Another month, another great excuse to watch some horror movies.
Horror movies are a yearlong pursuit for us here at Polygon. Sure, we’ve got our list of the best horror movies you can watch now, or the best horror movies of 2023 ranked by scariness. But each month, we also pull together a smaller list of five picks perfect for that time of year.
This month, we’ve picked out five great horror movies for you to watch on Netflix. Some have cast members or people working behind the scenes of this month’s most exciting new release, John Wick: Chapter 4. Others are from creatives who have newly announced projects. Some of them are seasonally appropriate. Others still just rule, and are always a good watch.
Without further ado, let’s dig into it.
Year: 2007Run time: 2h 6mDirector: Frank DarabontCast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
The Mist is among the best semi-recent Stephen King adaptations and features one of the best endings of any horror movie this century so far. The film follows a group of people trapped in a supermarket when a mysterious and seemingly deadly mist suddenly envelops their small town. Leaning heavily into the real-life terror of how different people deal with a crisis, the movie lets the supermarket survivors devolve into their own little Lord of the Flies situation before revealing that something is lurking inside the mist that’s far more dangerous and scary than their petty differences. —Austen Goslin
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Year: 2000Run time: 1h 49mDirector: David TwohyCast: Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Keith David
Pitch Black follows a group of space travelers when their ship crash-lands on an alien planet. Unfortunately for them, one of their passengers is a notorious prisoner: an extremely dangerous
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