The 10 best A24 horror movies to watch for Halloween

Halloweenis almost here, which means it’s the perfect time to start binging horror movies, and nobody is making better horror movies than A24.

Since its founding in 2012, A24 has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted production companies when it comes to horror. Just a flash of its logo indicates a high level of quality scares are heading your way. The films A24 produces and distributes will have you thinking for a very long time after the credits’ role with films like Midsommar, Hereditary, and The Witch. They also have a new horror film, Heretic, premiering next month.

As we head into Halloween, A24 films offer a little bit of something for everyone. From slow-burn folk horror and modern slasher homages, to go along with the scariest thing of all, family trauma. So, whether you’re in the mood for supernatural hauntings, unsettling cults, or tense survival thrillers, these films offer a mix of fear, suspense, and psychological thrills perfect to make sure you keep the lights on this Halloween.

1 The Witch

Puritanical paranoia in 17th century New England

The film follows a puritanical family in 17th century New England after they are banished from their small village. The family sets out to make a homestead on their own, but quickly sense that something evil is invading their new home from the mysterious forest that surrounds them. Anya Taylor-Joy stars in The Witch. It also marks the directorial debut of Robert Eggers, who’s since made The Lighthouse and The Northmen. His next film, a remake of Nosferatu, will debut on Christmas this year.

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2 Midsommar

The movie that ruined Swedish midsummer festivals

Midsommar stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who accompanies her boyfriend and his friends on a visit to a rural village in Sweden to experience a festival the town holds for the Summer solstice. Once the group arrives, they’re drugged and begin to slowly realize that the midsommar festival isn’t the fun time they had expected, but a bizarre human sacrifice ritual.

3 Hereditary

Family trauma with demons and witches

Hereditary stars Toni Collette as Annie Graham. Following the death of Annie’s mother, her family begins to be plagued by strange phenomena. As Annie struggles to figure out the cause of problems they’re experiencing, she learns of her mother’s dark connections to sinister forces. Hereditary is the feature film debut of Ari Aster as a director. He also wrote and directed Midsommar.

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4 X

An older couple terrorize an adult film crew

In this homage to the early slasher films like Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a group of adult filmakers rent a barn on a remote Texas farm to film a new movie. Unfortunately, the elderly couple who owns the farm are truly psychotic and begin to pick off the film crew one by one.

Despite being just two years old, X already has both a prequel, Pearl, and a sequel, Maxxxine. Both films were written and directed by Ti West and see Mia Goth return to star.

5 Green Room

A punk band vs neo-nazis at a rural bar

A struggling punk band arrives at a desolate bar in rural Oregon to play the final show of their tour, but discover it’s packed with neo-nazi’s led by the bar’s owner, who’s played by Patrick Stewart. They witness a crime and the band is forced to brutally fight their way out of the bar from the green room.

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6 Bodies Bodies Bodies

A macabre game turns deadly during a hurricane

A group of young 20-somethings gather together at a mansion to ride out a hurricane. After their party starts, they decide to play a game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, which sees one of them playing the role of the killer and the others tasked with figuring out who it is. However, once the power goes out, and the bodies begin to pile up, the game doesn’t seem so fun.

7 Under the Skin

An alien leads unsuspecting men to their doom

8 Talk to Me

Never shake the creepy zombie hand

While trying to cope with the death of her mother, Mia (Sophie Wilde) becomes enthralled with an embalmed hand that can conjure spirits. While Mia and her group of friends get a thrill out of communicating with spirits, things begin to go off the rail when Mia doesn’t close the door to the other side.

9 Enemy

A man finds his exact copy and his life unravels

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this haunting film about a college professor who sees his doppleganger in a film. He falls down a rabbit-hole researching the actor and begins to stalk him. Eventually, the two men agree to meet and grow envious of each other’s lives and begin to experience disturbing shared visions.

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10 It Comes at Night

A claustrophobic apocalypse tale

Two families attempting to hide from a deadly apocalypse are forced into an uneasy coexistence as they share a desolate home in the woods. Eventually, they begin to suspect each other of bringing the infection into their compound, and the race to find safety from each other begins. The film is similar to John Carpenter’s The Thing, but without the alien.

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