
This action-packed horror film centers around a zombie takeover in Busan, South Korea. Travelers on a train have to figure out a game plan before they arrive at their final destination or they'll end up victims to the throngs of the undead awaiting them.
Though the original Sinister isn't available on Netflix right now, it's equally scary sequel is. The film follows a private investigator as he looks into murders associated with a pagan deity called the Bughuul who preys on children.
Another one of the best scary movies on Netflix is The Monster. Zoe Kazan stars as a young mom who gets stranded on back country roads with her daughter. They wait in their car for help, and discover there is evil all around them.
This movie stars three of our favorite actresses: Emma Roberts, Lucy Boynton, and Kiernan Shipka. All three play disturbed girls facing evil forces in the dead of night at an empty Catholic boarding school (which is a recipe for a good horror flick if ever we heard one).
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier, this film centers around a punk rock band that bears witness to a horrible crime. They're trapped, and the Neo-Nazis who committed the crime have trapped the band members and plan to kill them, as well. The band members must find a way to escape as soon as possible.
In an effort to acquire money to pay for her brother's leukemia treatment, Brittany Snow signs up to attend a parlor game at a dinner party. Upon arriving, however, she is trapped in the mansion and forced to play a sadistic game of "would you rather "where the stakes are disturbing and deadly.
Learn the chilling story behind the most famous haunted house in history, The Winchester Mansion. This movie is based on actual life of Sarah Winchester, a grieving widow who never stops adding on to her 7-story mansion in an effort to appease the ghosts that follow her wherever she goes.
This Spanish film delivers enough suspense and drama to justify reading the subtitles. After a tragic accident, the main character (a paramedic, of course) goes off the rails and blames everyone around him for his misery. He's out for revenge, and his girlfriend and close colleague are first on his list.
Alice Ackerman, played by Madeline Brewer, performs provocative shows online. She'll do anything to get more viewers, including pretending to slit her throat. She gains more and more popularity, until an imposter that looks exactly like her takes over the account. Alice tries to figure out what's going on, and discovers there are more imposters impersonating other popular accounts. The No. 1 cam girl is, in fact, dead. Madeline doesn't want to suffer the same fate and must get to the bottom of the mystery.
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