20 Awesome Recent Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again

Great horror movies - and great movies period - can come in many forms, but often they'll be films so stunning, so affecting, and so downright entertaining that they'll immediately enter your regular viewing rotation.

But not all great movies are created equal, and sometimes a film can be an absolute banger while also being a film you never, ever want to sit through again.

Most obviously this can be because a film is just such a disturbing, discomforting sit that you don't really want to go there again, even though you have enormous respect for the artistry involved. 

In the non-horror stakes, we might cite Darren Aronofsky's masterful Requiem for a Dream, for instance.

But that's not the only reason - perhaps the movie only hits a certain way on that original, blissfully ignorant viewing, and once you know what's coming it just can't deliver the same thrill.

Whatever the reason, these 20 terrific recent horror films are also unlikely to be revisited by most, save for their most utterly die-hard fans of course. 

And yet, they make enough of an impression, embedding themselves deep in your psyche, that one viewing has basically got you covered for life...

With their sophomore feature Bring Her Back, filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou persuasively proved that their electrifying debut Talk to Me was no mere fluke.

This almost unbearably intense supernatural horror film touts an Oscar-worthy central performance from Sally Hawkins as a grieving mother desperate to resurrect her late daughter, while rocking an exceptionally nasty, unsentimental tone that ensures it absolutely isn't for everyone.

More than a few reviews lambasted Bring Her Back for being "mean-spirited," and while the Philippou's uncompromising approach and generally unflinching, take-no-prisoners depiction of violence is refreshing, it also makes the film tough to sit through. Like, it's a lot.

There's so much dread oozing out of every pore of this movie that it's honestly hard to convince yourself to sit through it more than once. 

There's very little "fun" about Bring Her Back - this is a sad, harsh movie that pulls no punches and has little room for catharsis.