Halloweenis almost here, which means it’s the perfect time to start binginghorror movies, and nobody is making better horror movies than A24.
Since its founding in 2012, A24 has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted production companies when it comes tohorror. Just a flash of its logo indicates a high level of quality scares are heading your way. The filmsA24produces and distributes will have you thinking for a very long time after the credits' role with films like Midsommar, Hereditary, and The Witch. They also have a new horror film, Heretic, premiering next month.
A24 has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted production companies when it comes to horror.
As we head into Halloween, A24 films offer a little bit of something for everyone. From slow-burn folk horror and modern slasher homages, to go along with the scariest thing of all, family trauma. So, whether you’re in the mood for supernatural hauntings, unsettling cults, or tense survival thrillers, these films offer a mix of fear, suspense, and psychological thrills perfect to make sure you keep the lights on this Halloween.
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1The Witch
Puritanical paranoia in 17th century New England
The Witch follows a puritanical family in New England in the 1630s who are forced to leave their community after a religious dispute.
The film follows a puritanical family in 17th century New England after they are banished from their small village. The family sets out to make a homestead on their own, but quickly sense that something evil is invading their new home from the mysterious forest that surrounds them. Anya Taylor-Joy stars in The Witch. It also marks the directorial debut of Robert Eggers, who’s since made The Lighthouse and The Northmen. His next film, a remake of Nosferatu, will debut on Christmas this year.
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2Midsommar
The movie that ruined Swedish midsummer festivals
A group of American college students who travel to a friend’s isolated rural hometown in Sweden to experience their renowned midsummer festival.
Midsommar stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who accompanies her boyfriend and his friends on a visit to a rural village in Sweden to experience a festival the town holds for the Summer solstice. Once the group arrives, they’re drugged and begin to slowly realize that the midsommar festival isn’t the fun time they had expected, but a bizarre human sacrifice ritual.
3Hereditary
Family trauma with demons and witches
Hereditary
Following the death of her mother, Annie Graham and her family begin to be plagued by strange happenings.
Hereditary stars Toni Collette as Annie Graham. Following the death of Annie’s mother, her family begins to be plagued by strange phenomena. As Annie struggles to figure out the cause of problems they’re experiencing, she learns of her mother’s dark connections to sinister forces. Hereditary is the feature film debut of Ari Aster as a director. He also wrote and directed Midsommar.
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An older couple terrorize an adult film crew
An adult film crew tries to shoot a new movie on the farm of an elderly couple in rural Texas
In this homage to the early slasher films like Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a group of adult filmakers rent a barn on a remote Texas farm to film a new movie. Unfortunately, the elderly couple who owns the farm are truly psychotic and begin to pick off the film crew one by one.
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5Green Room
A punk band vs neo-nazis at a rural bar
Green Room
Green Room sees a struggling punk band forced to face off with neonazis who are regulars at band’s last tour stop after witnessing a brutal crime.
A struggling punk band arrives at a desolate bar in rural Oregon to play the final show of their tour, but discover it’s packed with neo-nazi’s led by the bar’s owner, who’s played by Patrick Stewart. They witness a crime and the band is forced to brutally fight their way out of the bar from the green room.
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6Bodies Bodies Bodies
A macabre game turns deadly during a hurricane
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A group of friends gets together to ride out a hurricane and play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, but a dead body ruins the fun.
A group of young 20-somethings gather together at a mansion to ride out a hurricane. After their party starts, they decide to play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, which sees one of them playing the role of the killer and the others tasked with figuring out who it is. However, once the power goes out, and the bodies begin to pile up, the game doesn’t seem so fun.
7Under the Skin
An alien leads unsuspecting men to their doom
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson stars as an alien seductress who preys upon men in Scotland. It was written and directed by recent Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer.
8Talk to Me
Never shake the creepy zombie hand
Talk to Me
High schoolers use an embalmed hand that conjures spirits to liven up their parties, which, shockingly, doesn’t end well for them.
While trying to cope with the death of her mother, Mia (Sophie Wilde) becomes enthralled with an embalmed hand that can conjure spirits. While Mia and her group of friends get a thrill out of communicating with spirits, things begin to go off the rail when Mia doesn’t close the door to the other side.
A man finds his exact copy and his life unravels
A college professor notices an exact lookalike of himself in a movie, and sets out to find his doppleganger in real life.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this haunting film about a college professor who sees his doppleganger in a film. He falls down a rabbit-hole researching the actor and begins to stalk him. Eventually, the two men agree to meet and grow envious of each other’s lives and begin to experience disturbing shared visions.
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10It Comes at Night
A claustrophobic apocalypse tale
It Comes at Night
Joel Edgerton stars in this story about a family attempting to ride out a deadly virus by hiding in the woods.
Two families attempting to hide from a deadly apocalypse are forced into an uneasy coexistence as they share a desolate home in the woods. Eventually, they begin to suspect each other of bringing the infection into their compound, and the race to find safety from each other begins. The film is similar to John Carpenter’s The Thing, but without the alien.
