A CURE FOR WELLNESS (2016)
Blockbuster man Gore Verbinski (The Ring) returns to horror in stately big budget haunter that’s a verifiable orgy of weird ideas. Ambitious to a fault, the story tells of a company man who goes to a spa to retrieve his fall-guy boss. Little healing occurs.▶ Watch on Prime Video
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)
Invasion day in Manhattan. A hospice patient and her cat walk out through it.▶ Watch on Prime Video
CLIMAX (2019)
A band of French dancers start going crazy and killing each other when someone spikes the punch with acid in this hallucinogenic, kaleidoscopic whirlwind of sound and fury.▶ Watch on Prime Video
COHERENCE (2013)
Stretching a heady sci-fi concept to razor-wire tautness, this eerie mindfuck also turned a nothing budget into a hazy intellectual exercise in minimalism and paranoia. Trust no-one, stay inside.▶ Watch on Prime Video
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022)
In a future without pain, a performance artist grows novel organs and has them removed in front of an audience. The surgery of Dead Ringers, the kink of Crash, the transformations of The Fly. All of Cronenberg’s favorite fetishes have come out to play.▶ Watch on Prime Video
BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022)
Rich twenty-somethings play a party murder game during a hurricane blackout and someone actually dies. So many love triangles you’d need pins and yarn. Everyone’s as viable a suspect as in any tabletop game of Clue.▶ Watch on Prime Video
THE FIRST OMEN (2024)
A novice in 1971 Rome discovers her order is breeding the Antichrist to frighten the faithful back to church.▶ Watch on Prime Video
THE DEEP HOUSE (2021)
Two dive-vlogging influencers descend into a flooded French village and find an intact house at the bottom of the reservoir. A standard haunted house riff, but devil-worshipping ghouls floating at you underwater really resonated with my fear triggers.▶ Watch on Prime Video
HUSH (2016)
The “She’s deaf” equivalent of A Quiet Place and Don’t Breathe, this unsettling invasion thriller (also from Flanagan) boils down the essential ingredients of a horror movie and delivers them in ideally measured fashion.▶ Watch on Prime Video
PRIMATE (2026)
Johannes Roberts’ brutal (and brutally effective) chimp-gone-bad horror joint champions unrelenting tension and jaw-dropping gore.▶ Watch on Prime Video
THE VISIT (2015)
M. Night Shyamalan’s comeback film of the new age incites fear of the elderly in found footage framework. Gross, goofy, and a damn good time. Coprophiliacs may delight.▶ Watch on Prime Video
TERRIFIER 2 (2022)
Art returns for a final girl with a sword and a two-and-a-half hour runtime. One kill horrifying enough to justify the passing-out-and-vomiting headlines.▶ Watch on Prime Video
LAMB (2021)
Icelandic sheep farmers deliver a lamb with a human body and raise it as the daughter they lost, until its mother comes to collect. Strange and singular, and I remain unconvinced it adds up to the menacing profundity intended.▶ Watch on Prime Video
Want more? See the full ranking of the best horror movies of the 2020s.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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