This movie is an old-fashioned supernatural thriller set in 1921 London. Rebecca Hall plays Florence, a woman who has built a career by relying on science to expose false claims of supernatural occurrences. She is hired to investigate an all-boys boarding school where a child recently died and the students claim to see sightings of his ghost. As she investigates, Florence soon realizes that science will not be able to explain what is haunting the school.
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Flowers in the Attic
Not to be confused with the Lifetime atrocity, this 1987 movie is an adaptation by the popular V.C. Andrews' novel of the same name. This movie is about a widowed mother who takes her children to live with their grandparents in a creepy old mansion. The kids end up being kept in a secret room below the attic and they are only visited by their grandmother. This movie isn't as suspenseful as it is downright creepy and the incestuous overtones help in that regard. The children's imprisonment is the main focus of this film and will give Netflix viewers chills as they watch their tale.
Another De Niro film on this list of 10 best scary movies on Netflix is Angel Heart. Alongside De Niro are co-stars Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet. From its inception to its release in 1987, this movie was surrounded by controversy. No major film studio was willing to take on this controversial script, based on the 1978 novel Falling Angel, and independent film studio Carolco Pictures took on the task and it was distributed by Tri-Star Pictures. Although it didn't do well in its initial release, many horror movie fans consider this film to be one of the all-time best.
At the time, Lisa Bonet was known for her role as Denise in The Cosby Show and her risque and steamy sex scene with Rourke left audiences in shock. Director Alan Parker had to remove 10 seconds of the sexual scene in order to avoid an X-rating. But this wasn't the only controversy; the satanic premise of the film also turned heads.
The movie is based in 1955 and is about a detective (Rourke) who is hired to track down a missing musician who reneged on a bet. Each time the detective questions someone who might know of the whereabouts of the artist, they are killed in a ritualistic and gruesome manner. The detective soon starts to suspect that a satanic cult is behind the grisly murders and that him being chosen for the job wasn't random.