Serial killer flicks aren’t often my favorite unless they’re doing something unconventional, or at least marginally subversive, with what’s pretty familiar material by this point. Summer of ’84 is terrifying, so it gets a pass, and Zodiac ranks among one of the best procedurals ever made. Never bet against David Fincher (and that includes last year’s The Killer). Often, however, serial killer movies, especially horror movies, follow the same trajectory, and they don’t often surprise me.

But every so often, something comes along that totally blows me away. Megalomaniac shocked me, and Trap was a ton of fun with its campy tongue planted firmly in cheek. And then there’s 2018’s The Clovehitch Killer, a remarkable and terrifying directorial debut now streaming on Netflix.

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Per Netflix: A teenager’s picture-perfect family is torn apart when he uncovers unnerving evidence of a serial killer close to home.