The 100+ Best and Worst Horror Movies of 2025 So Far, Ranked
Join us as we watch and rank the best and worst of horror cinema throughout 2025.
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Looking at the list of horror movies scheduled for release in 2025, it’s going to be another good year. Hits including Companion, Heart Eyes, and The Monkey have already been released, and further into the year we’ll see movies like 28 Years Later, M3GAN 2.0 and so much more. Just like the past few years, we’ll be watching as much as we can and ranking everything we see in 2025. From the best to the worst.
This list is an ongoing ranking of horror and horror-adjacent thriller movies released during 2025. To be considered for the list, the film must have its first wide release in the United States—whether the release is in theaters, on streaming, or on physical media—at some time during 2025. Limited releases, film festival screenings, and international releases in 2025 don’t necessarily count unless those movies also receive a wide release in the United States during the year (because that’s where we’re based).
The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2025
1. Bring Her Back
Bring Her Back is exactly the kind of horror I enjoy immensely. It’s dark, disturbing, and thoroughly unsettling. It has an overwhelming feeling of near-hopeless inevitability because the film plays around with the parameters of genre trappings, but the emotional heart of the story pulsates to its own twisted beat. The audience is given a clear indication of what is likely going to happen (it’s even coded plainly in the title), so the journey becomes more about holding onto hope that the sympathetic characters we meet can somehow avoid their fate. The character work in the script and through the actors is meticulous and rewarding, and the horror of what we’re witnessing these characters go through is hard to shake even after the credits roll.
2. Dead Talents Society
Filled with heart and humor, Dead Talents Society is fantastic! A ghost with no self-confidence is going to disappear completely in less than a month, and the only way to save her ethereal existence is to earn her haunting license. But with no self-confidence and seemingly no talent for haunting, the task of helping her unlock her true potential is going to be difficult for a small-time ghostly talent agent and a formerly popular spirit who has trust issues. The setup might sound a little complex and a lot silly—and it definitely is both of those things—but the movie is amazingly entertaining.
3. Sinners
It’s safe to say that Sinners is already an American classic. Filled with layers of meaning, history, and music, it is a remarkable cinematic achievement. Leading the way are Ryan Coogler, a filmmaker who can seamlessly integrate genre thrills with strong character work, and Michael B. Jordan, who pulls off a dual role as twin brothers who feel distinct in every way. The best part might be how, in the movie, we are shown how music can connect people through time. Sinners, as it is seen by more and more people now and into the future, is also going to keep connecting people in a similar way.
4. The Devil and the Daylong Brothers
Have you ever seen a Southern Gothic musical? Well, if not, then Devil and the Daylong Brothers should be your first. The story follows three brothers (same father, different mothers) who are on a quest for revenge. Their father sold their souls to the Devil, and they’re in desperate need of a confrontation with their old man. With pulpy, graphic-novel visuals and eminently catchy music throughout, The Devil and the Daylong Brothers is a violent and emotional blast.
5. Fréwaka
Fréwaka is folk horror at its most ominous and unnerving. After the death of her mother, Shoo (Clare Monnelly) takes a job as a live-in caregiver for Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), an older woman who shows signs of having delusions. For instance, Peig thinks the people of the nearby community are trying to get her, and she has various habits and rituals to keep them away. As Shoo cares for the woman, she realizes there might be some truth to Peig’s fears. Fréwaka steadily builds tension from deep within the two main characters, just as the world closes in on them both.
6. Companion
From stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid, to its violent and twisty plot, to its themes that touch on technology, consent, and what it means to be human, Companion is great. Though the movie is more of a straightforward sci-fi horror/thriller than the initial, ambiguous teaser trailer might suggest, it is an extremely satisfying genre movie. If you haven’t seen the trailers, just skip them all and go watch the movie now. It’s easily one of the best films of the first part of 2025, and going into it blind is the best way to see it.
7. Presence
Though it might take some viewers a little while to get into it, the unique way Presence is presented to the audience is a very effective way of telling a haunted house story. From the perspective we’re given, Presence minimizes scares and emphasizes the drama of a dysfunctional family who moves into a new house. The daughter, Chloe, can feel something in the house, and we, as the viewer, know for a fact that it is there. But the mystery of what (or who) the presence is and what it is there to do serves as the force that drives the movie towards its impressive finale.
8. Grafted
Body horror is back in fashion, and Grafted is a terrifically worthy entry in that stomach-turning subgenre. The film is about Wei, a shy young woman from Hong Kong who travels to New Zealand for college. She works to continue her late father’s research into a revolutionary skin grafting technique, but many of the people around Wei aren’t very nice. Among other problems, Wei has trouble fitting in. So, when an opportunity presents itself, she decides to take drastic action to see what it feels like to finally be seen. Grafted is gory and funny in a dark way, and you might even feel it tug on your heartstrings between all the death and grotesqueries.
Read our full review of Grafted.
9. Drained
The vampire romance film isn’t the most obscure of horror subgenres, but don’t let that prevent you from watching this movie. Drained is about a lovable loser who falls for a seductive vampire, and the movie is excellently made. It looks fantastic, the characters are fully developed and intriguing, and the story mixes metaphors and drama in the exact right proportions. Even though Drained is often described as a romance, it’s really a tragedy. You can see that things are going to end very badly for our star-crossed lovers right from the start, but the way the story progresses makes the emotions of the final scenes anything but straightforward.
Read our full review of Drained.
10. Birdeater
Birdeater is a thriller that feels like a slowly burning fuse. The opening scenes show us the relationship between the movie’s two main characters, Irene and Louie, and it is clear that there is toxicity present. However, it takes a while for everything to explode. Louie invites (or rather, guilts) his fiancée Irene to attend his bachelor party at an isolated house, and that is where secrets begin to spill out. Tensions rise steadily between everyone at the party, and there is a specific scene partway through the movie where the cracks turn into chasms. From there the night continues to deteriorate into a drug-fueled frenzy. The final scenes of Birdeater might not be as wild or as satisfying as some viewers might expect, but the overall tension permeating the film is terrific.
Movies Ranked 11 to 49
11. Cannibal Mukbang
Mark has finally met the woman of his dreams. At least, he thinks so. Ash is beautiful and kind, and she lives an interesting life. Perhaps most interesting is what she does for a living. She eats lots of food for people who watch her online (i.e. mukbang). When Mark finds out what kind of meat she eats during her mukbang sessions (and how she obtains that meat), his growing love for Ash will be tested. How far will he go for love? Cannibal Mukbang is a tremendously entertaining love story with clever twists and utterly engaging characters. It’s also kind of gross, which just adds to its charm.
