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The best horror movies of 2023, ranked by scariness (Polygon)

How scary are M3GAN, Knock at the Cabin, Skinamarink, Infinity Pool, and the other best horror movies of 2023? We've taken the best horror movies of 2023 so ...

It is also available for digital rental or purchase on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Skinamarink-Lucas-Paul/dp/B0B72845VM/ref=sr_1_1?tag=polygon05-20), [Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/movie/skinamarink/umc.cmc.wuxepzaliwddf60gwt5yzmau?itsct=tv_box_link&itscg=30200&at=1001l7uV&ct=PolygonWeekendMovies031623), Google Play, and [Vudu](https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516586&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vudu.com%2Fcontent%2Fmovies%2Fdetails%2FSkinamarink%2F2257153&referrer=polygon.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2F23640102%2Fbest-horror-movies-2023-how-scary). While most found footage is more about the horror you don’t see and the mysteriousness of the disappearances of the characters, The Outwaters prefers to keep its violence front and center, putting together what’s sure to be one of the gnarliest horror movies of the year with incredible-looking blood and guts. [The Cabin at the End of the World](https://www.polygon.com/23585061/knock-at-the-cabin-ending-book-vs-movie-m-night-shyamalan), the terror of Shyamalan’s film is not found in its moments of gore, which are bracing yet brief. The uncut version is available to rent and stream on [NEON Cinema](https://cinema.neonrated.com/product/infinity-pool/). [Peacock](https://imp.i305175.net/c/482924/828265/11640?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fdr%2Fm3gan&subid1=PolygonWeekendMovies031623). The death of every single human being on the planet, with the exception of the family. Leonard (Dave Bautista), the unofficial leader of the group, tells the family that he and his “associates” have been commanded by a higher power to plead with the family to sacrifice one of their own. [M3GAN](https://www.polygon.com/23540740/m3gan-movie-review-release-date-cast) is easily one of the most fun and least scary movies on this list. As for gore, Infinity Pool is a little less subtle, going hard on the blood and guts of the clones and showing close-ups of people dying in all sorts of horrible ways. And for a broader look at the year in movies, here’s our list of the Each category gets a rating out of five, then we add the two numbers to reach a (more or less) scientific scariness score. No matter what you like, there’s probably already a 2023 horror movie for you, and to help you find it, we put together a list of the year’s best horror so far, ranked by how likely they are to give you a chill — and what kind of chill that might be.

'Drag Me to Hell' Shows Us How PG-13 Horror Can Still Terrify (Collider.com)

Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell is a pg-13 rated horror movie that leaves as big an impact as any R-rated one.

The scene that best encapsulates every kind of scare that Drag Me to Hell is great at is one of its earliest. Drag Me to Hell is not just a fun and effective horror movie because of its fast-paced editing, grossness, or the fact that it's led by a compelling villain. This scene has the atmosphere, fun Raimi camerawork, gross-out gags, and dedicated performances that make Drag Me to Hell such a great horror ride. Given Drag Me to Hell's ending, it's going to be interesting to see how Raimi intends to follow up his original film. As she walks through the garage, it starts to feel like somebody is going to pop out and get her, but she eventually makes it into her car. The curse that she puts on Christine in return is about as out of line as anything can be, but it all comes in the wake of Christine's actions. The movie has a nice campy touch to it, the kind where you can feel the filmmakers having fun behind the scenes. Raimi is one of the supreme horror filmmakers for being able to provide those elements to his works, but he's most underrated as an atmospheric filmmaker. Of course, a giant, cobwebbed mansion is easy to make creepy, especially when the film sets two séances in it. [Sam Raimi](https://collider.com/tag/sam-raimi/) let it slip that [a sequel to Drag Me to Hell is early in development,](http://collider.com/sam-raimi-drag-me-to-hell-sequel-comments/) a film that, despite its PG-13 rating, is ridiculously intense. Rarely ever are movies this determined to entertain their audiences, but for a Sam Raimi movie, this is par for the course. Now, Brown has to find a way to break the curse before it's too late.

5 Worst '90s Horror Villains (Game Rant)

While there are many great 1990s horror movie villains, there are some who didn't leave much of an impression on fans.

[horror villains are mysterious](https://gamerant.com/mysterious-horror-movie-villains-haunt-strangers-black-phone-know-did-summer/) and that's a good thing, as there is an air of drama and intrigue around them, the Leprechaun is fairly dull. [Jennifer Aniston starred in Leprechaun](https://gamerant.com/jennifer-aniston-leprechaun-true-feelings/) at the start of her movie career, playing teenager Tory Redding who comes across the evil, eerie creature. [worst teen horror movies](https://gamerant.com/worst-teen-horror-movies-disturbia-urban-legend-bloody-mary/), and Ken's reasoning is shaky. While there's an exciting face-off between Lothos and Buffy near the end of the movie, Lothos doesn't come close to the many exciting vampires in the TV adaptation. Ken is getting revenge on people because he's grieving the death of his uncle, who took his own life. But while the '90s was a decade of great horror releases that fans keep in rotation, whether at Halloween or the rest of the year, it was also a time of terrible villains.

Indonesian Horror Title 'Motel Melati' Sets SEA Regional Distribution (Variety)

Indonesian horror film 'Motel Melati' sets regional distribution; All3Media sells slate to Hong Kong's Viu; Queensland Studios start construction.

