27 Best Thrillers of 2020: List of top rated movies

There is a genre in cinema that leaves almost no viewer indifferent. Tangled plots, brutal suspense and a constant sense of anxious anticipation – these are the signs of a well-made thriller. Every year filmmakers shoot more and more intricate and suspenseful stories in this genre. We’ve chosen the best thrillers of 2020 and offer to watch them with us.

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The Devil All the Time

Rating IMDB – 7.1
Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
US production / 2020
Directed by Antonio Campos
Cast: Tom Holland, Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, Harry Melling

America in the mid-twentieth century. Willard Russell, traumatized by the horrors of World War II, returns to his native land. On his way home, he meets the charming Charlotte, and soon the young people are married.

In due course their son Arvin is born, but this does not bring Willard much joy, for he is constantly haunted by nightmarish visions from the past. To gain some kind of solace, the man builds an improvised altar and prays to it every day. But even this does not save him from the impending madness.

Harry Melling, who played one of the main characters, in one of the scenes, poured an entire jar of real spiders on his head.

Run

Rating IMDB – 6.7
Genre: Thriller, drama, detective
Production USA, Canada / 2020
Worldwide gross: $5,184,368
Directed by Anish Chaganti
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Kira Allen, Sarah Sohn, Pat Healy, Eric Athavale, B.J. Harrison, Sharon Badger, Onali Ames, Joanne Rodriguez, Ernie Furth

Chloe Sherman has been confined to a wheelchair since early childhood. Having come into the world with a bouquet of diseases, she, by definition, should not have lived long. But thanks to her caring mother, the girl has already celebrated her 17th birthday.

Yes, she’s trapped inside four walls, she has no friends, and her life is subject to a strict regimen and daily intake of a multitude of medications. But there is the closest person you can always rely on. That’s what the young heroine thought until a certain time. Until one day her mother’s strange behavior made her question everything she used to believe in.

In the film, the attentive viewer will find several references to the works of Stephen King It and Misery.

Escape from Pretoria

Rating IMDB – 6.8
Genre: Thriller
Production UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany / 2020
Worldwide gross: $2,431,995
Directed by Francis Annan
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page, Grant Piro, Len Firth, Liam Amore, Adam Tuominen, PJ Outen

In the late 1970s, the apartheid regime prevailed in South Africa, where most of the population was black. White police officers used tear gas and batons to enforce order, and anyone who disagreed with the status quo was instantly thrown in jail.

And it didn’t matter to the custodians of the law what skin color the offender was. That is how Stephen Lee and Tim Jenkin, who were distributing propaganda pamphlets, ended up in Pretoria, one of the strictest prisons in the world. And once here, they immediately plotted their escape.

The film is based on the story of the real-life escape of Timothy Jenkin and his two comrades.

Unhinged

Rating IMDB – 6.0
Genre: Action, thriller
Production USA, UK / 2020
Budget: $33,000,000
Worldwide gross: $44,331,465
Directed by Derrick Borte
Cast: Karen Pistorius, Russell Crowe, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin P. McKenzie, Julien Joyner, Stephen Louis Grasch, Ann Marie Leighton, Devin A. Tyler, Sylvia Grace Cream

Rachel Hunter couldn’t have imagined what a chance encounter on the road might entail. Exhausted from divorce proceedings, work problems, and endless traffic jams, she scolded the driver of the car who hesitated at a traffic light.

What was her surprise when the stranger drove up to her at the bus stop and apologized. He then asked her to apologize to him as well. But the young woman responded with a harsh refusal, which set off a chain of events that led to the deaths of several people.

The filmmakers managed to shoot most of the film in just one day, and during daytime rush hour, on the Australian Monash Freeway.

The Invisible Man

Rating IMDB – 7.1
Genre: Fantasy, thriller, detective
Production USA, Canada, Australia / 2020
Budget: $7,000,000
Worldwide grosses: $143,151,000
Directed by Leigh Whannell
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman, Benedict Hardy, Renee Lim, Brian Meagan, Nick Keese

At first glance, Cecilia Cass’s life seems perfect. She has a caring boyfriend who is head over heels in love with her and is also a genius scientist and billionaire. She lives in a huge mansion and is bathed in luxury. No one can not even think that the young woman is deeply unhappy and wants to get rid of her boyfriend. After all, a respectable-looking man is in fact an unbalanced psychopath who adores violence.