12. The Surfer
Everyone loves Nicolas Cage, and he’s the best reason to watch The Surfer. But when you do watch The Surfer, you might find that it’s a deeper movie than you expected. Cage plays an unnamed man, credited as The Surfer, who just wants to buy a house overlooking the beach where he grew up, but some of the local surfers don’t want him there. The Surfer decides to stay near the beach and stake his claim, but he begins to lose his sense of self as the continued aggression from the locals begins taking a toll on his mental stability. It’s a trippy treat for fans of odd movies.
13. Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse
In a world where a mutated vaccine has decimated the world’s population, three young brothers are surviving on their own. Zombie-like monsters roam the forests outside their house, and a couple of them are living in their basement. When the youngest boy gets curious about the monsters, he starts a chain of events that will change their lives and threaten to tear the remains of their family apart. Párvulos is an exceptional coming-of-age horror movie that is emotional, gory, brutal, and even a bit heartwarming at times.
14. The Monkey
Even though The Monkey is advertised as a horror-comedy, it still might surprise you with how goofy it actually is. It is incredibly goofy, almost to the point of wearing out its welcome at times. Almost. If you’re in the right frame of mind and have a sense of humor that aligns with the film’s absurdity, then The Monkey can be a ton of fun. The deaths caused by the cursed monkey are often a blast, even if the story starts to shake itself off its tracks as it hurtles towards the finale.
15. The Wild
The Wild does an amazing job building its characters and thrusting them into emotional conflict. The story is about three friends who have grown apart after the death of their mutual friend Bea. They go on a camping trip to reconnect, but secrets and lies among them boil over as the truth about Bea’s death bubbles towards the surface. A little more ambiguity concerning the ending could have made The Wild even better, but as it is, it’s one of the best dark thrillers of the year.
16. The Damned
The Damned employs a strong sense of dread to tell a story about isolation, survival, and guilt. The story is set in the late 1800s in a frozen fjord in northern Iceland. A fishing crew struggles with poor catches this season, and when they spot a ship sinking not too far away, the decision is made to let the sailors fend for themselves rather than help them and use up their dwindling supplies. After the dead bodies of sailors begin washing ashore, the fishermen and their leader, a widowed woman who inherited the fishing station from her husband, begin having experiences they can’t help but attribute to a monster created by their callousness. The Damned is filled with psychological chills and a touch of monster-movie frights.
17. Revelations
Revelations is at its best when it’s creating interesting moral dilemmas among its three lead characters. At the center is Kwon Yong-rae, a troubled man who was recently released after committing a horrific crime. Then there is Lee Yeon-hui, a police inspector whose sister was assaulted by Kwon. Completing the triangle is Sung Min-chan, the pastor of a small church who begins investigating Kwon when his daughter disappears, and who then becomes convinced that God has chosen him to deal with Kwon in his own way. The movie is smartly written, and it asks a lot of questions about the nature of culpability, retribution, and psychology.
18. Bloody Axe Wound
In a town where “slasher villain” is a job description and their murders are caught on tape and viewed as entertainment, Abbie feels that she’s ready to enter into her father’s deadly profession. Her dad, Roger Bladecut, has his doubts about Abbie, but he agrees to let her slice and dice the local teens he’d planned to slaughter himself. But stalking teens opens a whole new world to Abbie, a world where friends her own age might be more important to her than her father’s legacy. Bloody Axe Wound is set in a world that is odd and inexplicable a lot of the time, but this gory mashup of a slasher and a coming-of-age teen dramedy works well thanks to its heart.
19. Death Whisperer 2
Though it isn’t as funny as, say, Evil Dead 2 (1987), Death Whisperer 2 feels like it owes a lot to that movie. From the shotgun-wielding hero wearing a blue shirt, to the people being possessed in ways similar to Deadites, and even to the contrasting darkness/lightness of the movie’s tone, Death Whisperer 2 definitely feels inspired by Sam Raimi’s iconic franchise. That’s a good thing, because it makes the movie feel vaguely familiar while still covering new ground through its Thai-urban-legend lens. At the end of the day, it’s simply a very fun supernatural horror movie.
20. Restless
Restless captures the plight of having to endure noisy neighbors fabulously. When the other half of the duplex Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) lives in becomes occupied by people with a love for loud music late at night, she tries to be nice. Nicky asks politely for them to keep it down, but after days of increasingly aggressive refusals, the sleepless nights take their toll on her. Though the movie foreshadows something much darker than what actually happens in the end, Restless is still a nicely-made thriller with good suspense.
21. Fear Street: Prom Queen
Fear Street: Prom Queen delivers a fun, straightforward slasher movie with a good amount of (CGI) gore. It’s a movie that is derivative of other movies in its genre, but that’s okay. The movie is entertaining in a light and bloody way, and the characters are likable. If you’re like me and that’s all you need to enjoy a slasher movie, then Prom Queen is worth a look.
22. Wolf Man
Wolf Man is good. After Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man (2020), many people were probably expecting Wolf Man to be great. But it’s good. The most interesting aspect of Wolf Man is how it treats becoming a werewolf like a disease rather than a curse like in The Wolf Man from 1941. Other movies since that Universal classic have treated werewolves like an infection, but few focus on the werewolf’s deteriorating mental and physical state as deeply as Wolf Man. The best moments in the movie are when the audience is shown what a husband and father sees and hears as the wolf takes over his body. As for everything else in the movie, it’s a fine genre effort.
23. Popeye the Slayer Man
Sometimes you just want to watch a good and gory slasher movie (well, I do). Popeye the Slayer Man is exactly that. It’s cheesy and funny, but it doesn’t tread into parody or mockery of the slasher subgenre. Instead, it’s a well-made low-budget slasher that uses just enough of Popeye’s lore to make the inclusion of the public-domain character actually worthwhile (which many recent public-domain-inspired movies fail to do). Popeye the Slayer Man is the best of the current wave of public domain horror that’s been going on for the last few years.
