10 Awesome Horror Movies You Probably Missed In 2018

10. Pyewacket

Slipping past most horror fans thanks to a straight-to-VOD release, Pyewacket is Canadian writer-director Adam MacDonald’s second foray into the genre after his acclaimed debut in 2014 with survival horror Backcountry.

Like its predecessor Pyewacket is an exercise in mounting dread based around a simple but effective premise but whereas Backcountry’s antagonist was a bear, here it’s a demonic entity that’s the villain.

Nicole Muñoz stars as an occult dabbling goth teen named Leah whose relationship with her mother (Laurie Holden of The Walking Dead fame) deteriorates after the death of her dad. After a move to a remote woodland property for a fresh start at the behest of her mother sparks an argument in which hurtful words are exchanged, Leah performs a ritual to summon the titular demon to kill her mother but soon comes to regret her decision.

Dubbed the Ladybird of the horror genre, there’s an emphasis on character in Pyewacket and while it’s a supernatural psychodrama it’s also an emotional study of a fractured mother-daughter relationship and the terrible things grief can drive us to do with impressive performances from both Muñoz and Holden and plenty of chills to boot.