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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

Closest to The Exorcist first

  1. Hereditary 2018

    Film

    Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

    The sides of Hereditary

    • A family after a grandmother's funeral
    • A clicking sound
    • A mother's grief turning into something else

    Good for you if

    • you want horror that stays with you for days.
    • you like a mother's grief played at full force.
    • you like dread that builds slowly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore. Some of its images are shown up close and held.
    • a family torn apart by grief and mental illness is too much for you.

    About: grief · family · fate

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  2. The Shining 1980

    Film

    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

    The sides of The Shining

    • An empty hotel in winter
    • A father going mad
    • A boy riding his tricycle down the halls

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds slowly in empty corridors.
    • you like long gliding shots behind a boy on his tricycle.
    • you like a performance that becomes truly frightening.

    Bad for you if

    • you scare easily. Some images stay for years.
    • you can't watch a family threatened by the father. Jack's drinking and rage turn on his wife and son.

    About: isolation · madness · family

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  3. The Witch 2016

    Film

    In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

    The sides of The Witch

    • A Puritan family alone by the woods
    • A baby that vanishes
    • A black goat

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds from small things.
    • you like a slow, atmospheric horror.
    • you like candlelit, grey images of 1630.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear harm coming to children. A baby vanishes in the first minutes.
    • you need some hope. The family falls apart and nothing comes to save it.

    About: faith · family · temptation

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  4. The Conjuring 2013

    Film

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

    The sides of The Conjuring

    • A family in a haunted farmhouse
    • Two paranormal investigators
    • A game of hide and clap

    Good for you if

    • you want real scares done the old-fashioned way.
    • you like a dark house where you wait for the next sound.
    • you like horror said to be based on a real case.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a film to stay within what science can explain. This one has demons, a possession and an exorcism.
    • you're watching with children. A possessed mother and a witch on the wardrobe are too much for them.

    About: faith · family · evil

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  5. Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

    The sides of The Conjuring 2

    • A haunted house in London
    • A nun painting
    • Two investigators again

    Good for you if

    • you want classic, well-made scares.
    • you like long quiet scenes before a scare.

    Bad for you if

    • over two hours of horror is too long for you.
    • you need a rational explanation. The Warrens treat the Enfield haunting as the work of a real demon.

    About: faith · family · fear

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  6. Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

    The sides of The Haunting of Hill House

    • Five siblings and the house they fled
    • A night their father never explained
    • Ghosts hiding in the background of shots

    Good for you if

    • you want ghosts you only spot in the corner of the frame.
    • you like a horror story that is really about brothers and sisters.
    • you like a reveal that makes you rethink the first episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief, addiction and suicide on screen.
    • you need horror that moves fast. This one lingers on memories.

    About: grief · family · memory

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  7. The Outsider 2020

    Series

    When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

    The sides of The Outsider

    • A boy's murder in a Georgia town
    • A suspect seen in two places at once
    • An investigator who sees what others miss

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds in quiet rooms and dark caves.
    • you like a case with proof that a man was in two places at once.
    • you like a patient story that takes its time with grief.

    Bad for you if

    • the murder of a child and a grieving family are too much for you.
    • you need a crime explained without anything supernatural.

    About: grief · belief · evil

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  8. Insidious 2011

    Film

    A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

    The sides of Insidious

    • A boy in a coma that isn't a coma
    • A house that isn't haunted, he is
    • The Further

    Good for you if

    • you like jump scares that land.
    • you like parents fighting to bring their son back from an endless sleep.

    Bad for you if

    • a foggy world of the dead with a red-faced demon is too strange for you.
    • you're watching with kids. A figure at the window and spirits in the house will give them nightmares.

    About: family · the other side

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  9. Bird Box 2018

    Film

    Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

    The sides of Bird Box

    • A mother and two children blindfolded
    • Something that makes you want to die if you see it
    • A river trip

    Good for you if

    • you like survival with a strict rule.
    • you like a threat you never see.

    Bad for you if

    • you want answers. What the creatures are and why they kill is never explained.
    • mass suicide shown on screen is too much for you.

    About: motherhood · survival · fear

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  10. An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

    The sides of American Horror Story

    • A new horror story each season
    • A haunted house, an asylum, a coven, a freak show
    • The same actors in new roles

    Good for you if

    • you like ghosts, witches and killers, a new nightmare every season.
    • you like a story that gets stranger with every episode.
    • you like camp horror that laughs at its own excess.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore, torture and cruel deaths.
    • you can't commit to thirteen seasons, even when each one stands alone.

    About: madness · sin · outsiders · family secrets

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  11. Constantine 2005

    Film

    John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

    The sides of Constantine

    • A chain-smoking exorcist
    • Angels and demons in Los Angeles
    • A trip to hell

    Good for you if

    • you like dark religious fantasy.
    • you like an investigation into a twin's death that leads through angels and demons.
    • you like a hell that looks like a burning city.

