Top 10 Prestigious Horror Movies!!

The recent boom in smart horror films means that one of the most exciting releases of the past five years is often overlooked at awards ceremonies. Works like Ari Aster's Hereditary and Midsommar, Jordan Peele's Get Out or Jennifer Kent's The Babadook has proved how effective horror is at delivering more serious messages amidst the foreboding music and bloodshed.

 These ten prestigious horror films prove that they can understand something worse than relying on jump marks and creepy stairs.

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The Cabin in the Woods

Joss Whedon is the screenwriter behind this destructive 2011 film that cleverly destroys everyone in the horror genre. Teenagers begin a classic doom story, touring the jungle, turning into a maze of diverse characters, and addressing specific writers, films and conventions the style feels so full of Easter eggs for horror fans.

Gerald's Game

This Netflix adaptation of Steven King's 1992 novel Gerald's Game is a psychological thriller that sees a good-natured sex game go horrifically wrong. While there are no real monsters here, it is still a terrible sight - he has reached the peak with acclaimed horror director Mike Flanagan.

Insidious

The team behind the Saw franchise - James Wan (director) and Leigh Whannell (screenwriter) - visit the haunted house in the first installment of this franchise. It stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byron as a couple, whose son inexplicably enters into a coma after finds something in their family attic. Upon awakening, they find he is possessed with a dark spirit.

A Quiet Place

Directed by John Krasinski and accompanied by his wife, Emily Blunt, in this scene and the suspense story of a family evading monsters by staying very, very quiet. Along with the spectacular performances from both sides, the film manipulated the sound to make it feel unbearably loud moments after a long silence.

Misery

Kathy Bates won an Academy Award for her 1990 horror film about a novelist with the help of a compassionate nurse following a car accident. His defender becomes a crazy fan who breaks his legs and takes himself hostage. Based on Steven King's novel of the same name, Misery has the same claustrophobia and unnerving 'what if' premise as Gerald's Game.

The Silence of the Lambs

The silence of the Lambs has been awarded board trophies for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, and others at the 1992 Academy Awards. Adapted from Robert Harris' novel of the same name, the drawn-out psychological horror stars Anthony Hopkins as the spine-chilling Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent who is questioning a murderer in prison for solving another crime.

It

Another Stephen King adaptation, this is his most iconic villain in the form of a clown. It tells the story of a community in Derry, Maine, where children disappear at the evil hands of demons coming out of the city’s drains. Combining the eighth sense of strangers with the horror of the king's original story, it is more about adventure than pure horror, but frightening for an evil laugh at Pennywise.

American Psycho

Christian Bale plays the athletic, well-dressed, suicidal, successful serial killer Patrick Bateman in this stylish and intense adaptation of the same novel as Bret Easton Ellis. A dive into the mind of a psychopath with jet-black humor carried perfectly by Bale's maniacal grin.

Mother!

Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky outraged audiences in 2017 with this polarising psychological horror. In the story, Jennifer Lawrence plays the pregnant wife of Him, an acclaimed poet struggling with writer’s block played by Javier Bardem. In the same way that Midsommar used horror to make weighty points about misogyny, Mother!  Proud of the worship of the male genius, threading a story about the earth with biblical symbols and metaphors.

Annabelle: Creation

The 2017 film from Swedish director David F. Sandburg is an example of the 2016 film Annabelle - a prequel to the wonderful The Conjuring. It tells the story of how a couple embeds the spirit of their dead daughter into a doll, only to realize it is a demon. Against the backdrop of the 1940s American Gothic beauty and orphanage, Sandberg's direction brings back suspense and story and gives a creepy feel.