Top Ten Horror Movies of 2019
2019 was as year that was awfully similar to its most recent astrological brethren, 2018. There were some awfully big, earnest, and well-heeled horror offerings – while at the same time, 2019 served up the weird, the indy, and the quirky in spades!
There were those things that we here at the Scariest Things Podcast desperately wanted to love and cherish (read: Curse of La Llorona), but they turned out to be last week’s warmed over pile of goulash. And of course, we were presented with an extra helping of big budget flavors that often left a vile taste, or worse yet, no real discernable taste in our mouth (read: Pet Sematary).
As we wind down the year and chew on these ghoulish offerings it’s often best to remember not just the good and scrumptious fare, but those films that were new, unique and inventive (read: US and Extraordinary). 2019 really put in a solid performance. Maybe not quite as memorable as 2018, but one that will have me quaking well in to a frightening 2020.
Without further ado, here’s the creepiest happenings from 2019!
There were those things that we here at the Scariest Things Podcast desperately wanted to love and cherish (read: Curse of La Llorona), but they turned out to be last week’s warmed over pile of goulash. And of course, we were presented with an extra helping of big budget flavors that often left a vile taste, or worse yet, no real discernable taste in our mouth (read: Pet Sematary).
As we wind down the year and chew on these ghoulish offerings it’s often best to remember not just the good and scrumptious fare, but those films that were new, unique and inventive (read: US and Extraordinary). 2019 really put in a solid performance. Maybe not quite as memorable as 2018, but one that will have me quaking well in to a frightening 2020.
Without further ado, here’s the creepiest happenings from 2019!
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- DirectorJordan PeeleStarsLupita Nyong'oWinston DukeElisabeth MossIn order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into Adelaide's childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like them.
- DirectorsMike AhernEnda LoughmanStarsMaeve HigginsBarry WardWill ForteRose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.
- DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsKaya ScodelarioBarry PepperMorfydd ClarkGigantic alligators swarm around a young woman and her father as floodwaters engulf their home.
- DirectorsSeverin FialaVeronika FranzStarsRiley KeoughJaeden MartellLia McHughA soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
- DirectorAndrew PattersonStarsSierra McCormickJake HorowitzGail CronauerOne night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ start hearing a strange signal over a radio frequency.
- DirectorXavier BurginStarsRusty CundieffErnest R. DickersonRobin R. Means ColemanA look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.
- DirectorLee CroninStarsSeána KerslakeJames Quinn MarkeyKati OutinenA single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
- DirectorAnt TimpsonStarsElijah WoodStephen McHattieGarfield WilsonA man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.
- DirectorAri AsterStarsFlorence PughJack ReynorVilhelm BlomgrenA couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
- DirectorOwen EgertonStarsDaniella PinedaAustin AmelioElle LaMontA woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.