One day Cecilia manages to run away from home and take refuge in a safe house. And soon she learns that Adrian has committed suicide. But the long-awaited peace of mind does not come to the heroine. Every day she literally skin feels the presence of someone invisible next to her. The girl is absolutely convinced that it is her boyfriend, the tyrant.

The producers wanted to invite Johnny Depp for the lead male role in the film, but in the end Adrian Griffin was played by Englishman Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Rating IMDB – 6.6
Genre: Drama, thriller
US production / 2020
Directed by Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Jason Ralph, Colby Minifi, Abby Quinn, Guy Boyd, Hadley Robinson, Teddy Coluca

A girl, whose name changes throughout the film, is going with her beloved boyfriend to visit his parents. They have a long way to go, so they have time to talk and discuss plans for the future. Only the heroine is not very happy about the upcoming meeting. She constantly has the same phrase in her head: “I think how to end it all.

Finally, after a long journey over snowy roads, the couple arrives at their parents’ home. Jake’s father and mother greet their son’s bride very warmly. But the girl immediately notices that their behavior is somehow suspicious and even frightening. And then strange, inexplicable things begin to happen to her.

The film is based on the work of the same name by Canadian writer Ian Reed.

The Silencing

Rating IMDB – 6.2
Genre: Thriller, detective, crime
Production USA, Canada / 2020
Worldwide gross: $170,653
Directed by Robin Pront
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Lisa Cromarty, Leland Assineway, Kayla Dumont, Sean Smith

A few years ago, Rayburn Swenson’s life went wrong: his wife left him, and his only daughter disappeared without a trace under mysterious circumstances. Since then, the man lives alone, drowning his sorrows at the bottom of a bottle, but, in order not to completely fall into oblivion, he works as a gamekeeper in the reserve.

One day terrible things begin to happen in the territory entrusted to him. A mysterious man brings girls into the woods, hunts them down and brutally murders them with ancient throwing weapons. Teaming up with the sheriff of the local police, Rayburn goes out to find the killer. He is convinced it was this bloodthirsty monster who took his beloved daughter from him.

In the Russian box office, this 2020 thriller is called the Treaty of Silence.

Let Him Go

Rating IMDB – 6.7
Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
Production USA, Canada / 2020
Worldwide gross: $11,630,934
Directed by Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kaylie Carter, Ryan Bruce, Bram Hornung, Leslie Manville, Will Brittain, Jeffrey Donovan, Connor McKay

After his retirement, Sheriff George Blackledge settles with his wife Margaret, son James, daughter-in-law Lorna, and young grandson on a ranch in the mountains of Montana. Life away from the hustle and bustle of the city is quiet and measured. The women run the household, the men ride the horses.

But one day grief comes to the house: James dies in an accident. After some time of grief, the young widow remarries and leaves with her grown-up son for another state. And soon the Blackledges find out that her new husband, Donny Wiboy, belongs to a clan of real thugs keeping the whole of North Dakota in fear. They follow their former daughter-in-law with the firm intention of taking their grandson.

For Kevin Costner and Diane Lane movie was the second joint work, where they had to play a couple.

Chimipja

Rating IMDB – 6.1
Genre: Thriller, detective
Production South Korea / 2020
Budget: $5,300,000
Worldwide gross: $5,098,819
Directed by Song Won-pyeong
Cast: Kim Moo-yeol, Song Ji-hyo, Ye Soo-jung, Choi Sang-hoon, Park Min-ha, Heo Joon-seok, Seo Hee-jeong, Lim Seong-woo, Choi Young-woo, Kim Seung- bi

Successful entrepreneur Seo Jin has been unable to come to terms with the loss of his sister, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances for a quarter of a century. And then his beloved wife dies in a car accident.

Unable to come to terms with his loss, the man literally plunges into the abyss of despair. At that very moment, a young woman appears on the doorstep and claims to be Yu-jin, who has been missing for years. The distraught parents have no doubts that the young woman is their daughter. But So Jin’s behavior seems suspicious. So Jin starts his own investigation.