24. The Redemption of Sin
The Redemption of Sin mixes a missing-person thriller with a supernatural horror movie, and it does so quite well. The story follows Ning, a single mother whose troubled past led her to make a fateful decision. Ning loses her mother and daughter in an accident, but her daughter’s body is never found. Convinced the girl is still alive, Ning ceaselessly searches for her daughter, even enlisting the aid of a podcaster with unclear motivations, and a shaman who suggests that Ning’s little girl can’t come home until Ning atones for her past sins. The ending of The Redemption of Sin is a bit of a stretch, but the rest of the movie is solidly creepy and compelling.
25. Shadow of God
As a possession/exorcism movie, Shadow of God feels pretty generic for the first two-thirds of its run time. Then something special happens, and it turns into what feels like an homage to some of the more ridiculous late ’90s religious horror movies like Stigmata or The Prophecy. The action picks up considerably, some wonderfully cheesy CGI is on display, and the resolution of the story is satisfyingly silly. Without that ending, Shadow of God would have ranked a lot lower in this list.
26. There’s a Zombie Outside
This is a strange one. The movie begins with a birthday celebration at a cabin in the woods. The birthday boy, Adam (Ben Baur), sees a zombie standing outside of the cabin, but, naturally, nobody believes him. Then things get weird, and the less you know about the plot progression, the better. The only thing I’ll say is that There’s a Zombie Outside is a meta art film about the blurred lines that separate an artist from their art. How the movie makes its point is a strange and wonderful journey.
27. Invader
A woman named Ana (Vero Maynez) suspects that something is wrong when she can’t get a hold of her cousin when she travels to visit her. Eventually arriving at her cousin’s house, her fears are confirmed. Invader is a smartly plotted movie that builds suspense very well. The ending goes on a little too long, but everything up until the final few minutes is tense and unnerving.
28. Rounding
Rounding is a medical drama first, but its dark tone and the intense mental struggles of its main character slowly transform it into a psychological thriller. Dr. Hayman goes through a traumatic experience in the opening of the film. Afterward, he transfers to a smaller hospital in a rural area for a fresh start, but he can’t outrun the darkness in his mind. When he becomes obsessed with figuring out the true cause of a young woman’s chronic illness, his fears begin to overwhelm him.
29. Borderline
In Borderline, Samara Weaving plays Sofia, a ridiculously popular pop-star in the 1990s. Sofia has a stalker by the name of Paul (Ray Nicholson) who thinks he and Sofia are to be married. Paul breaks out of the facility he was being held in, and he breaks into Sofia’s house along with two of his friends who support him in his quest for marital bliss. The movie is tonally bizarre, so it’s not always clear if we’re meant to laugh or cringe at what’s happening at any given moment. Which means, the movie isn’t very funny, even for a dark comedy. Still, the performances from most of the cast are good, with Alba Baptista stealing every scene she’s in as a supporting character who is wildly unpredictable.
30. Freelance
Katie is a freelance video editor who is struggling to find decent work. With bills stacking up, she decides to take an editing job from an anonymous source. When she starts going through the footage, she is disturbed. Has she been hired to edit a horror movie, or is she piecing together a snuff film? Freelance isn’t really as unsettling as its premise suggests. Instead, it is an interesting character study of someone who is in a horrible situation. The suspense is solid, and the psychological nature of the story is well done.
31. Hood Witch
Set in France, Hood Witch is the story of a modern-day witch hunt. Nour is a mother who provides for her son by smuggling exotic and illegal goods into the country and selling them to local occult practitioners. She also connects people in need with spiritual healers. One of those connections ends in death, and Nour is blamed for it. She is forced to go on the run as an angry mob tries to hunt her down and make her pay for what they believe she has done. The title Hood Witch might sound like supernatural horror, but it’s actually a tense thriller that is grounded in real-life fears including mob mentality and religious fanaticism.
32. Creep Box
Creep Box is kind of like a seance movie, but utilizing science fiction instead of the supernatural. A tech company creates a device that basically copies a deceased person’s brain onto a drive used in a box-shaped computer. It results in a recreation of the person’s mind which can be interacted with through conversation. The process isn’t perfect though. Different sides of the person’s personality come through all at once, and the creator of the box, Dr. Caul, uses keywords to keep the personality from “corrupting” during conversation. Creep Box is a slow burn, and the pace might be too lethargic for some viewers. The film is also largely about grief, and there isn’t much respite from the dark themes at any point throughout the film. It is, however, very well made, and the themes are interesting.
33. The Dead Thing
Getting ghosted by someone is awful. For Alex, who is ghosted after spending the night with Kyle who helps her feel something good for once in her mundane life, it’s something she can’t let go of. Alex searches for Kyle, and when she finds him, he acts like he doesn’t remember her. What’s going on might be more obvious than you think. The premise of The Dead Thing is intriguing, and the dreamlike quality of Alex and Kyle’s relationship is great, but some odd filmmaking decisions towards the end might leave some viewers wanting more.
34. The Woman in the Yard
The setup in The Woman in the Yard is well done. The rift between Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler) and her two children is portrayed in an interesting way that makes everyone sympathetic. The creepiness of the woman in the yard is also successful in the first parts of the film. But as the movie delves more into its psychological aspects towards the end, it all becomes a bit messy. The ending is nicely ambiguous though.
35. Wake Up
When environmental activists stay inside a home store overnight to vandalize the place, they become prey for a security guard who has a passion for hunting. The villain is so shallow to almost be a caricature, but the “human hunting humans” aspect of the story is good once it gets going.
36. Resurrection Road
Horror Westerns can be tough to do on low budgets, but Resurrection Road pulls it off admirably. One of the movie’s best qualities is that, despite its budget, it uses practical effects whenever possible, including actual (blank) gunfire and squibs for bullet impacts! That’s a rarity these days. The story is also good for an exploitation-style movie. During the American Civil War, a squadron of six Black Union soldiers are sent to destroy a fort, but they find a supernatural evil when they arrive at their destination. Even though there is some wonky CGI towards the end of the movie, the overall experience is a lot of fun (and surprisingly brutal).
37. The Surrender
The Surrender effectively conveys a spooky atmosphere, but the story sometimes dips into unsubtle melodrama. The story is about a woman who risks everything to bring her husband back from the dead, and her daughter who goes along with her planned ritual. The strained relationship between the mother and daughter is played in the most obvious of ways, which kind of undercuts some of the nuanced grief that the movie seems to want to express. Still, the spooky stuff is pretty good.
