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Horror Essentials

The fears change shape, from domestic dread to cosmic isolation. Each pick shows a different way horror can work.

8 films in editorial order

Film 01 · 2017

Get Out

Directed by Jordan Peele

A visit to meet a partner's family grows into a sharp nightmare about race and control.

Film 02 · 1973

Directed by William Friedkin

A family's fear invites a confrontation between faith, medicine, and the unknowable.

Film 03 · 1979

Directed by Ridley Scott

A working crew in deep space encounters a terror that strips away every routine.

Film 04 · 1980

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

An isolated hotel amplifies a family's fractures into a maze of dread.

Film 05 · 2015

Directed by Robert Eggers

A family at the edge of a forest finds fear growing inside its own beliefs.

Film 06 · 2018

Directed by Ari Aster

Grief turns a family's house into a place where every inherited secret feels dangerous.

Film 07 · 1968

Directed by Roman Polanski

A woman's pregnancy becomes the center of a creeping distrust of everyone around her.

Film 08 · 2014

Directed by Jennifer Kent

A mother and son face a frightening presence that gives grief an unsettling shape.