Slender Man
SonyInspired by true events (and a creepy Internet meme), four teenage girls perform a ritual ceremony to prove the sinister Slender Man doesn't exist. Whoops: It turns out he does.
Truth or Dare
Universal PicturesThe classic teenage party game gets a supernatural twist, with its players forced to tell the truth or perform a dare—or risk a grisly death.
19Slice
A24Chance the Rapper stars in this horror satire from writer-director Austin Vesely, playing a former Chinese food deliveryman / werewolf (seriously) on the lam after he's wanted for a string of murders.
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18The Strangers: Prey at Night
Aviron PicturesTen years after The Strangers, the three mysterious masked killers return to stalk another doomed family in the woods for no apparent reason at all.
17Hell Fest
LionsgateA traveling Halloween carnival turns deadly in this slasher flick, which sees a group of teens picked off one-by-one by—what else?—a masked killer known as The Other, whose motives are unclear but whose handiwork is gruesome.
16The First Purge
Universal PicturesSpeaking of creepy masks, there are plenty on display in the latest in the Purge franchise, this one serving as an origin story for the annual 12-hour legal crime spree.
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15The Predator
20th Century FoxWriter-director Shane Black reignites this movie franchise with a stacked cast (including Sterling K. Brown, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, and Olivia Munn), which follows a team of Marines who face off against the deadly alien beings.
14The Meg
Warner Bros.Jason Statham battles a massive, prehistoric shark known as a megalodon in this action-packed (but relatively bloodless) thriller.
Summer of '84
Gunpowder & SkyStranger Things hasn't cornered the market on nostalgia-infused horror properties, as this clever period piece proves. A group of teens suspect that the serial killer hunting down local kids is in fact a beloved police officer.
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12The Nun
Warner Bros.The latest entry into the Conjuring cinematic universe sees Taissa Farmiga playing a young novitiate (who strangely is not the younger version of her sister Vera's character in the series) who investigates a spooky convent that is haunted by that evil nun.
11Unsane
Bleecker StreetSteven Soderbergh refuses to follow through on his retirement, this time bringing us the story of a woman (Claire Foy) who finds herself held against her will in an insane asylum.
10The Little Stranger
Focus FeaturesA handsome doctor makes a house call to an English estate where two damaged siblings live with their aging mother in this handsome adaptation of Sarah Waters's gothic novel.
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9Revenge
NEONWriter-director Coralie Fargeat's rape-revenge fantasy, an infamous horror subgenre notoriously difficult to pull off, is brutal, unsettling, exhilarating, and feminist all at once.
8The Endless
Well Go USA EntertainmentWriter-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead star as a pair of siblings who return to the compound where they grew up, both having to come to terms that they were members of a UFO death cult.
7Ravenous
NetflixA flesh-eating plague leaves a small Quebec town nearly demolished, and the remaining living residents must protect themselves from the disease—and their zombie-like neighbors who have been consumed by it.
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6Suspiria
Amazon StudiosLuca Guadagnino's remake of Dario Argento's horror classic takes the original premise—a young American girl joins a prestigious dance academy in Germany, which is a cover for a coven of witches—and adds political context, brutal horror realism, and Tilda Swinton in a triple role. It's a slow burn, but it's final act is a bloody shocker.
5Halloween
UniversalMichael Myers is back—and this time, so is Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, who is flipping the script and hunting down the masked killer in David Gordon Green's sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic.
4A Quiet Place
Paramount PicturesA family (led by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) silently navigate a post-apocalyptic world, stalked at every turn by monsters that hunt their prey with a supercharged sense of hearing.
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3Mandy
RLJE FilmsNicolas Cage gives a deliriously wild performance in this psychedelic and bloody horror-action hybrid as a man who avenges the death of his wife, who was abducted by the leader of an LSD-dropping cult.
2Annihilation
Paramount PicturesNatalie Portman teams up with a team of women who venture in a territory known as The Shimmer, a mysterious area surrounding a meteor landing where animals have evolved into unrecognizable creatures.
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