06/03/2026
Ooh one of my favourite genres! It's hard to do anything original these days, and even harder to do horror well. There are exceptions, but I do like conventional stuff as well as left-field. Lots of people have made great suggestions, so I'll try to make some that are more recent. With a lot of horror, I find it's best not to watch the trailer, or to watch as little as possible as many give things away that are more fun to discover for yourself.

* The Babadook (2014) - Austrailian. An intelligent, atmospheric 'monster' film collides with a single mother's struggles with grief, guilt, and the demands of her young son.
* Dark Water (2002) - the Japanese one, not the US remake. Similar style to the Ring trilogy.
* Apostle (2018) - Visceral British period film, where a man goes searching for his sister in an isolated religious cult.
* Weapons (2025) - a class of children all go missing on the same night & one of the parents works to solve the mystery, but it's not a simple kidnapping.
* Barbarian (2022) - same director as Weapons. A woman arrives at her Air BnB to find a man's already staying there, so they agree to share, but that's a decision she'll come to regret.
* Relic (2020) - a woman goes to visit her elderly mother, finding her dementia has progressed but there's also an insidious presence in the house.
* Get Out (2017) - a young couple go to visit her parents, but there's something strange about their social circle.
* Choose Or Die (2023) - a retro video game is much more than it appears to be, and once you're in it you have to keep playing.
* Smile (2022) - after witnessing a smiling patient's suicide, a young doctor starts to feel she's being pursued by whatever was influencing her patient.
* Triangle (2009) - a mind-bending tale about a woman who goes on an ill-fated yacht trip that ends up taking her somewhere she couldn't have foreseen.
* Circle (2015) - 50 strangers awake to find themselves trapped in a circle that demands someone must die every two minutes, and they must choose who.
* Eli (2019) - a boy goes to a private clinic to receive ground-breaking treatment for his life-limiting condition, but he suspects that something sinister may be afoot.
* In The Tall Grass (2019) - a brother & sister rush to help a young boy in a huge field, but the maze of tall grass soon becomes disorientating & they realise they're not the only ones in there.
* Sister Death (2023) - Spanish film about a young nun who goes to teach at a convent school but soon finds it's haunted by dark secrets.
* The Orphanage (2007) - Spanish film about a couple renovating an old orphanage, who soon become concerned by their young son's invisible new friend, then the boy goes missing.
* Baghead (2023) - a woman inherits a run-down pub with an intriguing secret in the cellar.
* Heretic (2024) - two Mormon woman visit the house of a man who is interested in discussing their religion, but his motives aren't as straightforward as they first appear.
* Hereditary (2018) - Ari Aster's breakout film before Midsommar (also great but others have already suggested). Family trauma & supernatural happenings torment a grieving family.
* A Cure For Wellness (2016) - a young executive is sent to a mysterious Swiss clinic to retrieve his company's CEO, but no patient ever wants to leave, and the charismatic Doctor in charge claims the water on the historic site has extraordinary healing properties.
* The Monkey (2025) - gruesome deaths seem to surround the toy monkey inherited from their father by twin sons. The film has a darkly comedic edge and is based on a Stephen King story.
* Together (2025) - a couple struggling with their relationship move to a new place in the hope of a fresh start, but the previous occupants of their house mysteriously disappeared in the ominous forest behind the house, and their closest neighbour seems a bit too friendly.
* Men (2022) - an unusual film from Alex Garland, about a woman who goes to the countryside for a much-needed break, only to be oppressed by her state of mind and some unsettling happenings.
* The Ritual (2017) - a group of friends go hiking in the Swedish countryside, but one of them gets injured & they're forced to take refuge from a storm in a creepy old cabin that tests their sanity and revives old tensions.

I could probably come up with loads more but these are a few I've seen recently. I've given you a bit of a mixture of the usual and the more unusual as I don't know what your taste in horror is like, but hopefully there's some stuff in there you'll like.

Happy watching xx

Amazing 😂

😂

Wow - that's amazing! <3

I think there's something similar to what you're describing in Midsommar when they have mushrooms.

Incredible! 😁

Brilliant! 😂

Woah - amazing! 💚

Wow - that's incredible! Great to hear you had such a profound experience :)

I didn't take the story as literally as saying that everything is all good or all bad, more like it's a possible lesson on how perspective can change the way we frame events. A lesson that could be useful for us to consider sometimes in our own lives.

Embarrassingly, I'm one of those people who over-did it on the edibles on my first try. Took 1, nothing happened after an hour & I got impatient so took another. Result: I was higher than the bloody international space station!! Tried to watch TV but couldn't follow anything, it was like everything was being played backwards. I kept feeling like I was in some kind of simulation. At one point I thought someone was banging on my door, which massively freaked me out as it was about 3am. I could barely stand up I was so unco-ordinated and the floor kept moving. My brain was having a zillion non-sensical thoughts then forgetting them 3 seconds later. I ended up just going to bed as I felt safe there & hoped to sleep it off. When I woke up the next day I was still high - not as bad, but still. Luckily, I had a quiet day, but the day after that when I woke up I was STILL HIGH!! I had to go about my day pretending to be sober, I went to work, I took my Mum to the supermarket to do her shopping, I had conversations with people that I don't remember to this day! (I know this sounds dangerous, but if I couldn't function I would've stayed at home). So, I was high for three whole days, which felt like forever.

The odd thing about the experience was how functional I was able to be. It was like my brain had split in 2. There was the 'me' that was off my face, but that part was like an observer. Meanwhile, some logical, tiny little niche of my brain was operating as normal. I saw myself doing things, saying things, and it was all as normal. Stoned me felt like I had nothing to do with the other part doing everything. I even found myself mentally saying "Well done" to the functional part of me whenever it was doing something, as it felt so surprising.

No one noticed a thing, even my Mum! Very weird experience & not one I want to repeat. Ever. Although I find it hilarious now. I stay away from THC-only edibles these days as this wasn't my only bad experience. Full spectrum gummies all the way :)

🫡👍