Halloween is approaching – the perfect time to watch horror films. I dug up 15 of the scariest, weirdest, weirdest, and funniest movies on horror streaming service Shudder. I'm omitting obvious options such as Psycho And Halloween– if you subscribe to Shudder, you've probably seen all the “classics” at least twice – to focus on the movies guaranteed to make you roll your eyes, laugh out loud, or say “what else” This?”
Gloomy song (2016)
If you like intelligent, slow-burn horror, check it out Gloomy song. Like its characters, director Liam Gavin's debut feature goes places few films dare to tread. Sophia is a grieving mother whose longing for her murdered child forces her to hire Joseph, a self-proclaimed occultist, to try to bring him back through a secret ritual. Trapped together in a house for months, the couple undergoes a series of grueling rituals that become increasingly horrific.
Mads (2024)
Mads feels dangerous. This crazy nightmare follows a group of fast-living French teenagers who snort a drug that turns them into bloodthirsty killers. Or perhaps they are infected with a contagion, and the armed forces hunting them are trying to stop the catastrophe. Or maybe all this chaos is a figment of their drug-addled imagination. Regardless, the story unfolds in one crazy episode that gets crazier and crazier as the world slips from its moorings.
Crazy family (1985)
If you want to see something little-known but unforgettable, watch Crazy family. Until recently, this Japanese horror-comedy was virtually unknown in the United States: after a limited theatrical run in the mid-1980s, the violent, dark family comedy was never released here in any format. But this big movie. The social commentary in this story about a family falling apart once they achieve material success probably resonated more strongly with 1980s Japan, but it's still a hilarious and unnerving portrait of a family unlike anything else ever made.
Strangeness (2024)
Unlike some of the films on this list, Strangeness doesn't try to reinvent the wheel of horrors. It's a good old-fashioned gothic ghost story about a blind psychic searching for the man who killed her sister. Strangeness filled with creepy characters, unexpected plot twists, and a palpable sense of creeping dread that is almost suffocating until it's released in the finale. This may not be the newest film, but Strangeness a smart script, confident acting and sharp direction add up to a wonderfully creepy little scary film.
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
This is one of the best horror films I've seen in the last decade. Late Night with the Devil claims to be the last late-night talk show broadcast of the 1970s. Night Owls with Jack Delroy. To win the eternal ratings war with Johnny Carson, Delroy invites a possessed girl to his Halloween broadcast. She turns out horrible guest. Late Night with the DevilThe innovative concept of the footage, the slavish attention to historical detail and the top-notch acting (especially lead performance by David Dastmalchian) add up to a must-see horror film.
irreversible (2003)
Cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe's harrowing masterpiece irreversible is the scariest movie on this list and possibly the scariest movie ever made. In a fun way it's not scary – there's nothing fun about it. irreversible– it's scary because it feels like violence real. We've all seen countless brutal crimes in movies and on television, but the atrocities in irreversible make the viewer feel the sickening, empty madness that you must feel if you see that someone has really been harmed. Don't wear it to a Halloween party, but if you want to go somewhere very dark, irreversible will take you there and make you regret asking to go.
Grabbers (2013)
Grabbers is the opposite irreversible. Amazing from the first to the last frame, Grabbers is a fun and scary tribute to monster movies, the soul of Ireland and the power of positive drinking. When sticky, bloodthirsty, tentacled monsters invade an isolated Irish village, the townspeople realize that the only way to keep themselves from being captured and eaten is to poison their blood with alcohol, so everyone locks themselves in to get all worked up while robbers gather outside. Good horror comedies are an almost impossible tonal tightrope walk, but Grabbers makes it easy to balance between scary and funny.
House of the Devil (2009)
House of the Devil it's set around 1983, and if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was filmed in the early '80s too. Ti West's first feature film has a classic premise: college student Samantha takes a job as a nanny at a remote country house, and the strange freaks who hire her reveal that they don't really do it. have baby, but mommy sleeps upstairs and she should No be concerned. From here, tension and fear gradually increase. This is a master class in horror film pacing and mood that you shouldn't miss.
Slax (2021)
Considering the number of horror films like Bed of Death: Bed that eats It's not hard to believe that someone made a horror movie about possessed jeans, but this Slax In fact good this is a huge surprise. A horror-comedy that pokes fun at the fashion industry, modern employment and horror films themselves. Slaksa rises above the Attack of the Killer genre by managing to be both smart and scary.
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Dark Woods and Enchanted Days: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
If you're someone who takes horror seriously, you'll love it Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. This meticulously researched three-and-a-half hour documentary dives deep into the horrors of the countryside, paganism and the clash between ancient and modern beliefs. This is the kind of film that will make horror fans pull out their notepad: if you're a fan Midsummer, The Wicker Man (original only) and/or Witch, Woodlands Dark I'll introduce you to tens films that inspired them.
Frankie Frico (2024)
Self-aware, campy parody films are difficult to make, but Frankie Frico holds the landing perfectly. An homage to 1980s rubber puppet films such as Gremlins, Ghouls, And Creatures, Frankie Frico tells the story of a square nerd who invites a gang of “freaks” into his life, with disastrous consequences. Filled with ingeniously corny practical effects, complemented by a funny script and great actors, this nostalgia trip is definitely worth a watch.
In cruel nature (2024)
If you've even heard of slasher movies, you know the plot. In cruel nature Already: A masked madman in the woods kills a group of teenagers in horrifyingly inventive ways. But In cruel nature turns the genre on its head by telling the story entirely from the killer's point of view. It's not exactly a scary movie – slasher films don't have the suspense of slashers; What should he be afraid of? – but it's a fascinating and hypnotic film that earns bonus points for having one of the most gruesome and original murders ever filmed. (If you've seen this, you know what I'm talking about.)
Dog soldiers (2002)
If Howl And Evil Dead if I had a child this would be Dog soldiers. When a squad of hapless British soldiers on training in the Scottish Highlands find themselves trapped in the remote hut of a pack of bloodthirsty werewolves, things go crazy. Dog soldiers combines claustrophobic survival horror, dry British humor and just enough plot to make you care who gets eaten, and the result is a firm favorite among action horror fans.
H/H/S: Halloween (2025)
Eighth(!) film in V/H/S The franchise may be the best. A collection of six found footage videos dedicated to Halloween. H/H/S Halloween it looks like a group of talented directors were given complete freedom to film their most twisted visions. The tone changes dramatically with each short, from horror comedy to Casper Kelly“Fun Size” to Alex Ross Perry's grueling and dark “KidPrint”, but the quality is consistently high, which puts H/H/S Halloween is head and shoulders above most anthology films.
Rare export (2010)
October won't last forever, so think about it Rare export bridge between Halloween and Christmas. In it, a mining company unearths an ancient frozen corpse from under the ice in Northern Finland, but when it is thawed, they discover that it is neither dead nor human. He's an elf and brings death instead of toys, especially when he learns that the mining company is also defrosting his terrible boss: Santa.