Prior to its release, the film was called The Daughter.

Hour of Lead

Rating IMDB – 5.7
Genre: Thriller, crime, detective
US production / 2020
Directed by Peter Facinelli
Cast: Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason Patric, Alex Haydon, Peter Facinelli, Alexei Archer, Christopher Wente, John D. Hickman, Mitchell L. Johnson, Kakei Heim

Married couples Thomas and Wendy, along with their 10-year-old daughter Taylor, come for a vacation to a tent city located in a picturesque place. But in the evening, the parents realize that the girl has disappeared without a trace. The frightened parents turn to the police for help, but the search yields nothing.

None of the campsite neighbors have seen the little girl. That’s when Thomas and Wendy decide to look for her on their own. But the more people fall under their suspicion, the clearer it becomes that everything is not so simple in the case of Taylor’s disappearance.

Anne Heche and Thomas Jane, who played a married couple, are a couple in real life.

Rebecca

Rating IMDB – 6.0
Genre: Thriller, drama, melodrama, detective
Production UK, USA / 2020
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Cast: Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, John Hollinworth, Bill Paterson

A list of 2020 thrillers would not be complete without this gripping story. The main character, whose name remains unnamed, serves as a companion to Mrs. Van Hopper, a not-so-wealthy old lady. At one of her dinner parties, she catches the eye of the recently widowed British aristocrat Maximilian de Winter.

The man becomes infatuated with the young beauty, courts her for some time, and then marries and brings the young wife to the family estate. But the new Mrs. Winter feels terrible at the castle. She literally sees the presence of someone invisible everywhere. And soon a terrible discovery makes the heroine’s life even more frightening.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by the English writer Daphne du Maurier.

The Hunt

Rating IMDB – 6.5
Genre: Action, comedy, thriller
Production USA, Japan / 2020
Budget: $14,000,000
Worldwide gross: $8,621,288
Director Craig Zobel
Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Christopher Berry, Sturgill Simpson, Kate Knowlin, Amy Madigan

Twelve people, strangers to each other, come to their senses in a huge clearing in the middle of the forest. The frightened men and women have no idea what is happening, how they ended up in an unknown place, and why their hands are tied and their mouths are gagged. Fortunately, they all manage to free themselves.

But as soon as this happens, someone unknown literally shoots them. Several people are killed on the spot, and the survivors take refuge in the woods. But they have no idea that they are being hunted. After all, they have become a kind of living target in a bloody game that bored rich men have set up.

The film is a free adaptation of the story The Most Dangerous Game by the American writer Richard Connell.

Alone

Rating IMDB – 6.2
Genre: Thriller
US production / 2020
Worldwide gross: $651,445
Director John Hyams
Cast: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal, Cathy O’Grady, Betty Moyer, Shelley Lipkin, Emily Saler, Laura Duyne, Brenton Montgomery

Jessica recently buried her husband and now desperately suffers from loneliness. To get rid of the memories of the past and to shake things up, she decides to move. After packing up her belongings and loading them into an old pickup truck, the woman embarks on a long trip across the country.

But, in anticipation of new and exciting experiences, she has no idea that a real nightmare awaits her ahead. Somewhere in the American wilderness, Jessica falls into the hands of a psychopath who takes her to an abandoned house in the middle of the woods. In the nightmarish conditions, far from civilization, the woman struggles to survive every day.

During the filming of one scene Jules Willcox, who played the main character, broke the bones of her foot.

Honest Thief

Rating IMDB – 6.0
Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
US production / 2020
Budget: $16,000,000
Worldwide gross: $31,220,247
Director Mark Williams
Cast: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos, Robert Patrick, Tuzzy, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Devon Deep

Thomas Carter, a former Marine, earns his living by robbery. He has already accumulated a tidy sum in his account, but the man is not going to stop his dangerous business. Or rather, he wasn’t going to, until he met the woman of his dreams. For the sake of his future with Annie Wilkins, Tom decided to surrender to the authorities, return the loot, and even serve time in prison.

