A24’s Top Scary Movies As Rated By Critics From 11 to 20

Don't worry; even though Hereditary is eleventh on this list, it's still at a solid 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. For a good reason, the film that made so many people into Ari Aster fans still gets lots of critical love. It's every bit as creepy and shocking as it has always been. The film stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne and still makes fans shiver at Toni Collette's "I am your mother" speech.

It Comes at Night is a film that would probably be much scarier for most people after the last three years. The distrust and grief from such a disaster would be much more real to us now. Trey Edward Shults wrote and directed the film and said he took inspiration from the painting The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, and movies like Night of the Living Dead and The Shining. It stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, and Riley Keough.

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a slasher horror film about a group of friends who decides to weather a hurricane at a mansion. Tension and jealousy between the friends come to a head when one of the girls' boyfriends is discovered dead. Directed by Halina Reijn, it stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson. Surprising, funny, and wild, this film is definitely a film that fits the style of A24 horror movies.

Jonathan Glazer directed this mysterious and spooky movie about a beautiful alien who lures lonely men to their deaths. Under the Skin was filmed with hidden cameras and with people who had never acted before aside from the star, Scarlett Johansson. Where most films would be special effects extravaganzas, this film is quiet and eerie. This alien invasion takes place in rural Scotland, and barely anyone notices that it is happening.

A year after Hereditary, Ari Aster's second film, Midsommar, made a massive impression on film audiences. It is perhaps the only film that could have shocked the audience more than Hereditary. After suffering the loss of her family, Dani, a woman in a bad relationship that is failing, is grudgingly invited along on her boyfriend's European trip to explore the culture of Sweden. They don't know that the ceremony, which only takes place every 90 years, is a cult ritual that involves human sacrifice. The film stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, and Vilhelm Blomgren.

If you watched Evil Dead Rise and loved it, chances are you will enjoy the first feature film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin. The Hole in the Ground is about a mother and her son living in the Irish countryside and stars Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, and Simone Kirby. What happens when a mother believes that the person who appears to be her son isn't really her son? That's the question that the film asks.

The Monster was written and directed by Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, The Dark and the Wicked). Bertino's other films pack immense emotional wallops and are known for their unrelenting grim violence and gore. This film stars Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine as a mother and daughter stuck on the road trapped by could be seen as the representation of the mother, Kathy's alcoholism, and abusive behavior towards her daughter that comes out of the forest. Kathy fights to save her daughter Lizzy after Lizzy tells her she no longer wants to live with her. Watch Fangoria's exclusive interview with director Bryan Bertino about his film The Strangers on the Fangoria website.

Yorgos Lanthimos' film The Killing of a Sacred Deer stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, and Alicia Silverstone. Steven Murphy (Colin Ferrell), a heart surgeon, is asked to dinner by the son of a deceased patient. Shortly afterward, his son starts exhibiting symptoms of a mysterious ailment. Martin (Barry Keoghan), the man's son, tells Steven that one of his family members must die to "balance the scales" because Steve drank before he operated on his father. He adds precisely how his family members will die if he does not sacrifice one of them. You can now read more about director Yorgos Lanthimos's latest film, Poor Things, at Fangoria.

Osgood Perkins' first feature film tells the story of three young women who have a relationship with Bramford Academy, a private Catholic school. It stars Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, and James Remar. All is not what it seems in this twisted tale of school girls and possession. While watching each segment, you learn more about what is really wrong.

Gaspar Noé's Climax is a dance rehearsal straight from Hell. The film, which stars Sofia Boutella, Kiddy Smile, Romain Guillermic, and Souheila Yacoub, is filled with young and beautiful dancers with simmering resentments against each other. An unknown person spikes the sangria with a strong hallucinogenic drug, probably LSD, and the party careens entirely out of control leading to violence and murder.