Run Time: 1 hr 58 min | Director: J Blakeson

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Dianne Wiest

Rarely does a female antihero come along where you feel tension for rooting for her schemes. Such is the case with the black comedy thriller, I Care A Lot, where a con woman makes her living by becoming the court-appointed guardian to vulnerable elders, convincing the courts that they’re unable to take care of themselves and seizing their assets. However, she finds herself in dangerous waters after she hijacks guardianship over a crime lord’s mother. The cat-and-mouse chase keeps you on the edge of your seat until the last moments of the film. Rosamund Pike stars as the meticulous yet manipulative con artist, unwilling to give up her enterprise without a fight; in fact, her electric performance won her a Golden Globe. — Meredith Loftus

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Run Time: 2 hr 3 min | Director: Olivia Wilde

Cast: Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan

Run by the mysterious Frank (Chris Pine), the company town of Victory, California, is not what it seems, with Florence Pugh’s Alice starting to suspect there may be sinister acts brewing under the town’s calm surface. Don’t Worry Darling, directed artfully by Olivia Wilde, finds all the eerie tension one may expect from a horror without ever leaning into that genre. Patient in its build-up, the film thrives in the captivating performances of its strong ensemble, including the likes of Pugh, Gemma Chan, and even Wilde herself. Don’t Worry Darling’s story drops pieces of the puzzle along its winding narrative journey, with the audience challenged to put them together and uncover the picture behind the mystery. - Jake Hodges

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Run Time: 1 hr 32 min | Director: Jordan Ross

Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Victoria Justice, Noah Schnapp

The Tutor is a slow-burn thriller from relatively new writer Ryan King (Black Files) and director Jordan Ross. Garrett Hedlund stars as an elite tutor hired to teach a billionaire's obsessive son, played by Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things). Through The Tutor, the student-teacher relationship evolves into an intense connection, growing from eerie discomfort to dangerous psychological warfare. Featuring stellar performances from Hedlund and Schnapp nestled against the chilling backdrop of a remote waterfront property owned by the wealthy East Coast family, The Tutor guides audiences through unsettling tension, unexpected twists, and dark turns. – Yael Tygiel

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Run Time: 1 hr 51 min | Director: Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson

Cast: Storm Reid, Ava Zaria Lee, Nia Long

Anyone who hasn’t heard from someone for just longer than expected knows the dread and panic that flows through your veins until you get in touch, and Missing, directed by Will Merrick and Nicholas D. Johnson, manages to capture that feeling in a singular film like lightning in a bottle. The story puts you in the POV of June Allen (Storm Reid), a teen girl who can’t wait to party with her friends while her mom is out of town. But when her mom doesn’t return, she has to lead the search herself. Told in the screen life format through footage captured on various devices before being expertly weaved together to craft the narrative, the movie is a wild ride where the audience feels like they’re in the driver’s seat the whole time. – Tauri Miller

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Run Time: 1 hr 32 min | Director: Adam Salky

Cast: Freida Pinto, Logan Marshall-Green, Robert John Burke

Intrusion is an absolute trip from director Adam Salky. Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green (Big Sky) star as Meera and Henry, a couple who, after embarking on a journey towards a quiet life in a small town, become the victims of a deadly home invasion. Written by Chris Sparling, Intrusion slowly unfolds as a twisted mind game when Meera (Pinto) begins to question everything — including her husband (Marshall-Green). Intrusion approaches themes of trauma, isolation, and manipulation through a fascinating entry point, opening the floodgates for a wave of answers as to who can be trusted and where the danger truly lies. – Yael Tygiel

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Run Time: 1 hr 40 min | Director: Nathaniel Martello-White

