10 Best Horror Films To Watch On Netflix This Halloween

The Film:

Grandparents’ houses aren’t all smelling salts and Cabana bars, they can also be pretty creepy places, especially if you’re a kid. Director M. Night Shyamalan latched onto this notion with The Visit, a found footage creepfest that along with delivering big on scares, manages to revive the genre and director’s career in one bony grab.

The premise is simple – gobby tweens Becca and Tyler visit their old folks for the first time only for their rural retreat to turn into a nightmare – but it’s the way Shyamalan balances set piece scares and some off the wall comedy that make this such a triumph.

Even as it begins to dawn on the camera-toting duo that soiled nappies, night time vomiting fits and random busts of screaming aren’t quite the norm, there will be a rap monologue or one liner to jolt you back into the skewed reality Shyamalan has crafted. Come the film’s fable-esque finale, you’ll most definitely think twice about helping an old lady across the road.

Big Scare:

The kids goof around under the big farmhouse, only for Nana to get involved in the action, but laughs soon turn to gasps when her inhuman scuttling gets a tad freaky. You don’t know whether to laugh or leap behind a cushion.