Top rated raw and gritty movies on Shudder

Check out today’s highest ranked raw and gritty movies on Shudder! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best raw and gritty 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 6.6
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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
    interesting ending

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2 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 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    somewhat tedious
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hubba hubba
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bad acid trip

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3 A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

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2019-10-25 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg

Rating

rating icon 6.092
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    different approach
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shattering climax
  3. Ranked #2 for
    social realism

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4 Take Back the Night (2022)

Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her. Jane's efforts intensify, but her troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface causing her family, community, and authorities to question the authenticity of her account. Suddenly alone in her fight, Jane starts to doubt her own memory of the attack...to doubt if Monster exists at all.

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2022-03-04 | Horror

Cast

Emma Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Lafleur

Rating

rating icon 4.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    half-ass
  2. Ranked #1 for
    well-endowed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    director with promising future

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5 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 6.969
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visually interesting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    visual marvel
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nightmarish

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6 What Josiah Saw (2021)

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

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2021-08-13 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl

Rating

rating icon 5.902
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    above par
  2. Ranked #1 for
    utterly convincing acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    feeling of dread

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7 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 6.769
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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8 The Mortuary Collection (2020)

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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2020-10-08 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer

Rating

rating icon 6.747
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unpunished character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    entertaining ride
  3. Ranked #1 for
    Slasher Film

Trailer

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9 The Head Hunter (2019)

On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

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2019-04-05 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman

Rating

rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    flashy visual
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cool
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gloomy atmosphere

Trailer

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10 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 6.593
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unpleasant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slightly uncomfortable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    discomforting

Trailer

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