Cast: Ashley Madekwe, Bukky Bakray, Jorden Myrie

They say the past never stays buried for long, and now a woman’s past comes back to try to bury her. Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) plays Neve, a Black woman who meticulously crafts her life to fit into the white suburbs by rejecting every aspect of Blackness and assimilating into the life of an upper-middle-class housewife. Unfortunately, two strangers show up to unravel her tightly wound fabric of her persona. They position themselves in and around her children’s school and stalk her every move. Writer/director Nathaniel Martello-White crafts a tense film where nothing can truly be trusted — not even the audience’s perceptions of the reality unfolding before them. This unsettling story about a woman’s struggle to run away from her roots will keep you looking over your shoulders well after the credits roll. – Tauri Miller

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Run Time: 2 hrs 1 min | Director: Tobias Lindholm

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Denise Pillott

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars opposite Eddie Redmayne in the dark and thrilling film The Good Nurse from director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter). Based on horrific true events, The Good Nurse follows an ICU nurse (Chastain) who begins to suspect her colleague (Redmayne) of causing deaths within the hospital where they work. Written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, The Good Nurse maintains a foundation in reality, even as the high stakes of these two medical professionals are ultimately life or death. With captivating performances from the Oscar winners, The Good Nurse is two hours of heart-racing intensity. – Yael Tygiel

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Run Time: 1 hr 46 min | Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Side Effects was Steven Soderbergh’s last film before he reportedly “retired” from filmmaking, only to return nearly a year later. Soderbergh can be trusted to craft meticulous thrillers, but his collaborations with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have been a high point; Burns adds a layer of insight into highly specific industries. Following the success of Contagion and The Informant!, Side Effects explores the pharmaceutical industry and the impacts of untested medical research. The tight, intimate thriller features strong work from Rooney Mara in particular, whose character is forced to reckon with the consequences of an experience she can’t even remember. — Liam Gaughan

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Run Time: 1 hr 29 min | Director: Kim Farrant

Cast: Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri, Luke Norris

Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) stars in The Weekend Away, a psychological thriller directed by Kim Farrant. Written by Sarah Alderson, who also wrote the novel on which the movie is based, The Weekend Away follows Beth (Meester) as she attempts to uncover what happened to her friend Kate (Christina Wolfe) during their weekend trip to Croatia. Meester and Wolfe’s performances are a highlight in the heart-pumping adventure filled with twists and unreliable, shady characters. The Weekend Away is ultimately an expansive and gorgeous tour of Croatia with a mystery plot weaving through it. – Yael Tygiel

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Run Time: 1 hr 34 min | Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Cast: Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay

The Platform is a unique and utterly terrifying thriller that offers biting (pun intended) societal commentary about class in the vein of Squid Game. The film revolves around people living in a concrete tower, either as punishment for a crime or as volunteers. Everyone in the tower is fed via a platform that begins at the top of the building and slowly descends. Those at the top of the building have their choices of delicious cuisine, while those at the bottom are left with scraps. Every month, the inhabitants are rearranged, and the power dynamic changes. Intense and disturbing, The Platform is a difficult yet riveting and important watch. - Taylor Gates

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Run Time: 1 hr 28 min | Director: Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote

Cast: Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, Dulé Hill

From The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor to Hush, Kate Siegel is a master horror actor, and Hypnotic is no different. A young woman named Jenn (Siegel) is on a mission to improve her life, including doing sessions with a hypnotherapist (Jason O’Mara). After a few sessions, however, she beings to experience dangerous consequences that could prove deadly for herself and those around her. Though the plot can veer towards the silly and predictable at times, Hypnotic is a fun thriller to watch with some friends and a bucket of popcorn. – Taylor Gates

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Run Time: 2 hr 19 min | Director: Antonio Campos

Cast: Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Robert Pattinson

A bleak vision of life in America from 1950 to the mid-1960s, director Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time is about the most perpetually painful film that you could imagine. Made up of a strong ensemble cast whose lives all end up intersecting, it is based upon the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock who also serves as a fitting narrator for the increasingly dark events of the film. Central to this is Tom Holland as Arvin, a traumatized young man who is trying to make things right for those he cares about despite the sinister trajectory of the world around him. It is one of the roles that Holland really shows his full range and talents in as he holds his own against a terrifying Robert Pattinson as a controlling new preacher. It is not a happy film by any means, though it is one that does a good job of showing the strengths of its characters and comprehensively capturing the horrible world they live in. — Chase Hutchinson