38. The Man in the White Van
The Man in the White Van is a decent serial-killer thriller. Set in the 1970s, it’s about a teenage girl, Annie (Madison Wolfe), who is stalked by a man in a van. The problem is, Annie is known for telling tall tales, so nobody believes her when she talks about seeing the same van everywhere she goes. The movie might be too reliant on the tropes of the genre, and the continued disbelief of Annie’s story can get tiresome, but the film does deliver some nice thrills as the stalker (who is shown to be a violent killer) closes in on his target.
39. Daydreamers
Daydreamers has lots of style, but it also has a lot going on in the story. Maybe too much. The heart of the story is with Nhat and Ha, a vampire and a human who (eventually) fall in love. Nhat gets in trouble because he’s not supposed to reveal that he is a vampire to humans, and his brother Marco repeatedly tries to save Nhat from being killed by their fellow vampires. There’s a lot more to the story involving lots of characters, a feud between vampire factions, Marco’s girlfriend, everyone’s backstory, and more, which doesn’t leave much time for building emotional depth. But, for a stylish vampire movie, Daydreamers is pretty good.
40. The Parenting
A couple, Rohan and Josh, plan a family gathering with their parents at a beautiful rented house. Rohan plans to propose to Josh during the trip, but the house is haunted, and an evil presence looking for a body to possess quickly makes itself known. The Parenting is a horror-comedy with a huge emphasis on goofy humor. It’s unlikely you’ll find many people who laugh at everything the movie has to offer, but there’s enough fun to be had to make it a mildly amusing time for most fans of silliness.
41. Tarot Curse
A group of friends participate in a tarot card reading. Afterwards, they each die in ways predicted by the cards they are dealt. Sound familiar? Yeah, Tarot Curse is similar to Tarot (2024) in some ways, but Tarot Curse is better. The characters, though mostly thinly developed, are fun to watch, and the dedication the filmmakers have to practical gore effects adds to the charm. Some of the deaths also happen in a way reminiscent of the Final Destination franchise, which is great. From a story perspective, Tarot Curse is lacking. A lot. But from a pure genre standpoint, Tarot Curse is cheesy fun.
42. Heart Eyes
For a mainstream slasher movie, Heart Eyes is good. The plot and the humor might be lacking, but the kills are gory and the love story is charming. It’s a crowd-pleaser. The story is set on Valentine’s Day, and it follows Ally as she has the worst day. Ally’s latest marketing campaign is a bust at work, and romance expert Jay Simmonds is brought in to help her think of something new. While they’re out on a “work dinner,” they are mistaken for a couple by the Heart Eyes killer, a masked murderer who slaughters couples on Valentine’s Day. Shenanigans ensue, and Ally and Jay fight for their lives as people around them die in horrible ways.
43. Bone Face
What is your favorite part of a whodunit slasher? Is it trying to find out who the killer is? If so, then Bone Face might be for you. The first few minutes of Bone Face show us a typical slasher movie. A bunch of young people gather for a party, a masked killer sneaks up on them, and blood flies. The majority of the movie, however, takes place in a nearby diner where a sheriff and his deputy have determined that the Bone Face killer is hiding in plain sight. The officers question everyone, slowly working their way closer to the killer’s identity. Even though some of the late-story twists feel unnecessary, the murder mystery side of Bone Face is quite good.
44. Pretty Boy
Pretty Boy is about half good. In the first forty minutes, it’s a solidly-made slasher movie with some fun kills, many of which appear to be homages to other notable kills in slashers and related horror movies. Practical gore effects are used, the killer is quiet and menacing, and the victims are a good mixture of sympathetic and annoying. But then, the final fifty minutes slow down considerably to deal with the backstories of the killer and his hostage. The final segments are like a completely different movie, and it probably should have been split off and made as one.
45. Room Six
Room Six looks great, and the lead actors are all wonderful. Unfortunately, parts of the story feel a little too contrived to be a convincingly surprising thriller. Maxx is working the overnight shift alone at a quiet motel. She gets a bad feeling about a guest and his brother, so she decides to investigate. What she finds are dysfunction and danger. The story is violent and bleak, and it has good momentum for most of its run time. Sadly, the payoff doesn’t quite match the buildup. Though, the final moments are nicely done.
46. Dark Match
Pro-wrestling and horror go together surprisingly well. Or maybe it’s not so surprising. Both contain high drama, violence, and, occasionally, a lot of blood. Dark Match contains all of those enticing elements as well. The story grapples with coherence a lot of the time, but the basic idea is good. A group of small-time indie wrestlers are invited to put on a show in a community isolated far away from a bigger city. The performers have a bad feeling about the people they’ve agreed to entertain, and, sure enough, they find themselves having to wrestle to the death in a series of brutal matches. There’s a lot more to the convoluted story, but the best parts all involve action, violence, and blood.
47. Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn could have been a lot better, but it sort of just gets by with minimum effort in terms of story. It’s about Elliot (Paul Rudd) who is traveling with his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) when he hits a unicorn with his car. The creature isn’t dead though, and its unicorn parents come looking for it at Elliot’s destination, the palatial home of a family who became rich through pharmaceuticals. There’s a good amount of fun violence and gore, but the story and characters are fairly flat all the way through. The story isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just filled with stock characters and isn’t terribly exciting. If you’re like me, you’ll find your interest waning in-between the fun bouts of bloodshed.
48. Get Away
Get Away feels very familiar in a lot of ways. That’s likely the intention though, since the movie plays with the audience’s expectations as a method of misdirection. Without going too deep into spoilers, the setup of the movie involves a family of four who travel to an isolated Swedish island for a vacation. A special cultural event is about to be held on the island, and the local population is rather upset to have four interlopers in their midst. They’re so upset that they might take drastic action to get rid of their unwanted guests. Get Away is fun enough thanks to its lead actors, but it’s more amusing than funny, and the final act gets too hammy (though there are still some fun moments to be had).
49. Sumala
In Semarang (on the island of Java in Indonesia), children are told to stay inside after dark unless they want Sumala to come and take them away. This is good advice, because the opening scene of Sumala shows us the brutal and gory result of what happens if kids ignore their parents. The rest of the movie is told as a flashback, and it shows us the origin story of Sumala, from before her birth up until the time she became a boogeyman. The story is one of abuse, revenge, and witchcraft, and it is exceedingly bloody at times. It isn’t always as effectively dramatic as it wants to be, but it’s still entertaining for its more visceral side.