Hogar

Rating IMDB – 6.4
Genre: Thriller, drama
Production Spain / 2020
Worldwide gross: $1,845
Directed by David Pastor, Alex Pastor
Cast: Javier Gutierrez, Mario Casas, Bruna Cousi, Ruth Diaz, Iris Valles Torres, Cristian Munoz, David Ramírez, David Selvas, David Verdaguer, Victoria Luengo

A year ago, Javier Muñoz was a successful advertising executive, but those days are irretrievably gone. Young and ambitious competitors forced him out of the business. Left out of business, with no solid source of income, he was forced to sell his luxurious house and moved with his wife and teenage son into an ordinary apartment.

All attempts to find a new job proved futile, and the unhappy hero sank day after day into the abyss of despair and depression. This went on until one day he was brought together with Thomas, a young man who had bought his old house. At that very moment, Javier realized that he wanted his luxurious home back, even if he had to destroy the lives of innocent people.

The third title of the film is The Lost House.

Antebellum

Rating IMDB – 5.7
Genre: Thriller, drama
US production / 2020
Worldwide gross: $7,792,716
Director Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz
Cast: Janelle Monáe, Marque Richardson II, Eric Lange, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Tongai Arnold Chirisa, Gabourey Sidibe, Robert Aramayo, Jena Malone, Lily Cowles

Veronica Henley, a famous writer and fighter for the rights of black women, finds herself in a terrifying reality. After a conference where she was presenting her new book, she is kidnapped and stunned by unknown men. When she wakes up, she realizes that she is in a different era – a time when slavery still existed in the United States and black people were not considered human, were humiliated and tortured in every way.

Realizing that what happened cannot be true, the heroine tries to get to the truth. And what she soon discovers comes as a real shock to her.

In the hope of achieving a suitable atmosphere, directors Gerard Busch and Christopher Renz shot the picture with the same lenses used in the legendary 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Jusqu’au déclin

Rating IMDB – 6.0
Genre: Action, thriller
Production Canada / 2020
Directed by Patrice Laliberte
Cast: Guillaume Laurine, Marie-Eveline Lessard, Real Bosset, Marc Beaupré, Marilyn Castonguey, Guillaume Kier, Marc-André Grondin, Isabelle Giroud, Emily Pelletier Grenier, Juliette Maxime Proulx

Antoine, a model husband and father, lives in the certainty that the world is about to experience an apocalypse. He takes the matter very seriously and trains his wife and daughter daily to evacuate in case of an alarm.

One day he sees a video in which Alain, a famous master of survival in extreme conditions, invites everyone to take his course. Antoine leaves his family and goes to a camp located in a remote part of Canada. What he doesn’t realize is that ordinary training will soon turn into a real race to the death for him and the other cadets.

The original title of the film is Jusqu’au déclin, which can be translated as While there is strength.

Brahms: The Boy II

Rating IMDB – 4.7
Genre: Horror, thriller, drama, detective
Production USA, China, Canada, Australia / 2020
Budget: $10,000,000
Worldwide gross: $20,311,536
Directed by William Brent Bell
Cast: Christopher Convery, Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, Ralph Ineson, Daphne Hoskins, Keoni Rebeiro, Joely Collins, Oliver Rice, Anjali Jai, Natalie Rivalin

Some time ago, Lisa and her 9-year-old son Jude were attacked by unknown robbers in their own home. Since then, the woman is tormented by constant nightmares, and the boy has completely stopped talking. To distract his wife and son from the terrible memories, the head of the family Sean rents a guest house near the old mansion Hilshire.

During his first walk, Jude finds an unusual porcelain doll in the garden, which immediately arouses Lisa’s suspicion. She wants to get rid of the frightening find, but the boy won’t let her. After all, it is thanks to Brahms (according to him, the doll called himself that) that he regained his speech. Heartbroken, the woman consents to her son’s “friendship” with the strange doll and thus sets off a chain of bloody events.

After filming, Katie Holmes, who played the main character, admitted that she was really scared in the presence of a doll the height of a boy.

