I’ve enjoyed hereditary, midsommer, archive 81, green room, enemy, the witch, the ritual.
Pls no ‘come and see’ or the type of horror that is really about filling you up with existential dread about the planet dying. I want slop.
EDIT: Sorry for compulsively replying to all the responses, I just have to appreciate everyone who takes the time out to post lol
OH YEAH I FORGOT ‘VIDEODROME ‘ MY FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE OF ALL TIME
if you liked Green Room, also check out Blue Ruin. similar vibes.
There are so many great movies on this list, so I feel bad inundating more butttttt here are a few i hven't seen mentioned yet:
The Pink Cloud. a brasilian movie. not exactly horror, but definitely terrifying if Covid and isolation has freaked you out.
no one mentioned Silence of the Lambs which is definitely in the canon for a reason.
Coherence is more thriller but has some horror elements and is just a masterclass on short, simple story telling brining on huge ramifications.
Clovehitch Killer - if you were raised evangelical christian this is a good thriller for you
The Vigil - if you are jewish, or know anything about shiva, then this is for you
Splinter - low budget with great practical effects.
Raw and Titane - two french horror films by the same director. weird body shit, especially in the latter.
Misery - another classic. Kathy Bates is incredible in this.
also surprised no one said the Scream series. great meta slashers, and i'd argue one of the most consistent horror franchises to ever exist. even the 'worst' movies in the series are still decent to good imo.
it's new, but you should see X in theaters if you can.
Coherence is one of my favorite movies, period. Glad to see it mentioned.
yeah and reading up about it after the fact was really cool too.
basically, none of them were really major actors per se, and there was no dialogue/script. none of the actors knew eachother, just sorta "ideas" that they ran with. makes it more "real" but not toooo amateurish.