Movies Ranked 50 and Above
50. Cannibal Comedian
For a movie about a cannibal who dreams of being a stand-up comedian, I was hoping for something more hilarious. As it is, Cannibal Comedian is cute and funny, but it never quite gets as zany and outlandish as it could. The story is good though. A cannibal named Charlie kidnaps a woman, but he starts to fall for her. At the same time, he decides to take a chance and perform at a local open-mic at a comedy club. When things go wrong, Charlie deals with the situation in the only way he knows how.
51. The Killgrin
The central metaphor in The Killgrin is as obvious as the frown on your face. This is a movie about grief and trauma, and this is explained to the viewer in no uncertain terms. There is a monster in the movie, and it looks pretty awesome when we finally get a good look at it, but the metaphor overshadows the horror of the situation. It’s a Smile-esque movie about an entity that attaches itself to people and feeds on their misery. The trouble is, the entity always feels like grief, and almost never like a monster. The story is also a bit too slow, but there are some really solid performances scattered throughout the movie. So, a little good, and a little not-as-good in The Killgrin.
52. Are You There?
Are You There features a wonderfully atmospheric hook. The movie is about a young woman, Rosa, who uses a candle to speak to her dead grandmother. Rosa asks “yes” or “no” questions, and the spirit on the other side bends the candle’s flame towards the correct answer hanging from the candlestick. The resolution of Are You There feels very similar to many other movies that blend the psychological with the supernatural, but the overall story is good.
53. Until Dawn
Until Dawn is a good horror movie if all you want is about 100 minutes of fun death scenes. The death scenes are pretty good. If you want a story with high stakes, this isn’t it. Until Dawn uses a time loop narrative to undermine any true sense of danger, replacing that with an unnecessarily complex backstory that mostly derails the main character’s originally stated goal (which is to find her sister). It’s a shallow adaptation that also completely misses the point of its source material, but that might not bother everyone else as much as it bugs me. But the movie looks good visually, and the characters are fun to watch, so that might be enough.
54. Blood in Them Hills
There’s a lot going on in Blood in Them Hills, but the filmmakers managed to hold it all together to make something fun. The tale, set in the Old West, begins with a bank robbery gone wrong and a gang leader tossed out by his own men. The gang leader is caught by a doctor who wants to take him back into town to face justice, and they are joined by a woman caring for a baby after a monster killed the child’s family. The monster is now on their trail, as are the bank robber’s former gang, and a group of cannibals. Blood in Them Hills is low-budget survival horror in a western setting, and it works thanks to interesting characters and a pace that never gives viewers time to think too hard about how over-the-top the plot is.
55. Wind and Bone
Wind and Bone is a good mixture of low-budget gore, monster movies, and psychological-horror spookiness. Friends pick up a hitchhiker, Sierra (Julie Kashmanian), and invite her to go with them for a trip to a cabin in the woods. Sierra is quietly dealing with some tough issues, and when bad things start happening, she is at the top of some people’s suspect list. But there is also something in the woods that appears to be messing with people’s minds.
56. Feed
A group of influencers isolate themselves on an island resort that has a ghost story attached to it. Supposedly, a witch drowned herself in the lake surrounding the island, and her spirit still haunts the water. It turns out the danger is real at this resort. Feed has a good setup and some scary moments early on, but it turns into a movie that tries to subvert so many expectations that it becomes predictable (and much less interesting) in the end.
57. The Severed Sun
There’s a lot of potential in The Severed Sun. The camerawork is uniformly beautiful. The premise is set up to make strong metaphorical statements within the framework of folk horror. There are even a few brutally bloody moments. However, the staging is too still and stiff, which stifles a lot of the story’s emotion. Characters react in very subdued ways to very upsetting events. Everything feels cold in a way that doesn’t appear intentional. Also, many of the darker and more unsettling elements of the story pass by with little emphasis. The story is interesting, but the lack of emotional punch keeps viewers at a distance.
58. Control Freak
Control Freak tries hard to convey a deep and powerful message through metaphors, but it ends up unraveling into a finale that is far too obvious and trite. The first two-thirds of the movie are promising. A self-help guru named Vy has unresolved family issues that are getting impossible for her to suppress. Her mental anguish takes the form of an itch on her head that she cannot stop scratching. It gets so bad that she is forced to confront her past which she had hoped to forget. Watching Vy’s journey is interesting to a point, but the final sequences miss that mark almost entirely.
59. Holland
Nancy lives with her husband and son in the idealistic town of Holland, Michigan. She seems happy, but she starts to suspect that her husband Fred is cheating on her. With the help of Dave, a coworker and friend from the school where Nancy teaches, she starts to investigate Fred. What Nancy and Dave discover is much worse than they assumed. The slightly stylized visuals of Holland look great, and the mystery is intriguing when it’s still a mystery. But once the reveals start happening, this dark thriller loses its way. The finale is, unfortunately, kind of a letdown.
60. Blades in the Darkness
Blades in the Darkness is like multiple movie genres stacked on top of each other. It begins with a backstory of a kid who will eventually become a killer. Then it becomes a crime thriller about a guy who steals money from his friends to pay off a gangster. Then, finally, it becomes a slasher movie with an awesome killer stalking and slaying nearly everyone we’ve met so far. This last part, the slashing part, is the best. By far. The rest of the movie is rather tedious, but the killer makes Blades in the Darkness worth watching.
61. Zombie Strain
With some stoner comedy, a lot of bickering, and a few zombies here and there, Zombie Strain is a pretty good zombie comedy. The movie is presented in a found footage style (which is really a pseudo-documentary), and it follows a group of coworkers trapped inside a low-budget sound stage when zombies begin attacking people outside. The humor is dumb, but it’s mostly fun, and a couple of standout characters—Zoe (Chandni Shah) and Charlie (William Mann)—make Zombie Strain as good as it is.
62. Director’s Cut
A dysfunctional rock band on the verge of breaking up agrees to give their group one last shot at success. They agree to a director’s offer to shoot a music video for them for free, and they venture out to an abandoned mansion where the shoot will take place. Once there, they are weirded out by the eccentric director, and that’s before he enacts his violent plans for the video he wants to make. Director’s Cut is fun enough, but it never really feels like the setup for the story (especially concerning the background of the band which takes up a lot of screen time) is paid off in a satisfactory way.
