The all-time greatest supernatural thrillers like The Shining and Hereditary blend elements of suspense, horror and fantasy.
Can the genre known as "supernatural thriller" be summed up succinctly? Perhaps not to the same extent as other broader genres, but it's still doable. Essentially, the word thriller is used to describe a genre used that emphasizes exciting and intense stories, and will often enthrall and/or unnerve viewers.
Wild's the best word to describe this movie, as though it retained some familiar crime/action elements, it also ended up fully embracing horror thanks to an infamously jarring plot twist at about the halfway mark. Sure, From Dusk Till Dawn has been out for years at this point, but divulging exactly how it becomes a supernatural thriller still feels taboo.
21 'Cronos' Directorial debuts are seldom more indicative of a filmmaker's style than Cronos is when it comes to instantly showcasing things that will go on to define directors. In this instance, it's Guillermo del Toro tackling something with tragic villains, unsettling magic, and a pervasively dark atmosphere that humanity nonetheless sometimes manages to shine through.
19 'The Devil's Advocate' Released just five years after Al Pacino won his solitary Oscar for appearing in a movie about his character bonding with a younger man was The Devil's Advocate. This 1997 film may swap out a young Chris O'Donnell for a young Keanu Reeves, but it's a very different sort of movie, having a slow descent into supernatural horror and psychological thriller territory with its increasingly unusual and unsettling story.
De Niro's character sets the protagonist of Angel Heart on a perilous quest that begins as a missing person case, but soon reveals itself to be something more complex entirely. It's an unsettling slow-burn of a supernatural mystery/thriller film, and arguably one of the most underrated of its kind from the 1980s.
14 'Mandy' Everybody knows that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre feature plenty of chainsaws, but not everyone's aware that the best chainsaw sequence in any film arguably comes from Mandy. This 2018 film, starring Nicolas Cage, gets progressively more wild as it goes along, to the point where a duel with such infamous weapons might not even represent Mandy at its weirdest.
Here, however, the main characters are two capable paranormal investigators who are also married: Ed and Lorraine Warren. What follows are all the jumpy, nail-biting moments you'd expect from a paranormal horror/thriller movie, with The Conjuring notoriously being so scary that it earned an R-rating for scares alone.
9 'Ring' The Ring might be the better-known film for non-Japanese speakers, but that 2002 remake of the original Japanese horror film, 1998's Ring isn't quite as scary. For those who want to experience the ultimate horror sequences from this series, the original is honestly where it's at.
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