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The 10 best A24 horror movies to watch for Halloween

Key Takeaways

  • A24 is a highly revered horror movie production company, delivering quality and memorable scares.
  • A mix of films from A24 includes sacrificial cults, survival thrillers, and family trauma for a variety of scares.
  • A24 has brought gripping films like “The Witch,” “Midsommar,” and “Hereditary” to the horror genre.



Halloweenis almost here, which means it’s the perfect time to start binging horror movies, and nobody is making better horror movies than A24.

Since its founding in 2012, A24 has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted production companies when it comes to horror. Just a flash of its logo indicates a high level of quality scares are heading your way. The films A24 produces and distributes will have you thinking for a very long time after the credits’ role with films like Midsommar, Hereditary, and The Witch. They also have a new horror film, Heretic, premiering next month.

A24 has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted production companies when it comes to horror.


As we head into Halloween, A24 films offer a little bit of something for everyone. From slow-burn folk horror and modern slasher homages, to go along with the scariest thing of all, family trauma. So, whether you’re in the mood for supernatural hauntings, unsettling cults, or tense survival thrillers, these films offer a mix of fear, suspense, and psychological thrills perfect to make sure you keep the lights on this Halloween.

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1 The Witch

Puritanical paranoia in 17th century New England


The film follows a puritanical family in 17th century New England after they are banished from their small village. The family sets out to make a homestead on their own, but quickly sense that something evil is invading their new home from the mysterious forest that surrounds them. Anya Taylor-Joy stars in The Witch. It also marks the directorial debut of Robert Eggers, who’s since made The Lighthouse and The Northmen. His next film, a remake of Nosferatu, will debut on Christmas this year.

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2 Midsommar

The movie that ruined Swedish midsummer festivals

Midsommar

A group of American college students who travel to a friend’s isolated rural hometown in Sweden to experience their renowned midsummer festival.

Director
Ari Aster

Writers
Ari Aster

Starring

Runtime
147 minutes

In theaters

Midsommar stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who accompanies her boyfriend and his friends on a visit to a rural village in Sweden to experience a festival the town holds for the Summer solstice. Once the group arrives, they’re drugged and begin to slowly realize that the midsommar festival isn’t the fun time they had expected, but a bizarre human sacrifice ritual.


3 Hereditary

Family trauma with demons and witches

Hereditary

Following the death of her mother, Annie Graham and her family begin to be plagued by strange happenings.

Director
Ari Aster

Writers
Ari Aster

Starring

Runtime
2h 7m

In theaters

Hereditary stars Toni Collette as Annie Graham. Following the death of Annie’s mother, her family begins to be plagued by strange phenomena. As Annie struggles to figure out the cause of problems they’re experiencing, she learns of her mother’s dark connections to sinister forces. Hereditary is the feature film debut of Ari Aster as a director. He also wrote and directed Midsommar.

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4 X

An older couple terrorize an adult film crew


X

An adult film crew tries to shoot a new movie on the farm of an elderly couple in rural Texas

Director
Ti West

Writers
Ti West

Starring
Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow

Run Time
104 minutes

In theatres
2022

In this homage to the early slasher films like Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a group of adult filmakers rent a barn on a remote Texas farm to film a new movie. Unfortunately, the elderly couple who owns the farm are truly psychotic and begin to pick off the film crew one by one.

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5 Green Room

A punk band vs neo-nazis at a rural bar


Green Room

Green Room sees a struggling punk band forced to face off with neonazis who are regulars at band’s last tour stop after witnessing a brutal crime.

Director
Jeremy Saulnier

Writers
Jeremy Saulnier

Starring

Runtime
95 minutes

In theaters

A struggling punk band arrives at a desolate bar in rural Oregon to play the final show of their tour, but discover it’s packed with neo-nazi’s led by the bar’s owner, who’s played by Patrick Stewart. They witness a crime and the band is forced to brutally fight their way out of the bar from the green room.

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6 Bodies Bodies Bodies

A macabre game turns deadly during a hurricane

Bodies Bodies Bodies

A group of friends gets together to ride out a hurricane and play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, but a dead body ruins the fun.

Director
Halina Reijn

Writers
Sarah DeLappe , Kristen Roupenian

Runtime
95 minutes

A group of young 20-somethings gather together at a mansion to ride out a hurricane. After their party starts, they decide to play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, which sees one of them playing the role of the killer and the others tasked with figuring out who it is. However, once the power goes out, and the bodies begin to pile up, the game doesn’t seem so fun.


7 Under the Skin

An alien leads unsuspecting men to their doom

Under the Skin

Scarlett Johansson stars as an alien seductress who preys upon men in Scotland. It was written and directed by recent Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer.

Director
Jonathan Glazer

Writers
Jonathan Glazer , Walter Campbell

Starring

Runtime
108 minutes

In theaters

8 Talk to Me

Never shake the creepy zombie hand

Talk to Me

High schoolers use an embalmed hand that conjures spirits to liven up their parties, which, shockingly, doesn’t end well for them.

Director
Danny Philippou , Michael Philippou

Writers
Bill Hinzman , Danny Philippou

Starring

Runtime
94 minutes

In theaters

While trying to cope with the death of her mother, Mia (Sophie Wilde) becomes enthralled with an embalmed hand that can conjure spirits. While Mia and her group of friends get a thrill out of communicating with spirits, things begin to go off the rail when Mia doesn’t close the door to the other side.


9 Enemy

A man finds his exact copy and his life unravels

Enemy

A college professor notices an exact lookalike of himself in a movie, and sets out to find his doppleganger in real life.

Director
Denis Villeneuve

Writers
José Saramago , Javier Gullón

Starring

Runtime
91 Minutes

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this haunting film about a college professor who sees his doppleganger in a film. He falls down a rabbit-hole researching the actor and begins to stalk him. Eventually, the two men agree to meet and grow envious of each other’s lives and begin to experience disturbing shared visions.

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10 It Comes at Night

A claustrophobic apocalypse tale

It Comes at Night

Joel Edgerton stars in this story about a family attempting to ride out a deadly virus by hiding in the woods.

Director
Trey Edward Shults

Writers
Trey Edward Shults

Starring

Runtime
97minutes

In theaters

Two families attempting to hide from a deadly apocalypse are forced into an uneasy coexistence as they share a desolate home in the woods. Eventually, they begin to suspect each other of bringing the infection into their compound, and the race to find safety from each other begins. The film is similar to John Carpenter’s The Thing, but without the alien.


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