Ranking All 13 A24 Horror Movies from Worst to Best
Mike Sprague
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For those that might not know, A24 is responsible for some of the best horror movies of the past few years. And so today, we’d like to take a moment and celebrate their sinister slate of scary movies. So join us and let’s rank all 13 of A24’s horror movies.
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Check out the list below.
13. Life After Beth
The zombie horror-comedy Life After Beth is mostly ‘meh’. It centers on a guy played by Dane DeHaan who discovers that his girlfriend (Aubrey Plaza) has returned from the dead. At least he’s got her back, right? Well… it turns out his joy evolves quickly into horror as she slowly undergoes a horrible transformation.
12. Tusk
Kevin Smith made a great horror movie with Red State. But his genre follow-up Tusk is half a good movie. At best. It finds Justin Long venturing into the Canadian wilderness to interview Michael Parks. But before Long (get it?) Justin learns that Parks has a dark obsession. One involving a walrus. Things get twisted.
11. Slice
In a spooky small town, a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job. Now two daring survivors set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree. Written and directed by Austin Vesely, the film stars Zazie Beetz and Chance Bennett. Hannibal Buress, Joe Keery, Chris Parnell, and Paul Scheer co-star.
10. It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night begins after a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors. Now two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance to keep the outside evil at bay. Only to learn that the true horror may come from within. Joel Edgerton stars with Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, and Riley Keough.
09. The Hole in the Ground
One night, Sarah’s young son disappears into the woods behind their home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows disturbing. Sarah begins to believe the boy who returned may not be her son. Lee Cronin directed this nightmare. He’s also set to write and direct the next film in the Evil Dead series, Evil Dead Rise.
08. In Fabric
In Fabric tells the tale of a lonely divorcee who visits a bewitching department store. There she stumbles upon a dress that will transform her life. But she soon finds that the perfect, artery-red gown contains a malevolent, unstoppable curse. Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars with Hayley Squires, Leo Bill, and Gwendoline Christie.
07. Saint Maud
The newest entry on the list is Saint Maud. The film follows a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation, whatever the cost.
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06. The Lighthouse
Writer-director Robert Eggers followed up his near-masterpiece The Witch with this black-and-white horror movie. The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe (Antichrist) and Robert Pattinson (The Batman) as two lonely lighthouse keepers who descend into madness and masturbation when a storm strands them on the remote island.
05. The Monster
The Strangers writer-director Bryan Bertino’s The Monster is one of my personal favorites. Let’s just say I can relate to the relationship here. But for those that aren’t familiar, the movie centers on a mother and daughter trapped in their car on a stormy night on a deserted country road with a terrifying evil lurking in the woods.
04. Midsommar
Ari Aster’s Hereditary follow-up is a nightmare in the middle of the day. It finds a couple traveling to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival. But what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
03. The Witch
Robert Eggers’ The Witch will be remembered for all time. It’s that scary. It begins in 1630 New England when panic and despair envelop a farmer’s family. You see their baby suddenly vanishes and they blame their daughter who was watching him. Suspicion and paranoia mount, as everyone suspects there’s a witch in the woods.
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02. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Director Oz Perkins recently helmed that terrific Gretel & Hansel flick. But I say The Blackcoat’s Daughter is his best motion picture. It takes place during the dead of winter and tells of a troubled young woman (Emma Roberts) who embarks on a mysterious journey to an isolated prep school where two stranded students (Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton) face a sinister threat from an unseen evil force.
01. Hereditary
Of course, Hereditary is number one. I mean, come on, it’s Hereditary! Josh once called the film ‘The scariest movie since The Exorcist’ and I’m inclined to agree with him. The movie begins when the matriarch of the Graham family dies. Her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and terrifying secrets about their ancestry. But can they outrun the sinister fate they have inherited? Don’t count on it, brother.
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Honorable mentions that some deemed not ‘horror movie enough’ go to Green Room, Ex Machina, Under the Skin, Enemy, Climax, High Life, Dark Places, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and A Ghost Story. Up next for A24 is The Green Knight.
What’s your favorite A24 horror movie?
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