You’re in for a frightfully fun time with this spine-chilling selection of movies on KrisWorld.
Looking to get spooked? Come face to face with otherworldly terrors, haunted animatronic figures, forest-dwelling entities, and more with a specially curated playlist on KrisWorld. These selections range from family-friendly to disturbing and terrifying.
Longlegs
Writer-director Osgood ‘Oz’ Perkins’ Longlegs follows an intrepid federal agent (Maika Monroe) on a chase for the titular serial killer (Nicolas Cage), who wears terrifyingly pale make-up and a rictus grin.
The movie, dubbed “the scariest film of the decade” by Flickering Myth, has horrified audiences with its anxiety-soaked atmosphere and editing, as well as disturbing themes about occult rituals and childhood trauma. “She experiences something incredibly traumatic at a young age,” Monroe tells Vogue about her character. “For anyone, that kind of shapes who you are as an adult.”
In an IndieWire interview, Perkins likens directing Cage to being a lion tamer, who sometimes moves the animal around and sometimes reminds it not to eat its handler.
“You don’t get Nic Cage in your movie to then tell him what to do … He’s just in command. He’s a perfectly tuned instrument, like a lion is a perfectly tuned instrument,” Perkins says.
In one of the cryptic teasers on studio Neon’s YouTube channel, Monroe’s resting heart rate of 76 beats per minute (BPM) is shown to jump to 170 BPM upon seeing Cage’s nightmare-inducing appearance for the first time. Describing it as a “visceral experience” that she will “never forget”, Monroe probably isn’t the only one scared stiff, judging by the petrifying police procedural’s US$108.9 million box-office takings worldwide.
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In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
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The Watchers
Ishana Night Shyamalan makes her feature debut as the writer and director of this supernatural horror movie, with her famous father, M. Night Shyamalan, on board as a producer.
Adapted from the novel by A.M. Shine, The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, an American woman living in Galway, Ireland. She is haunted by her mother’s death 15 years earlier. Mina gets lost in a mysterious forest, following an old woman named Madeline (Olwen Fouéré) to a shelter.
There, she meets Ciara (Georgina Campbell) and Daniel (Oliver Finnegan), who explain to Mina that they are trapped by enigmatic creatures called the Watchers. Mina, Madeline, Ciara, and Daniel must abide by certain rules to avoid being captured and killed. They must try to escape, but the Watchers, true to their name, see the group’s every move.
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The film follows Mina, who gets stranded in an untouched forest. When Mina finds shelter, she takes her place alongside three strangers who are watched by mysterious creatures each night.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s went from an indie horror video game to a global pop culture sensation, boasting a labyrinthian mythology that unfolds over multiple games and spinoffs.
It was a matter of time before the franchise would find its way to the big screen. Cue the box office smash hit Five Nights at Freddy’s, a live-action adaptation of the eponymous game, which has a sequel due in 2025.
Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) is a mall security guard who gets fired. His career counsellor, Steve Raglan (Matthew Lillard), offers him a job as a night watchman at a long-abandoned pizzeria called Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
Police officer Vanessa Shelly (Elizabeth Lail) tells Mike that the pizzeria was shuttered in the ’80s after five children went missing there. Mike, Vanessa, and Mike’s younger sister Abby (Piper Rubio) must fight for their lives when the animatronic mascots of Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Mr Cupcake come to life and attack them.
As a troubled security guard begins working his night shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, he quickly realises it won't be easy to make it through the night.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Beloved by moody teens and fuelling merchandise sales at Hot Topic, this stop-motion animated movie has enchanted those with goth-inclined tastes for 30 years.
Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon/Danny Elfman) is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, a magical realm populated by various spooky denizens. Jack accidentally comes across Christmas Town, which, in contrast to Halloween Town, is full of bright colours and warmth. Jack is reinvigorated, hatching a plan to kidnap Santa Claus (Ed Ivory), or “Sandy Claws” as Jack calls him, to initiate Halloween Town’s takeover of Christmas Town.
The movie’s beloved characters include Jack’s dog Zero, the ragdoll/Frankenstein’s Monster-esque Sally (Catherine O’Hara), and the creepy Oogie Boogie (Ken Page). Directed by influential stop-motion animator Henry Selick and featuring original songs by Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas is an enduring classic.
Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Pumpkin King Jack Skellington longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare...
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Exhuma
Director Jang Jae-hyun, who helmed the supernatural thrillers The Priests and Svaha: The Sixth Finger, returns to the genre with Exhuma, the highest-grossing Korean film of 2024 at the time of writing.
Shaman Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her student Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by Park Ji-young (Kim Jae-cheol), the patriarch of a wealthy Korean American family, after his newborn son is stricken with a mysterious illness.
