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Netflix Just Quietly Added The Most Influential Horror Movie Of The Decade

Dais Johnston

created: June 2, 2025, 11:30 a.m. | updated: June 5, 2025, 10:56 p.m.

When you turn on a horror movie, you more or less know what you’re going to get: eerie music, jump scares, suspenseful editing. But one 2022 movie now streaming on Netflix managed to completely upend expectations to create a horror movie unlike any other: one that’s equal parts hilarious and horrific, classic and cutting-edge. This movie has been added to Netflix as part of a collection on Alfred Hitchcock, which includes the British horror icon’s best works and the movies that were influenced by them. In the 2020s, we’re seeing more and more horror movies play with the form of the horror movie itself, like the first-person slasher In a Violent Nature, the surreal transgender horror of I Saw the TV Glow, or the combination horror and rom-com Heart Eyes. The story of Barbarian may eventually lead to what we expect a horror movie to look like, final girl and all, but the way it tells the story is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

8 months, 2 weeks ago: Inverse