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*Today *cohosts reveal their 2025 Halloween costumes: Prince, Miranda Priestly, Mr. T, Beyoncé, and more

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Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, and Craig Melvin on 'Today' show for Halloween 2025

Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, and Craig Melvin on 'Today' show for Halloween 2025. Credit:

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It's a Halloween party on the Plaza and all the *Today* cohosts brought their A-game.

Hosts Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly, Al Roker, and more went all out for their annual spooky celebration with fans during Fridays' episode of the NBC morning show.

After last year's iconic blockbuster-themed costumes that embraced the the '80s, '90s, and '00s — when the VHS still ruled — this year *Today* took its hosts on a road trip around the country, representing various icons from around the good old U.S. of A.

From Melvin, Willie Geist, and Sheinelle Jones dressing up as real-life musical stars Prince, Wayne Newton and Beyoncé, to Guthrie and Hager going for *Devil Wears Prada *character Miranda Priestly and her real-life inspiration, Anna Wintour, this year's costumes definitely give *superstar*.

Peter Alexander, Laura Jarrett, Savannah Guthrie, Sheinelle Jones, Jenna Bush Hager, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Carson Daly, and Willie Geist in their 2025 Halloween costumes

Peter Alexander, Laura Jarrett, Savannah Guthrie, Sheinelle Jones, Jenna Bush Hager, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Carson Daly, and Willie Geist in their 2025 Halloween costumes.

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Dylan Dreyer kicked things off repping for the Garden State. The meteorologist dressed up as New Jersey native and legendary singer Frankie Valli, the founding member of the Four Seasons.**

"My dad was a mechanic, and he would record the oldies station for me on cassette tapes and bring them home," Dylan said of her love for music from the '50s and '60s. "I know every lyric to every song from that era."

Carson Daly as Rocky Balboa

Carson Daly as Rocky Balboa.

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Daly threw his hat in the ring as the rep for Philadelphia, costumed as the one and only Rocky Balboa, made iconic by Sylvester Stallone in the Oscar-winning franchise. Roker, who was dressed as Balboa's *Rocky III* opponent Mr. T's Clubber Lane, even had a bro-out moment with Daly in their ultimate tough-guy fits.

Jones brought the Texas Bama to the Plaza in her showstopping costume as Grammy winner Beyoncé.

Sheinelle Jones as Beyoncé

Sheinelle Jones as Beyoncé.

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Jones recreated Beyoncé's look from the singer's 2024 Christmas Day halftime show — a.k.a. Beyoncé Bowl — with the horse included and cemented her eternal membership to the BeyHive by performing "Texas Hold 'Em" from the history-making *Cowboy Carter* album.

No one is giving out prizes but if they were, Jones definitely took the reins. (See what we did there?)

"I have this 'Mount Rushmore' of women that I admire and this is the last one of the women in my mind," Jones told Today.com ahead of Halloween. "I see it as a tribute to all the women who've poured into me, and they don't even know they have."**

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Bowen Yang as Tingle; Judy Greer as Anna Wintour; Janelle Monáe as Beetlejuice

Laura Jarrett came in to represent the California girls by dressing as *Saved by the Bell*'s ultra fashionista Lisa Turtle. She even gave fans a throwback with a fun call to Mario Lopez, a.k.a. the real A.C. Slater.

Laura Jarrett as Lisa Turtle

Laura Jarrett as Lisa Turtle.

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Geist took on Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton, who has performed in Sin City for more than 65 years. The cohost took the stage backed up by Vegas showgirls, dressed to the nines in a dapper tux and performing Newton's iconic song "Danke Schoen."

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Willie Geist as Wayne Newton.

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Peter Alexander took New Yorkers to Margaritaville with his Jimmy Buffet costume, performing the enduring hit that made Mr. Island-Time a legend.**

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Peter Alexander as Jimmy Buffett.

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Two fashion icons collided when Guthrie and Hager showed off their costumes as the fictional Miranda Priestly and her (rumored) real-life inspiration, Anna Wintour.**

Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager as Miranda Priestly and Anna Wintour

Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager as Miranda Priestly and Anna Wintour.

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The duo even staged a meeting of the divas for the show's Instagram page, and it's safe to say that if it could happen in real life, the fashion world would never be the same.

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- *Bugonia* director Yorgos Lanthimos discusses the wildly different interpretations viewers have had on the film's shocking ending.

- Stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons share their thoughts on the film's bloody final moments, which Stone describes as "really disgusting" to shoot.

- Plus, Lanthimos reveals whether they ever considered or filmed alternate endings.

**This article contains spoilers for *Bugonia*.**

*Bugonia* features one of the most bloody, wild, go-for-broke endings in recent memory, so it's only fitting that it's eliciting vastly different reactions from audiences — and no one welcomes this more than director Yorgos Lanthimos.

