NUMBER 1 THE LODGE 
Grief catalyzes writers-directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s nightmarish film that centers on two siblings (Lia McHugh and Jaeden Martell) who lose their mother and are instantaneously pulled into a new relationship with their dad’s mysterious fiancée (Riley Keough). As the trio coops up together at the eponymous residence, more and more frightening and inexplicable things happen that cause both the siblings and their stepmom-to-be to begin suspecting each other. The Lodge is an utterly terrifying film that also leaves you looking at each of the characters a little sideways by its macabre conclusion.
Number 2 metamorphosis 
This is another example of an old horror premise that is successfully revamped for modern audiences. Korean filmmaker Hong-seon Kim takes the classic possession plotline and kicks it up a notch by centering it within the confines of one loving family. With the smoothness of John Carpenter’s The Thing, the dread of Metamorphosis comes from the heightened anxieties of each relative—the source of evil gliding from one to another as they fruitlessly try to identify then exorcise it. Kim is ultimately interrogating the evil mentality that already exists within a family long before an entity can get to it. This movie will definitely have you looking at your siblings, and especially your parents, sideways.
Number 3 Alive 
Who would have thought that a movie about a zombie outbreak would be so relatable right now? Korean writer-director Il Cho terrifically taps into the agony of survival in a world where human connection has been replaced with undead cannibals and weak cell phone signals. Grounding the story is an unlikely hero—a millennial (Ah-In Yoo) stranded alone in his apartment, barely getting by on instant noodles and waning hope. The increasingly horrifying circumstances force him to be resourceful and consider his life and the people in it in ways he’s never done before—and fight for an uncertain future. Sure, the zombies in #Alive are scary AF (and move even scarier), but the dilemma Cho poses will continue to haunt you: You either risk your life by trying to escape your apartment, or you stay inside and wait for the zombies to find you. In other words, how are you really willing to live?
NUMBER 4 (WARNING)DO NOT PLAY 
After Ringu/The Ring happened, no character in a horror movie should ever touch a shady-looking film or VHS tape ever again. But clearly ambitious horror filmmaker Mi-Jung (Ye-ji Seo) did not receive this memo, because she is hell-bent on investigating the origins of a mysteriously banned film in Korean writer-director Kim Jin-won’s petrifying horror. As expected, this search leads Mi-Jung, as well as the audience, down a dark path—what’s not expected is the insurmountable evil that lurks there. You might want to watch this one with the lights on.
NUMBER 5 THE GRUDGE 
Few sounds are as bone-chilling as this franchise’s signature creek attributed to its longtime villain, a restless female ghost who continues to terrify the living. Writer-director Nicolas Pesce effectively explores the trauma, horror, and rage derived from masterful original Japanese film Ju-on in this latest English-language adaptation of The Grudge. Recapturing the palpable fury of its scorned phantom, the haunting tale oscillates between the sins of our past and a present determined to repeat itself through the stories of a single mother (Andrea Riseborough) and an expectant father (John Cho).
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