Hwa-rim realises that the boy is cursed with a ‘Grave’s Call’ and is haunted by the vengeful spirit of his great-grandfather. Hwa-rim contacts feng shui master Kim Sang-deok (Choi Min-sik) and mortician Yeong-geun (Yoo Hae-jin) to help her locate and exhume the great-grandfather’s grave and appease his spirit.
As Hwa-rim and her cohorts unearth the family’s dark secrets, they confront an evil unlike anything they have dealt with before. The movie garnered praise for its strong performances and its attention to detail in depicting traditional Korean spiritualist practices.
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A shaman, Hwa-rim, meets with the descendants of a household afflicted by a mysterious illness. Sensing a sinister evil is plaguing the family, Hwa-rim urges them to relocate an ancestral grave.
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Casper
Casper the Friendly Ghost originated in theatrical cartoon shorts in 1945 and haunted the pages of the now-defunct Harvey Comics.
Casper made his live-action feature film debut in 1995. Casper (voiced by Malachi Pearson) is the good-natured ghost of a young boy who inhabits Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine. Dr James Harvey (Bill Pullman) is a parapsychologist who helps ghosts cross over to the other side, while reeling from the death of his wife and hoping to track down her spirit.
When James and his teenage daughter Kat (Christina Ricci) arrive at Whipstaff Manor, Casper quickly falls for the girl, but Casper must contend with his dastardly uncles Stretch (Joe Nipote), Fatso (Brad Garrett), and Stinkie (Joe Alaskey). Directed by Brad Silberling and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Casper is notable for featuring the first fully computer-animated lead character in a movie.
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Casper, the friendly ghost, stars in this supernatural romp! A parapsychologist's lonely daughter is befriended by Casper - but Casper's brothers aren't nearly as friendly as he is!
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest entry in the Ghostbusters franchise picks up from 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a legacy sequel that functions as the third entry in the franchise’s main continuity but the fourth Ghostbusters movie overall (including a 2016 reboot).
Callie Spengler (Carrie Coon), her boyfriend Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd), her kids Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), and their friends Lucky (Celeste O’Connor) and Podcast (Logan Kim) return from Afterlife, in which Phoebe discovered that her late grandfather was one of the original Ghostbusters Egon. The Spenglers have relocated from Summerville, Oklahoma, to New York City, the Ghostbusters’ initial base of operations.
Nadeem Razmaadi (Kumail Nanjiani) brings a mysterious bronze orb to founding Ghostbuster Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), who is studying cursed and haunted artefacts. It turns out that the orb contains Garraka (Ian Whyte), an ancient demonic entity who will freeze the world if he is not stopped. The Ghostbusters, both old and new, must unite against this destructive force. Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton all return alongside Aykroyd from the original Ghostbusters film.
The Spengler family returns to the iconic New York City firehouse. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces.
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Prometheus
Ridley Scott, who directed the first Alien movie in 1979, returns to the franchise for this prequel.
In 2089, archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her colleague/love interest Dr Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a cave painting on the Scottish Isle of Skye. The painting depicts a star map, an ‘invitation’ to find humanity’s creators, and it matches other pictograms discovered at sites across the world and spanning millennia.
Funded by ageing billionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), Shaw, Holloway, and their crew traverse the cosmos aboard the USCSS Prometheus to the moon LV223. Weyland Corporation employee Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) supervises the expedition, assisted by the advanced android David (Michael Fassbender).
The crew makes one groundbreaking discovery after another, concluding that humanoid beings called the Engineers seeded life on Earth. They encounter more than they bargained for as the mission unravels and otherworldly horrors are unleashed.
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A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey through the universe. There, they must fight a battle to save the future of the human race.
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The Blair Witch Project
One of the most influential horror movies of the last 30 years, The Blair Witch Project is a scrappy indie production that has become a global phenomenon. Film students Heather (Rei Hance, formerly Heather Donahue), Josh (Joshua Leonard), and Mike (Michael C. Williams) travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, to investigate the legend of the Blair Witch, an entity that purportedly haunts the woods.
The film students meet residents and conduct interviews. In the forest, they hear mysterious sounds and discover figures made of sticks outside their tent. As they grow increasingly disoriented, they draw closer to the horror they set out to find.
The Blair Witch Project is a found-footage movie, presented as tape recovered from the film students’ cameras. A viral marketing campaign led many to believe the movie was an actual documentary, something helped by the actors all being unknowns and playing characters with the same names as themselves.
The Blair Witch Project follows a trio of filmmakers on what should have been a simple walk in the woods but quickly becomes an excursion into heart-stopping terror. The three become lost.
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