The film follows a conspiracy theorist named Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who kidnaps and tortures powerful CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), convinced she is an alien sent to destroy humankind. As bizarre as his beliefs sound at first, by the end of the film, after days chained up in his basement, Michelle concedes that she is an alien empress from the Andromeda Galaxy.

She confirms many of his outlandish theories (like that her hair is a secret communication device), but she insists he was wrong about her people's intentions. Far from wanting to destroy humanity, she says her Adromedan ancestors actually created humans, and they've been trying to save us from ourselves ever since.

Emma Stone in Bugonia

Emma Stone in 'Bugonia'.

While Teddy believes her, it remains unclear until the film's final moments whether she is telling the truth or bluffing in a last-ditch effort to escape her tormentor.

"The thing that I grew to appreciate more and more was the fact that throughout the film, Teddy says some things that, from an objective standpoint, you can look at and think that's true, and then he'll follow that up with something that is objectively bananas and insane," Plemons tells * *alongside his costar.* *

"And the same thing goes for Michelle," he adds. "It felt very, very close to the very myopic ways in which a lot of us can go through life, where there is very little room for multiple ways of thinking or for multiple things to be true at once. We get this tunnel vision."**

Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA, a Focus Features release.

Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz in director Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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Thrilled that Michelle is finally coming clean, Teddy asks to be taken to her mothership. So, Michelle leads him to her office at her pharmaceutical company and punches some numbers on a seemingly innocuous calculator, which she tells him is really a teleportation device. After typing in the code, she tells Teddy to stand in her closet, where she insists he will be beamed up to her ship.

But when he closes the closet door, the homemade bomb he'd strapped to his chest explodes, which sends his decapitated head hurtling into Michelle, knocking her unconscious. When she awakes in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, she jumps out the back door and runs back to her office. Back inside, she goes into the closet (still filled with bits of Teddy) and is beamed aboard her ship, proving that she is, indeed, an alien.**

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Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA

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Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA

At a council meeting aboard the mothership, she and her fellow Andromedans decide once and for all that the human experiment has failed. With tears in her eyes, she goes to a model of Earth and pops a bubble around it, wiping out all human life on the planet.

As the film ends, a montage of collapsed bodies around the world is shown, while other species, notably bees (whose impending extinction was a preoccupation of Teddy's), appear to be flourishing.

While the eradication of our species might sound like a bleak ending note, Lanthimos tells EW that* *audiences are divided on whether the film presents a hopeful or pessimistic view of the future.

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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"I've noticed that some people say, 'Oh, it's really dark and bleak, the ending,' and then some other people find it very hopeful, because in a sense you don't take it literally," the director says. "It's a film, and nature survives, and it kind of allows the hope of a second chance at everything restarting."

He continues, "So some people see it this way instead of *it all ended*. So I think it says things about the viewer themselves, how they feel in the end. And I think sometimes it might change. If it sticks in their head, maybe they think about it [later] and go like, 'Yeah, maybe it is hopeful. It's not that bleak, actually.'"

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As the director intended, the film is filled with moments that audiences are sure to interpret differently. Teddy's death, for example, is never fully explained. While police guess that friction or his body heat triggered the homemade bomb, could Michelle have used her alien teleporter to set it somehow off?**

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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"Yeah, I mean, I always assumed it was Teddy, really. There was a friction situation, and he got stuck, and that thing was a homemade [bomb]," Stone tells EW before taking a moment to praise the film's prosthetic designers.

"I'm going to be honest with you. I think [Teddy's decapitated] head was one of the most incredible pieces of prosthetic work I've ever seen," she says to Plemons, who sits alongside her for the interview. "I'm being really serious. It was unbelievable. But stepping into that closet was *really* disgusting."

"But," her costar adds with a mischievous glint in his eye, "I like the [kill switch] beaming thing. That's the *one* thing he didn't think about."

*Bugonia* is now playing in theaters.

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Beyoncé!? Not quite, but Tamron Hall welcomed a special celebrity guest to her talk show for a *Flavor of Love* "reunion" on her 2025 Halloween episode, nonetheless.

Midway through her holiday-themed episode, which saw the Emmy-winning host channel a revolving door of men with her multiple costume changes across her Halloween installment, the 55-year-old introduced a special game show segment while dressed as iconic recording artist and VH1 reality show host, Flavor Flav.

With a crown on her head, a crisp blue suit on her shoulders, and a giant clock around her neck, Hall tasked a man with choosing the best cake-decorating woman among a trio of contestants.**

"I didn't pick New York," Hall-as-Flav said. "I missed out on the greatest lady ever. Now, it's time for our *Flavor of Fright *challenge to find out which one of y'all knows how to throw down in the kitchen. But, we need a little help."

Tamron Hall as Flavor Flav on The Tamron Hall Show

Tamron Hall as Flavor Flav on the 'Tamron Hall Show'.

