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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Feb 19, 2016 8:11 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Feb 19, 2016 8:11 PM UTC Horror movies have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. A slew of spooky arthouse and indie flicks have injected new energy into a genre which many lament often relies too heavily on well-worn tropes, unnecessary reboots and superfluous gore. Movies like _The Witch_ (Feb. 19), Robert Eggers’ historical horror drama set in 1630s New England, eschew the expected in favor of genre mash-ups and fresh aesthetic takes. For those who have been wont to dismiss the genre wholesale—whether out of sheer terror or lack of interest—these often beautiful, sometimes downright hilarious recent additions may just win over a healthy crop of converts. ### _The Witch_ (2016)  A24 A historical horror film which won Robert Eggers a directing award at Sundance in 2015, _The Witch_ is an eerie slow burn which says as much about religious paranoia and the near-impossible conditions of the lives of early settlers as it does about the occult. Anya Taylor-Joy delivers an arresting performance as a teenaged girl accused of witchcraft by her own family in 1630s New England, 60 years before the Salem witch trials. **_Where to watch:_** The Witch _opens in theaters on Feb. 19._ ### _The Babadook_ (2014)  Essie Davis as Amelia and Noah Wiseman as Samuel in The Babadook (2014) IFC Films Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut, about a widow and her young son who are tormented by a mysterious evil presence, received widespread critical acclaim for its performances and its moving allegory about the all-consuming havoc wrought by grief on adults and children alike. But _The Babadook_ is not for the faint of heart: the director of _The Exorcist_ called it the most terrifying film he’d ever seen. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from Amazon, iTunes or SundanceNow._ ### _It Follows_ (2014)  RADiUS-TWC A movie in which a young woman is cursed by a mysterious evil as a result of having sex may sound like the centerpiece of an abstinence-only curriculum. But it is, in fact, the premise of a horror film many critics have labeled the best in a decade. The “It” in the movie’s title sparked widespread debate, but interpretation is almost beside the point—the terror here results directly from “it’s” painfully unresolved ambiguity. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from Amazon or iTunes._ ### _Goodnight Mommy_ (2014)  Stadtkino Verleih This low-budget Austrian film interrogates a terror that’s close—literally—to home. When a mother returns from a plastic surgery operation wrapped in bandages, much like a mummy, her twin sons gradually begin to suspect that the woman beneath the mask may not be mommy dearest. But the movie’s not just fodder for nightmares. It’s also an examination of the parent-child relationship, the vulnerability that stems from trust and the demands of modern motherhood. **_Where to watch:_** _Stream for free with Amazon Prime or rent from Amazon or iTunes._ ### _What We Do in the Shadows_ (2014)  Madman Entertainment If the previous titles on this list sound more like a recipe for pants-wetting than a relaxing night at home, _What We Do in the Shadows_ offers a welcome reprieve: comedy. Though many moviegoers are understandably vampire-d out, this horror-comedy mockumentary from members of the _Flight of the Conchords_ team finds humor and humanity both in the well-trodden territory of blood-suckers. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from Amazon or iTunes._ ### _A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night_ (2014)  VICE Films Another unconventional vampire flick, positioned upon its release as the first Iranian vampire Western, writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut is a moody, black and white genre mash-up. It’s horror-flick-meets-spaghetti-western, with an aesthetic sensibility gleaned as much from graphic novels as from Iranian New Wave cinema. The titular girl prowls the night on a skateboard to a soundtrack of Persian rock and electropop, and the movie’s subversion of gender norms widely earned it a feminist seal of approval. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from Amazon, iTunes or Vimeo On Demand._ ### _Under the Skin_ (2013)  A24 Horror skeptics will be glad to know that _Under the Skin_ is as much sci-fi art film as it is horror—and what elements of that genre exist are nontraditional at best. An eerily blank-faced Scarlett Johansson plays an alien, disguised as a woman, who lures unsuspecting men into a van and then does the kinds of things you might imagine happen to unsuspecting men lured into vans by an alien. The result is beautiful, otherwordly, and deeply, deeply unsettling to watch. **_Where to watch:_** _Stream for free with Amazon Prime or rent from Amazon._ ### _Only Lovers Left Alive_ (2013)  Sony Pictures Classics Yes, another vampire movie, _but_—this one’s got Tilda Swinton, an award-winning soundtrack and its vampires are hipster rock stars, to boot. Described by more than one critic as “poetic,” Jim Jarmusch’s tale finds Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as two low-key, nonviolent vampires (they subsist on provisions from a blood bank) married for centuries but living apart, who reunite in a depopulated Motor City. Don’t come for the plot (it’s minimal); come for the spellbinding, laid-back cool of a vampire flick that trades in vinyl and timeless love. **_Where to watch:_** _Buy from Amazon or iTunes._ ### _The Cabin in the Woods_ (2012)  Lionsgate This Joss Whedon-produced comedic sendup of the horror genre begins in a familiar way: five college friends holed up for a weekend in a remote cabin. What happens next can’t be discussed without spoiling the fun, but suffice it to say that one gory scene after another serves to bludgeon the tropes of the genre. It’s a formula that’s equally as delightful for steadfast fans as it is for those who have avoided it thanks to those aforementioned tired tropes. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from Amazon or iTunes._ ### _Let the Right One In_ (2008)  Magnet Releasing This dark Swedish film centers on two 12-year-old kids, one a lonely, bullied boy and the other a sullen neighbor girl who turns out to be a vampire. The restrained, cinematically beautiful tale of adolescent loneliness was an awards magnet, racking up honors at film festivals around the world and even getting an arguably lesser American adaptation, _Let Me In_. It’s scary, yes, but more than that it is a triumph of two young actors and, ultimately, a love story masquerading under the banner of horror. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from CinemaNow or Vudu._ ### _Teeth_ (2007)  Roadside Attractions In the horror comedy _Teeth_, a wholesome teenage girl discovers that her vagina has chompers which engage to bite off the member of any male who foists himself upon her uninvited. Unwanted sexual advances are, of course, no laughing matter. The joke here is the fear of female sexuality—specifically, a folk-tale phenomenon called _vagina dentata_—and writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein takes that fear to its not-so-logical but highly entertaining conclusion. **_Where to watch:_** _Rent from iTunes._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4228245/indie-horror-movies-the-witch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4228245/indie-horror-movies-the-witch/"},"headline":"11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies","datePublished":"2016-02-19T20:11:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:23.695Z","description":"The Witch is just one of a recent crop of indie horror flicks that may make new fans of the genre","url":"https://time.com/4228245/indie-horror-movies-the-witch/","keywords":["movies","Horror Movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4228245/indie-horror-movies-the-witch/","name":"11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies"}}]}] ```