10 Best Horror Movies That Subverted Classic Cliches
2. Better Watch Out
The first Yuletide horror to make its way onto this
list, 2016’s Better Watch Out comes all the way from Australia and boasts the stars
of 2015’s underrated M Night Shyamalan chiller The Visit reunited a year after
their first flick together. In this slow burn horror, Olivia DeJonge plays
another long-suffering horror movie babysitter, though this one doesn’t turn
out to be a demonic murderess.
No, instead she has to protect her young charge from some unseen threat—until it’s revealed that the threat’s just a prank, and the real threat is her young charge! Who proves himself to be a violent sociopath whose plan to murder a string of her exes and win her over soon turns to a blackly comic bloodbath of American Psycho proportions.
Never losing its sick sense of humour or constant tension, the film revolves around a mesmerizingly horrible turn from Pan star Levi Miller as the twisted kid in question, and audiences will be hooked by seeing every expected twist turned on its head in this viciously dark and unpredictable horror.