Trust me, that this is the best time to watch some shows that’ll tickle all the horror and adrenaline.
1. THE EXORCIST
Whether you like it or not, The Exorcist is still the scariest movie ever made. It features one of the most terrifying movie villains in Regan MacNeil, an innocent 12-year-old girl possessed by a demonic force. William Friedkin’s Oscar-nominated film was pretty much the first prestige horror movie with incredible performances, heavy thematic material, and game-changing scares.
2. SAINT MAUD
Saint Maud is the story of an isolated and introverted hospice nurse played by Morfydd Clark who is hired to care for a once-famous dancer named Amanda who is dying of cancer. This movie is full of 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.
3. LA LLORONA
Directed by Jayro Bustamante, this Guatemalan horror movie focuses on the trial of a fictional dictator on trial for a brutal genocide who starts being haunted by dark magic and ghostly apparitions of his victims until he can no longer ignore the severity of his crimes.
4. MIDSOMMAR
Don’t be fooled by this all-shiny lights and flowers around. Horror films aren’t about lights this film proves it. From the twisted minds at A24, the film takes place in Sweden—in a small town’s Midsommar festival. And when a couple arrive with their friends, shit hits the fan. Let’s just say that there’s gore, a bear suit, and a really dazzling food spread that would be appetizing if everyone didn’t keep dying.
5. US
Jordan Peele and his amazing tricks once again make us want to binge watch ‘US’. Jordan Peele’s sophomore directorial feature Us stars Lupita Nyong’o as the mother of a family who finds themselves under the attack of a mysterious group of strangers that are their exact doppelgängers.
6. SUSPIRIA
Dario Argento’s 1977 classic puts Dakota Johnson in the leading role as an American dancer auditioning at a world-famous dance academy in Berlin (where, spoiler, the dance instructors aren’t just dance instructors).
7. MALIGNANT
James Wan might be recognized for his essential additions to the horror genre with movies like Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring, but this standalone feature truly unleashed Wan’s storytelling abilities. Malignant is wild tale about a young woman being haunted by dreams of a mysterious man committing horrible murders takes you through breathtaking revelations—with visual effects that will give you nightmares.
8. ROSEMARY’S BABY
In the most disturbing allegory for childbearing gone wrong, Mia Farrow’s Rosemary becomes increasingly panicked about her painful pregnancy and the mysterious neighbors in a building with a history of Satanism. The great Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her role as Rosemary’s fiendishly quirky neighbor, who isn’t as sweet as she seems.
9. THE SWARM
The Swarm talks about the story of a 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. You’ll love it to the core.
10. IT
You’ll never look at clowns the same way again after watching this film. IT follows the story of a group of children battling against an ancient, supernatural clown named Pennywise. The 1990, Tim Curry-led miniseries will always be a classic. A giant clown in that projector scene? Superb.