63. Wanita Ahli Neraka
When she is young, Farah’s biggest goal in life is to become a good wife. But after marrying Wahab, a politician running for local office, Farah finds married life a living hell. Wanita Ahli Neraka is an Indonesian horror movie that blends witchcraft and possession narratives with a story of domestic abuse. It is not a subtle movie in any way, and its messages about faith and human decency are clearly defined right from the start. There are some good scenes scattered throughout, but they may be too scattered for viewers who don’t have a lot of patience.
64. Lizzie Lazarus
Throughout Lizzie Lazarus, Lizzie’s sister Bethany and boyfriend Eli carry her dead body through a forest. They’re on their way to a spot in the woods where it is said that the dead can be brought back to life. The journey is long, so Bethany and Eli have a lot of time to talk. Which they do. Through their conversations we learn more about them and their motivations for bringing Lizzie back. So, naturally, Lizzie Lazarus is a very talky movie. The ideas are good, though the way the characters are written makes it sound like they are reciting flowery dialogue rather than speaking like normal people in a stressful situation. The emotions also never reach the level you might expect.
65. The Yorkie Werewolf
Dumb comedies can be hit or miss, but The Yorkie Werewolf is a dumb comedy that hits more than it misses. The setting is a small town where a feud between witches and mobsters has raged for years. Jenny (Isabella Jaimie) is the daughter of a witch, but she isn’t interested in the duties her heritage demands. Then one night during a ritual, Jenny is turned into a yorkie werewolf (well, a were-yorkie, really) when a mafia assassin kills her mother and botches the magic spell. Now Jenny, as a witch and a monster, teams up with a timid vampire to take out the city’s mob boss. It’s very stupid, but the dialogue is often clever, which makes the movie surprisingly funny for the right audience.
66. Kromoleo
Kromoleo, set in a village on the Indonesian island of Java, is about a curse that rises up when a young woman returns to the village after being away for a decade. The woman, Zia (Safira Ratu Sofya), knows nothing about the curse. She only knows that the villagers hate her and her grandfather isn’t telling her something. As night arrives, so do numerous ghosts who kill people in very violent ways. Now Zia hopes to survive long enough to find out what her connection to the curse is, and how to stop it. The story of Kromoleo isn’t terribly original, but some of the visuals are good, and the supernatural violence is fun. Really, the death scenes are the best parts of the movie.
67. Livestream
Like its name suggests, Livestream is a screenlife movie that takes place entirely during a single livestream. We watch as a group of influencers arrive at a rental house and proceed to have the worst night of their lives. Some of the story ideas are good in the later stages of the movie, and there are a few genuine surprises. On the negative side, a few of the characters are annoying to the point of being unwatchable, and scenes earlier in the movie often feel repetitive and dragged out for time. That makes a sizable portion of Livestream frustrating to watch.
68. The Bombshell Butcher
The Bombshell Butcher is about a journalist, Candace (Jackie Smith), in a small, boring town who is about to get fired if she can’t find a way to get more readers. After a night out with a friend ends in murder, Candace comes up with an idea that will help her keep her job and allow her to vent her frustrations on some of the town’s more unsavory elements. The movie does a good job with an obviously small budget, but the ending is way too abrupt. It just stops, without a satisfying resolution.
69. Mauler
Mauler is enjoyable as a reverse-home-invasion slasher (where people break in, get trapped, and get killed). The teens who go into the house don’t have very deep characterizations, but they’re fun enough to watch. Plus, the religious fanatic killer is memorable. On the negative side, the story is way too convoluted. The reasons the teens have for going into the house change repeatedly, and they only barely make sense at the best of times. There’s also too much arguing, repeated exposition, and strange decisions being made over and over again. It all slows the movie down substantially.
70. The Haunted Apartment “Miss K”
The Haunted Apartment “Miss K” is a fairly standard curse movie. A woman encounters a couple of ghosts in an apartment, she’s cursed to die in four days, she goes on a quest to learn about the curse, and then there’s a surprise twist that helps everything fall into place. It’s not a bad movie, it just takes a long time to really get interesting.
71. Gates of Flesh
The premise of Gates of Flesh is interesting. Friends seek shelter in a church while outside an apocalypse is happening. People are being possessed by demons on a worldwide scale, and someone among the group in the church might also have something demonic inside them. The reveals of the movie are quite interesting, but the execution is somewhat bland. There’s a lot of talking about what to do and what’s going on, but there isn’t much action. Ever.
72. Into the Deep
Cassidy’s father was killed by a shark when she was a child, and now, as an adult, she has a healthy fear of the ocean and the man-eating creatures it contains. Cassidy joins her husband on a treasure diving expedition as a way to confront her fears, but when their boat is taken by drug-running pirates, she must dive into shark-infested waters to collect their cargo and save her husband’s life. Into the Deep is fine. It’s not a great shark movie, but it’s far from the worst. The CGI shark attacks generally look awful, and the plot line of Cassidy overcoming her fears feels underdeveloped, but the overall movie is okay.
73. Red Night at Skye’s
Against his better judgment, an ex-soldier with money problems agrees to take part in the robbery of a pawn shop. What he doesn’t know is that there are horrific experiments going on beneath the pawn shop, but he learns about them firsthand when the robbery is botched and he ends up trapped in the basement. Red Night at Skye’s needed a stronger focus on what’s important to the story, and a lot of the action isn’t conveyed well on screen, but there is fun to be had in how ridiculous the story gets.
74. Curse of the Seven Seas
Curse of the Seven Seas feels like a missed opportunity. The story is okay. It’s about a family who is afflicted with a curse which makes their family members sick before killing them in horrifically gory ways. As the members of his family drop one by one, young Ardi tries to discover who put the curse on them. Can he stop it before they’re all dead? There’s a decent reveal during the course of Ardi’s investigation, but one of the most interesting parts of his quest is skipped over almost entirely. This is to say, the movie has issues with what it chooses to focus on, which make it feel like a common Indonesian curse movie rather than a unique exploration of mythology.