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Run Time: 2 hr 14 min | Director: Charlie Kaufman

Cast: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis

It might be time to end that relationship. Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Iain Reid, Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a wonderfully maddening psychological thriller that will leave you with many questions, theories, and concerns. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is having second thoughts about her fledgling relationship with Jake (Jesse Plemons). She agrees to go on a trip with him to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) at their remote cabin, but upon arrival, quickly regrets it. There’s something about this family and the cabin that seems…not right. What’s up and what’s down? What’s real and what’s in her imagination? And what’s the story with the old janitor? — Emily Bernard

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Run Time: 1 hr 40 min | Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Anthony Mackie, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nothing good can come from spying on your neighbors. Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window shows life from the perspective of Anna Fox (Amy Adams) a reclusive, agoraphobic woman who, aside from her basement tenant David (Wyatt Russell) lives by herself in a massive Manhattan brownstone. She passes the time by drinking, checking in with her estranged husband and their daughter, and keeping a watchful eye on her neighbors. She has a clear view into the home across the way, which was recently purchased by the Russell family. One night, she witnesses what she believes to be Alistair Russell (Gary Oldman) stabbing his wife Jane (Julianne Moore) to death in the living room. Anna calls the authorities, but has trouble convincing them of what she saw. Will the woman in the window be able to seek justice for her deceased neighbor? — Emily Bernard

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Run Time: 1 hr 48 min | Director: Joel Edgerton

Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Allison Tolman, Busy Philipps

Gifts aren’t always meant to make you happy. Joel Edgerton’s The Gift follows married couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) who recently made the move to Los Angeles for Simon’s new job. Just as they are settling into their new home, they bump into Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an old classmate of Simon’s who is eager to catch up. A benign interaction slides into creepy territory once Gordon repeatedly shows up uninvited to Simon and Robyn’s home bearing gifts. The gifts start out simple enough with bottles of wine, but the couple soon notices that things have gone missing and feel like they are being watched. Cryptic messages and visits force Simon to confront his murky past and figure out how to shake this naughty new neighbor. — Emily Bernard

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Run Time: 1 hr 52 min | Director: Lee Chung-hyun

Cast: Park Shin-hye, Jun Jong-seo, Kim Sung-ryung

If you are looking for a mind-bending thriller that will make your head hurt, the 2020 South Korean film The Call is the perfect pick for you. The story starts with a woman named Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) in 2019, who finds an old cordless phone while visiting her sick mother at her childhood home and picks up a random call. On the other side of the call is a woman named Young-sook (Jun Jong-seo) who is living a tortured life with her shaman adoptive mother twenty years in the past, in 1999.

Both women have suffered intense loss and find solace in the other, and soon enough Seo-yeon is helping Young-sook save her future, while Young-sook changes Seo-Yeon’s past, and therefore the present. While at first everything seems great, the changes start having huge, deadly ramifications, especially when Seo-yeon discovers just how dangerous her companion is. Brace yourself for an intricate, gripping story that constantly keeps you on your toes. By the end of The Call, you’ll consider yourself lucky that you can’t change the past.

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Run Time: 2 hr 3 min | Director: Ben Wheatley

Cast: Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ann Dowd

Although nothing can really compare to Hitchcock’s Best Picture-winning 1940 film Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the 2020 remake from Kill List and High-Rise director Ben Wheatley is a visually stunning, unnerving adaptation in its own right. Arguably quite underrated, the Netflix Original film stars Lily James as Mrs. de Winter, the new wife of recent widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), who supposedly lost his wife Rebecca in a boating accident. When Mrs. de Winter arrives at her new home, she encounters an unfriendly housekeeper named Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas), who clearly prefers Rebecca to Maxim’s new wife. Facing marriage with a man hiding a past full of secrets, Mrs. de Winter pushes for answers, but she might not like what she finds.