Hall then enlisted a special celebrity guest to them judge the game, as legendary *Flavor of Love *contestant* *and pop culture icon* *Tiffany "New York" Pollard sashayed out to the set.

Pollard embraced Hall-as-Flav, mounting a notable "reunion" between the pair.**

"New York is in the house!" Pollard yelled as the audience cheered.

"New York, you look so fine, so amazing," Hall said, before segueing into the game, which tasked the contestants with decorating a Halloween cake in two minutes, while Dan, the segment's other guest, was asked to select a champion from the round.

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"The biggest mistake in the history of my show so far is that lady over there, not going with the clock. So, don't make a mistake," Hall-as-Flav advised Dan.**

After New York helped the ladies decorate their cakes for the next 120 seconds, Dan ultimately eliminated one of them in pursuit of the prize.

Upon the elimination, Pollard repeated one of her most memorable phrases from the show, as she shouted "Bye Pumkin! Bye Pumkin!" as the contestant left the cake competition, and Hall threw the show to a commercial break shortly thereafter.

Tiffany Pollard on The Tamron Hall Show

Tiffany Pollard on the 'Tamron Hall Show'.

In a past interview with **, Pollard admitted that, though the moniker helped rocket her to stardom, she initially disliked the nickname Flav gave her on the dating series' first season in 2006.

"I f---ing hated it!" she said in October 2023. "I'm like, 'Why is he calling me New York?'"

She continued, "You're giving this one the name of Bubbles, and Delicious, and all these sexual names. But as soon as I told him I'm from upstate New York, he goes, 'Oh, I'm just gonna call you New York.'"

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Pollard finished season one as runner-up, and returned for season 2, where she finished in the same position. She was ultimately given her own dating show, *I Love New York*, which ran for two seasons from 2007-2008.

See Pollard reunite with "Flavor Flav" above. *Tamron Hall *airs weekdays in syndication.

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- George Clooney said he was "very proud" of the thieves who recently stole historic jewels from the Louvre.

- "They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it," said the actor behind the professional thief Danny Ocean.

- Clooney also suggested that the upcoming *Ocean's 14 *should rip its plot from the headlines: "I think we should rob the Louvre."

The Louvre heist has prompted reactions of awe, disbelief, and outrage — but George Clooney is one of the few onlookers who feel both pride and a tinge of jealousy.

The actor, who portrayed dapper casino thief Danny Ocean in *Ocean's Eleven* and its sequels, reflected on the audacious burglary in which a group of thieves stole more than $100 million worth of historic jewels from Paris' foremost museum on Sunday.

"It was cool," Clooney said of the Louvre theft during an interview with *Variety* on the *Jay Kelly* red carpet. "I mean, it's terrible. But if you're a professional thief like I am, I was very proud of those guys."

George Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven'

George Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven'.

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The *Michael Clayton* star added that he's unsure if the culprits will evade authorities. "I wonder if they're going to catch these guys," he said. "They seem to have done a pretty good job at getting away with it."

Clooney's comments came as part of a broader conversation about another *Ocean's* installment, which the actor has sporadically teased over the past few weeks. "I think we should rob the Louvre," he suggested for the long-awaited sequel's plot. "But somebody's already done it, man, I dunno."

It seems that Clooney would settle for just being retroactively inserted into existing footage of the thieves descending from the museum on an electric ladder. "I think you gotta put me in, CGI me into that basket coming out of the Louvre," Clooney told the Associated Press at the same event. "I think you should do that."

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The *Fantastic Mr. Fox* star also expressed his admiration for the thieves' audacity during an interview with *Entertainment Tonight* at the same event. "I was amazed that it was in the middle of broad daylight. Insane," he said. "But every place gets robbed, I guess."

Clooney weighed in on the forthcoming *Ocean's* prequel starring Margot Robbie, for which Bradley Cooper is reportedly in talks to join the *Barbie* star. "They're gonna play my parents," Clooney said, noting that he'll have no creative input on that particular project. "They're all very gifted and talented, and they'll all figure it out. I get to go and watch as a fan."

Earlier this month, Clooney confirmed that a new *Ocean's* sequel is moving forward in the near future with his involvement and that a "great script" has already been submitted. "We just got the budget approved at Warner Bros. and we're trying to set up," he said. "It's just scheduling, so it's just setting a start date for us. Probably start in about nine or 10 months shooting."

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George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould, and Don Cheadle in 'Ocean's Eleven'.

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The 2001 movie *Ocean's Eleven* — itself a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name — starred Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Eddie Jemison, Qin Shaobo, Casey Affleck, and Scott Caan. They all reprised their roles in 2004's *Ocean's Twelve*, which added Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vincent Cassel, and Eddie Izzard to the fold. Roberts and Zeta-Jones did not return for 2007's *Ocean's Thirteen*, but the rest of the cast reprised their roles alongside newcomers Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

There's no official word at this point regarding who, besides Clooney, would return for a potential *Ocean's *sequel. Mac and Reiner both died in the years since their last appearance in the franchise, while Gould and Shaobo both returned for brief cameos in the 2018 spinoff *Ocean's Eight*, which starred Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, and Rihanna.

