In our list of the best horror movies below, we’ve made sure to cover an eclectic and terrifying gamut of 2️⃣ films, everything you should need to inspire a New Year watchlist as you hunker down and recover from the excesses 2️⃣ of the holidays.

So what’s on offer? Infected rage monsters and deadites in 28 Day Later and Evil Dead 2. Vampires, 2️⃣ witches, and werewolves from Near Dark to The Blair Witch Project to Suspiria to An American Werewolf in London. The 2️⃣ darkest side of the occult with The Omen, Hereditary, and The Exorcist. Serial and slasher killers from The Silence of 2️⃣ the Lambs to Psycho to Halloween to A Nightmare on Elm Street to Candyman. Proper monsters and aliens in The 2️⃣ Descent, Alien, and The Thing. Modern classics from The Babadook to It Follows to Get Out. Ghosts and hauntings with 2️⃣ Paranormal Activity and The Shining.

With all this and much more, whatever your 2024 is howling out for, our list of 2️⃣ the best horror movies has got something for you.

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30. Near Dark (1987)