10 Best Horror Movies To Watch Alone

Who doesn't love a nice neon-drenched nightmare?

After a cult murders his wife with the help of sadomasochistic bikers, a man goes on brutal quest for bloody vengeance.

In the wrong hands, arthouse horror can drift too far into pretentiousness, making for a movie that feels as though it thinks it's better than the genre. That is not the case with Mandy at all.

Yes, it is heavily focused on maintaining its hypnotic style through glacial pacing and characters often bluntly ruminating on the nature of existence, but it's also pulpy as hell. The violence on display in Mandy is just barely more over-the-top than Nicolas Cage's genuinely moving performance as a man struggling to process his grief.

It is this ingenious balancing act between ultra-violent horror and existential philosophy that makes it a great movie to watch alone. Mandy is the kind of flick you throw on when you're in the mood to go down a rabbit hole of cosmic proportions. Its themes are best mulled over in an almost meditative setting.

Mandy isn't trying to scare you. Instead, it's trying to get you to ask the big questions while at the same time enjoying some good old fashioned carnage. A perfect pairing if there ever was one.