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It's alive — and tall as hell!

Netflix has unveiled its first full look at Jacob Elordi as the creature in Guillermo del Toro's *Frankenstein*, now playing in theaters. Social media accounts for the streamer posted a portrait of the *Euphoria* star as the reanimated patchwork creature created by Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) on Friday, alongside a number of other cast photos.

Elordi's version of the mad scientist's monster boasts pale skin covered in scars, an alarming absence of eyebrows, and ratty dark hair extending past his shoulders.

Jacob Elordi as the creature from 'Frankenstein'

Jacob Elordi as the creature from 'Frankenstein'.

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Del Toro's version of the creature is a far cry from the short-haired, square-headed cinematic depiction of it lodged in our collective consciousness after Boris Karloff's classic performance in the 1930s. Instead, this rendition of Victor's experiment harkens back to Mary Shelley's original 1818 novel, which describes the monster as having "flowing" hair of "lustrous black," a "shriveled complexion," and "watery eyes."

The *Shape of Water* filmmaker recently teased Elordi's look to **, describing him as "staggeringly beautiful, in an otherworldly way" in September.

"Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, and if he's been dreaming about this creature for all his life, he's going to nail it," del Toro said. "It looks like a newborn, alabaster creature. The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic."

Del Toro also clarified that he wanted to avoid making the creature elicit "the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together]." He noted that the character's patches of flesh come "from different bodies, so it has different colors" on different parts of his body. "The hues are pale but almost translucent," he said. "It feels like a newborn soul."

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Elsewhere in the interview, del Toro praised Elordi's soulful performance. "One of the things I thought needed the most intelligence, emotionally, was to track the evolution of the creature," he recalled. "He said something to me that was touching and real: 'This creature is more me than me.'"

The *Hellboy* director continued, "[Elordi] said, 'And people don't know that, and I'm going to be able to be myself through this.' He brought a truth to this performance that's really something to behold."

Oscar Isaac, Guillermo del Toro, and Jacob Elordi at the 'Frankenstein' premiere in Venice on Aug. 30, 2025

Oscar Isaac, Guillermo del Toro, and Jacob Elordi at the 'Frankenstein' premiere in Venice on Aug. 30, 2025.

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Isaac also praised Elordi's portrayal in an interview with EW. "He did so much work in a short amount of time, and as soon as he walked on set, he is heartbreaking," the *Inside Llewyn Davis* actor said of his costar. "Both scary and strange and mysterious and graceful, and very beautiful."

Isaac explained how his scientist and Elordi's creature are fundamentally intertwined. "They are a mirror of each other," he said. "They're just these twin things, much like what [del Toro's] story's about: The way that a father passes on to a son, and that son becomes a father and passes it on to his son, and the way these circles just keep going and keep going."

He continued, "At the end, this heartbreak happens, and this forgiveness happens. And the hope is that this creature, who's all set up to create chaos and violence, somehow stops that and changes it all."

*Frankenstein* is now playing in select theaters. The film will premiere on Netflix on Nov. 7.

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The best A24 horror movies ranked. Credit:

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Since its founding in 2013, A24 has gradually built up a reputation for highly inventive genre films, particularly those of the horror variety. It all started with 2013's *Under the Skin*, Jonathan Glazer's haunting sci-fi spooker in which Scarlett Johansson plays an alien luring men into her secret abyss. Audiences have come to understand what they're in for with an A24 horror movie: original ideas presented through an off-kilter lens; thoughtful explorations of grief and trauma; and, more often than not, a wildly chaotic ending.

A24 horror's branding might be easy to characterize, with some feeling its "elevated horror" trademarks are no longer innovative. Yet, many of their horror titles have been hailed as some of the best films of their respective years, from 2018's *Hereditary* to 2019's *The Lighthouse*. Ahead, read **'s ranking of the 20 best A24 horror movies, and explore why they stand out in today's cinematic landscape.

20. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)

Kiernan Shipka as Katherine in 'The Blackcoat's Daughter'

Kiernan Shipka as Katherine in 'The Blackcoat's Daughter'.

Moody and intricate (sometimes maddeningly so), this debut from Oz Perkins (son of *Psycho* star Anthony) inflicts supernatural horror and grief upon the students of a Catholic boarding school. Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, and Emma Roberts are the focus of three separate but interwoven stories, with Perkins expertly keeping us off balance while still playing fair with the plot's time-hopping structure.

