This being Halloweek, we should offer some scary movies for the occasion, though I’ll admit to not having seen several that are currently in their theatrical first run, like Black Phone 2 or Frankenstein. (I did see Shelby Oaks…but that doesn’t really merit a recommendation.) To my mind, there have been five very good horror movies in 2025 to date, and surprisingly most were actual hits. The under-radar exceptions were Joe Deboer and Kyle McConoghy’s Dead Mail, a unique mix of twisty captivity thriller and twisted black comedy; and Japanese writer-director Yuta Shimotsu’s first feature Best Wishes To All, a mind-messing conspiracy piece about the true source of happiness.Both went directly from festivals to the streaming platform Shudder earlier this year.

The others were pretty high-prof

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