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.

Heretic

Hugh Grant is fiendishly sinister as the antagonist in this psychological horror film. Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East (who are both ex-Mormons in real life) play two Latter-day Saint missionaries trapped by Reed (Grant), who appears like an affable recluse initially but reveals himself to be an atheist extremist.

The slow, eerie suspense mounts, not by the possibility of something supernatural happening, but by seeing the deep discomfort of a pair of young women being accosted by a narcissistic older man.

Grant may be known to some as the bumbling lead in many ’90s and ’00s rom-coms, but he also shows he is at home playing the villain. (He was most recently the resident baddie in 2023’s Dungeon and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.) The charm — and that devastating smile — don’t get switched off even if he’s starring as a cruel antagonist — which makes his portrayal of Reed in Heretic even more devious and effective.

Unsurprisingly, this role has garnered him several Best Actor nominations in the awards circuit. His sinister performance elevates Heretic, turning it into more than your bog-standard psycho-kidnaps-young-women horror film.

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Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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The Substance

Body horror meets sly feminist commentary in The Substance, a cautionary tale about the perils of vanity and ageism.

Equal parts style and, um, you know what, the movie harks a return to the days of old-school horror movies, with French director Coralie Fargeat largely eschewing CGI for practical effects. The result? Truly spectacular — and viscerally disgusting — scenes.

The film follows fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), who takes ‘The Substance’, a black-market drug that purportedly grants youthfulness.

What it actually does is quite different: Instead of actually reversing ageing, it allows one to live in another much younger body. The younger Elisabeth (Margaret Qualley) adopts the new identity of Sue while her real body is kept away at home.

‘The Substance’ of the movie is a metaphor for Hollywood’s obsession with beauty and youth, taken to the most extreme end. The film questions this enduring fixation and makes the point that women are both victims of and willing participants in the enforcement of beauty standards.

Moore is perfectly cast as the Jane Fonda-reminiscent actor turned aerobics star, portraying a woman grappling with showbiz’s ageism and insecurity. It is almost dramatic irony that Moore, 62, won her first award through this performance, which includes grotesque physical transformation and behaviour.

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Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey, is drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug.

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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 and follows 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 only 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 this year.

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.

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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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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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