Watching a horror movie becomes even more thrilling when such a climactic revelation is about the movie’s villain.
Manyhorror movies that will always be classicsfeature characters who you’d never guess were actually the villains all along.
Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard star as Kate and John, her adoptive parents.
Jaume Collet-Serra most recently directedCarry-On, one of thebest thriller movies of 2024.
The movie follows a bereaved couple who adopt a 9-year-old orphan, Esther, after they lose their baby.
She starts behaving in a few alarming ways, gradually raising suspicions about her innocence.
You never see the revelation coming, and it changes everything about the film up to that point.
The film blends elements of slasher horror with dark humor, creating a unique entry in the genre.
So, it’s not surprising that her sparse feature film career also includes at least one horror title.
This twist left me with my jaw on the floor in shock.
His mother sounds ungrateful and overtly suspicious.
Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, and Jordan Peele released their sophomore directorial features that year.
Jordan Peele deliveredUs, a horror movie that explores the nature and impact of privilege in America.
Her doppelganger has her own family, who all resemble her family, and they call themselves the Tethered.
After the family spots unwelcome visitors in their house, Grace becomes convinced they’re being haunted.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Orphan is a psychological horror film in which a couple adopt a mysterious 9-year-old girl named Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), only to discover that she is not who she appears to be. Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard star as Kate and John, her adoptive parents.
This horrifying and unexpected twist suddenly makes all the inexplicable details fall into place.
Moreover, the most obvious suspects seem to have an airtight alibi for at least one kill.
However, the nature of the victory changes the life of any first-timeSawviewer.
Happy Death Day is a horror-comedy film directed by Christopher Landon. Released in 2017, it follows college student Tree Gelbman, played by Jessica Rothe, who is forced to relive the day of her murder repeatedly until she can identify her killer and stop her death. The film blends elements of slasher horror with dark humor, creating a unique entry in the genre.
While they seem to initially be strangers, the characters are slowly revealed to be connected to each other.
It’s clear that they’ve been caught by the Jigsaw Killer, who’s watching them.
What follows is a horrifying ordeal for the anxious photographer.
The Boy is a psychological horror film directed by William Brent Bell. It stars Lauren Cohan as Greta, a young American woman who is hired to care for a lifelike doll by an elderly couple in an English village. As Greta begins to suspect the doll may be alive, a series of unsettling events challenge her understanding of reality.
The best horror movies address contemporary cultural norms and collective sources of fear.
The claustrophobic slasher seems impossible to solve as probable suspects all have alibis and get killed nonetheless.
The real villain is their obsession with social media, and inability to ground themselves in reality.
In this now-iconic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, a secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel. The place is run by a young man under the domination of his mother – and he soon turns out to be far more threatening than he appeared at first.
Written and directed by Jordan Peele, Us follows the Wilson family; Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) and her husband Gabe (Winston Duke), and their children, Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). When visiting a remote lakeside cabin, the Wilson family is beset by exact doppelgangers of themselves, who quickly disclose that they mean their counterparts harm. The Wilson family is forced to fight for their lives against twisted mirror images of themselves, not realizing that there are more doppelgangers out there.
Alejandro Amenábar wrote and directed this cult-classic 2001 Horror film starring Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan. The premise follows a mother and her two young photosensitive children as they attempt to deal with a mysterious and possibly sinister presence in their New Jersey home.
1996’s Scream follows a teenage girl who is targeted by a masked killer a year after her mother’s murder who uses horror movies as a deadly game against her and her friends.
Saw is the first installment in the horror franchise directed by James Wan. Released in 2004, the film follows two men who awake shackled in a derelict bathroom, discovering they are part of a sadistic game orchestrated by the enigmatic Jigsaw, requiring them to follow cryptic instructions to survive.
Jordan Peele made his directorial Horror debut with Get Out, a terrifying Psychological Horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya. In the 2017 release, Chris Washington heads to Upstate New York to meet the family of his girlfriend, Rose. What follows is a horrifying ordeal for the anxious photographer.
Bodies Bodies Bodies is a comedy/horror/thriller from 2 AM. When Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a hurricane party with her girlfriend Sophie (Amanda Stenberg), they find themselves surrounded by affluent 20-somethings with very different world views. When the party finally kicks off amidst the coming storm, the debauchery leads to a game of “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” However, when a power outage occurs during the game, and a murder occurs in its stead, the party takes a turn for the deadly.
