Netflix horror movies: 16 best to watch now including The Babadook, What We Do In The Shadows, Creep and more – DigitalSpy.com

Very on the nose body horror about the perils and personal pitfalls of trying to make it in Hollywood as a young starlet makes a costly deal in exchange for fame. There's a dark vein of satire here along with some deliciously icky bits.

Another film that's been parodied and sequel-ed to death, yet which absolutely deserves a revisit. Shocking for knocking off its biggest star in the opening scene (a la Psycho), gory, funny, a bit scary and keenly observed, revisit for a big hit of '90s horror nostalgia.

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This is the remake of the terrifying Thai film, unfortunately the original is of course better, but as remakes of Asian horror movies go this is among the best. It stars Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor as a couple who notice strange images showing on their photographs and uncover some dark stuff when they investigate. Has a rather bleak and horrible ending.

Interesting and tense chiller from Karyn Kusama who made Jennifer's Body. It's actually nothing like Jennifer's Bod, rather a kind of horror of manners where Logan Marshall Green and his new girlfriend have to attend a reunion dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new fellow. It's totes awks. And then it gets creepy.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is brilliant in this odd story of a broke and unscrupulous de-programmer (Leland Orser) who is hired to extricate her from a cult. Black humour and constant rug-pulling develops into something altogether creepier in this interesting, non-gory indie horror.

If you haven't seen this you must, immediately. Like now! Directed by Taika Waititi who's just wrapped filming on Thor: Ragnarok it's a brilliantly funny mock doc following four vampires who share a house together in New Zealand. Not scary but it plays with horror tropes including the bunch of werewolves they encounter headed up by Rhys Darby's 'alpha' Anton. Genius.

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's love/hate letter to the horror genre stars Chris Hemsworth and Haley Bennett as teens who with a group of friends head to said cabin and start behaving very strangely. Meanwhile, in an office somewhere Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins are up something... Brilliant meta-horror game changer, which features a merman.

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