No matarás

Rating IMDB – 6.2
Genre: Action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
Production Spain / 2020
Worldwide gross: $108,300
Directed by David Victory
Cast: Mario Casas, Milena Smith, Elisabeth Larena, Fernando Valdivieso, Javier Mula, Aleix Muñoz, Andre Krützer, Oscar Perez, Javi Siles, Miguel Angel Gonzalez

After burying his father, Dani decides to change his life drastically and plans to go on a trip around the world. But on the eve of his departure fate gives him a meeting with the incredibly beautiful and mysterious Mila. Unable to resist the charm and sensuality of his new acquaintance, Dani throws himself into the ocean of passion. The girl reciprocates his feelings, and for some time the young people enjoy unclouded happiness.

But suddenly Mila’s ex-boyfriend appears on the horizon. Cruel, jealous, he is not going to just give up and forces Dani to fight for the right to be near her beloved. And the main character, who yesterday was considered a good and kind-hearted guy, discovers a dark side in himself.

The Owners

Rating IMDB – 4.9
Genre: Thriller, crime
Production UK / 2020
Worldwide gross: $583,134
Directed by Julius Berg
Cast: Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis, Ian Kenny, Stasha Hicks, Michael Yates

Gaz’s best friends, Terry and Nathan, and Mary, the girlfriend of one of them, plan to commit a robbery. And they come up with nothing better than to break into the safe at the home of the elderly Dr. Richard Huggins and his wife Ellen. Without any problems having got inside the mansion when the owners were not at home, the accomplices quickly find the safe, but they do not manage to open it.

Then they decide to wait for the owners and ask them for the code, confident that the frightened couple will not persist for long. However, this confidence evaporates in the blink of an eye when Mr. and Mrs. Huggins return home. From the first moment the home-grown burglars realize that they are no harmless old men, but cold-blooded murderers.

The original title of the thriller is The Owners, which translates from English as The Owners.

Marionette

Rating IMDB – 5.9
Genre: Thriller, detective
Production Netherlands, Luxembourg, UK / 2020
Directed by Elbert van Strien
Cast: Thecla Ruthen, Elijah Wolf, Iman Elliott, Sam Hazeldine, Dawn Steele, Rebecca Front, Bill Paterson, Peter Mullan, Pearl Chanda, Brigitte Urhausen

Until recently, child psychiatrist Marianne Winter considered herself a true professional. But acquaintance with 10-year-old Manny made her doubt her own competence. The withdrawn boy draws pictures with frightening plots and claims that in this way he can influence the future.

At first, the heroine writes off the little patient’s statements as a sick fantasy, but soon she begins to realize that the events in her life are exactly what she saw in the child’s drawings. Trying to understand what is really going on, she becomes even more confused, and then loses control of reality altogether.

The film is based on director Elbert van Strien’s own short film, Puppet World, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1993.

Inheritance

Rating IMDB – 5.5
Genre: Thriller, drama, detective
US production / 2020
Worldwide gross: $304,931
Directed by Von Stein
Cast: Lily Collins, Simon Pegg, Connie Nielsen, Chace Crawford, Patrick Warburton, Marque Richardson II, Michael Beach, Rebecca Adams, Josh Murray

The film is rightfully among the top thrillers of 2020. Lauren Monroe is a successful New York lawyer and the daughter of a major American businessman. She recently buried her father, and now she faces an inheritance together with her mother and older brother.

But in addition to real estate, money, and possessions, her father left her a secret video message and a strange key. In the message, her father tells Lauren about an underground bunker on their estate and asks for her forgiveness. The bewildered heroine goes to the specified address and finds there an unknown man, chained in chains. After hearing the prisoner’s story, she is horrified and lets him go, unaware that by doing so she has brought mortal danger upon herself and others.

Simon Pegg, who played the role of the prisoner, had to go through a grueling hunger strike to look really thin and haggard.

Arkansas

Rating IMDB – 6.0
Genre: Thriller, crime
US production / 2020
Worldwide gross: $128,761
Director Clark Duke
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke, Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Eden Brolin, Chandler Duke, Vince Vaughn, John Malkovich, Jacob Zakar, Patrick Muldoon

Cronies Kyle and Swann dream of a beautiful, luxurious life, but they don’t know where to get the money for all their desires. Getting a job is out of the question. The guys want a lot of money here and now, so they come up with nothing better than to get into the drug trade.