75. Bystanders
Bystanders is rough around the edges, but it has an interesting premise. It’s a revenge movie about Abby, a woman who is assaulted and sent out into the woods to be hunted and killed. While on the run, Abby is helped by a nice-looking couple who happen to be driving by. They don’t take her to the police though. Instead, the couple, who are experts in various forms of murder, help Abby deal with her attackers through severe bodily harm. The presentation of the violence isn’t always as cathartic as intended, and it lacks in tension, but Bystanders will be of interest to fans of unique revenge movies.
76. Mouseboat Massacre
Mouseboat Massacre is, strangely, a mashup of The Ring, Steamboat Willie, and a generic slasher. The elements of The Ring come in the form of a VHS tape that a woman watches that somehow unleashes a mouse-masked killer. The generic slasher portion comes into play because the woman is being isolated to recover from a drug addiction, which is a fairly common trope. As you might expect, this isn’t a great movie. A few of the kills are good though, and the silliness of the story isn’t the worst.
77. The Ceremony is About to Begin
The ending of The Ceremony is About to Begin is the best part of the movie. Sadly, the path to get there feels longer than it really is. The film is a pseudo-documentary about a filmmaker named Keith creating a doc about a cult whose beliefs involve Egyptian mythology. Keith attempts to interview Anubis, the leader of the cult, but his quirky nature can’t hide the fact that he is up to something. Something involving a ceremony. The pace of the movie drags after the first few minutes, but if you stick around to the end you might have a good time with it.
78. The Jolly Monkey
The Jolly Monkey was released on streaming shortly after The Monkey released in theaters, and it obviously feels like a low-budget cash-in on the bigger movie’s popularity. The Jolly Monkey is cheap and looks like it was shot quickly, but it’s not bad. The story is strangely complex (or, convoluted), but the idea of someone in a monkey costume killing people isn’t the worst plot for a fun/dumb slasher movie. There’s more to the story, including a strange supernatural element, but the slashing is the best part.
79. Cutter’s Club
Cutter’s Club is better as a historical curiosity than as a movie. It began filming in the early 2000s, but it was never finished, and the footage couldn’t be found. After Tony Todd’s death, director Charles Band finally tracked the footage down and presented the movie in an almost complete form. Sadly, the movie does feel like the never-shot footage was needed. It’s worth checking out for Tony Todd and for general Full Moon cheesiness, but otherwise Cutter’s Club isn’t great.
80. Bogieville
For a movie with scary-looking vampires and a story that seems to promise lots of action, Bogieville is surprisingly slow. The vampire action is extremely limited, and most of the actual violence is either obscured or done off camera. It’s also set in the American South, but the bizarre accents indicate that it definitely wasn’t made there (it was made in England). The movie is about a couple on the road who stop at a trailer park and end up getting themselves mixed up in a feud between vampire factions. It’s a movie that seems like the ambitions of the filmmakers were too big for what they could realistically accomplish.
81. Simon Says
Four people arrive at a large house/small castle only to find that they’ve all been romantically misled by someone they met online. They’ve been gathered to play a board game called Simon Says. If they don’t play, they die. If they lose, they die. Well, it’s actually a lot more complicated than that, because a mysterious character named Simon has strange dimension-hopping powers. The character of Simon is fairly interesting, but the movie drags on way too slowly. The survival game takes a distant backseat to the players investigating everything around them, which knocks out a lot of the potential fun of the premise.
82. ROB1N
ROB1N is like two stores mashed together. As you’ve probably guessed, ROB1N is a companion robot who gets murderously possessive, somewhat similar to M3GAN. The specifics are quite different, but the influences are obvious. The other half of the story is a crime thriller with a twist (which I won’t spoil here). The two stories don’t really support each other well, and the twist muddles everything to leave the ending feeling thematically confused. Some of the kills are great though.
83. St. Patrick’s Day Massacre
Many years ago, a killer was shot dead in a tavern in Dublin, Ireland. Today, a group of friends decide to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by staying in the very same tavern, despite being told that the killer’s ghost still haunts and kills within the building. You can probably guess what happens next. St. Patrick’s Day Massacre takes too long to get to the slashing. The killer looks good and creepy, but none of the story being built between the friends really matters once he arrives (except in one instance to separate two people). There’s just too much downtime for a movie like this.
84. Movie Theater Massacre
Movie Theater Massacre is a comedic ode to movie theaters and the moviegoing experience. Unfortunately, the plot is strangely convoluted for how thin it is. It is set up as a slasher movie with a masked killer, but then there’s also a haunting involved, a small crime caper, and a plot thread about making a movie. It’s an unfocused film, but there are good moments throughout. The story is set inside a theater during the final days before it closes forever, and the best parts of the movie are the scenes where the employees are simply talking about their time together and how much they love movies.
85. Werewolf Game
Werewolf Game is a live-action recreation of the social deduction game known as Werewolf (or Mafia). A bunch of people are kidnapped, placed on an island, and forced to play a game. Two people are secretly assigned to be “werewolves,” which means that each night they can kill someone (they’re not actual werewolves, though they do receive neat masks). During the day, everyone, including the secret werewolves, vote for who they think is a killer. Whoever gets the most votes is executed, and the day/night cycle continues until either the wolves kill everyone else, or the wolves are found out and executed. The film is fun enough if you’re familiar with how the real-life game works, but the characters in the movie are surprisingly one-dimensional. Also, the ending doesn’t make a ton of sense.
86. Into the Gravel Pit
Into the Gravel Pit isn’t technically an anthology horror movie, but it sure does feel like one. A big reason for that is because of how disconnected its various plot threads are. One side of the story is about three friends who take a mysterious drug as a bonding experience. However, they separate from each other immediately and go through their trips in three individual experiences. The other major plot thread is about a mother and father who welcome home their dying daughter and discuss plans of joining her when she’s gone. These four plot lines do cross over a little, but in the most random ways.
87. The Night Time World
The Night Time World is a horror anthology film consisting of four story segments, all of which involve a vampire of some sort (one of the stories takes the vampire theme in an unusual direction). As with many anthology films, the segments vary in quality. Two of the stories are good, and two… not so much. So, The Night Time World is 50/50 as far as entertainment goes.
88. Mouse of Horrors
Mouse of Horrors isn’t the first slasher movie to take advantage of Steamboat Willie being in the public domain, but as of its release, it’s the best. That bar was set pretty low in 2024, but, truthfully, Mouse of Horrors does have something to offer. The Mouse (who is credited as The Killer, but everyone just calls him The Mouse) has a fun design, and his kills are nicely brutal. But the inclusion of a certain yellow bear is distractingly goofy, and a “Bride of Frankenstein” subplot is mostly unnecessary. And don’t even get me started on the CGI. There’s a mix of practical and digital effects, but the CGI ruins every scene it’s used in. It’s really bad. The rest of the movie is fine in a “mindless slasher with questionable production values” kind of way.