Left behind at their foreboding campus over winter break, Boynton and Shipka's characters are at the mercy of the school's imperious nuns and old secrets. Split into three slices (whose interconnectedness is revealed with patient, ruthless logic), *The Blackcoat's Daughter* is all slow-burns and suggestion — until it's not. Perkins relies more on atmosphere than jump scares, but when the payoffs come, the pent-up anxiety he's cultivated erupts into thudding dread. —*Dennis Perkins*

Where to watch *The Blackcoat's Daughter*: Tubi**

19. It Comes at Night (2017)

Riley Keough as Kim and Christopher Abbott as Will in 'It Comes at Night'

Riley Keough as Kim and Christopher Abbott as Will in 'It Comes at Night'.

This tale of a plausible viral apocalypse makes the case that true horrors can lurk just outside our view — and possibly within us all. A pandemic has sent a family fleeing to isolation in the woods, where they watchfully guard themselves against infection (and other survivors). But soon, an intruder introduces both suspicion and hope for connection, as loneliness battles with the fear that something considerably larger than a virus is hiding in the dark.

The best post-apocalyptic horror movies posit that *we* are the true danger to our continued survival as a species. With a stellar cast (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo lead one family, while Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough form the other), director Trey Edward Shults allows the tension to build until it all explodes in a climax as devastating as it is dispiritingly, horribly human. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *It Comes at Night*: HBO Max**

18. Saint Maud (2020)

Morfydd Clark as Katie/Maud in 'Saint Maud'

Morfydd Clark as Katie/Maud in 'Saint Maud'.

Rose Glass' debut feature* *is 84 minutes of concentrated, escalating dread and yawning horror. The story of a young hospice nurse who calls herself Maud (Morfydd Clark), sent to care for a wealthy former dancer dying of lymphoma (Jennifer Ehle), is a character study of madness and repression as the pious aide sets out to "save" her latest charge, according to her own deeply unsettling beliefs.

Maud appears easy to figure out at first. Her seemingly naive caregiver prays for guidance in her duties, with Clark evoking Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in her apparent unworldliness. But as Maud's God begins to talk back, and her desperate pleas for divine intervention send her into fits of orgasmic fervor and desperate carnality, Glass hints at the depths of mania powering the nurse's dedication. As with many of A24's horror movies, we're left to ponder whether anything supernatural happens as Maud's quest reaches its apotheosis, proving that fanatical belief is enough to inspire great terrors. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *Saint Maud*: Amazon Prime Video**

17. In Fabric (2019)

Fatma Mohamed as Miss Luckmoore and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Sheila Woolchapel in 'In Fabric'

Fatma Mohamed as Miss Luckmoore and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Sheila Woolchapel in 'In Fabric'. A24

Few major film studios would be interested in distributing a movie about cursed clothing. But A24 saw writer-director Peter Strickland's kooky vision of a haunted red wrap dress that ruins the lives of its wearers and gave it a proper home with the others on this list.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an unappreciated bank teller who buys the flowing red frock at a department store, only to have her life go from bad to worse. Strickland is fully aware of the silliness of his premise, leading with dry, dark humor as he shows how consumerism can control you if you're not careful. —*Kevin Jacobsen*

Where to watch *In Fabric*: Paramount+

16. Heretic (2024)

Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed, Sophie Thatcher as Sister Barnes, and Chloe East as Sister Paxton in 'Heretic'

Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed, Sophie Thatcher as Sister Barnes, and Chloe East as Sister Paxton in 'Heretic'.

One of the most horrifying things imaginable is being stuck with a know-it-all who's eager to debate. Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) are young Mormon missionaries who learn this the hard way when they knock on the door of the enigmatic Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). After inviting them in, he mocks their faith and lectures them before torturing them with sinister plans.

Grant is wickedly delightful, rightfully becoming one of the rare actors in a horror movie to gain awards traction, receiving nominations at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and BAFTAs. His portrayal of a pompous, yapping intellectual who's rotten to the core rings uncomfortably true, as do the performances of Thatcher and East as their characters nonverbally communicate their discomfort to each other. —*K.J.*

Where to watch *Heretic*: HBO Max**

15. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Justice Smith as Owen and Jack Haven as Maddy Wilson in 'I Saw the TV Glow'

Justice Smith as Owen and Jack Haven as Maddy Wilson in 'I Saw the TV Glow'.

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That the fictional show within *I Saw the TV Glow* revolves around a psychic connection is no coincidence. Teenagers Maddy and Owen are hypnotically drawn to *The Pink Opaque* and its psychically entwined heroines. Maddy soon vanishes, then reappears a decade later, insisting the show's world is, in fact, reality. Now, she wants to rescue Owen and take him back to where they both belong.

