How many horror movies were made in 2017

But Prevenge leans into the absurdity of its central conceit, and Lowe succeeds in making her antihero seem almost rational even as she becomes increasingly unhinged. Prevenge is equally adept at that balancing act, with the laughs building alongside the rising body count. Flesh-eating aside, the film has a lot to offer — as long as you can stomach it.

These films — Wolf Creek remains the best known — are relentlessly brutal and, more often than not, unbearably bleak: Even for seasoned horror fans, they can be difficult to endure, and Killing Ground is, indeed, a challenge to get through. The set-up is relatively straightforward, as Sam Harriet Dyer and Ian Ian Meadows pitch their tent on a secluded beach for a romantic weekend away.

To say that things go awry would be something of an understatement. What makes Killing Ground so impressive is how much it does with a plot that, at least initially, feels so familiar. Carla Gugino does a lot of the heavy lifting: As Jessie, she has to play both helpless victim and resourceful survivor — and sometimes both at once, as Jessie hallucinates a more assertive version of herself to help her out of her predicament.

It Comes at Night , which is unequivocally horror, takes the concept and runs with it. It Comes at Night may be too slow for some, but its deliberate pacing allows the tension and paranoia to build, paving the way for an impressively brutal conclusion.

But things take an unexpected turn as Luciana is offered a moneymaking opportunity that seems too good to be true — and, of course, is. Most Beautiful Island could easily have followed a more predictable trajectory, but while it seems as though Luciana is going to be tricked into sexual slavery, the truth is revealed to be an entirely different kind of nightmare.

Zombie fatigue is real, as anyone still trudging through The Walking Dead can tell you, but there are still unique spins on the genre. The Girl With All the Gifts , for example, is postapocalyptic zombie horror that also incorporates the very YA premise of one girl with special powers.

Caroline Caldwell Glenn Close , who is experimenting on children like Melanie in the hope of finding a cure for the fungal infection that has already wiped out most of the world. The Girl With All the Gifts takes narrative turns that distinguish it from the typical zombie film and from the YA movies that share some of its DNA, culminating in a devastating ending that few will see coming. Better Watch Out is not the movie you think it is: Few films are this able to completely shift course, but the major redirect that occurs a third of the way into the movie is just part of what makes it such a thrillingly subversive take on the Christmas slasher.

On the surface, at least, this is your standard holiday horror: year-old Luke Levi Miller and his babysitter, Ashley Olivia DeJonge , are forced to defend themselves when home invaders descend on the house. Creep 2 Mark Duplass and writer-director Patrick Brice have put together an excellent follow-up to their micro-budget Creep from , in which Duplass plays an amiable serial killer who prefers to forge weird bonds of friendship with his victims before doing them in.

Creep 2 is tense and uncomfortable and features one of the best nude scenes of the year. Cole Judah Lewis is a little old for a babysitter, but at least the late-blooming lovable geek has the ultracool Bee Samara Weaving to look after him. One weekend, when his parents go out of town a well-placed Ken Marino and Leslie Bibb , Cole endeavors to spy on Bee after bedtime to see what she gets up to, and he is understandably surprised when she sees her carrying out ritual sacrifice in his living room with a group of sexy teens.

He makes you a participant in the debauchery, then makes you pay for it, then does it all over again. Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood play Jessie and Gerald, a married couple looking to put some zest back in their relationship with a weekend getaway. The situation goes from distressing to harrowing, though, when Gerald dies of a heart attack, leaving her chained to the bed with little to no hope of rescue. Gugino delivers a powerful, dynamic performance, playing both the victim on the bed as well as a bolder manifestation of her subconscious self that tries to guide her through the situation — and through past traumas that have landed her in handcuffs with someone like Gerald in the first place.

That sounds like the opening death in a slasher movie in which said bratty girl will never be heard from again, but in Happy Death Day, it keeps happening over and over and over again. In a lesser movie, this Groundhog Day premise could get tired real fast, but Happy Death Day is aware enough of its own absurdity to be in on the jokes, and willing to make them before you do. This movie is as sweet as it is mean, which adds up to lots of fun, and new face Rachel Matthews is flat-out excellent as the head bitch in charge of the sorority house.

Based on the novella of the same name, is about a Nebraska farmer named Wilfred James Thomas Jane , who, with the help of his teenage son Dylan Schmid , murders his wife Molly Parker to prevent her from selling her share of their land so she can move to the big city.

The rest of the movie is a pressure cooker, with Wilfred succumbing to paranoia and hallucinating the ghost of his wife, who tells him terrible truths that only the dead could know.

Cult of Chucky Murderer Charles Lee Ray has been in the body of a Play Pals Chucky doll for 30 years now, and the horror-comedy franchise still has a lot of gas in the tank. We would describe the plot, but it would really only make sense if you watched the previous six movies first or read our primer on the franchise here.

Fall has been a great season for horror comedy, and Tragedy Girls brings the fun as it follows Sadie and McKayla on their journey from trying to track down a serial killer in their town, to actually becoming the serial killers themselves. Dark and brooding toxic female friendships are a favorite trope in the suspense genre, but sometimes extremely misguided best girlfriends just wanna have a good time, even if that means dismembering bodies with the high-school shop supplies just for the lulz.

Already a subscriber? Two paranormal investigators are unexpectedly thrown together in the hope of solving a year mystery. Locked for three nights in a house with a dark and unsettling past, the two Recovering after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.

Unrated min Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi. A girl who lives secluded in a house in the woods with the only company of her father and a wolfhound finds among the trees a mysterious cubic device. Seeking out the ghost they uncover a force that threatens to wreak havoc. Isolated and 10, miles from home, they find themselves caught in the clutches of evil.

Not Rated 98 min Action, Horror, Thriller. Serena Brooks, an ambitious young actress, signs on as the star of a horror film with a crew of backwoods filmmakers that have worked together. When the cast starts disappearing, Serena has to become her character if she wants to survive.

Emma, a college student with a crippling fear of clowns, must come face to face with her worst fear when an evil spirit in the body of a clown is summoned terrorizing the town she calls home. Patrick Connor's life is quickly turned upside down after taking a job at an abandoned probationary camp for boys.

Not Rated 92 min Drama, Fantasy, Horror. In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.

Not Rated 88 min Drama, Horror, Mystery. A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.

Unrated min Drama, Fantasy, Horror. A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want. Votes: 16, Not Rated 83 min Horror. When Dani, an innocent southern girl, vacations to Los Angeles to evade her increasingly complicated life, she learns that escaping her past isn't as easy as she hoped. With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

But what they don't know is that the house kept a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one. R min Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller. The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.

Unrated min Horror, Sci-Fi. After awakening in a mental asylum, a patient plans an escape to freedom, but finds an even more disturbing, supernatural world on the outside, one that threatens to keep him trapped in madness forever.

R 91 min Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Five friends are terrorized by a supernatural entity after downloading a mysterious app. When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant memory of his mentor and legendary vampire hunter, Mister, to guide him.

An adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists the couple go camping to reconnect. Something in the woods wipes out a group of hunters nearby, preventing the couple from When two estranged sisters go to a mountain to scatter their mother's ashes on the 10th anniversary of her death, past and present start merging causing them to become increasingly paranoid.

Six college best friends throw their own private graduation party that goes terribly wrong when an uninvited guest arrives. Five years later, the girls gather once again and endure a night of far more horror and bloodshed. Not Rated min Horror, Thriller. R 98 min Crime, Drama, Thriller.

In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer. Not Rated 90 min Drama, Horror, Thriller. Not Rated 79 min Drama, Fantasy, Horror. After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings.

Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world. Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.

A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.