It is a cliché but it is a cliché for one reason: Netflix publishes so many films that most people never even hear. This fears, because even if they cannot be bangers, many of these Netflix originals deserve an audience. Especially their horror films, because believe it or not, they released a lot of fantastic frightening films for fans of all ages.
Let’s take a look at the best original horror films in Netflix, are we going …?
13. “I am the pretty thing that lives inside the house” (2016)
Before his big, Breakout hits “Longlegs” and “The Monkey”, Osgood Perkins was hiding in the shadow of Hollywood, quietly winning the cinematographic power with artistic and strange sleepers as “I am the pretty thing that lives in the house”. Ruth Wilson (“Luther”) embodies a nurse hired to live in an old old house and take care of an author of horror suffering from dementia. Maybe she is obsessed with the frightening novels of her patient. Maybe the house has a black mold problem. Maybe it’s haunted. Maybe the three. “I am the pretty thing that lives in the house” is light on the plot but heavy on the atmosphere, and leaves you deeply unstable.
12. “There is someone inside your home” (2021)
One of the most difficult things for any new Slasher is to offer a scary new disguise. We lack original ideas on this front, but “there is someone inside your home” by Patrick Brice has an inspired approach. In this film on adolescents who are assassated (inside their house), the killer appears bearing a mask that looks exactly like the face of their victims. Damn, it’s strange. Brice realizes the hell of this scary film, which strikes most of the film Slasher familiar Beats but strikes them hard. A large cast and memorable characters also help. “There is someone inside your home” is one of Netflix’s most neglected horror movies.
11. ‘This is what is inside’ (2024)
A group of college friends meet for a party, and the black sheep of the group – which was mysterious beaten from school for something that his friends have done – also presents. He has a new party game, a machine prototype that makes all participants change their bodies. The novelty disappears quickly when someone dies in the wrong body, and there is no one left to switch, so panic and betrayal settle. The film Mindfuck intelligently designed by Greg Garden could be difficult to follow, but a smart color palette maintains the twisted intrigue. Undesirable sci-fi without spirit / horror to its best.
10. ‘Bird box’ (2018)
With hindsight, it is almost difficult to believe that the rupture of Netflix struck “Bird Box”, about a mysterious event which obliges everyone to stay inside and to go out only if they cover their face, were released before the cocovited pandemic. Retrospectively, it is practically on the nose. Directed by Susanne Bier, winner of an Oscar, the film features Sandra Bullock as a pregnant single mother who is stuck in a house with a bunch of agitated foreigners, because there is something outside that makes you kill yourself if you look at him. He has an intriguing premise and a stacked housing – Bullock is joined by John Malkovich, Trevante Rhodes, Lil rel howry, Jacki Weaver, BD Wong, the list continues like that – So who cares if the themes are a bit confused?
9. ‘Sous Paris’ (2024)
There is a giant shark in the Seine. That’s all, that’s the concept. Xavier People manages to take a fairly stupid idea, from the start of the Syfy Channel gene pool, and transform it into a really satisfactory monster film. The nominated at the Bérénice Bejo Oscars plays a marine biologist who tries to save Paris from a disaster, but too zealous eco-terrorists and incompetent politicians drink all her best established plans, until the Olympic swimmers finally are transformed into smorgasbord. “Under Paris” is an lark but it is not brainless. By the Holy Crap-Crap they are really there, you will see how tall people are.
8. ‘NightBooks’ (2021)
Horror for children is always horror! In this frightening story at bedtime comes to life, Krysten Ritter plays the role of a nasty witch who kidnaps a little boy and forces her to write scary sleeping stories. While he deepens his mysterious past and finds it difficult to offer new nightmares every day, Ritter does it like the business of anyone, the theft of the film and our poisoned little hearts. Adults will probably not be frightened by “night books”, but it is an excellent genre introduction for children, wisely fill the gap between fairy tales and serious horror stories, with a little construction of the world launched for flavor.
7. ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ (2019)
Dan Gilroy made an impressive start of director with the “Nightcrawler” nominated at the Oscars, which featured Jake Gyllenhaal as a frightening bizarre who finds a deadly path to success in Los Angeles. The director and actor meet in “Velvet Buzzsaw”, an even more deadly story on an even more scary crazy. Gyllenhaal plays a trapped art critic that is involved in a series of mysterious paintings, produced by a crazy genius, who are starting to make a supernatural path through the world of arrogant art. “Velvet Buzzsaw” mainly concerns people who have their heads stuck in their own ass, it is therefore logical that the film is also pretentious and a little unbearable. But it’s angry with good things. What a surprisingly bizarre diclâmes in the kind of horror.
6. “Perfection” (2019)
Another bizarre dread on the so-called “High Art”, “The Perfection” by Richard Shepard features Allison Williams as a concert cellist who left the business to take care of his dying mother. On her return, she finds a new prodigy, played by Logan Browning, and they become in love. It was then that things become hallucinogenic and a little self-mutilated, before revealing what “perfection” was. Let’s not spoil this. Shepard’s film is overwhelming and should probably have come with a small number of content warnings, but it is a fascinating energetic cinema, and it is frightening like hell.
5. ‘Vampires against the Bronx’ (2020)
Each generation should have its own “The Lost Boys” and “Vampires vs. The Bronx “is a hell of a good” The Lost Boys “. The film takes place in the Bronx – naturally – where a mysterious business has bought all real estate, gentrified the hell of the neighborhood and murdering all the owners causing them problems. Oh yeah, and they are vampires. A group of adolescents, whose expertise in vampires is limited to what they have learned from the film “Blade”, must come together and save their neighborhood in more than one way. Intelligent, funny, excellent intelligent teenager horror. It should already be a cult success, but give it a few more years. It will get there.
4. ‘His house’ (2020)
The problem with each haunted film is … why don’t leave the house? The powerful supernatural thriller of Remi Weekes has one of the best answers never recorded. The residents – played by Sope Diris, and Wunmi Mosaku of “sinners” – are immigrants in free government housing, and if they leave, they will be expelled in their country torn apart by war. They are therefore trapped in a dilapidated house with their regrets, their pain and a night witch, which promises to bring their daughter who died in exchange for something horrible. Few modern horror films have such haunted protagonists, and Dirisu and Mosaku both act with their powerful parts.
3. ‘Gerald’s Game’ (2017)
The first adaptation by Mike Flanagan of a novel by Stephen King – before going to “Doctor Sleep” and “The Life of Chuck” – is this claustrophobic and vicious thriller, with Carla Gugino as a woman whose husband, played by Bruce Greenwood, tries to resume their sexual relation. So he handcuffs it in bed and … quickly dies from a heart attack. He used real handcuffs, the bed is robust like hell, and it is in the middle of nowhere, without a phone in sight. Thus begins a terrifying story of autonomy, because it revives its past in a frantic desire to propose an escape plan, to reconcile with its horrible life, or both. Gugino gives a fully animated and proven flanagan performance, not for the last time, that he obtains Stephen King too, or better, than any other filmmaker ever.
2. ‘Fear Street’ (2021)
Who would have thought that an RL Stine adaptation would become one of the most ambitious Netflix films ever recorded? Leigh Janiak does not indicate one, but three Horror films interconnected on Queer adolescents in Shadyside, a city where an ancient evil has citizens and transformed them into mass murderers for hundreds of years. The first volume is inspired by the Slasher films of the 1990s, the second (and the best) is based on horror classics of the summer camp, and the third episode takes us to the distant past with a folk horror atmosphere. Inspired and inventive cinema with a fantastic cast of characters and an entertaining value. (The fourth episode, “Fear Street: Prom Queen”, is a modest slasher with fun killed, but it is not a candle with the original trilogy.)
1. ‘Cam’ (2018)
Daniel Goldhaber’s beginnings of director are one of the best most respectful films on modern sex work, and it is also a terrifying supernatural thriller on online identity. Madeline Brewer plays a camgirl whose content implies an influence of frightening horror. One day, she realizes that she cannot connect to her account, because she is already online and streaming. Except, of course, she is not on the camera – or isn’t it? The paranoia and the strange swirl a dizzying degree, and end up forcing our protagonist to take matters into their own hands and recover what the Internet has taken. The kind of horror film that could literally not have been made a few decades ago, “Cam” is a truly modern classic.