Of course, no one can best Hitchcock, and that’s okay. But Wheatley’s version of the classic story is brilliantly made with fantastic performances from the main cast, and is still an enjoyable watch. If you’ve never seen the 1940 film, even better. You can go into the 2020 version of Rebecca with a fresh mind, and decide for yourself if it’s a good film or not, but do yourself a favor and make sure to watch the classic version too.

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Run Time: 1 hr 48 min | Director: Jang Hang-jun

Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Kim Mu-yeol, Mun Seong-kun, Na Young-hee

If you want to watch a movie that will really mess with your head, the South Korean psychological thriller Forgotten is it. Honestly, the plot is really hard to explain without giving anything away, but it basically centers around a man named Jin-seok (Kang Ha-neul) who has no memories of the last 20 years, who reunites with a man claiming to be his brother, Yoo-seok (Kim Mu-yeol). When Jin-seok begins to suspect that something’s amiss, Yoo-seok reveals that he really isn’t Jin-seok’s brother, and that he is on a mission to find out what really happened one night two decades prior, when a woman and her daughter were brutally murdered in their house.

With Forgotten, it’s best to just go into watching the movie without knowing too much about the plot, because soon enough everything you think you know about the story will be thrown out the window anyway. It’s a seriously twisted story about these two men and how deeply their pasts are intertwined, as they both grow desperate in their search for answers.

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Run Time: 2 hr 9 min | Director: Oriol Paulo

Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Morte

The Spanish-language Netflix Original movie Mirage is built around a similar premise as The Call, but thankfully it’s not quite as sinister. In Mirage, a woman named Vera (Adriana Ugarte) moves into a new house with her husband and daughter. There, they find an old TV set, and during a strange electrical storm, they discover that they can communicate through the TV with a boy in 1989. Finding out that the boy in question dies soon after, Vera uses the TV to warn him of his fate, which in turn completely alters Vera’s current reality. In a world without her family, Vera starts looking into how she can use the TV set to reverse her mistake, while also still saving the young boy’s life.

At the center of Mirage is a murder case that happens in 1989 where a man murders his wife. The boy originally dies in his efforts to run away and tell someone after he witnesses the murder, leading the man to get arrested. When Vera saves the boy’s life, she inadvertently allows the man to get away with murder, and so along with fixing reality herself, Vera must do everything she can to make sure that justice is served in the murder case as well. Complicated, but well-planned and executed, Mirage is a compelling and suspenseful drama that really shines through the emotional character arcs.

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Run Time: 1 hr 43 min | Director: Mike Flanagan

Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken

Directed by Mike Flanagan, the mind behind the movie adaptation of Doctor Sleep, the indie horror film Hush, and hit horror series like The Haunting of Hill House, Gerald’s Game was Flanagan’s first Stephen King adaptation, but obviously not his last. The movie, which came out on Netflix in 2017, is the first adaptation of the book of the same name. Many people believed the book was simply unadaptable in any understandable way, since most of the book is first-person narration that takes place in the main character’s head. Still, Flanagan took on the challenge, and he succeeded, making a psychological horror film that will leave you with nightmares for months.

Gerald’s Game stars frequent Flanagan collaborator Carla Gugino as Jessie Burlingame, a woman who travels to a lake house retreat with her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood), in an attempt to save their marriage. The two engage in foreplay in bed, which Gerald takes to an unexpected place when he handcuffs Jessie’s wrists to the bedposts and attempts to enact a rape fantasy, a kink Jessie has no interest in. The two start to argue, and in the middle of the conversation, Gerald has a heart attack and dies, falling off the bed and leaving Jessie alone, still handcuffed to an unmovable bedpost.

The rest of the movie chronicles Jessie’s experience trapped in the handcuffs, slowly becoming dehydrated and losing her sanity as she scrambles for any way to escape. The movie is seriously creepy and a fantastic mystery, but fair warning that a character in this story knowm as “the man made of moonlight” is one of King’s scariest creations, and he’s even worse on-screen. Not to mention a particularly gory scene, infamous for making even hardened horror fans squirm in their seats.

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