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The horror genre is home to a lot of quality flicks, as well as low-budget schlock, making
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it hard for a viewer to determine what's good and what's a waste of time.
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Fortunately, we've patched together a list of those films that are worth the watch.
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Though these movies are all pretty different in subject matter and tone, they're all worthwhile
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horror films that have helped define the genre.
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The Exorcist
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Even four decades after its release, 1973's The Exorcist is still the possession thriller
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by which all others are judged, and for good reason.
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Its ability to infuse a stewing sense of dread alongside moments of body horror stands alone.
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The grotesque tour de force made no apologies for its use of profanity or gross body fluid
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spewing, and it's a lasting classic as a result.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Existing at the perfect intersection of art and schlock, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from
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1974 is a tangibly dirty, grungy, and frightening movie.
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Launching sequels and a remake franchise that are by turns too loud and too trashy, the
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movie that started it all is an exercise in unpleasantness.
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Its characters are largely unlikable, its villains the perfect version of incomprehensible
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hillbilly cruelty.
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"Look what your brother did to the door!"
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The plot, essentially about a Texas road trip that goes south fast, will remind you why
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they tell you not to ever talk to strangers, pick up hitchhikers, or ask questions about
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what's going on in the rickety old house at the edge of town.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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The very definition of a time-worn tale in cinema, the 1978 version of Invasion of the
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Body Snatchers is a story that's been remade over and over again, which speaks to the strength
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of its premise.
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The feeling of being helpless in an unrecognizable society is something many might identify with,
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but the slow burn introduction of these alien invaders is deeply disturbing.
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Thrilling to the final frame, it's a story that stays with you, anchored by an excellent
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cast of smart, unique characters that you root for — making it hurt all the more when
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they fail and fall.
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Alien
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Ridley Scott's Alien from 1979 continues to resonate so many years later because it has
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a lot of unique qualities — a female protagonist who's just as strong and capable as anybody
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else, a profound sense of isolation, and an enemy that cannot be reasoned with.
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Its characters are constantly under the gun, tasked with identifying their threat while
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simultaneously struggling to survive against it.
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Beyond the impressive intellectual framework, there are also some shock and awe scenes that
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have since become iconic moments of cinema.
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The Shining
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With brilliant performances from its cast, quotable lines, unmatched cinematography,
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and those awful twins, The Shining from 1980 is an absolute masterpiece.
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"Hereee's Johnny!"
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It worms its way into your head with beautiful imagery and a hypnotic pace, showing the dissolution
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of one man's sanity over the course of an isolated winter at the Overlook Hotel.
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Stanley Kubrick's at his best here, with deliberate choices made for each frame that's as visually
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stunning as it is packed with unforgettable tension.
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The Thing
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John Carpenter is considered the Master of Horror, and this may well be his best effort
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in the genre.
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Taking creature feature elements and combining them with the who's-who paranoia of a Body
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Snatchers remake, The Thing from 1982 plants its characters in isolated Antarctica and
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tasks them with surviving against an alien lifeform that can assume their likenesses.
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It's a rich premise that combines subtle, character-based interplay with full-blown
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body horror, like a human head scuttling around with spider legs.
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With a cast to root for and a villain to fear, The Thing is Exhibit A in the argument for
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John Carpenter's primacy among horror engineers, a remake that runs laps around its source
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material and bests any modern attempts to do better.
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Return of the Living Dead
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An offshoot of George Romero's Living Dead films, this spiritual cousin is easily one
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of the most goofily enjoyable zombie movies ever.
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1985's Return of the Living Dead follows a group of dirtbag ravers whose graveyard party
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gets upset by a zombie uprising caused by acid rain.
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Return takes a lively approach to its material that still feels fresh, even if the hilariously
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dated fashion of the characters decidedly does not.
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"Why do you eat people?"
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"Not people, brains!"
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Being too self-serious about zombie material is a trap that lots of movies fellows fall
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into, but Return sidesteps that problem with aplomb.
