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The 19 Best Horror Movies of 2024
Here’s to the movies that spoke to and sometimes literalized the nagging fears in the back of our minds.
It’s no surprise, then, that one of the most prevalent themes of horror movies released in 2024, two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is forced birth, with films like The First Omen, Immaculate, Apartment 7A, and Alien: Romulus depicting women losing and — in most cases — reclaiming agency over their bodily autonomy. Michael Mohan’s film is a slightly more conventional take on the material than The First Omen(which you can read more about below), but Immaculate earns special commendation for Sweeney’s committed performance and its breathtaking ending — a cry of righteous anger and well-earned brutality that feels like true transgression, particularly at this moment in history. You could dismiss Romulus as a greatest-hits compilation of the six (Predator-less) Alien films that precede it, but that would ignore two things: First, that director and co-writer Fede Álvarez has plenty of original ideas to offer, and second, that he’s pretty damn good at riffing on his predecessors.
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