The film has a way of connecting discordant wavelengths — past and future, memory and experience, reality and fiction — that's as existentially haunting as anything in recent genre history.** In their sophomore feature, burgeoning auteur Jane Schoenbrun channels everything from Méliès to Lynch, from *Buffy* to *Donnie Darko*, to set a mood that's both nostalgic and menacing. —*Chris Bellamy*

Where to watch *I Saw the TV Glow*: HBO Max

14. Lamb (2021)

Noomi Rapace as María in 'Lamb'

Noomi Rapace as María in 'Lamb'.

It's not quite the *Eraserhead* baby, nor the *It's Alive* baby, nor even the *Trainspotting* baby. Rather, the *Lamb* baby is literally the face of a lamb and the body of a human child, which is unsettling in a wholly novel way. That grieving parents María (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) name the mutt after their own dead daughter, Ada, pushes the film into the realm of a psychological fever dream, albeit one that operates on a dry, profoundly deadpan register.

Meanwhile, the ewe who gave birth to her won't go away or stop pestering these human usurpers. We realize...wait, is this an abduction movie? And are we rooting for the wrong side? —*C.B.*

Where to watch *Lamb*: Tubi**

13. Pearl (2022)

Mia Goth as Pearl in 'Pearl'

Mia Goth as Pearl in 'Pearl'.

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First teased in 2022's *X*, the homicidal elderly villain Pearl (Mia Goth) got her own origin story with this inspired homage to classic Hollywood. Set in 1918, the film follows Pearl as a young woman desperate to escape her dull existence on the farm. She sets her sights on becoming a movie star, but her disturbed mind and violent temper prevent her from achieving her dreams.

Taking inspiration from *The Wizard of Oz* (1939) and Douglas Sirk melodramas of the '50s, director Ti West delights in playing with contrasts in *Pearl*, adorning grisly murders and a terrifying lead performance with a sumptuous score and rich, saturated colors. This may also be what makes Goth's performance so frightening: Pearl's outward girlish innocence masks a deep well of rage that the actress taps into with chilling ferocity. The final close-up is reason enough for the film's placement on this list. —*K.J.*

Where to watch *Pearl*: HBO Max**

12. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell as Anna and Steven Murphy in 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'

Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell as Anna and Steven Murphy in 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'.

Fans of Yorgos Lanthimos' work (*Poor Things*,* Dogtooth*) admire his signature icy, deadpan style. But this chilling family horror is the director at his most deliberate and ruthless as he unfurls a tale of absurdist vengeance. Doctors Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman are placidly married with two perfect children, their daily interactions nearly a parody of Kubrick-style stilted and inconsequential dialogue. It's only when a mysterious young man (Barry Keoghan) inserts himself into their lives that some energy seeps into their routines (gnawing terror will do that).

With a title and premise inspired by the myth of Iphigenia, Greek scholars might imagine they have a head start on puzzling out the strange things that happen as Keoghan's blankly polite teenager begins to affect the family in inexplicably creepy ways. Farrell and Kidman are outstanding, even as Lanthimos' ritualistic plotting and direction keep them hemmed into their characters' rigid conceptions. *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* is an ingenious and idiosyncratic trap, with an ending as inevitable as it is horrific. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *The Killing of a Sacred Deer*: HBO Max**

11. Climax (2018)

Romain Guillermic as David and Sofia Boutella as Selva in 'Climax'

Romain Guillermic as David and Sofia Boutella as Selva in 'Climax'. A24

Drug-using expert Hunter S. Thompson once evoked Colonel Kurtz's immortal "the horror, the horror" to describe a bad trip in his novel *Hell's Angels*. With that in mind, Gaspar Noé's *Climax* might as well have been called *Hell's Dancers*. A French dance troupe stages a party, and somebody spikes the punch with psychedelics. You might guess what kind of chaos breaks loose, but the realities of this extreme horror film are much bleaker than whatever you're imagining.

As the party collapses into collective, mob-like madness, despair is unleashed along with paranoia, depravity, violence, and carnage. The horror comes from the violation* *of a group meant to exist in harmony — featuring a cast of real dancers as the luridly fluid characters — being thrown violently out of sync, like a body spasming. Meanwhile, Noé's anxious camera emphasizes their increasing disorientation and anguished confusion. When the party's over, only destruction is in its place. —*C.B.*

Where to watch *Climax*: Tubi**

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10. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Amandla Stenberg as Sophie, Maria Bakalova as Bee, Pete Davidson as David, and Rachel Sennott as Alice in 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'

Amandla Stenberg as Sophie, Maria Bakalova as Bee, Pete Davidson as David, and Rachel Sennott as Alice in 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'.

There are slasher movies, and then there's whatever *Bodies Bodies Bodies* is (this is a compliment). Genre trappings abound in horror, but Halina Reijn's film gives the murder mystery template a gleefully modern spin. Here, it's the machinery for a send-up of Gen Z psychology. Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) brings her new girlfriend (Maria Bakalova) to meet her old friends for a house party during a raging hurricane, which brings out the more frenetic sides of the cabin fever cohorts. The titular parlor game ensues… until one character winds up really, truly dead. And then another. And then another.

