Right here on Bloody Disgusting we’ve revealed a number of articles (discover all of them right here) overlaying *our* favourite horror motion pictures of final 12 months, however it’s at all times attention-grabbing to try year-in-review roundups from different locations as effectively. Letterboxd, for instance, kicks off every new 12 months by spotlighting the earlier 12 months’s high hits, and their full 2024 Yr in Evaluation is now stay.
As at all times, movies are damaged up into varied classes primarily based on highest person scores, together with the 10 Highest Rated Horror Motion pictures of 2024. That listing is unsurprisingly topped by Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, which simply barely turned a 2024 launch when it was unleashed in theaters on Christmas Day. Different movies, effectively, you is likely to be stunned to see them make the listing.
Listed below are Letterboxd’s 10 Highest Rated Horror Motion pictures of 2024:
- 1) Nosferatu
- 2) The Substance
- 3) Lifeless Abilities Society
- 4) Bramayugam
- 5) Chime
- 6) Alien: Romulus
- 7) Exhuma
- 8) I Noticed the TV Glow
- 9) Your Monster
- 10) Unusual Darling
If a number of of those titles don’t sound acquainted to you, right here’s why. Lifeless Abilities Society is a Taiwanese horror-comedy that had its North American premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, however hasn’t really been extensively launched right here in the US. Our personal Joe Lipsett gave the movie 4.5 stars in his evaluate for Bloody Disgusting, which you’ll be able to learn right here.
Bramayugam is an Indian Malayalam-language film, which equally hasn’t been launched within the States, whereas Chime is a 45-minute film from Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Treatment). The catch with that one? As the web site Polygon defined earlier this 12 months, “It’s terrifying, superbly made, and one among the highlights of 2024 to this point, irrespective of the style. The one downside is that most individuals don’t know the film exists, or don’t know they will watch it, as a result of it’s solely out there by means of a considerably sophisticated, NFT-inflected course of.”
Each Alien: Romulus and The Substance additionally made the listing of the ten Highest Rated Sci-Fi Motion pictures, with The Substance coming within the #2 spot behind Dune: Half Two and Alien: Romulus discovering itself within the #5 spot. Netflix’s It’s What’s Inside got here in at #9 on that very same listing, whereas Max’s M. Night time Shyamalan-produced Caddo Lake was the tenth film on the sci-fi listing.
There’s additionally a “Most In style General” listing, with Coralie Fargeat’s Golden Globe-winning The Substance rating #3, Longlegs within the #6 spot, and Alien: Romulus taking the #8 spot.
You possibly can browse Letterboxd’s full 2024 Yr in Evaluation proper right here.