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It's not a parody — just a great ride.
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Jacob's Ladder
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This quiet character study from 1990 follows Jacob Singer, a Vietnam veteran and postal
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service worker who slowly comes to believe that either his sanity or reality itself is
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falling apart.
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The film is notable for some standout sequences.
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Take, for example, Singer's long gurney ride through a hellish hospital littered with body
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parts, blood, and inhuman monsters gone mad.
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The sequence has influenced horror media for decades afterward, so even if you haven't
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seen this movie, you've definitely seen its impact.
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In the decades since its release, it's developed into a noted cult classic, lauded for its
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indelible imagery as much as the deep melancholy at its core.
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Scream
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The first film ever to kick off the self-aware horror trend is also still the best.
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"Oh just some scary movie."
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"You like scary movies?"
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"Uh huh."
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"What's your favorite scary movie?"
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Wes Craven — who was already horror royalty thanks to The Hills Have Eyes, The People
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Under the Stairs, and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise — outdid himself with Scream
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in 1996.
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This funny, freaky slasher flick subverted every trope in the book and roundly mocked
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the horror genre at large, while still scaring the hell out of its audience.
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"Oh you wanna play psycho killer?"
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"Can I be the helpless victim?"
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The Blair Witch Project
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The found-footage project that started it all, 1999's The Blair Witch Project launched
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plenty of copycat projects that never got anywhere close to the haunted, pine-scented
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quality of the original.
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The forest itself becomes the monster in this ultra low-budget camcorder picture, where
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every tangle of twigs and leaves takes on eerie suspicion.
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Following a group of hapless young filmmakers as they circle the wilderness, lost and increasingly
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certain they're being hunted, the film is a story about madness, isolation and distrust
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while still infusing a classic ghost story in its bones.
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Its title antagonist is never truly seen and maybe not even real, but that's part of the
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beauty of the film.
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The witch's absence offers an uncertainty that gets to the heart of what horror is — fear,
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and a sense of helplessness, in the face of the unknown.
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Audition
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Back in the days before OKCupid or eHarmony, a widowed middle-aged businessman had to get
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creative when it came to finding a date… or at least, that's the premise of Audition
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from 1999.
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This Japanese horror film is a very slow burn with a scream-worthy finale, as the poor lovelorn
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protagonist realizes that the young lady he's auditioned to be his new bride comes with
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a checkered past and some disturbing baggage.
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In addition to boasting stellar performances and a creative, scary script, Audition has
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the added benefit of making your worst Tinder date look like a great time by comparison.
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The Descent
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Claustrophobes be wary.
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If you've got a fear of being trapped in tight spaces, The Descent from 2005 is one of the
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scariest movies you could watch.
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The unique story of a group of female cavers who get lost in the uncharted depths, The
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Descent is a top-notch horror experience that gets taken to the next level when the heroes
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stop spelunking and have to start caving-in monsters' skulls.
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They've got to fight for survival, all while wading through massive lakes of blood.
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Be sure to catch the version with the original ending, which was deemed too dark for U.S.
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audiences and cut from the theatrical release.
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The Mist
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A lot of Stephen King's horror novels have been made into movies or TV shows, but only
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some of them have been successful at translating the tension and terror of the source material
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to the screen.
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"I don't think you'd like it Henry."
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The Mist was of the few to get it right thanks to the unsettling plot tweaks sprinkled in
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by writer-director Frank Darabont.
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The 2007 film tells the story of a New England town beset by unspeakable, otherworldly horrors
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that descend under the cover of an impenetrable, mysterious mist.
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It's a solid monster movie, but its scariest moments are the ones that reveal the dark
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tribalism of human beings who believe they're witnessing the end of the world, and it pulls
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no punches on that front.
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King even famously said that Darabont's gut-wrenching twist ending for the film is the one he wishes
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he'd written himself.
