10 Best Horror Movies Of 2019 (So Far)

7. I Trapped The Devil

Slow-burn is the new jump-scare (not that there's not still lots to love about the old ways, of course).

Set at Christmas, like all the best horror movies - hell, and all the best movies - and clearly drawing from Charles Beaumont's "The Howling Man", I Trapped The Devil is a slow-burning, one-set story about a man who believes he's done what the title suggests. Naturally, it's very heavy on dread - even in the minutest and most mundane of things - with the first half's atmospherics working incredibly well. The latter half is a little less focused, but this is easily one of the most arresting and most promising horror debuts of the decade.

Josh Lobo draws from Twilight Zone tropes to inspire a sort of sidecar nostalgia for the show, but his real skill is in building a feeling, which creeps and crawls up to the bloody climax and he's quickly announced himself as a horror film-maker of some promise.