10 Best Horror Movies To Watch Alone

4. Kill List

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Optimum Releasing

Cults, you can't live with them and you'd much rather live without them.

Ben Wheatley's 2011 genre mash-up follows two hitmen who slowly begin to unravel as they realize that they're current employer might be out for more than just blood. The movie is really three in one. It's one part family drama, one part hitman tale, and one part you'll-wish-it-didn't-go-there folk horror.

The thing about Kill List is that, similar to Veronica, there are little hints placed throughout the narrative as to what is really going on. For that level of foreshadowing to hit as intended, it takes the viewers full attention. It requires focus, and if you give it that focus you'll find yourself rewarded with a hair-raising feeling of pure terror.

It's also a slow burn in the vein of The House of The Devil, and Wheatley uses many of the same methods West does to get under your skin. The difference is when Kill List goes into full horror territory it almost feels like it's a totally different movie. But, as said before, if you pay it the attention needed you'll come to learn there was no other path the story was planning on going down.

Day or night, this one will bring a fright.

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