A nightmare is described as a bad dream, a horrific experience, or a person, thing, or situation that is very difficult to deal with. Sometimes it can be all three at once. These are some of the best movies of recent years that live up to our expectations of what a nightmare should be; sure to thrill and get the blood pumping.
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Top Nightmare Films of 2019
Crawl (2019)
A dangerous hurricane hits a Florida town and a young woman ignores the evacuation orders to search for her father. After finding him injured, they become trapped by floodwaters, but the real threat is yet to come. With the storm outside getting stronger, they find themselves faced with a pack of gigantic alligators.
Starring: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
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Child’s Play (2019)
A boy receives a seemingly innocent doll from his mother and quickly becomes best friends with it. The doll then takes on a life of its own and Andy has to band together with neighborhood children to stop the violent doll.
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, Tim Matheson
Directed by: Lars Klevberg
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Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
This time, Tree Gelbman wakes up to learn that she’s stuck in a parallel universe. Life has changed drastically and all the people she knows seem to be completely different. When she discovers someone has been altering time, she finds herself once again hunted by a masked killer, dying over and over again once more.
Starring:Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu
Directed by: Christopher Landon
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Us (2019)
An unexplainable and unresolved trauma from a woman’s past leaves her haunted. She finds this made worse by a string of eerie coincidences. She grows paranoid and sure that something terribly wrong is about to happen to her family. After a day spent at the beach with frinds, she comes home to be confronted by the silhouette of four figures holding hands in the driveway. She finds her family fighting doppelgängers of themselves.
Starring: , Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Directed by: Jordan Peele
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Escape Room (2019)
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of rooms that they must outwit to escape.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani
Directed by: Adam Robitel
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Top Nightmare Films of 2018
Annihilation (2018)
A biologist goes on a dangerous and secret expedition into an unknown zone where she finds that the laws of nature don’t apply.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, and Gina Rodriguez
Directed by: Alex Garland
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A Quiet Place (2018)
“If they hear you, they hunt you.” A family in a post-apocolyptic world tries to survive by not making a noise while they are hunted by monsters with extra-sensitive hearing.
Starring: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cade Woodward and Noah Jupe
Directed by: John Krasinski
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Bird Box (2018)
In a world where a mysterious force has driven most of the population to suicide, a woman and her children embark on a dangerous journey, blindfolded, through the woods and down a river to find the one place that may offer sanctuary.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Sarah Paulson, John Malkovich
Directed by: Susanne Bier
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Hereditary (2018)
When her mother passes away, a woman and her children begin to unravel increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. Can they outrun their fate?
Starring: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne
Directed by: Ari Aster
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Unsane (2018)
Sawyer Valentini relocates to escape from her stalker. While seeing a therapist, she unwittingly signs in for a voluntary 24-hour commitment to the Highland Creek Behavioral Center. Her stay is extended when doctors begin to question her sanity. She believes that her stalker works at the hospital and she will do whatever it takes to get out.
Starring: Claire Foy, Matt Damon, Juno Temple, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
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Upgrade (2018)
After a mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed and his wife dead, he seeks revenge with the help of an AI implant called STEM.
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Harrison Gilbertson, Betty Gabriel, Benedict Hardie John Malkovich
Directed by: Leigh Whannell
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Top Nightmare Films of 2017
Alien Covenant (2017)
While on a voyage to a remote planet, the crew of the Covenant, a colony ship, discover a planet that they think is paradise. While on this new planet, they meet a survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition and begin the fight for survival against a hostile alien species.
Starring: Michael Fassbender,Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, and Danny McBride
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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Gerald’s Game (2017)
Based on a Stephen King Novel, a couple on the rocks retreat to an isolated cabin to try to spice up their marriage. When a kinky game goes wrong, a woman accendentally kills her husband, leaving her handcuffed to the bed with no hope of rescue.
Starring: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Kate Siegel, and Carel Struycken
Directed by: Mike Flanagan
Written by: Steven King
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Get Out (2017)
Chris and his girlfriend, Rose, have reached the stage of dating where it is time to meet the parents. At first, Chris decides that the family’s overly friendly nature is an attempt to hide nervousness over the interracial nature of his relationship, but as the weekend continues, he makes some disturbing discoveries. Can he escape the nightmare?
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Directed by: Jordan Peele
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Happy Death Day (2017)
A self-centered young college girl relives her death each day until she can figure out who killed her.
Starring: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
Directed by: Christopher B. Landon
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It (2017)
Based on a Novel by Stephen King, a group of kids team up to fight a shapeshifting monster, disguising itself as a clown and threatening the children of their small town in Maine.
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard.
Directed by: Andy Muschietti
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
A psychological supernatural horror film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. A cardiologist and his opthemologist wife live an idylic life with their children until the doctor takes a fatherless teen under his wing. The doctor is forced to make an unsettling decision when the teen’s plan becomes menacingly clear.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, and Barry Keoghan.
Directed and Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos
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