It would be cruel to spoil one of the decade's great climactic punchlines; suffice it to say the movie cleverly leverages the rules of the slasher format to turn the tables on its house full of would-be victims. —*C.B.*

Where to watch *Bodies Bodies Bodies*: Amazon Prime Video**

9. X (2022)

Mia Goth as Maxine Minx in 'X'

Mia Goth as Maxine Minx in 'X'.

While it may be best appreciated in concert with its prequel, *Pearl* (2022) — Ti West's *X* stands on its own as one of the gnarliest slashers in recent memory. The setting is familiar enough: rural Texas farmland, a creepy old couple, charming dirtbags secretly shooting a dirty movie. *X* pushes those set pieces towards their weirdest, grossest possibilities, fashioning a mournful plunge into the horror of aging and the pain of realizing your body can't do what it used to. Regret and envy, the film posits, can easily inspire vengeance, and these creative kills are proof.

If nothing else, *X* made everyone take notice of Mia Goth as a generational horror talent (apparently, not enough people saw 2016's *A Cure for Wellness*). *X* revolves around her character's obsession with star power, while Goth's dual-role performance leaves no doubt of her own prowess onscreen, single-handedly justifying the conceit of the whole trilogy. —*C.B.*

Where to watch *X*: HBO Max**

8. Bring Her Back (2025)

Jonah Wren Phillips as Oliver and Sally Hawkins as Laura in 'Bring Her Back'

Jonah Wren Phillips as Oliver and Sally Hawkins as Laura in 'Bring Her Back'.

Grief can make people do the unthinkable, as explored in this viscerally upsetting horror drama from *Talk to Me* directors Danny and Michael Philippou. After the death of their father, stepsiblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) are orphaned and taken in by Laura (Sally Hawkins), a grieving mother who lost her only biological child. Andy is disturbed by Laura and the menacing mute boy she's also fostering, and soon realizes his new guardian's disturbing plans for Piper.

What makes *Bring Her Back* such a striking film among the many other horror movies tackling grief and trauma is the Philippou brothers' willingness to really *go there*. Laura's inner turmoil is manifested through a series of shocking body horror sequences that are best left unspoiled, with Hawkins delivering a fearless performance as a mother so desperate to bring her daughter back, she'll do just about anything. —*K.J.*

Where to watch *Bring Her Back*: HBO Max

7. Green Room (2015)

Anton Yelchin as Pat (front) in 'Green Room'

Anton Yelchin as Pat (front) in 'Green Room'.

Jeremy Saulnier's taut, gory thriller might not delve into otherworldly terrors, but it doesn't have to. Following a struggling but committed punk band (led by the late Anton Yelchin) to a gig in the Oregon backwoods that goes bloodily awry, *Green Room* shows that there are ruthless human monsters among us as the group performs at a (surprise!) neo-Nazi roadhouse. (Though to their detriment, they open their raucous set with a deliciously inflammatory Dead Kennedys cover.)

Stumbling across the sort of nefarious crime you get whenever Nazis are involved, the band barricades themselves in the club's grimy green room and tries to figure out a way to escape with their lives. Patrick Stewart, of all people, is an all-time villain as the skinheads' calculating leader, issuing merciless orders in the same reasonable cadence we've been conditioned to trust implicitly. The violence, when it comes, is brutal and realistic. All the while, Yelchin, Stewart, Alia Shawkat, and Imogen Poots imbue their disparate characters with inner lives that make each successive shock that much more nerve-fraying. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *Green Room*: Paramount+**

6. Midsommar (2019)

Florence Pugh as Dani in 'Midsommar'

Florence Pugh as Dani in 'Midsommar'.

Horror thrives in the darkness, which makes the mounting terrors of Ari Aster's immersive nightmare especially impressive. The incessantly bright and colorful palette of the film's Swedish summer locale leaves the characters — and viewers — nowhere to hide. Tagging along with her lunkish boyfriend and his grad school friends for a trip to study a rare rural folk festival, the grieving Dani (Florence Pugh) finds herself drawn further and further into the commune's rituals.

Aster weaves an inescapable nightmare out of sunshine, blindingly white fabrics, and garlands of flowers. In the isolated Swedish countryside of the never-setting sun, *Midsommar* hints at deeper, darker forces beneath the commune's folksy, welcoming exterior. It all leads to a climax where the full weight of tradition and belief roars with terrifying finality. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *Midsommar*: HBO Max**

5. Under the Skin (2013)

Scarlett Johansson as the Female in 'Under the Skin'

Scarlett Johansson as the Female in 'Under the Skin'.

Jonathan Glazer's unclassifiable sort-of horror film quickly weeded out those not willing to follow its uniquely trying and abstract path. In *Under the Skin*, Scarlett Johansson plays a blank, accommodating woman whose nightly ventures into Glasgow see her pick up men and bring them back to — well, that would be saying too much.

