Top Ten Best Horror Movies Of 2022

10. Laugh

Smile, written and directed by Parker Finn, placed a smile on the faces of horror lovers and theater owners alike. Starring Sosie Bacon as a psychiatrist haunted by a mysterious force after she suffers the loss of a patient, Smile made over $200 million worldwide. less content? The people entrusted with cleaning up the piles of popcorn that the movie's numerous, successful jump scares left on the theater floors.

9. Speak No Evil

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Christian Tafdrup, the director of Speak No Evil, stated to Entertainment Weekly prior to the film's debut that his goal was to create "the most terrifying film in Danish history." The goal was accomplished! In their roles as a husband and wife who visit a family they met while on vacation, Morten Burian and Sidsel Siem Koch make the mistake of staying out of politeness, despite the fact that their hosts are a little odd. Then the humor stops, and things turn out to be really gloomy.

8. Scream

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The difficulty faced by directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who worked with writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, was maintaining the high caliber set by the late Wes Craven, who oversaw the series' first four installments.

By promising to honor Craven's memory while presenting new characters that genuinely seem capable of carrying the terror torch into additional entries, the new team successfully persuaded the main legacy actors (Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette) to return.

The outcome gives reason for optimism regarding both Scream 6 (which hits theaters on March 10) and the rumored upcoming Escape from New York franchise remake from Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett's Radio Silence filmmaking collaboration.

7. The Black Phone

For this equally horrific story of a child killer, the team behind the terrifying 2012 film Sinister—actor Ethan Hawke, director Scott Derrickson, and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill—regrouped. Based on a short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone quickly established Hawke as a horror icon as the Grabber, a monstrous mask created by renowned makeup artist Tom Savini (veteran of the original Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th). Tom simply returned with something that was far superior to anything else, Derrickson told EW. "I had hoped for something more original from a younger person. I was mistaken."

6. Christmas Bloody Christmas

What if Richard Linklater made a new version of The Terminator? isn't a subject that many filmmakers would consider, but writer-director Joe Begos' response to that question is one of the year's most entertainingly mayhem-filled films. A robot Santa Claus goes mad in Riley Dandy's portrayal of a horny small-town record store owner whose night out with Sam Delich's employee is violently interrupted.

5. X / Pearl

Is it unethical to count both of these films as one entry? Maybe. However, it would seem unusual to divide the two movies that filmmaker Ti West is releasing in 2022. X is a humorous bloodbath set in the 1970s about a porn shoot where the cast and crew are threatened by a pair of oldsters. It stars an amazing Mia Goth in two roles. The more intriguing, serious, and just a little bit better movie is the prequel Pearl, which is set in 1918. Goth is once again fantastic as the younger version of her killer from X in this film.

4. Nope

With his tale of siblings (Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya) trying to capture footage of a UFO, Jordan Peele delivered 2022 horror's greatest big-screen spectacle and two of this year's best performances regardless of genre, even if his third movie after 2017's Get Out and 2019's Us seemed less cohesive than its predecessors. Though strangely off-center from the main plot, the flashback scenes featuring the character played by Steven Yeun as a young actor are genuinely disturbing.

3. Bodies Bodies Bodies

Players like Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, and the witty Rachel Sennott portray zoomers whose weekend getaway to a rural house goes horribly wrong. Halina Reijn, a Dutch actress-turned-director, manages the situation in a way that beautifully highlights the comedy in the film while still making you concerned for her cast of mostly unlikeable characters.

2. Barbarian

Disney and 20th Century made a box office smash out of Barbarian by giving prospective viewers very little information about the second and third acts of the film, which is unusual in a world when trailers frequently reveal narrative details that take place far into a movie's running time. And how appreciative we ought to be of that. Watching this sleeper smash from Whitest Kids U' Know sketch troupe member Zach Cregger with almost no idea what was going to happen was one of the cinematic delights of the year. We won't go into further detail in the same vein other than to state that Justin Long is always welcome in any horror film he chooses.

1. The Menu

Our favorite book of the year tells the story of an affluent clientele's growing nightmare eating experience at a secluded posh restaurant run by Ralph Fiennes' renowned chef. The film, which is directed by Mark Mylod (Succession) and also stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, John Leguizamo, and Hong Chau, expertly harvests tension and humour from its setup while also providing some food for thought for one percenters (though not enough to give anyone indigestion). But is it really a horror movie or more of a humorous thriller with horror overtones? We defer to Black Phone screenwriter and all-around fear monger C. Robert Cargill on this issue, who tweeted about it and said that ``The Menu "is a horror film, plain and simple. Because they are ashamed of it, certain people keep attempting to pull the best horror out of the genre, and I'm sick of it." I see, then.