13 Killer Netflix Picks to Watch Right Now (Other ThanStranger Things)

As everyone in the universe is aware by now , Stranger Things is amazing and well worth keep an eye on over and over . But mayhap you need a time out from # TeamBarb and the Demogorgon for a enchantment . There are some surprisingly awesome writing style film on Netflix right on now , and we have some testimonial .

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy’s Revenge

The 2d Nightmare picture is not precisely scarey — it contains Freddy Krueger ’s first ( of or so one zillion)pun - incite crack , as well as a campy scene involve an exploding sneaker — but it is a surprisingly evocative moving-picture show . Its queer subtext , which went for the most part unnoticed by mainstream consultation in 1985 , is patent today .

Mark Patton , the gay thespian who played the on the face of it straight teen lead , has spoken about his struggles within the film industryafter the movie ’s release . But he ’s also majestic of his mo in history , severalise Fangoria in 2013 that he ’s pleased to be known as “ the first male scream queen . ” ofttimes relate to asone of the gayest repugnance films ever , Freddy ’s Revenge has a unique place not just in the Nightmare serial publication , but in the genre as a whole . And it ’s full of play stuff , like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkSO7FOtYaY

2. The Snowtown Murders

There are mickle of horror films based on real - life sentence law-breaking , but this Australian import takes an disingenuous approach to its ghastly subject thing . You think you ’re take in a gritty indie about a kid who fall in with the wrong crew — then you realise how very , very wrong that crowd is .

Hollywood sure enough took bill of this 2011 chiller , even if it did n’t get much theatrical photograph stateside . Director Justin Kurzel go away on to make Macbeth and December release Assassin ’s Creed , both starring Michael Fassbender .

3. John Dies at the End

Our obsessions with Phantasm andespecially Bubba Ho - Tephave been duly noted on io9 before , but Don Coscarelli ’s most recent directorial credit is this 2012 judgement - basket rummy of comedy , revulsion , science fiction , and supremely wild drug trips .

Without break away too much , one of the heroes is a dog , and one of the monsters assembles itself from a freezer full of meat . What ’s not to bed ?

4. Night Watch

This 2004 supernatural action fantasy is notable for several reason : It was one of the first FX - laden blockbusters made in post - Soviet Russia ; it brought international aid to hometown Italian sandwich Sergei Lukyanenko ’s best - selling reservoir textile ; and it ’s batshit mad .

Vampire batshit harebrained , even . Timur Bekmambetov ’s optical panache finally lead him to Hollywood , where he made Wanted and Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter , as well as the extroverted Ben - Hur . He also produced the recent Russia - US collaborationism Hardcore Henry .

5. The Host

Korean director Bong Joon - ho ( Snowpiercer ) directed this 2006 movie about a disunite family that must forge together to rescue its undimmed star — a schoolgirl who is nobble by a rogue river colossus . Endearing performance make you in reality manage about the characters as the stakes rise ever higher , and the script ’s digs at the movie ’s true villain — the United States — are taper without being heavily - handed .

6. Troll Hunter

Not to be confused withGuillermo del Toro ’s enliven series , also for Netflix , call Trollhunters , this 2010 faux - doc hails from Norway and is about college kids who falter into a vast conspiracy involving the not - so - mythical beast .

Comedian Otto Jesperson is a highlight as the title fibre , a monstrosity expert who spends his days in the woods , just doin’ what needs doin’ to protect people from troll .

7. Proxy

Be monish : Apregnant charwoman stick out a bestial assault at the beginning of this movie . But all is not what it seems in a picture show that is well live by check it without knowing much of anything about it beforehand . faith , even the lagger is crammed full of misdirection .

8. Explorers

If Stranger thing has you feeling nostalgic for kid - centric 1980s science fiction , set aside some clock time to spend with babe Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix and their DIY starship . The plot is mostly very different than Stranger Things , but the vibes do intertwine .

9. Stake Land

Stake Land is a road movie set in the consequence of an apocalypse caused not by zombi — as these things often are — but vampires . Director Jim Mickle , who co - wrote with lead Nick Damici , play dusty realness to the film ’s dystopian desperation , but does n’t shrivel back from hard-core violence . Kelly McGillis has a pocket-size but in effect use as a badass nun .

As a side greenback , one of Mickle ’s later films , cannibal - class narration We Are What We Are , is also on Netflix powerful now if you desire to make it a mini - festival .

10. Upstream Color

unrestrained flair Shane Carruth ’s follow - up to Primer did the impossible by making Primer seem totally unproblematic and easy - to - explain by comparison . Upstream Color is the kind of movie you ca n’t really explain ; you just kind of have to see it and let it enwrap you as a optic and an emotional experience .

The fact that it ’s on Netflix think of you’re able to watch it as often as you require , from the comfort of your lounge , with whatever chemical enhancements you choose . Just determine out for those freaky parasites , man .

11. Room 237

An observational infotainment about all the unusual confederacy theories and hidden secret affiliate with The Shining , excuse in voice - over by the theoretician themselves , and illustrated with clips not just from Stanley Kubrick moving-picture show , but also works like Creepshow , Jesus Christ Superstar , Schindler ’s lean , and Demons 2 .

A movie on a subject this weird has to be eldritch itself , and Room 237 match the notice one hundred per centum . Director Rodney Ascher ’s 2015 doc on quietus paralysis , The Nightmare , is also a Netflix option right now , and it takes a likewise unusual approach , using reenactments to explore interviewee ’ tales of late - nighttime , pipe dream - borne scourge . ( None of them are as scarey as The Shining , though . )

12. Dead Snow

Dead Snow is the deliciously gory Norwegian horror comedy about unfrozen Nazi zombi . I repeat : unfrozen Nazi zombies . Why have n’t you watched it yet ? I will admit I have n’t watched the sequel , though it is also up on Netflix right now . I just feel like all of my questions about unfrozen Nazi zombie have been answered already . ( However , if Dead Snow 2 : Red vs. Dead is a must , some fiend please have me know . )