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Best A24 Horror Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer
The latest: A24 ended the year with a one-two punch of Heretic and Y2K. They’ve got Opus and Death of a Unicorn coming up, both in March.
Like Blumhouse, production house and distributor A24 rose to prominence in the 2010s, especially through getting their names attached to some of the best horror movies of the decade. While the Blum boys are known for their keen budgeting and thrust for the mainstream, A24 carved its identity through scares challenging, unexpected, and experimental. 2016 was A24’s breakthrough year for horror (they also released Best Picture Oscar-winner Moonlight the same year, by the way), with Robert Eggers’ folk period-authentic The Witch, and the backwoods punk pulverizer Green Room. 2018’s Hereditary was A24’s highest-grossing movie until Everything Everywhere All At Once, and launched writer/director’s Ari Aster’s feature career, who quickly followed up with 2019’s sunbaked Midsommar.
Elevated horror was a phrase bandied about to describe the movies of this decade that commingled shock and terror with less emphasis on jump scares and more on atmosphere, dread, and able to withstand critical and societal scrutiny. (It Follows and Blumhouse’s Get Out are two more grand examples.) While the elevated horror term isn’t used much more these days, it did get the job done, in that it raised audiences expectations out of what to expect out of horror and what the genre can achieve, and A24 has continued to rise to the occasion in the 2020s. Just take a look at Rose Glass’ Saint Maud, Ti West’s X/Pearl/MaXXXine, and Talk To Me.
#1
Adjusted Score: 110292%
Synopsis: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new...
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#2
X (2022)
94%
76%
Adjusted Score: 106410%
Synopsis: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their...
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#3
Adjusted Score: 104645%
Synopsis: Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year's...
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#4
Adjusted Score: 101790%
Synopsis: The debut film from writer-director Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and...
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#5
Adjusted Score: 100239%
Synopsis: A lonely divorcee visits a bewitching London department store to find a dress to transform her life. She soon finds...
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#6
Adjusted Score: 109020%
Synopsis: Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by...
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#7
Adjusted Score: 107727%
Synopsis: In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly...
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#8
Adjusted Score: 111142%
Synopsis: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the...
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#9
Adjusted Score: 111600%
Synopsis: When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying...
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#10
Adjusted Score: 101994%
Synopsis: Members (Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat) of a punk-rock band and a tough young woman (Imogen Poots) battle murderous white supremacists...
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#11
Adjusted Score: 102083%
Synopsis: After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an...
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#12
Adjusted Score: 98950%
Synopsis: When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game goes awry...
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#13
Adjusted Score: 95145%
Synopsis: A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the...
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#14
Adjusted Score: 98409%
Synopsis: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a...
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#15
Adjusted Score: 95171%
Synopsis: Disguising herself as a human female, an extraterrestrial (Scarlett Johansson) drives around Scotland and tries to lure unsuspecting men into...
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#16
Adjusted Score: 104981%
Synopsis: A young American couple, their relationship foundering, travel to a fabled Swedish midsummer festival where a seemingly pastoral paradise transforms...
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#17
Adjusted Score: 86976%
Synopsis: One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same,...
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#18
Adjusted Score: 95829%
Synopsis: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of...
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#19
Adjusted Score: 82416%
Synopsis: A divorced mother and her headstrong daughter must make an emergency late-night road trip to see the girl's father. As...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 94556%
Synopsis: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children....
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#21
Adjusted Score: 80051%
Synopsis: During the dead of winter, a troubled young woman (Emma Roberts) embarks on a mysterious journey to an isolated prep...
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#22
Adjusted Score: 90227%
Synopsis: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious...
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#23
Adjusted Score: 77052%
Synopsis: A mild-mannered college professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs....
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#24
Men (2022)
69%
39%
Adjusted Score: 83831%
Synopsis: In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have...
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#25
Adjusted Score: 78887%
Synopsis: When members of a dance troupe are lured to an empty school, drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend...
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#26
Adjusted Score: 83245%
Synopsis: A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved...
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#27
Adjusted Score: 52471%
Synopsis: In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors...
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#28
Adjusted Score: 49610%
Synopsis: After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy (Ilana Glazer) and Adrian (Justin Theroux) finally find their dream...
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#29
Adjusted Score: 51898%
Synopsis: A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an...
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#30
Adjusted Score: 49875%
Synopsis: A guy (Dane DeHaan) discovers that his girlfriend (Aubrey Plaza) has returned from the dead, but his joy turns to...
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#31
Y2K (2024)
43%
52%
Adjusted Score: 48614%
Synopsis: On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves...
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