10 Recent Indie Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween
5. Hereditary (2018)
It may have taken the horror community by storm a few years ago, but that doesn't make it any less spectacular or frightening. Hereditary is a cut above many other mainstream horror movies in that it prioritizes its characters just as much as, if not more than, its scares.
The film chronicles a family's challenges with trauma and the repercussions that death has on people and different aspects of their lives. It personifies these themes through the lens of horror and uses concepts such as cults and manipulation to craft its narrative web. The film's emotion is often gut wrenching and visceral, only getting thicker as the movie progresses, and the acting, especially that of Toni Collette, combined with Ari Aster's direction, gives the film an inescapably real and haunting atmosphere.
The emotions never let up and when you've reached the end, you'll wonder what it all means and how all the ideas come together, making it not only a great movie to watch today, but a great movie to watch again and again.