Remember RL Stine? For a certain generation, the author of more than 300 YA horror novels was all but ubiquitous-and a cornerstone of the childhoods of many a millennial. Clocking in at a succinct 88 minutes, Don’t Breathe is a tense, taught and wonderfully sick horror, and so much more than a home invasion movie. When a grisly discovery throws a spanner in the works, however, it becomes clear that they dangerously underestimated who they are dealing with. Following a trio of Detroit delinquents desperate for a bit of cash to escape their dire circumstances, Don’t Breathe’s young protagonists think they’ve hit the jackpot when they stage a robbery at the house of a wealthy blind man. Found-footage gold and an instant cult classic, Creep is followed by an equally good and equally chilling sequel which is also available on Netflix.Ī good, classic, horror-lover’s horror, Don’t Breathe is so much darker and more disturbing than its premise initially suggests. But as Josef’s behaviour gets more and more bizarre, and his on-camera confessions become more and more disturbing, Aaron’s hopes that he is just a harmless eccentric slowly slip away. Like Perfect Blue before it, Cam is a provocative and creepy look at what it means to lose your online identity.Īrriving at a weird house in the woods, camera op Aaron meets Josef (Mark Duplass who also co-wrote), a total weirdo who says he wants Aaron to spend the day filming him for a video that can be shown to his unborn child (after he dies from an apparent terminal illness). But just as she begins to pop off, Alice finds that her video persona seems to be taking on a life of its own-and crossing lines that she herself had firmly drawn. Drawing from writer Isa Mazzei’s own experience, Cam joins budding camgirl Alice as her online alter ego Lola_Lola begins to climb in popularity. Starring Sandra Bullock as a woman who must hole up in a house of strangers and wear a blindfold at all times to protect herself, Bird Box is reportedly one of Netflix’s most successful ever films-and the perfect combination of corny, creepy and completely, fabulously stupid.Īs horror tropes go, doppelgängers are one of the most inexplicably chilling-and Cam is a great entry into the creepy doppelgänger canon.
In some ways the quintessential Netflix movie, Bird Box’s silly but diverting tale of monsters that make you see things that make you kill yourself is absurd but diverting and occasionally, genuinely, pretty thrilling. Deceptively simple and truly frightening, Jennifer Kent’s debut film is already a cult horror classic. Soon both are consumed with fear and paranoia that the book’s goulish protagonist is very real-and drawing closer and closer. A single mother, at her wits’ end caring for her difficult young son, makes the mistake of reading him a deeply sinister storybook that mysteriously appears on the shelf.
Though it is arguably responsible for the recent spate of horrors using painful family circumstances as the both the setting and the source of menace, few films since have quite managed to balance visceral terror and nuanced storytelling like 2014 Aussie chiller The Babadook. What follows is at once body horror, social satire, sci-fi, and pitch-black comedy.
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No explanation is given except instructions emanating from the TV to “await further instructions”. Following a highly dysfunctional family as they reunite for Christmas dinner, the festivities are interrupted when the entire house is encased in an impenetrable black substance.
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Based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer and with strong similarities to Andrej Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Annihilation is beautiful, buzzy and one of Garland’s best.Ĭrazed as it may be to recommend a Christmas movie in July, it would be remiss to leave the crazy, camp and vaguely Cronenbergian Await Further Instructions off this list. The story of a group of all-female military scientists embarking on an expedition to the mysterious and highly dangerous Area X, Annihilation isn’t your typical horror-but with its haunting atmosphere, eerie, unnerving imagery and amazing ensemble cast (Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Jason Leigh all star), Alex Garland’s sophomore outing as a director is a chilling addition to the genre.
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