Right here on Bloody Disgusting we’ve printed a number of articles (discover all of them right here) protecting *our* favourite horror motion pictures of final yr, but it surely’s all the time attention-grabbing to try year-in-review roundups from different locations as nicely. Letterboxd, for instance, kicks off every new yr by spotlighting the earlier yr’s high hits, and their full 2024 12 months in Overview is now reside.
As all the time, 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 grew to become a 2024 launch when it was unleashed in theaters on Christmas Day. Different movies, nicely, you may 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) Useless Skills Society
- 4) Bramayugam
- 5) Chime
- 6) Alien: Romulus
- 7) Exhuma
- 8) I Noticed the TV Glow
- 9) Your Monster
- 10) Unusual Darling
If a couple of of those titles don’t sound acquainted to you, right here’s why. Useless Skills Society is a Taiwanese horror-comedy that had its North American premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, however hasn’t truly been broadly launched right here in america. Our personal Joe Lipsett gave the movie 4.5 stars in his assessment 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 yr, “It’s terrifying, superbly made, and certainly one of the highlights of 2024 to date, regardless of the style. The one drawback 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 obtainable 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 Total” 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 may browse Letterboxd’s full 2024 12 months in Overview proper right here.
