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, sinister killers, forest-dwelling entities, and more with a specially curated playlist on KrisWorld. These selections range from wild, supernatural horror movies to psychological thrillers.
Nosferatu
Leave it to Robert Eggers to find new terror in an old boogeyman.
The vampire, Nosferatu, isn’t a new invention. Originally a character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, he first appeared on the big screen in 1922’s Nosferatu. That silent film was one of the first popular horror movies and would become a milestone in cinema history.
Initially portrayed as an evil monster villain, Nosferatu has evolved over several movies centred around him. In 1979, the character returned in Nosferatu the Vampyre, this time as a creature that was — yes — still evil but also vulnerable and sensual.
So, after countless vampire films, can Eggers shock or awe audiences with another iteration of Nosferatu’s tale? The answer is a resounding yes.
The latest Nosferatu (Bill Skarsgård) is a monster of multitudes — he’s intimidating, cunning, crafty, and seductive. Despite his monstrous looks, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), an innocent and lonely woman, tries to understand the man beneath the monster. Big mistake — it turns out that her attempt to connect with a stranger unleashes a curse that will change the course of her life.
Nosferatu is full of atmospheric, creepy scares — an Eggers signature — and it’s consistently tense and suffocating. Its horror comes from both interior and exterior: the threat that Nosferatu poses on the village that he plans to invade and occupy, as well as Ellen’s internal battle against Nosferatu for her body and soul. Plague-ridden rats, cultish strangers, dead bodies, rivers of blood — Nosferatu has it all and so much more.
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A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
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Trap
Director M. Night Shyamalan is known for the twists in his movies, having made his name with The Sixth Sense. Trap mixes things up by having its big twist happen early, even revealing it in the movie’s trailer.
In Philadelphia, firefighter Cooper (Josh Hartnett) takes his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a Lady Raven (M. Night’s daughter, Saleka Night Shyamalan) concert at the Tanaka Arena. Cooper notices a heightened police presence, and it turns out that the FBI is using the concert as a trap to catch the serial killer known as ‘The Butcher’, whom the police know is in attendance. It so happens that Cooper himself is The Butcher. He tries to evade capture and avoid alerting his daughter as the manhunt for him heats up.
Trap is a showcase for Hartnett’s acting prowess. The actor, once poised to be a typical Hollywood heartthrob, has deliberately sought out weirder, smaller projects and has recently regained prominence with roles in movies like Oppenheimer and the TV show The Bear. Cooper is both a loving, doting dad and an unhinged murderer, and watching Hartnett play those shades of the character is a big part of the joy of Trap.
Describing the movie as “a coming-of-age story for a serial killer”, Hartnett tells Rolling Stone: “This is a character that thinks of himself in a certain way and has been putting on this front. Underneath it, he’s been consistent in believing he’s this abomination, this monster. This is the day that he finds out that maybe there’s a part of himself that’s not.”
While some might find several of the plot turns implausible, Trap is still a deviously entertaining watch and delivers scares aplenty.
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A new experience in the world of M. Night Shyamalan—Trap. A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realise, they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event.
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Smile 2
You know how people sometimes say they are ‘fighting their demons’? Smile 2 takes this adage literally, turning it into its premise. Writer-director Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 movie Smile focuses on new characters, shining the spotlight squarely on pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott).
Following a public battle with substance abuse and her boyfriend Paul’s (Ray Nicholson) death in a car accident, Skye is planning a comeback and is prepping for a new world tour. Unbeknownst to Skye, her high school friend and drug dealer Lewis Fregoli (Lukas Gage) is cursed with the parasitic Smile Entity, and he passes it on to her. Skye’s mother and manager, Elizabeth (Rosemarie DeWitt), and her assistant, Joshua (Miles Gutierrez-Riley), watch Skye unravel as she has horrifying hallucinations while the pressure of her upcoming tour mounts.
Naomi Scott delivers one of the year’s most-praised horror performances. The movie’s world-building extends from the lore of its central demonic entity to Skye’s pop star career, featuring original songs performed by Scott in character as Skye.
“What I’ve really wanted is a challenge and a complex character to be able to sink my teeth into, and these types of roles don’t come along super-often,” Scott tells Forbes. “Sometimes they do, but it’s not meant for you, and you miss out on it. I felt like a dog with a bone with this one, though, where I just wanted it after reading the script.”
Putting a supernatural twist on the oft-told tale of a pop star crumbling under the pressures of fame, Smile 2 is absorbing and disturbing, carried by Scott’s indelible performance.
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Global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing terrifying and inexplicable events. As reality and nightmares blur, Skye must face her past before her life spirals out of control.
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Heretic
Hugh Grant is fiendishly sinister as the antagonist in this psychological horror film. Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East (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, making 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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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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