How is this possible? Watch the movie and find out. Well, someone who looks exactly like her is still online. Cam (2018)ĭid you like Us? Check out this other variation on the concept of the doppelgänger, which stars Madeline Brewer as a cam girl who wakes up one day to find out that she’s still online. If movies have taught us anything it’s that covering up a child’s death never works. Instead of owning the horror, they try to cover things up. Two Scotsmen go hunting and a horrible accident ensues that results in the shooting of a young boy.
And we swear they won’t all be Netflix Originals (there just happens to be a lot at the top of the alphabet). This may be more of a thriller than a horror film, but we have to get this list to 50 somehow and it ends in a brutal enough way to qualify. Looking for a little foreign flavor in your horror? Check out a unique Norwegian film take on the post-apocalyptic genre as it envisions a future in which resources are so scarce that people will do anything for them, bringing a family of three to an event at a hotel that has truly sinister undertones. Gary Oldman gives one of his best performances as the title character, but it’s Coppola’s incredible craftsmanship and unforgettable design that make this movie an underrated horror classic. Tense and unforgettable, it’s the kind of hidden gem that Netflix is great at bringing to a bigger audience.įrancis Ford Coppola’s 1992 epic retelling of the classic novel is one of the most lavish and ambitious Hollywood productions of its era. They have a night of passion and she wakes up to discover that she’s unable to leave his apartment, kidnapped by her one-night stand. Teresa Palmer is great in this tense thriller about an Australian photographer who goes to Germany and meets an attractive young man. Waterhouse plays a young lady exiled into a group of cannibals, whom she flees only to arguably be in more trouble under the sway of a cult leader, played by Reeves. It’s more post-apocalyptic drama than direct horror, but there’s enough grim, gruesome material here for it to qualify. The Bad Batch (2017)Īna Lily Amirpour wrote and directed this controversial 2017 film starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey. Weaving plays a babysitter who just happens to be a sociopathic cult member. Stay far away from that garbage, but do check out the original, a film that instantly made clear how much Samara Weaving was going to be a star. McG’s surprise horror-comedy hit was so popular for Netflix that it produced a sequel in 2020’s The Babysitter: Killer Queen. Dave Bautista stars as the leader of a ragtag group of former soldiers who are tasked with breaking into the zombie-overrun city of Las Vegas to retrieve millions in a safe under the city. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and the result is a bit of mindless undead fun. The divisive Zack Snyder returns to the world of zombie action years after his breakthrough with a remake of George A. It starts as something dreamy and scary à la The Wicker Man but ends up being something much grosser and darker as it reaches its unforgettable climax. Look, another Netflix Original! The Raid director Gareth Edwards moves from action to horror in this slow-burn period piece about a man who goes to rescue his sister from a remote cult. Smart and fast-paced, this is an excellent modern zombie movie that alternates building tension with clever action scenes. Released at the height of the pandemic, this Korean zombie flick became a surprise hit on Netflix, but the truth is that it could have worked even without the “timeliness” of the tale of a man stuck in his apartment during the apocalypse. Wilfred and his boy struggle to cope with what they’ve done, and must try to survive their now-cursed life as killers.
Thomas Jane stars as Wilfred James, a provincial man who manipulates his teenage son (Dylan Schmid) into helping kill his mother (Molly Parker) so she can’t take her share of the family’s money and ship off to the big city - effectively leaving their farm to die. This Stephen King adaptation is one of those that seeps into your blood and poisons it.