![]() ![]() The streaming service with the best pound-for-pound original programming, Shudder once again flew its horror-flag high, putting out exciting, and often great, movies like A Wounded Fawn, Resurrection, Hellbender, Saloum, The Last Thing Mary Saw, Deadstream, Dark Glasses, Sissy, Flux Gourmet, and the truly wild stop-motion marvel Mad God. ![]() But the true standout of 2022 was Shudder. Premium streaming services like HBO Max, Paramount Plus, Netflix, and the rest all got into the horror game to varying degrees of success. ![]() Some of the best directors in the world, including Jordan Peele, Luca Guadagnino, and David Cronenberg, branched out from the kind of horror they’ve worked on in the past and fused it with new genres, giving us blockbusters about aliens, love stories about cannibals, and a whole new kind of crime.Īnd, as it’s been for the past several years, theaters weren’t the only place to find great horror this year. Even micro-budget splatter-house joyride Terrifier 2 managed to scare up a shocking profit.īut box office success was far from the only place horror movies thrived this year. While 2022 was full of good movies, it also saw the biggest IPs in the world contract for the first time in almost a decade (with neither a Star Wars or a Marvel movie topping the box office this year) but amid all that theater-going turmoil, horror once again proved itself the most reliable genre in town.īreakout smaller budget hits like Smile and Barbarian became genuine word of mouth sensations, smashing ticket sale expectations and reminding movie goers there are some scares worth experiencing in a theater - if you’re able to. It’s been a banner year for horror movies. ![]()
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