The Best Horror Movies of 2022


20 Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart
Box office: $4 543 000

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19 Deadstream

Deadstream

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

Directors: Joseph Winter, Vanessa Winter
Writers: Joseph Winter, Vanessa Winter
Starring: Joseph Winter, Melanie Stone, Jason K. Wixom
Box office: $2 259 000

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18 Hellraiser

Hellraiser

A new take on Clive Barker’s 1987 horror classic in which a young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

Director: David Bruckner
Writers: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski, David S. Goyer
Starring: Odessa A’zion, Jamie Clayton, Adam Faison

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17 Men

Men

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland’s feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.

Director: Alex Garland
Writer: Alex Garland
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Gayle Rankin
Box office: $11 152 000

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16 Hatching (Pahanhautoja)

Pahanhautoja

In HATCHING, 12-year-old gymnast, Tinja, is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see.

Director: Hanna Bergholm
Writers: Ilja Rautsi, Hanna Bergholm
Starring: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen
Box office: $504 000

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15 Incantation (咒 | Zhou)

Zhou

My name is Ruo-Nan, the reason why I’m making this video is I hope that people could help me lift the curse bestowed upon my daughter after watching what I have to say. Because of my ignorance, I never thought that it was my actions that brought the curse. The following content may contain certain hidden dangers and risks, which includes myself retelling the horrifying encounters that happened six years ago. 6 years ago, I set up a studio “Ghostbusters” with my boyfriend and my journalism classmates, we aimed to break myths of superstitions and shared them on our blog. One day, an urgent notice arrived from my boyfriend’s home, calling him to return for an ancient cult ritual that occurs once every two decades in his family. Thinking it would be decent material for our blog, we all arrived for the ritual. Unfortunately we then experienced the most horrific ancient curse there.

Director: Kevin Ko
Writers: Kevin Ko, Chang Che-Wei
Starring: Hsuan-yen Tsai, Ying-Hsuan Kao, Sean Lin
Box office: $5 700 000

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14 Bones and All

Bones and All

Bones and All is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: David Kajganich, Camille DeAngelis
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Kendall Coffey
Box office: $14 534 000

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13 Scream

Scream

25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Writers: James Vanderbilt, Guy Busick, Kevin Williamson
Starring: Jack Quaid, Jenna Ortega, Neve Campbell
Box office: $140 041 000

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12 You Won’t Be Alone

You Won't Be Alone

Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, You Won’t Be Alone follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human.

Director: Goran Stolevski
Writer: Goran Stolevski
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca
Box office: $335 000

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11 Syostry (Сёстры)

Сёстры

Anya is a young mother who has tried in vain many times to save herself and her child from her husband’s growing aggression. Caught in a desperate situation, she learns that there are dark mystical forces that can come to the aid of people like her. With a special rite of blood and fire, Anya summons the otherworldly sisterhood, but now she must decide whether she is ready to follow this path to the end.

Director: Ivan Petukhov
Writer: Ivan Petukhov
Starring: Irina Starshenbaum, Nikita Efremov, Nadezhda Markina
Box office: $347 000

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