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Midsommar has to be next. Almost all of the outstanding low scores are from the "boo art" camp and I can't imagine anything other than Busan or Get Out scoring high from them.

Surprised Hereditary dropped first but I also love Midsommar so I can't really complain. Top five is way better than I thought either of those would get, especially Midsommar which I thought we'd get a ton of complaining about. I haven't done one of these before but I anticipated like half the people would be against "elevated horror" or whatever you want to call it so I thought both of these would be really divisive.

Jcgamer107 - Ari Asters first feature film is a little more traditional horror than Midsommar, but also contains some really raw and intense family drama. Charlies death is one of the most shocking I have ever seen in cinema - I went into the movie assuming (like most) that this was more or less a creepy kid movie and that the girl would last most of the movie as the main antagonist. Well we were all kinda half-right, but holy lord I certainly did not expect her head to be taken clean off before the halfway point.

Very rarely do movies shock me any more, but I literally sat there jaw agape when that scene happened. I assumed exactly the same thing you did. The first thirty minutes or so I was like "oh ok this is pretty good" but I thought it was just going to be Charlie acting weird and being spooky or whatever so I was like half into it. Then that scene happened and I was legitimately shocked. Like genuinely did not see that coming and had absolutely no clue where the movie was going to go from there. I might agree with your assessment that it was the most shocked I had been in a movie.

The aftermath is also incredible and Toni Collette was fucking robbed of an Oscar nom. The scene of the son being so shocked he just drives back and then her discovering it the next day is just so insanely good. Honestly, everything from that point onward is just A+ stuff, although I do agree some of the cult stuff is a little messy (if they can literally plan out the exact pole she was decapitated on, how did they not do a better job with whatever the ceremony was thirty years ago where Toni Collette's brother committed suicide because they were trying to put people inside of him?). The back third of the movie is one of the most frightening portions of any movie on the list, and all that family drama in the middle third is so good I forgot I was even watching a horror movie for a while.

Hereditary is an all timer for me. So is basically everything else left here, honestly, but Hereditary was a clear number one for me and as much as I also loved The VVItch, this was just a step above.