20 Best Netflix Original Horror Movies - Ranked

20. Wounds

Though falling somewhat short of Babak Anvari's prior masterwork Under the Shadow, Wounds still dares to be a compellingly twisted exploration of toxic masculinity.

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It's held aloft during even its creakier moments by Armie Hammer's delightfully loathsome performance as a bartender whose life begins to unravel after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

While vague right to its final moments, Wounds offers up plenty of memorably unsettling imagery, while the two-hander between Hammer and Dakota Johnson ensures this is a thoroughly watchable horror joint - even if it doesn't get close to realising its full potential.

Techno-horror has a bad rap among critics and audiences alike - and usually rightly so - but at least this one has something to say, and a unique filmmaking voice through which to express it.

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