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Paranormal Activity
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Found footage horror got a fresh face with this 2007 movie, which proved that you don't
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need a gothic mansion or dilapidated cabin in the woods to make a highly effective haunting
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flick.
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All the action of Paranormal Activity takes place in the comfy, carpeted setting of a
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suburban townhome, as a pair of newlyweds learn that they're not entirely alone in their
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house.
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Like its genre predecessor The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity is all about
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the slow burn.
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Even the most ordinary occurrences like a door swinging shut or a hall light illuminating
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offscreen are imbued with foreboding, and the teeny-tiny cast does a convincing job
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of making the "found footage" premise feel real.
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Martyrs
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Profoundly disturbing to the point of being unwatchable, 2008's Martyrs was one of the
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progenitors of the French "extreme horror" movement, and earned that distinction in every
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single way.
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From the opening sequence, which depicts the chillingly merciless murder of an entire family,
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the movie only gets harder to watch.
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It's a "curiosity killed the cat" parable about revenge, mercy, and humanity's search
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for meaning, and it's unlike anything you've ever seen.
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It challenges you to keep watching right up to the cruel and bitter end.
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But watch the original, rather than the 2016 remake -- because that one's scary for a whole
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different series of reasons.
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Let the Right One In
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Not to be confused with Let Me In, the regrettable American remake, Let the Right One In was
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a sleepy Swedish surprise.
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In the 2008 pic, a bullied young boy named Oskar makes friends with an unusual new neighbor
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who only comes out at night because, well, she's a vampire.
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But Let the Right One In doesn't go the way of Twilight or True Blood and try to get too
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campy about human-vampire relations.
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Instead, it's a smart piece of commentary on the loneliness of the human condition — that
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is, when people aren't being drained of blood, bursting into flames, or getting torn to shreds
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by a bunch of cute little kitties.
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You're Next
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Home invasion thrillers are a staple subgenre within the horror-film family, and You're
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Next is a perfect specimen of this often-mishandled storyline.
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With an opening scene that sets just the right mood, a stylish execution, and a bad-ass final
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girl who you'll be rooting for from the get-go — there's nothing about this 2011 movie
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that isn't utterly on point.
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Except, maybe, for the fact that there's no sequel.
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Goodnight Mommy
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This Austrian feature from 2014 is a master class in making the audience feel very, very
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bad.
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Two twins develop a syndrome that makes them believe their mother, lost in depression after
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being disfigured in an accident, has been replaced by an impostor.
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The story unfolds with trainwreck inevitability, as their investigation turns from curious
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to cruel, playing with the allegiances of the audience in an excruciating way.
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The story is riddled with blank spaces and patches of silence where a lesser film would
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try to tell the audience too much.
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The amazing result is that viewers have to do the legwork on figuring out what's really
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going on.
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And the film is not so much about jump surprises as it is about the pure horror of watching
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innocent children do terrible, unspeakable things.
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The Witch
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Not only is The Witch historically authentic to an eerie degree, but its careful approach
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to introducing scary, supernatural elements into the real-life religious anxieties of
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colonial New Englanders is intensely unsettling.
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And the climax of this 2015 film is an emotional piece of hell.
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A lot hinges on the endings of horror movies, and this one sticks the landing with confidence.
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It's an unsparing picture, the very meaning of dreadful, and a modern classic.
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Get Out
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A meet-the-parents situation goes terribly awry in Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get
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Out, which hit theaters in 2017 amid a wave of well-deserved buzz.
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The movie follows interracial couple Rose and Chris, who are visiting for a weekend
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at Rose's parents' estate — a classy place where the polished veneer of white liberal
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tolerance turns out to be masking some deep, dark, terrifying secrets about why there aren't
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more black folks in town.
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Get Out fully lives up to the hype, delivering suspense and scares while also tackling complex
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and uncomfortable racial issues with incisive wit.
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If it doesn't make you scream, it'll definitely make you squirm.
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"Sink into the floor, sink."
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