The films

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Bacurau

A remote Brazilian village disappears from the map and finds itself hunted for sport. Weird, angry and unclassifiable.

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Creep

Two actors, a cabin and a camera. Mark Duplass is the most unsettling thing in modern horror.

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Color Out of Space

Nicolas Cage, alpacas, and a colour that does not exist. More faithful than most attempts.

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The Bay

Barry Levinson made a found-footage eco-horror about a Chesapeake town and parasitic isopods.

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The Lodge

Two children snowed in with their father's new partner, who has a history with a cult.

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Confessions

A teacher calmly tells her class she knows two of them killed her daughter, and that she has already taken revenge.

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Frozen

Three people stuck on a chairlift. Almost nothing else, and that is enough.

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Overlord

Nazi zombies with a real budget and a unusually good first act. Better than the premise deserves.

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Revenge

Reworks the structure with the assault largely off screen, which removes nothing it needs.

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Sleep Tight

The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.

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The Invitation

A dinner party where you spend ninety minutes unsure whether the host is grieving or dangerous.

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Apostle

Gareth Evans doing folk horror with the fight choreography left in. Much nastier than expected.

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Climax

A dance troupe, spiked sangria, and Gaspar Noé's camera refusing to cut. Unbearable by design.

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Green Room

A punk band plays the wrong venue. Jeremy Saulnier does not flinch and neither does the film.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Two coroners, one body, one basement. A masterclass in escalating a single location.

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Thelma

A Norwegian student with a repressive religious upbringing discovers her desire has physical consequences.

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Troll Hunter

Norwegian students follow a poacher who turns out to hunt state-secret trolls. Deadpan and enormous.

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Border

A Swedish customs officer who can smell guilt meets a man who smells like nothing she recognises.

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Goodnight Mommy

Austrian, cold, and it works out its own twist early enough that the dread is the point.

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As Above, So Below

A descent into the Paris catacombs that becomes a descent into hell, shot for real under the city.

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Coherence

A dinner party the night a comet passes, and reality starts to fork. Shot in one house in five nights.

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I Saw the Devil

A secret agent catches a serial killer, releases him, and does it again. And again.

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Mandy

Nicolas Cage, a chainsaw duel and Jóhann Jóhannsson's last score. Not for everyone and not trying to be.

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The Ritual

Four men, a Swedish forest, and a creature design worth waiting for.

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The Wailing

Two and a half hours, and it withholds whether the shaman is helping right until the end.

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Bone Tomahawk

A slow western for 90 minutes, then one scene people never forget. You will know it when it starts.

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What We Do in the Shadows

The funniest vampire film ever made, and the flatmate politics are observed perfectly.

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Raw

A vegetarian vet student develops an appetite. Julia Ducournau's debut and a genuine coming-of-age film.

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The Babadook

A film about a widowed mother who resents her son, wearing a monster as a coat.

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Vivarium

A young couple cannot leave a show home. Bleak, airless, and about mortgages.

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Ready or Not

A bride versus her new in-laws and their family obligation. Very funny and mean.

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Doctor Sleep

Reconciles King's novel with Kubrick's film, which should not have been possible.

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Gerald's Game

The King novel everyone said was unfilmable. One bed, two handcuffs, and a degloving.

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Suspiria

Not a remake so much as an argument with the original. Colder, longer, and about postwar German guilt.

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The Platform

A vertical prison and a descending table of food. The metaphor is a brick and the film is effective anyway.

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It Follows

One rule, followed exactly. The most frightening use of a wide shot in modern horror.