How to watch: Stream on Amazon, Apple TV, or YouTube. “A vampire is so many things: serial killer, a romantic, a historian, a drug addict-they’re sort of all these things in one,” Amirpour has said. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)īilled as “the first Iranian vampire Western,” this film-which was written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour-features a protagonist known simply as The Girl, an antihero vigilante who uses her vampire status to roam the streets at night, alone and unbothered. This 2014 documentary about the NSA spying scandal is more terrifying than many fictional efforts. The Babadook (2014)Ī brilliantly crafted, deeply unsettling exploration of motherhood, grief, and guilt is the real terror that lingers well past the final scene. Us (2019)īefore she was Emma Woodhouse or Beth Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy was Thomasin, a girl in 17th-century New England whose family suspects her of being a witch. How to watch: Stream on Amazon or Apple TV. The wedding held at the family estate concludes with a ritualized family initiation-a deadly round of hide and seek with the family hunting Grace with guns, crossbows, axes, and the like. Samara Weaving plays a bride named Grace marrying into an eccentric, board game-fortune family. Ninety minutes of hilariously grotesque mayhem. How to watch: Stream on Paramount+, Amazon, Apple TV, or YouTube. Midsommar (2019)Ī bizarre Swedish death cult attempts to reel in a group of horrified American students in this psychological thriller. How to watch: Stream on Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV, or YouTube. Directed by the Austrian pair Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, The Lodge is a slow-burn genre exercise that exerts the pressure of a steel vise. The Lodge (2019)Ī snowbound chamber piece about two kids spending a winter holiday in a cabin with their father’s mysterious new girlfriend, Grace (Riley Keough). The Invisible Man (2020)Įlisabeth Moss stars in this terrifying film about a woman who’s convinced she’s being stalked by the invisible ghost of her abusive boyfriend. The Swarm (2021)Ī locust breeder in southern France who happens to be a single mother is trying to raise two children and make ends meet-so why not experiment with bloodletting and insect husbandry? This supremely modern and sophisticated thriller ratchets up into vampire-locust horror, in the best way possible. An episode of religious ecstasy in a depleted, soggy, English seaside town spirals toward violence-and culminates in one of the best endings in recent horror. The story of an isolated, introverted hospice nurse played by Morfydd Clark ( insanely good) who is hired to care for a once-famous dancer named Amanda (Jennifer Ehle, sexy, imperious) dying of cancer.
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