15 Best 2016 Horrors To Watch This Halloween
6. Hush
The Film
A deaf author is terrorised by a lone stranger (warped, dangerous, obviously) who kills her neighbour and terrorises her by taking photos of her using her own phone inside her own house.
Why Watch It?
Horror films work precisely because of vulnerability: that's why so many of them focus on child victims and so many more take place inside the supposed sanctuary of the home (or in other places of safety like hospitals). They perversely play on that presumed safety by taking it away, and that's precisely why Hush works so well.
Instead of it just being a simple home invasion movie, the stakes are dialled up here, with Kate Siegel playing a deaf, terrorised victim. She's robbed of one of her key weapons of defence and the killer uses it against her quite wonderfully.
So far, the film sits on 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, despite not receiving anything like the praise is deserves, but as a further indication of its quality, Stephen King said it was "up there with Halloween and, even more, Wait Until Dark." High praise indeed.