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Netflix's best horror movies to freak you out
WORDS: ELENA COUPER | PRODUCER: SIMONE KEALY
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The pervasive dread in this film just reminds you how impossibly enormous this country is–it’s definitely one of the more advanced horror movies on Netflix.
Most grotesque: Wolf Creek
Toni Collette and director Ari Aster deliver some of their best work in this dysfunctional family dollhouse hellscape.
Most unsettling: Hereditary
This 2014 Australian psychological horror follows a grieving mother, Amelia, and her erratic child, Sam, years after the death of their husband/father.
Best art house: The Babadook
This 2017 Spanish horror is based on the real-life case of Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro. A whole lot of bad things start happening after Verónica decides to use a ouija board during a solar eclipse.
Best non-English: Verónica
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