
Heretic
2024 · MovieTwo young Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, knock on the door of a charming recluse named Mr. Reed. He invites them in for blueberry pie and a debate about faith, and then they find the front door won't open.
Survival horror strands its characters with limited resources against a killer, a creature or the elements, and asks how far they'll go to make it out. Strip everything away and horror becomes very simple. Stay alive. Curated survival horror puts characters in situations where that's the only objective, and then makes it nearly impossible. The genre is a stress test. The best entries here pass it.

Two young Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, knock on the door of a charming recluse named Mr. Reed. He invites them in for blueberry pie and a debate about faith, and then they find the front door won't open.

Three backpackers follow a tip to a hostel in Slovakia and find that the women there are bait for a very different business, run out of an old factory outside town.

The hostel's business model expands. This time the clientele and the merchandise are both different.

Sarah moves in next door to a house where something happened that the community has not fully processed.

A millionaire offers a group of strangers a million dollars each to survive one night in a former psychiatric institution. The building has its own agenda.

Influencer Madison is posting her dream trip to Thailand while feeling lonely behind the camera, until a fearless stranger named CW offers to show her the places tourists never see. CW's idea of off the grid goes further than Madison expects.

Amity Island has a problem in the water and a mayor who won't close the beach. Three men eventually go out on a boat to solve it themselves.

Two siblings on a long drive home spot someone dumping what looks like a body down a pipe off a rural highway. Stopping to investigate is where things go very wrong.

The Creeper returns to complete a specific cycle that ends with what it collected decades before.

Jigsaw is dead. A new game begins and the investigation raises questions about how many disciples were working alongside John Kramer all along.

A visit to a country cemetery goes wrong, and by nightfall a handful of strangers are nailing boards over the windows of a lonely farmhouse. The dead outside are hungry, and the living inside can't agree on anything.

The dead are rising and a group of survivors locks themselves in a farmhouse. Fear does as much damage as what's outside.

A couple surfaces from a scuba dive to find the boat gone. Nothing visible in any direction but open ocean.

Six friends go swimming off a yacht in open water and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat is right there. Nobody can climb back aboard, and a baby is alone on deck.

Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old Russian girl from a local orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.

Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother, a paralyzed father and a husband away at the war, and desires the world has no room for.

Sent into the rainforests of Central America to pull hostages out of a guerrilla camp, Dutch and his commando unit realize something in the canopy is picking them off, and it can vanish into the trees at will.

Cast out by his clan for being too small, a young Predator crash-lands on a death world to hunt a creature nobody has ever killed. His only guide is the top half of a broken android, riding on his back.

Eight hardened killers wake up in free fall, parachutes snapping open over a jungle none of them recognize. Strangers to each other, they have to work out fast where they are, who brought them and why they were chosen.

On the northern plains in 1719, a young Comanche woman who is tired of being underestimated tracks a danger nobody else will take seriously, and finds herself matched against a visitor carrying weapons from the stars.
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