Top rated more sophisticated movies on Shudder

Check out today’s highest ranked more sophisticated movies on Shudder! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best more sophisticated movies on Shudder, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Reckoning (2021)

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

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2021-02-05 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee

Rating

rating icon 6.642
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    late night movie
  2. Ranked #1 for
    tepid plot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    grim tale

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The Reckoning trailer
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2 Detention (2019)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 6.742
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    natural light
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fragmented narrative
  3. Ranked #2 for
    pure terror

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3 Speak No Evil (2022)

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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2022-03-17 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch

Rating

rating icon 6.591
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unpleasant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unreasonable character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    slightly uncomfortable

Trailer

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4 Peninsula (2020)

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

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2020-07-15 | Horror / Adventure

Cast

Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun

Rating

rating icon 6.763
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly inferior
  2. Ranked #1 for
    different
  3. Ranked #3 for
    too much CG

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Peninsula trailer
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5 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.056
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deathly

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6 La Llorona (2019)

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz

Rating

rating icon 6.46
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow and plodding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    haunting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    amalgamate

Trailer

La Llorona trailer
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7 Gretel & Hansel (2020)

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

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2020-01-30 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey

Rating

rating icon 5.977
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    like Alice in Wonderland
  2. Ranked #2 for
    grim atmosphere
  3. Ranked #2 for
    visually rich

Trailer

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8 Mad God (2022)

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

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2022-06-16 | Animation / Fantasy

Cast

Alex Cox, Niketa Roman

Rating

rating icon 6.971
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark and disturbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    maniac
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hellish

Trailer

Mad God trailer
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9 Fried Barry (2020)

Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.

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2020-03-06 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Gary Green, Chanelle de Jager

Rating

rating icon 5.023
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    somewhat tedious
  2. Ranked #1 for
    endlessly entertaining
  3. Ranked #1 for
    flashy camera work

Trailer

Fried Barry trailer
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10 Color Out of Space (2019)

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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2019-09-07 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Cosmic Horror
  2. Ranked #1 for
    otherworldly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    spaced out character

Trailer

Color Out of Space trailer
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