We draw up a short list of the "Best horror movies of 2018", a year that gave exemplary titles (mainstream but also indie and extreme) ranging from psychological horror to supernatural horror but also thriller with horror and drama contaminations.
Here is the list of "Best films of 2017“.
The House That Jack Built, the new film written and directed by Lars Von Trier (Melancholia, Nymphomaniac), tops the charts. This brutal ode to madness and art (painting, sculpture, and literature) can be considered one of the best films about serial killers.
The House That Jack Built sheds light on some heinous murders carried out by a psychopath suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder against unsuspecting victims and perceived by him as parts of a hallucinated, surreal and hellish work of art.
In this masterpiece in which the majestic direction and rich screenplay stand out, Lars Von Trier guides the viewer into the shaky mind of the protagonist (played by an exemplary Matt Dillon) by making him a participant in his delusions that are rooted in blood and death.
It also leaves a very incisive mark Ghostland - The Dollhouse (aka Incident in a Ghostland), the new horror film directed by Pascal Laugier (Saint Ange and Martyrs).
The French director and screenwriter packs an edgy, destructive horror film that spills into a harrowing traumatic context in which the spotlight is on a condition of stress and psychological suffering. As in Martyrs, also in Ghostland pity succumbs to give way to cruelty and pain.
He made himself known The Lodgers - Don't break the rules (aka The Lodgers), Gothic horror about wrathful entities.
A dilapidated castle in rural Ireland in the 1920s is the magnificent location in which the macabre story of two orphaned twins tormented by an evil spell unfolds. This is a ghost story that plays on the dark fate of the protagonists, here suspended in an evocative dimension that has echoes in a mournful dream world.
The film is directed by Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey).
Written and directed by Demián Rugna, the Argentine horror film Aterrados (aka Terrified) is a chilling supernatural horror filled with violent deaths.
Embellished with a terrifying and distressing atmosphere, Aterrados (Argentina - 2018) differs from horror films about the paranormal in the eeriness and sense of oppression it manages to convey to the audience. Moreover, the genre's stereotypes, here reworked, take on a different light and meaning, giving the film an innovative aura.
Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, Ghost Stories (UK - 2018) is a supernatural horror film that, amidst instances of paranormal activity, mystery and skepticism, brings to life a drama of fear and horror. Engaging, Ghost Stories also enjoys a discouraging ending that sheds light on the deliberately dark points of the story.
Spanish director Jaume Balaguerò directs. Muse (Spain - 2018), the film adaptation of the novel "Checkers number 13" by Jose Carlos Somoza.
Punctuated by elegant direction, this cinematic reimagining offers a mix of crime and mystery while also providing a refined take on the horror genre in which the concepts of beauty, love and art are transmuted into a tragic and claustrophobic view of life.
Hereditary (USA - 2018) by Ari Aster is a supernatural horror film that might leave one interdicted by the slow pace of the story's unfolding. It is actually a merit in slowly exerting a sinister fascination on the viewer.
The true nature of the film is to be a powerful devilish film whose success is due to impeccable direction, cinematography and cast. Undoubtedly, a note of credit goes to Toni Collette, here in a role that seals ambiguity, fiction, and terror.
Among the "Best Extreme" of 2018 instead are "Your Flesh, Your Curse" e "Who's Watching Oliver“.
Pessimism, violence and degradation are the constants on which the story of the Danish extreme is installed Your Flesh, Your Curse, a film that violently intersects with the drama genre. The torment of a female body, both in life and death, becomes the focus of others' pleasure.
Humiliation and torment are the constants that echo in a hellish setting where devilish pacts snake and vivid perversions are consummated.
The extreme horror Who's Watching Oliver by Richie Moore probes the terrain of mental illness and the problems it triggers such as those related to behavior and the emotional sphere, with consequent repercussions in social life. The film plays on the anxiety disorders and impulses of the protagonist who, as a sufferer of borderline disorder, indulges in abominable actions followed later by shame and guilt.
Russell Geoffrey Banks, the lead actor, gives the audience a good acting performance, enough to embody an iconic and unforgettable murderer.
you are sick people...seriously disturbed (ended up on this site x pure bad luck)
@normal agent
It depends. There are fans of disturbing horror who would not be able to swat a fly, and people who would never see a bloody scary movie but then, in life, exaggerate in worrying violent attitudes.
In my experience, which may differ from that of others, it is not horror that induces dangerous behavior. When I was in school, strangely enough the violent and insufferable subjects did not like horror or movies. We didn't read comic books or books. They loved only two things. Girls and soccer. Yet they were annoyingly manic.
On the other hand, I have known horror opera fans of kind, friendly and harmless character.
It's up to you, then, to decide whether the articulators of this site and horror fans are sick, or whether a person's attitude depends solely on the person himself.