Productions in the region recently supported through Screen Queensland in North and Far North Queensland include “Love is in the Air,” starring Delta Goodrem, U.S. The event is organized in partnership with the Bengaluru SIGGRAPH Chapter and Asifa India. feature film “Wizards!,” Stan original drama series “Black Snow,” feature documentary “Beyond The Reef,” reality series “Australian Survivor: Blood V Water,” “Puff: Wonders of the Reef” and Universal Pictures’ romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise.” Costing A$12.6 million ($8.4 million) the development is seen as a hub for the region and to lure more productions to Queensland. The movie features a cast of Alexandra Gottardo (“Tanah Air Beta”), Kiki Narendra (“Perempuan Tanah Jahanam”), Fandy Christian (“Letters for You”) and Samuel Panjaitan (“Ghost also Selfie”). He has also been a film producer for seven years and was coproducer on 2018 film “Hotel Mumbai.”

10 Best Female Monster Horror Movies, Ranked by IMDb (Collider.com)

Don't be afraid of the monsters, these women have them handled. Collage with Sil from 'Species', Ginger from 'Ginger Snaps', and.

The [Bride of Frankenstein](https://collider.com/tag/bride-of-frankenstein/) has become an unmistakable Halloween icon along Frankenstein's monster and is immediately recognizable thanks to her wild black and white hair updo. This silver-screen classic is a sequel to 1931's Frankenstein and follows the story of Henry Frankenstein who continues his search for the secret of life and immortality, having succeeded in bringing his first monster to life in the previous film. [most terrifying Japanese horror films](https://collider.com/japanese-horror-movies-for-beginners-ringu-godzilla/) it was followed by plenty of sequels and the US remake The Ring starring Naomi Watts. She uncovers a mysterious videotape that curses whoever watches it to die in seven days at the hands of Sadako, a ghoulish young woman with horrifying abilities. This gruesome coming-of-age paved the way for other films to explore the intersection of girlhood and monsterdom further. This underrated flick tells the story of Ginger and Brigitte, a morbid pair of sisters whose lives change when Ginger unknowingly attracts a werewolf attack and is converted into a monster herself. Produces by Guillermo del Toro, this movie tells the story of two young girls who lived as feral children for years before they are found and rescued by their uncle who takes them in with his girlfriend. [surprisingly became a cult classic](https://collider.com/movies-surprising-cult-classics/#39-heathers-39-1989). With her bestie now having an appetite for the boys at school, it's up to Needy to try and make things right, take what it takes. Teeth takes the rape revenge trope in horror a step further by giving its protagonist an innate weapon to defend herself with from the attack, proving that sometimes one only becomes a monster when forced to. The comedic horror Teeth focuses on Dawn O'Keefe, a young girl that promotes abstinence along with her youth group "The Promise". A lot of monsters don't conform to gender, but there are also many who are decisively female, and they can terrify audiences just the same.

Indonesian Horror Title 'Motel Melati' Sets Regional Distribution ... (Yahoo Entertainment)

MOTEL MOVES Indonesian horror feature “Losmen Melati” (aka “Motel Melati”) has set theatrical releases in Malaysian and Singaporean cinemas on April 6, ...

Allow Me To Make a Gentle Plea For More Space Horror (tor.com)

I'm talking about the chair in Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons. The one that haunts the story throughout its reverse narrative, culminating in a horrifying ...

Things do not quite go according to plan—they never do, when you head out to investigate a mysterious spacecraft—but the real horror here is the development, for both the characters and the reader, of the idea that not only does the universe not have any answers to the questions humans ask about their existence, but that even asking those questions might be nothing more than a random oddity, a quirk of evolutionary chance, a shout into a void that is never going to answer. But out there in space, the reverse is possible in the most delightfully upsetting ways. The fundamental discomforts of cosmic scale and the existential questions of human existence aside, it is important to remember that sometimes horror really is just about monsters. Monsters are a way to make those fears physical and immediate, and a lot of monster horror set on Earth is about invasion: slugs, spiders, vampires, doppelgangers, doesn’t matter what, only that something monstrous is invading a place humans call home, making a previously safe place unsafe, threatening the things that people value. Another example that plays out on a scale much more familiar to the horror genre is Peter Watts’s Blindsight, in which a group is sent to the outer reaches of the solar system to investigate a mysterious spacecraft. Hamilton’s sprawling Night’s Dawn trilogy, in which a whole host of characters come to realize one by one that while they might be living in a space opera world, they are about to be plunged into a ghost story and, man, the ghosts are pissed. (And, just to make it worse, even that threat turns out to not matter in the end, because there’s another one growing, and it cares even less.) This is what happens in Ada Hoffman’s delightfully creepy The Outside, in which a physicist on the verge of a life-changing scientific breakthrough knows something is wrong with her work, but can’t pinpoint what it is. But one thing that makes horror especially powerful in space-based science fiction is this: it is one of the best ways we have to make personal, intimate, and immediate things which might otherwise feel too big, too strange, or too remote for intense emotional impact. (Isn’t that the one with the cannibal cult island?) But in a book and a series where civilizations clash for millennia and tens of millions of people are regularly wiped out as plots points, it’s this very personal, small-scale horror that really sticks with me. I don’t agree that all space stories are necessarily horror stories, but I absolutely agree that all space stories have a marvelous potential to be horror stories. Horror can serve a lot of purposes in storytelling, aside from the obvious one of scaring our pants off for fun.