It’s not an easy job for filmmakers to make their audiences laugh. But they are a tougher nut to crack when it comes to genuinely scaring the hell out of them. For this article, we have shortlisted for you a collection of five must-watch horror films you can watch this weekend on the Amazon Prime Video OTT platform. Watch them at your own risk and viewer’s discretion is advised.
Child’s Play, 1988 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The horror slasher movie follows a mother, who gifts her young son a doll named Chucky. But the son soon finds out that the doll is somehow alive because it’s possessed by the soul of a dead serial killer. Now, the mother must stop the killer doll and save her son.
It Follows, 2015 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The horror thriller movie revolves around a happy-go-lucky teenager Jay, who must find a way to get rid of an evil curse which follows her everywhere following a sexual encounter.
Smile, 2022 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
The psychological horror movie follows a psychiatrist, who begins to suspect that she is experiencing a supernatural phenomenon after a harrowing incident involving her patient.
Host, 2020 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
Directed by Rob Savage, the British indie horror flick takes place during the COVID-19 lockdown period and is set in the UK. The film’s plot follows a group of friends, who participate in a virtual séance over a Zoom meeting. But the seance goes horribly wrong after a demonic supernatural entity is unleashed and begins to assault them in their own homes during the course of the online Zoom meeting.
The Last Exorcism, 2010 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
A troubled cleric named Marcus decides to expose his own fraud by allowing his last exorcism to be recorded by a documentary crew. However, bellying his expectations and past experience, his last exorcism turns out to be the one where he must face real evil for the first time while trying to exorcise a farmer’s daughter from a demonic entity.