10 Recent Indie Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween

Nic Cage fans rejoice.

Nicolas Cage Mandy
XYZ Films

All Hallows' Eve is upon us, and what better way to spend Halloween night than hunkered down in front of the box with some awesome new horror films?

If you're a passionate fan of the genre you've most likely already seen the more mainstream likes of A Quiet Place, Hereditary and Halloween, but what about those smaller indie hits quietly released over the course of the year?

Considering how absurdly over-saturated the horror genre is - for evidence, look no further than our list of awful 2018 movies to avoid this Halloween - it can be a bit of a slog separating the wheat from the chaff, but with these 10 cult classics in the making, you can't go far wrong...

10. Revenge

Revenge Matilda Lutz
Neon

A deliciously brutal and subversive spin on the tired rape-revenge film, Revenge begins as a seemingly conventional, salacious entry into the genre, before pulling out the rug and having its beautiful heroine (Matilda Lutz) turn the tables on her attackers.

One of the year's most startling and creative directorial debuts regardless of genre, Coralie Fargeat's film is gorgeously shot, unrelentingly grisly and unexpectedly surreal, with a star-making performance from Lutz in the bargain.

Whether you're a fan of the sub-genre or not, this is quite arguably its best entry ever, with a chest-thumping feminist bent that never gets in the way of the ludicrously entertaining blood-letting.

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