Best Horror Movies of 2023


20 Knock at the Cabin

Knock at the Cabin

A family is holidaying in an isolated cabin when a group of four people knock on their door. The group then invade their home and take them hostage. They mean them no harm but present them with a dilemma: unless they kill one of their family members, the world will end.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman
Starring: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge
Budget: $20 000 000
Box office: $54 760 000

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19 The Boogeyman

The Boogeyman

Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.

Director: Rob Savage
Writers: Mark Heyman, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina
Box office: $67 307 000

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18 The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel “Dracula”, the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – 24 unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. The film will detail the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence on board the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was derelict. There was no trace of the crew.

Director: André Øvredal
Writers: Zak Olkewicz, Bragi F. Schut, Bram Stoker
Starring: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham
Budget: $45 000 000
Box office: $21 786 000

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17 The Nun II

The Nun II

1956 in France, a priest is horribly murdered. An evil is spreading. Once again, Sister Irene comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Director: Michael Chaves
Writers: Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, Akela Cooper
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid
Budget: $38 000 000
Box office: $269 467 000

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16 Birth/Rebirth

Birth/Rebirth

A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl’s mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.

Director: Laura Moss
Writers: Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien
Starring: Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, Breeda Wool
Box office: $138 000

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15 El Conde

El Conde

Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, wants to die. Problem is, he’s a vampire, which makes things quite difficult. Having lived for over 200 years, experienced the French Revolution as a young French army officer, several other historic events, settled down in Chile, worked his way to the top, ruled ruthlessly and opulently and now been hounded by people seeking the truth, he’s feeling a bit jaded. His family, on the other hand, are looking forward to their inheritance.

Director: Pablo Larrain
Writers: Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Larrain
Starring: Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro

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14 Skinamarink

Skinamarink

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. To cope with the strange situation, the two bring pillows and blankets to the living room and settle into a quiet slumber party. They play well worn videotapes of cartoons to fill the silence of the house and distract from the frightening and inexplicable situation. All the while in the hopes that eventually some grown-ups will come to rescue them. However, after a while it becomes clear that something is watching over them.

Director: Kyle Edward Ball
Writer: Kyle Edward Ball
Starring: Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul
Box office: $2 116 000

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13 No One Will Save You

No One Will Save You

With haunting guilt and crushing sadness as her only companions, Brynn, an unloved and friendless dressmaker, has learned to find solace in her intricate everyday routine. And isolated within her eerily vacant childhood home, Brynn expects no visitors. Then, a blood-chilling noise in the dead of night awakens her. As the sheer terror of a home invasion demands a clear mind to fight back, Brynn must brace herself for a long, unimaginable ordeal. After all, the eccentric recluse is about to discover that not all housebreakings are the same, especially when the dangerous intruder is something other than human.

Director: Brian Duffield
Writer: Brian Duffield
Starring: Kaitlyn Dever, Elizabeth Kaluev, Zack Duhame

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12 Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.

Director: Eli Roth
Writers: Jeff Rendell, Eli Roth
Starring: Nell Verlaque, Patrick Dempsey, Gabriel Davenport
Budget: $15 000 000
Box office: $45 921 000

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11 Home for Rent (Ban Chao.. Buchayan)

Ban Chao.. Buchayan

Inspired by terrifying true events. The new tenants of a house start terrorizing the owners of the place they rent, looking for their next prey to sacrifice.

Director: Sophon Sakdaphisit
Writers: Sophon Sakdaphisit, Tanida Hantaweewatana
Starring: Nittha Jirayungyurn, Sukollawat Kanarot, Thanyaphat Mayuraleela
Box office: $3 813 000

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