Fantastically Bizarre Horror Films Now Streaming On Netflix (2024)

Clown (2014)

If the infamousGoosebumpsstory "The Mask" ever frightened you, you will be terrified byClown. It's a simple yet horrifying premise: a father dons a clown costume for his son's birthday birthday party and then isn't able to get it off. Naturally, this clown costume comes complete with a dark curse that slowly takes over the host who wears it.

Featuringclowns and RL Stine nightmares from your childhood,Clownat least reminds you why you found yourself so scared of these things in the first place.

Found footage horror often goes both ways, butCreepgoes the right way. A videographer answers a Craigslist ad where the poster simply wants to be filmed throughout his day. The man behind the ad, Josef, turns out to be a bit more unhinged that the videographer initially expected. His pregnant 'wife' never really shows up, and the wolf mask in his closet suggests all sorts of unsettling scenarios.

Part comedy and part horror film,Creepmanages to scare you in the most unassuming ways, constantly shifting your perception of who, the videographer or Josef, is really losing it here. You've never seen Mark Duplassquite like this.

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If you can imagine a grimmerFemale TroubleorPink Flamingoesdoing drugs witha slightly more linearGummoorJulien Donkey-Boy,you can imagine the general jistof 2016's Antibirth. Danny Perez's body horror film chronicles the fate of Lou (Natasha Lyonne),a hard-drinking partygirlliving in a trailer ina sh*tty, burned out meth-ish town with no future.

One day, after staying celibateformore than a year, Louwakes up pregnant ... and the rest is psychedelic, grotesque, dystopian history.The film is relentlessly depressing, but it's also continually inventive, surreal, and unexpected,and well worth a watch.

Food, one of life's many pleasures, becomes a nightmare inRaw, a French-Belgian film that revolves around one girl's ravenous cravings. When vegetarian Justine arrives at veterinary school, she undergoes a hazing ritual where she eats raw meat for the first time. Instead of rejecting it, Justine can't resist it, resulting in a gruesome film with limbs and gore trailing up to the film's ghastly conclusion.

In addition to its unique presence, the film also gained quite a bit of critical acclaim, with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Those who look to horror for gore will be thoroughly pleased by how muchRawlives up to its succinctly sinister name.

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The Wailing (2016)

South Korea has become one of the world's great epicenters of slow-burning (and truly terrifying) arthouse horror, and 2016's The Wailing is no exception.

Set in the mountains above Seoul, the film chronicles a plague that turns people into murderers. Actor Kwak Do-won plays Jong-goo, an investigating police officer who has unsettling dreams of a meat-devouring woman with glowing eyes, and whose daughter getsinfected. What follows is a ghastly, riveting journey you won't soon forget.

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The Ritual (2018)

After one of their friends is murdered, Phil, Dom, Hutch, and Luke decide to take a hiking trip their deceased friend suggested. The four go along Kungsleden, or King's Trail, in SarekNational Park, Sweden, six months after his passing.

The men start on the trail, but after Dom injures his knee, they opt to cut through the forest as a shortcut. The four friends' journey gets increasingly stranger, and emotions run high as they start to blame each other for their friend's untimely death. Director David Bruckner manages to take several horror tropes - like the supernatural and the inherent creepiness of the wilderness - and turn it into a moody, atmosphere horror that leaves viewers haunted.

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