However, in Arkansas, where the criminal world is ruled by the mysterious Frog, it is not easy to start your own business. So the buddies start at the very bottom, as simple drug couriers. It would seem that what could be easier than the work of a deliveryman, but unhelpful heroes manage to make enemies in the gang, and then become involved in a murder.

The original title of the film is Arkansas, and its plot is borrowed from the novel of the same name by American author John Brandon.

Lost Girls

Rating IMDB – 6.1
Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, detective
US production / 2020
Directed by Liz Garbus
Cast: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne, Lola Kirk, Oona Laurence, Dean Winters, Molly Brown, Miriam Shore, Ana Reeder, Grace Capless

Concerned Mary Gilbert reports her daughter missing to the police. The woman informs the police that Shannon had not returned home as planned the night before. But she does receive a short phone call in which she manages to ask for help.

The investigator, who is tasked to deal with the situation, discovers that the girl was engaged in the provision of sex services. And immediately tells her grief-stricken mother that the girl is having fun somewhere with another client. But Mrs. Gilbert is not going to give up and takes up the investigation herself. Soon she realizes with horror that Shannon is not the only missing girl. And in this area, apparently, there is a serial maniac at work.

The film is based on events that took place in reality. In some scenes the creators used photos of real victims of the perpetrator.

Dangerous Lies

Rating IMDB – 5.3
Genre: Thriller, drama, detective
US production / 2020
Directed by Michael Scott
Cast: Nick Purcha, Carlos Joe Costa, Camila Mendez, Briana Sky, Jesse Usher, Sean O. Roberts, Trevor Lerner, Elliott Gould, Cam Gigandet, Michael P. Northey

Cathy and Adam are a young married couple. They are both in the service of an elderly, wealthy gentleman named Leonardo. Kathy performs the duties of a nurse, and Adam works as a gardener. The employer and his subordinates have an amicable relationship, but the elderly man is especially warm, even fatherly, towards his assistant. And, upon learning of the family’s financial difficulties, he writes the girl a check for a large sum.

But that is not the strangest thing that happens to the heroine. After Leonardo’s sudden death, Cathy discovers that she is the sole heiress to his fortune. It would seem that all the problems came to an end. But in fact the family’s difficulties are just beginning. After all, there will be many who want to get away with other people’s money.

Fantasy Island

Rating IMDB – 4.9
Genre: Thriller, fantasy
US production / 2020
Budget: $7,000,000
Worldwide gross: $48,811,343
Director Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Portia Doubleday, Jimmy O. Yan, Ryan Hansen, Michael Rooker, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Mike Vogel

Gwen Olsen, Patrick Sullivan, Melanie Cole, the Brothers Marriage and Jay Weaver win a raffle with the grand prize of a visit to a mysterious tropical resort called Fantasy Island. Upon arrival, the lucky ones are met by Mr. Roark, the so-called manager and keeper of the island, and he tells the guests that in this place each of their deepest dreams can come true.

The heroes are sure that they are caught in some kind of role-playing game with actors, so they do not hesitate to tell Roark about their wishes. They have no idea that the island actually conceals a terrible secret. And soon they will all have to fight for their lives.

The film is a prequel to the TV series of the same name.

Gretel & Hansel

Rating IMDB – 5.4
Genre: Horror, fantasy
Production USA, Canada, Ireland, South Africa / 2020
Worldwide gross: $22,051,055
Director Oz Perkins
Cast: Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Alice Kriege, Jessica De Gouw, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Donncha Crowley, Jonathan Gunning, Charles Babalola, Julia Doherty, Jonathan Delaney Tynan

Gretel, who recently turned 16, and her little brother Hansel are forced to leave their home. Their own mother, an overbearing and cruel woman, abused them and even threatened to flog them to death. In search of a better life and a piece of bread, the unfortunate children wander from one village to another, and one day they stumble upon a small house in the woods.

There lives a lonely and very sweet old woman who happily invites the children to stay with her. The brother and sister gladly agree, as it never even occurs to them that under the appearance of the dandelion grandmother there is a bloodthirsty sorceress, who hunts children.

Several episodes of the film were filmed in the old hunting lodge, The Hell Fire Club, which is known for its mystical past.