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28th Oct 2017

The very best horrors on Netflix to watch over the Bank Holiday weekend

Paul Moore

Do you like scary movies?

With Halloween fast approaching, we’ve decided to bring you some of the best horror films that are currently available to watch on Netflix.

If you’re looking for some terrifying treats, we highly recommend the following.

The Descent

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%

Plot: One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual extreme outdoor adventure, in this case the exploration of a cave hidden deep in the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes, and there’s no way out. But there is something else lurking under the earth.

You’re Next

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%

Plot: A shy girl goes to her new boyfriend’s family reunion and must join their bloody fight for survival when a gang of masked hooligans invades the party

Hush

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%

Plot: A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears in her window.

Cabin In the Woods

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%

Plot: Five friends arrive at a secluded cabin with clear rules for their retreat. But when protocol is broken, punishment is swift – and everyone will pay.

Housebound

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%

Plot: A young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may be lurking.

Green Room

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%

Plot: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.

The Omen

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%

Plot: Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil’s own son?

The Babadook

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%

Plot: Sam’s frequent tantrums turn sinister when a creepy children’s book mysteriously appears in his room and he asks his mother, “Do you want to die?”

It Follows

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%

Plot: After a sexual tryst, Jay learns that her date has passed on a lethal curse that can only be shed by sleeping with another unsuspecting partner

Child’s Play

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 69%

When a rash of murders unfolds, 6-year-old Andy knows that his toy doll Chucky is the killer, but neither his mum or the police believe him.

1922

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%

Plot: A farmer pens a confession admitting to his wife’s murder, but her death is just the beginning of a macabre tale. Based on Stephen King’s novella.

Gerald’s Game

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%

Plot: When her husband’s sex game goes wrong Jessie handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice .

30 Days of Night

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 61% (How?)

Plot: When a monthlong period of darkness sets in on the tiny Alaskan town of Barrow, the residents are visited by a flock of bloodthirsty vampires.

Let the Right One In

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%

Plot: Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

Rogue

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 100%

Plot: An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.

The Wailing

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 99%

Plot: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.