89. The Last Cabin
Presented as found footage, The Last Cabin puts a small location scouting crew in a cabin where masked strangers target them for harassment and death. It’s a simple story that gets to the action quickly enough, but many scenes feel like they’re being stretched for time without much in the way of fear or tension. The editing also leaves some big gaps in the viewers’ ability to believe that the events we’re watching are actually happening (there are obvious cuts in scenes that are supposed to be continuous, camera locations don’t always match where they should realistically be, etc.).
90. A Hard Place
This is another low-budget movie where ambitions outstretched means. A Hard Place follows a group of criminals as they try to find a place to lay low, but end up in the middle of a war between armies of two types of monsters. There’s so much happening, and there are so many characters, that actual drama is almost non-existent. Staged dramatic moments feel wholly unearned. The movie might be fun for fans of super-low-budget monsters though.
91. Wilting Rose
Wilting Rose is about a woman, Rose, who is mourning the loss of her husband. As she listens to recordings he made, their story begins to come together like a vague memory. Wilting Rose is probably too ambiguous for its own good, which makes it difficult to summarize succinctly. What I can say is that it sets up many dark moments that dip into psychological and supernatural horror, but in the end the story is mostly just frustrating.
92. Unholy Song
Unholy Song is cursed with being anticlimactic. Certain events are built up to, but then the movie cuts away and the climactic action is simply explained by a character. The final showdown with an evil spirit unleashed from an audio tape just sort of stops without an ending. Beyond the lack of excitement and closure, the dialogue is often stilted, and the occasional CGI effects can be unintentionally funny. Positives include the idea of a cursed tape. Like, it’s not a tape that recites cursed words. It’s actually a tape that is cursed, and it even creates a fun tape demon for a brief moment. Also, the movie’s priest using a skull-shaped spray bottle for holy water is amazing.
93. Shadows of the Past
Shadows of the Past is an anthology horror film made up of three story segments and a frame story that ties everything together. The overall theme involves supernatural scares with vengeful spirits, and the stories are being told by an old man whose house is broken into by four criminal teens looking for a place to hide. The movie has a homemade feel to it that looks like it was fun to make, but will have limited appeal for most wider audiences.
94. The Monster Beneath Us
From a visual standpoint, The Monster Beneath Us is excellent. The movie is set in a gorgeous historical mansion in Yorkshire, England, and it’s usually filmed beautifully. However, the story that takes place inside that mansion trudges along so slowly that many viewers will lose interest before anything interesting happens. The film is about a mother and son who move into a house where there is a literal monster in the basement. The boy develops a strange connection with the creature, but all that amounts to is a lot of talking and a lot of walking around in dark hallways. There’s just not much here.
95. Revenge of the Boogeyman
Revenge of the Boogeyman is a horror comedy that is neither horrific nor very funny. The plot revolves around Calvin who is half-heartedly trying to get sober with the help of his friends. While staying at a cabin in the woods, Calvin has strange experiences which eventually lead to him and his friends becoming the target of the Ridgefield Boogeyman. The story feels aimless much of the time, and even the few moments of good low-budget gore don’t help make it fun to watch.
96. Bloat
Ben McKenzie (Gotham) stars in Bloat as Jack, a father separated from his wife and two sons while he works and they go on vacation to Tokyo. Jack keeps up with his family through video calls on his work computer, which is also where he investigates a mysterious illness that his youngest son contracts. Jack’s investigation leads him to believe that his son’s issues are supernatural, which compels him to take action. Bloat has an okay, if simplistic, basic idea, but the screenlife format does not do it justice at all. The format makes the drama and horror feel too far away and muted.
97. Desert Fiends
Desert Fiends is a horror comedy with a sense of humor that is tiresome and unfunny. Dumb comedy can be hilarious, but this is just dumb. One of the only good parts is that Bai Ling is in Desert Fiends, and it looks like the director just let her loose to do whatever she wanted to. Bai Ling is funny, the rest of the movie—which is about friends who are trying to get to a concert in the desert while mutants kill people—is not very good. Not even copious amounts of gore make it palatable.
98. Piglet
Piglet might appear to be connected to the growing Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey universe, but it isn’t. You might think that Piglet is also one of the many recent public-domain-inspired horror movies, but, other than the name of the main character, it isn’t. So what is Piglet? It’s a cheaply made slasher movie with a story that seems to borrow heavily from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and… Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). Even though Piglet isn’t connected to either of those films, the plot is strikingly similar to both. Beyond that, Piglet is a by-the-numbers slasher with too much bad CGI blood, a haphazard story, and uneven production values all around.
99. Hook
Female friends rent a house for a party and end up getting stalked and slashed by a killer inspired by a public-domain children’s story. If this sounds a lot like Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Piglet, then yes, you’ve got it. The plots are all extremely similar, even down to some of the same story beats. This time around, a drug addict with a hook for a hand is stalking the daughter of his former obsession, Wendy. The best part of the movie? When lines are clearly misspoken, yet they’re kept in the movie. The attention to detail here is something else.
100. A Breed Apart
A Breed Apart is insulting in its awfulness. The action pretty much always involves some level of AI, with some shots appearing to be 100% AI generated. And it all looks terrible. Besides that, the movie doesn’t make any sense. I like most of the actors though, so there’s that.
101. When It Rains in LA
When It Rains in LA seems confused about the style of movie it wants to be. Is it a cursed-object movie? A slasher movie? A crime thriller? A whodunit mystery? A romance? It’s sort of all of those things, but none of them are done particularly well. There are some unintentionally funny moments, but even those aren’t enough to warrant a recommendation here.
102. Don’t Make a Sound
Don’t Make a Sound takes way too long to get going, and once it finally starts moving, it doesn’t go anywhere terribly interesting. The plot involves a girl being chased through the woods by a killer in a hazmat suit and gas mask, and that’s about all there is to it. The girl being chased has a small backstory, but nothing really matters. Murders happen at random whenever the killer sees someone, and the finale wraps everything up in the tropiest of ways.