    Bad for you if

    • demons and possession scenes are too much for you.
    • you can't take suicide on screen. The story starts with one and comes back to it.

    About: redemption · faith · sacrifice

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  12. The Thing 1982

    Film

    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

    The sides of The Thing

    • A research station in Antarctica
    • Something that copies anyone
    • A blood test

    Good for you if

    • you like paranoia where anyone could be the monster.
    • you like practical creature effects that still shock.
    • you like an ending that leaves you unsure.

    Bad for you if

    • grotesque body horror ruins it for you.
    • films from 1982 feel dated to you.

    About: paranoia · trust · isolation

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  13. Supernatural 2005

    Series

    When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

    The sides of Supernatural

    • Two brothers hunting monsters
    • A black Impala
    • Angels, demons and the end of the world

    Good for you if

    • you like a bond between two brothers above everything.
    • you like a monster of the week.
    • you like Sam and Dean fighting demons with salt, shotguns and a '67 Impala.

    Bad for you if

    • fifteen seasons is far more than you want to start.
    • gore and bloody fights ruin a show for you.

    About: family · sacrifice · fate

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  14. Midsommar 2019

    Film

    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

    The sides of Midsommar

    • A grieving woman at a Swedish festival
    • Sunlight that never sets
    • A relationship falling apart

    Good for you if

    • you like horror in broad daylight and flowers.
    • you like a cult that gets stranger every day.
    • you like slow, creeping dread.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic deaths ruin it for you.
    • grief, a toxic relationship and a cult's rituals are too much for you.
    • two and a half hours of slow dread is too much.

    About: grief · belonging · breakups

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  15. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

    The sides of The Handmaid's Tale

    • A woman forced to bear children for a ruling family
    • A religious dictatorship in America
    • A resistance in whispers

    Good for you if

    • you like Elisabeth Moss saying everything with a stare into the camera.
    • you like every conversation in Gilead feeling like it could be a trap.
    • you like seeing how a regime controls women's bodies and words.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch rape and torture on screen.
    • you can't stand hangings and mutilations.
    • you need some hope, and here the hope comes slowly over six seasons.

    About: freedom · motherhood · resistance · faith

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  16. It 1990

    Series

    In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

    The sides of It

    • A shape-shifting clown called Pennywise
    • Seven outcast kids in a small town in 1960
    • The same friends reunited thirty years later

    Good for you if

    • you like being scared by a clown in a storm drain.
    • you like the Losers' Club sticking together against bullies and worse.
    • you like a story that cuts between seven kids and the adults they became.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch children dying or abusive parents.
    • a TV miniseries from 1990 feels dated to you.

    About: childhood fear · friendship · memory · bullying

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  17. Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

    The sides of The Sixth Sense

    • A boy who sees dead people
    • A psychologist trying to help him
    • A mother who doesn't understand

    Good for you if

    • you like an ending that makes you replay the whole film in your head.
    • you like quiet, creeping fear.
    • you like a ghost story that's really about grief.

    Bad for you if

    • you scare easily, especially with children in danger.
    • you need momentum. It moves quietly, one session with Cole at a time.

    About: grief · communication · fear

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  18. Us 2019

    Film

    Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

    The sides of Us

    • A family on holiday
    • Doubles at the end of the driveway
    • Red jumpsuits and scissors

    Good for you if

    • you like a home invasion with a strange idea behind it.
    • you like a family fighting their own copies.
    • you like an ending that recasts what you saw.

    Bad for you if

    • you want everything explained. The rules of the Tethered leave many questions open.
    • stabbings and fights ruin it for you.

    About: identity · privilege · the self

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  19. Annihilation 2018

    Film

    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    The sides of Annihilation

    • Five scientists entering the Shimmer
    • Nature mutating into something else
    • A bear that screams

    Good for you if

    • you like science fiction that feels like a nightmare.
    • you like rainbow-coloured, mutated landscapes.
    • you like an ending that refuses to explain itself.

    Bad for you if

    • body horror and one terrifying creature are too much for you.
    • you need momentum. The expedition moves slowly and quietly through the Shimmer.

    About: self-destruction · change · grief

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  20. Psycho 1960

    Film

    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

    The sides of Psycho

    • A secretary on the run with stolen money
    • A lonely motel
    • A shower

    Good for you if

    • you like suspense built from a stolen envelope and a lonely motel.
    • you like a film that pulls the floor away halfway.
    • you like horror that relies on what you imagine.

    Bad for you if

    • black and white films from 1960 feel too old to you.
    • you need momentum. The first act follows Marion's nervous drive, slowly, mile by mile.

    About: guilt · identity · madness

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