10 Recent Horror Movies You Should Watch Knowing NOTHING
Do yourself a favour and go into these horror movies totally blind.
In an era where it feels like we know way, way too much about pretty much every single movie before they're even released, it's so refreshing to just go into a film totally blind with little to preconceptions.
It's a great way for adventurous movie lovers to enjoy new films - rock up knowing only the cast, crew, and perhaps a single-sentence synopsis, ensuring you can just enjoy the movie for what it is.
And with horror fans being among the most open-minded of all moviegoers, here are 10 terrific recent horror flicks that absolutely benefit from you knowing as little as humanly possible.
But alas, now comes the challenge of recommending these horror movies to you without saying much about them at all and in turn undermining the very premise of the article. Here goes.
From creative takes on classic horror subgenres to those that totally turn the entire genre upside down, these films all benefitted from their immaculate filmmaking craft, terrific performances, and ability to catch audiences wildly off-guard.
That is, as long as you don't watch the trailers and read a bunch of reviews beforehand, so you probably shouldn't do that...
10. Strange Darling
Pretty much every review for JT Mollner's delirious horror-thriller Strange Darling implores you to just watch the damn thing without reading much about where it's headed.
And they're absolutely right - know simply that it revolves around a cat-and-mouse game between a man (Kyle Gallner) and a woman (Willa Fitzgerald) following a one-night stand. That's it - that's all you need to know.
Strange Darling is far from your ordinary chase thriller, though - it cleverly plays with genre and narrative structure in some unexpected ways, while serving up deliciously hard-boiled dialogue and lashings of brutal, wince-inducing violence.
It's also beautifully filmed by Giovanni Ribisi in his first foray as a cinematographer, while the central performances from Gallner and Fitzgerald are absolutely note-perfect. All of this suggests a bright future for Mollner in the horror and horror-adjacent realm.
If you're in the market for a superficially familiar genre outing that's got some neat tricks up its sleeve, then look no further.