20 Best Netflix Original Horror Movies - Ranked

18. Velvet Buzzsaw

Writer-director Dan Gilroy's follow-up to Nightcrawler didn't quite meet its lofty expectations, but still served up one of the most distinctively weird mainstream horrors of the last few years.

Part-satire of the art industry, part-campy horror flick, Velvet Buzzsaw is elevated significantly by its exemplary cast - especially Jake Gyllenhaal's unhinged performance as the preposterously-named art critic protagonist Morf Vandewalt.

There's certainly the feeling that Gilroy got a little too high off his own supply here, but the film's key strength is its unpredictability: it splinters off in several different directions at once, ensuring the audience is ever unsure of quite what will happen next.

Fundamentally messy, but a welcome rebuke to the more generic, programmatic horror flicks that often find a home on Netflix.