We’re nearing Halloween so what better time to list of some of the greatest, and most
frightening horrors you can watch from the comfort of your own home.
I tried my best to include some of the lesser known films, but, be warned, there are a lot,
and I mean, A LOT of spoilers.
So proceed with caution.
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I’m personally a sucker for the classics like, The Shining, The Exorcist, and even
a few of the ones I’ve listed today.
So, without further adieu, let's jump into our list of the Top 5 Scary Movies On Netflix.
5 I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
After a brutal death occurs in a New England mansion, the property manager hire a live-in
hospice nurse to take care of an aging horror writer.
However, the story isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
What ensues is the blur between reality and fantasy, hallucinations, and even visions
of shadowy figures haunting her every move.
After mold begins to infest, and at one point even covers the nurse's arms, our protagonist
Lily begins to investigate further.
Soon realizing that the strange goings-on in the house are linked to a book written
by author.
And that perhaps it isn’t the stuff of fiction after all, and instead is about the house
itself, and the murder that occured within it.
It’s an eerie film that doesn’t bring too much fright, but definitely lingers with
you.
Especially the final scene which reveals the houses true horrors.
4 Gerald’s Game After a couple go away to their isolated cabin
they engage in a kinky game to spice things up in the bedroom.
But, after handcuffing his wife Jessie to the bedpost, Gerald has a heart attack, falling
to the floor and dying.
This leaves Jessie fighting to escape while being tormented by memories of her past, and
even visions of Gerald, taunting her while his body lies motionless on the floor.
After falling asleep Jessie wakes up to the vision of a tall, deformed figure in the shadows
of the room.
Creepy.
What ensues is tragic flashbacks to Jessie’s childhood, and the sexual abuse she received
at the hands of her father.
Without revealing too much, the climax of the film, is bloody and brutal, and shows
the epic will people have when fighting for survival.
The film is a psychological masterpiece, that, though a simple premise, and limited locations,
manages to scare even the most veteran of horror lovers out there.
3 Hush Another Mike Flanagan film, Hush is about
a deaf author who lives in the woods and becomes tormented by a sinister killer.
Before I go on, I have to say this film is genius, pure genius, and arguably one of the
best depictions of a final girl that I’ve seen to date.
After brutally murdering the protagonists neighbour, the killer approaches the house,
tapping on the window but soon realizes the occupant can’t hear a thing.
Maddie, our leading lady, then becomes harrassed by the killer after he swipes her phone.
She begins to receive picture messages of herself, turning around she sees a door is
open and a few feet away is a masked man, holding her phone and a crossbow.
What proceeds is an epic and bloody battle between the two.
Maddie, trapped inside her own home, must fight to escape while trying to survive without
the ability to hear.
But as we all know, when one sense is lost, others are heightened, and this comes in handy
for our final girl.
2 The Ritual This British horror follows four friend who
go on a hike in the swedish woods to honour the death of their friend who was killed during
a liquor store robbery.
During the hike one of the friends twists their ankle, forcing the group to take a shortcut
through the woods.
Classic.
This is where things start to descend into utter creepiness.
The come across an abandoned house that they make camp in for the night, but a creepy totem
causes them all to experience nightmarish dreams, and for some, even wet themselves.
They continue on in hope of finding a way out of the dense forest and after climbing
a ridge they realize an exit is near, and that fire from a camp is not far away.
I mean, this is a bad sign, a really bad sign.
However, before they get moving, one of them gets dragged off into the woods by an unknown
creature.
They follow and are led to a small cult-like village.
I’ll stop there though to avoid any further spoilers.
But warning, the reveal of the creature and the intentions of the cult are truly, TRULY,
disturbing.
You have been warned.
1 The Babadook My god is this film frightening!
Once you get past the hyperactive personality of the annoying son Samuel, this film will
haunt you for a VERY long time.
Stephen King himself has even classed this as the scariest film he has ever seen.
So what’s it about?
The Babadook is a supernatural horror story about a mother he is still battling with the
grief of losing her husband during a car crash as he drove her to the hospital during their
sons labour.
The film focuses on the mother trying her best to raise her son after the loss and unbeknownst
to her accidentally releases an evil entity while reading him a bedtime story.
She disregards the book after the pages reveal the entity's true intentions, that the Babadook
will come to the kid in a disguise and demand that it be let in.
The two begin to experience strange goings-on, and the son believes it’s all down to the
Babadook, but the mother isn’t so sure.
One day however a knock on the door reveals the book that she had originally discarded
of, and this sends the mother down a deep dark journey to madness.
Not only is the film about the supernatural, but it’s also about a parents struggles
with unconditional love for a problematic child.
It’s a truly terrifying experience, and when the Babadook is finally revealed, well,
I think we can all safely say it still lingers with us today.
Well there we have it!
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