Here, high-concept plot elements that might otherwise be lurid emerge as part of the film's own, singular vision. What happens to those men in Johansson's care is the stuff of pulp and exploitation, while Glazer's exquisite visuals and measured, inscrutable plan transform genre convention into thoughtful (if mesmerizingly horrific) meditation. Like Johansson's character, *Under the Skin* comes at its subjects through an unnervingly alien lens. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *Under the Skin*: Tubi**

4. The Lighthouse (2019)

Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake and Robert Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow in 'The Lighthouse'

Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake and Robert Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow in 'The Lighthouse'.

Robert Eggers' second feature is a hallucinatory, maddeningly claustrophobic blend of folk horror and darkly funny character work from Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. A24's commitment to auteurism is evident in the black-and-white cinematography, the solitary 19th-century New England setting, and a nearly square aspect ratio. As the two keepers' accelerating madness batters their already uneasy relationship, the film becomes a phantasmagorical endurance test, with the two antagonistic leads hurling themselves against their tight confinement.

Dafoe, as Thomas Wake — the crustiest "wickie" on the brutal coast — roars and bellows with wild-eyed Shakespearean menace, while Pattinson's newbie Ephraim Winslow catches glimpses of his partner's strange midnight rituals and finds inexplicable things washed up on the rocky shore. Everything is soaked in stashes of harsh liquor and inadequately buried tensions, leading to an utterly go-for-broke, ambiguous denouement. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *The Lighthouse*: HBO Max**

3. Talk to Me (2023)

Sophie Wilde as Mia in 'Talk to Me'

Sophie Wilde as Mia in 'Talk to Me'.

Young people doing imprudent things at parties is a time-honored tenet of life and horror movies. Drinking too much, making a fool of yourself, casually puncturing the delicate veil between the living and the dead — you know, the usual. But there's a strange intimacy to *Talk to Me*'s premise, in which teens act tough by holding a mummified hand, declaring the titular phrase, and inviting one lucky spirit from the other side to inhabit their body. In another context, it would be romantic. Call it "90 Seconds in Heaven," since after a minute and a half, as the urban legend goes, the possession gets harder to shake (and might even become permanent).

That metaphysical connection soon snowballs into a mounting existential threat when Mia (Sophie Wilde) allows her best friend's eager little brother to have one round with the hand, after which his body is never the same. Here, spiritual infractions are met with savage physical punishment and some of the more grotesque images in recent horror memory (which, as the genre has become ever more popular and emboldened, is seriously saying something). —*C.B.*

Where to watch *Talk to Me*: HBO Max**

2. Hereditary (2018)

Gabriel Byrne as Steve Graham, Toni Collette as Annie Graham, and Alex Wolff as Peter Graham in 'Hereditary'

Gabriel Byrne as Steve Graham, Toni Collette as Annie Graham, and Alex Wolff as Peter Graham in 'Hereditary'.

Ari Aster's directorial debut cemented him as a defining voice of modern arthouse horror. A searing tale of grief and buried family secrets, the film is a showcase for the great Toni Collette, whose matriarch must cope with an unthinkable tragedy while something even more sinister lurks in her past. As a woman whose dawning realization infests and wrenches apart her family, Collette turns in one of the most towering horror performances in memory.

Aster's craftsmanship matches his lead's, with *Hereditary* being as controlled and meticulous as the miniature tableaux Collette's character creates. As is often the case in so-called elevated horror, we're primed to accept the film's mounting evils as either psychological or supernatural, never quite certain of which side the ax will fall. Even if *Hereditary* eventually provides clear answers, the implications linger with the force of undisputed classics like *The Exorcist* or *Rosemary's Baby*. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *Hereditary*: HBO Max**

1. The Witch (2015)

Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin and Harvey Scrimshaw as Caleb in 'The Witch'

Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin and Harvey Scrimshaw as Caleb in 'The Witch'.

Robert Eggers has become synonymous with A24's particular horror brand, and while *The Witch* and *The Lighthouse* are wildly different films, each encapsulates the studio's aura in its own way. New England circa the 17th century is the setting for this enigmatic tale of an outcast Puritan family haunted by superstition, paranoia, disappearances, and the growing fear that something in the deep, dark woods surrounding their homestead is attacking their rigid faith.

Anya Taylor-Joy, in her film debut as the family's teenage daughter, appears to be the center of the escalating occurrences, as the clan begins to splinter. Eggers' stunning visuals and meticulous pace draw viewers into their increasingly desperate mania, gradually wedging open the door between rational interpretation and supernatural inescapability. Ultimately less ambiguous than it seems, *The Witch* etches its story in sudden, shocking strokes. *—D.P.*

Where to watch *The Witch*: HBO Max**

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