The 10 Best Horror Movies Of 2018 That You Probably Missed – Screen Rant

Horror movies have been going through a bit a renaissance lately, but with so many great movies coming out, it's possible to miss some great ones.

The year 2018 was an interestingone for horror movies. That was the year that Ari Aster terrified the world with his modern classic horror film Hereditary. The film joined a list of big-name horror movies, including the remake Suspiria, the hit Netflix series Bird Box, the box office success A Quiet Place, and the disappointing sequel Insidious: The Last Key.

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Those movies were the ones that everyone was talking about; there were so many films of equal value, some even better. With several great horror movies slipping by, here are the 10 best horror movies that you probably missed.

While polarizing to horror fans, the sequel to the 2008 horror movie The Strangers arrived 10 years later and couldn't be any more different. The first movie, starring Liv Tyler, was about a home invasion and was a small hitthat came years before the rise of films likeThe Purge. The sequel, subtitledPrey at Night,leaned a lot more toward satire, and that made it very entertaining, if not nearly as scary as the first.

J.J. Abramsdelivered one of his surprise films in 2018 with Overlord. For people who went in without knowing anything about the movie, this was one of those films that flipped an unexpected switch many people didn't see coming.

The film started as a war movie with soldiers sent in for a mission and then found Nazi experiments had created monsters. The film was a ton of fun and delivered an explosive monster mash that was a great surprise for horror fans in 2018.

Released early in 2018,The Ritualstarted like many horror films, with four friends heading off into a scary-looking forest in the Swedish wilderness to find something evil waiting for them. However, this movie was a step above the rest as it brings in mythology and throws the guys into a situation where they go to sleep in a cabin, and when they wake up, they realize they are lost and might or might not have a monster chasing them.

It is often easy to overlook Nicolas Cage movies, but when it comes to Mandy, there is a lot here to love. Yes, this is over-the-top Cage, with him not only overacting but going more than a little crazy along the way. However, this isn'tThe Wicker Man.

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Mandy is a movie about a man whose wife was murdered, so Cage sets out to kill everyone responsible in the most graphic, disturbing, and psychedelic ways possible. ForgetDeath Wish; this is the revenge movie made in a way that no one has ever seen before and probably won't see again.

Summer of 84 is a horror movie for people who loved Stranger Things. A group of kids in 1984 believe a cop who lives in their neighborhood is a serial killer and starts spying on him in the summer of 1984. However, what they find is a lot scarier than just a regular murder mystery, and the twists and turns themselves were surprisingly good, and the ending was dark and disturbing.

Often, rape/revenge horror movies end up as exploitation films, and most of those are not very good. They range from gross and disgusting, where the assault is highlighted or trashy in the second half of the film where the victim gets revenge.

InRevenge, three guys went out for a hunting trip, and one of them brought his mistress. When she is left for dead, she comes back and seeks bloody revenge against the three. The fact that it is written and directed by a woman might explain why this doesn't exploit the assault and delivers a gleefully violent climax.

Fans who want to see a movie about a group of women kicking some butt, check out Annihilation. Imagine an alien movie where everyone who can save the world is women and then put them in a dangerous situation where theybattlea horrific sci-fi horror monster.

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Alex Garland (Ex Machina) directed the movie and brought one that left viewers thinking about what they saw, even after finishing the colorful and violent climax. While this is more sci-fi than horror, the women are battling a monster, and it has intense moments of horror.

Another movie that skews a little more toward sci-fi than horror, Upgrade is still a movie that fits nicely into the horror genre. That makes sense, as it is a Blumhouse movie from the screenwriter of Saw. This film starsLogan Marshall-Green as a man who ends up as a paraplegic after an attack in a futuristic society.

A brilliant scientist implants a chip in him that allows him to walk again through an AI he can communicate with. Imagine Venom, but instead of an alien, its a computer chip who loves to kill people.

Pyewacket is a strange horror movie that features a troubled teenage girl who decides to awaken an ancient evil in the woods with an occult ritual and sets a witch off to kill her mother. The film is similar to The Babadook in that the tension is what brings the horror, and the creature doesn't even show up until the end, leaving viewers wondering if it is even real or not.

That makes this film a step above the rest because it's not about showing off the monster but about building an almost unbearable tension.

Gareth Evans took a step back from his explosive action moviesThe Raid and The Raid 2 to create this atmospheric horror movie in 2018. Apostle is very similar to the original Wicker Man, and that is a good thing. Dan Stevens stars as a former priest in 1905 who travels to a remote Welsh island to try to rescue his sister from a cult there, created by criminals. When he arrives, he discovers the creature they worship and realizes it is not what anyone believed.

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Shawn S. Lealos is a freelance writer who received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. He has worked as a journalist for over 20 years, first in the world of print journalism before moving to online media as the world changed. Shawn is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle before relocating to Texas and has work published in the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma Gazette, Vox Magazine and Loud Magazine and on websites like The Huffington Post, CBS, Time Warner Cable, Yahoo, The Movie Network, Chud, Renegade Cinema, 411mania and Sporting News. Shawn is also a published author, with a non-fiction book about the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers and has begun work on a new fiction series as well. Visit Shawn Lealos' website to learn more about his novel writing and follow him on Twitter @sslealos.

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