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20 Scariest Movies of 2018

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8 years ago

October 19, 2018

Who doesn’t love a good scare? Luckily for you, the year has delivered plenty of them. From brooding, indie horror films to bloody, fright-filled sequels, the year has delivered some spooky, freaky, downright chilling movies that might make it a little bit more difficult to sleep at night.

Here are the best horror movies of 2018.

20. SLENDER MAN

Inspired by true events and a creepy Internet meme, four teenage girls perform a ritual ceremony to prove the sinister Slender Man doesn’t exist. Whoops: It turns out he does.

19. TRUTH OR DARE

18. SLICE

17. THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT

16. HELL FEST

15. THE FIRST PURGE

Writer-director Shane Black reignites this movie franchise with a stacked cast (including Sterling K. Brown, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, and Olivia Munn), which follows a team of Marines who face off against the deadly alien beings.

13. THE MEG

12. SUMMER OF ’84

11. THE NUN

The latest entry into the Conjuring cinematic universe sees Taissa Farmiga playing a young novitiate (who strangely is not the younger version of her sister Vera’s character in the series) who investigates a spooky convent that is haunted by that evil nun.

10. UNSANE

9. THE LITTLE STRANGER

8. REVENGE

7. THE ENDLESS

6. RAVENOUS

5. HALLOWEEN

Michael Myers is back—and this time, so is Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, who is flipping the script and hunting down the masked killer in David Gordon Green’s sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.

4. A QUIET PLACE

3. MANDY

2. ANNIHILATION

Natalie Portman teams up with a team of women who venture in a territory known as The Shimmer, a mysterious area surrounding a meteor landing where animals have evolved into unrecognizable creatures.

1. HEREDITARY