The Best Thrillers That Will Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat This October!

Cast: Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Storyline: A thrilling physical journey that allows an approach to the darkness, where it is scary to look. It appeals to the viewer’s civil responsibility and forces them to face the limits of their solidarity.

To better understand the sequel, it is important to watch the first film, which is called ‘The Platform’. This is because the second film is set in the same universe as the first film, as well as mostly taking place in the same nightmarish vertical prison.

The Plot: The storyline is that each day a platform is filled with food which descends cell-by-cell from top to bottom. There’s technically enough food for each level, but only if everyone sticks to eating the one food item they requested before entering the prison however, the big problem is, they don’t!

Unlike the first film, the second film introduces a different era in the prison, where cellmates come up with a strict system to ensure that as many people eat as possible. Only eat your food, and nothing else! And if anyone breaks “the law” is punished.

Cast: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier

Director: Lorcan Finnegan

Storyline: A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

If you are unaware of what Nocebo means when a negative outcome that happen if someone believes something will cause them harm.

The Plot: Christine a children’s fashion designer, takes a call, a disease-ridden dog approaches and shakes itself, spreading ticks onto her before vanishing. One tick attaches itself to her neck, subsequently debilitating Christine with a mysterious illness.

Cast: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman

Director: Chole Okuno

Storyline: A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.

Plot: An American couple relocates to France and moves into an apartment building with a large picture window. While her husband Francis works long hours, Julie grows unnerved by a man in the building across the street, who watches her daily. Her fears are heightened when she learns of a serial killer, dubbed ‘the spider’ by local media who is decapitating young women.

Julia befriends her neighbour, Irina, who shows Julia a pistol her boyfriend, Cristian, gave her for protection. Later that night, Julia waves at the man in the window, and he waves back. Suspecting it was the same man who followed her, she called the police. Francis accompanies an officer to the building opposite to speak with the man but later tells Julia that she is overreacting.

After a short time, Julia spots the man on the street and follows him to a strip club, where he works as a janitor. Irina, a dancer at the club, notices her. Julia questions Irina about the man, but she knows nothing. Later at home, Julia has a vivid dream about being attacked and strangled. She wakes up to hear a scream from Irina’s apartment and convinces the landlady to unlock it, but they find no sign of Irina.

The next day, Cristian arrives searching for Irina. They try to confront the janitor at his apartment, but no one answers the door. After Cristian leaves, Julia works up the nerve to knock on the door herself, but it is answered by an elderly man. As she gets on the elevator to leave, she sees the janitor. That night, a police officer arrives at her apartment accompanied by the man, identified as Daniel Weber, who accuses Julia of stalking him. The officer calls the incident a misunderstanding, and Julia shakes Daniel’s hand. Francis later shows Julia a news report stating that the Spider has been apprehended.

Cast: Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward

Director: Nelson McCormick

Storyline: Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother, Susan, happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there to help.

Plot: In a suburban Utah house, Grady Edwards shaves off his beard, dyes his hair, and removes his brown contact lenses. As he leaves, it’s revealed that he has murdered his wife and three children. When the police investigate, it is revealed that another family in New Jersey was murdered similarly not long ago, which leads them to believe there is a serial killer on the loose.

Susan Harding, a recently divorced Oregon housewife, is shopping in a grocery store with her youngest children when she meets Grady. He introduces himself as “David Harris” and claims that his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. Susan, desperate for love, is charmed by David, and she rushes into an engagement to be married in less than six months.

When Susan’s eldest son, Michael, returns home from military school, he becomes suspicious of his mother’s new fiancé, David. David invites Michael to the basement, where he has installed locked cabinets and tries to befriend him over tequila shots. However, Michael’s suspicions grow when David uses the wrong name while mentioning his deceased daughter. After Susan mentions that a neighbour warned her about a serial killer who looks like David being featured on America’s Most Wanted, David sneaks into the neighbour’s house, throws her down the basement stairs, and suffocates her.

Cast: Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, Sara Sohn

Director: Aneesh Chaganty

Storyline: Chloe, a teenager confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may harbour a dark secret.

Plot: A women named Diane Sherman give birth to a premature baby, whom she goes to see lying in an incubator, surrounded by the hospital staff. Years later Diane lives a quiet life with her now teenage daughter Chole. Due to the circumstances of her birth, Chole suffers from arrhythmia, hemochromatosis, asthma, and diabetes as well as paralysis in her legs – resulting in her using a wheelchair, taking multiple medications daily, and being homeschooled by her mother.  Chloe desires to go to college, something Diane seems to support, but has received no responses for her applications.

Seven years later, Chloe still relies on her wheelchair, although she can walk short distances using a cane. She visits Diane in a correctional facility, where Diane is confined to a bed in the infirmary ward. Chloe talks about the life she has built for herself: her husband, Ara, daughter, Annie, and work. She mentions that Annie prefers grandparents, implying that Chloe had been reunited with her birth parents. Chloe takes out three plastic-wrapped Lidocaine pills that were concealed under her tongue and tells Diane that she still loves her before asking her to open her mouth wide.

Cast: Lee McQueen, Derek Nelson, Tiffany Ceri

Director: Andrew Jones

Storyline: In this terrifying true-life tale, a family’s peaceful vacation at a remote cabin in Utah is shattered when they return from a day of exploring to find two masked intruders in their home. What begins as a robbery soon escalates into violence and two of the family are brutally murdered. As night falls only teenage sisters Linnea and Tina remain alive, battling for survival against their sadistic captors. But as the sun comes up the tormented teens find the strength to fight back and the intruders get more than they bargained for.

Cast: Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, Dennis Haysbert

Director: Peter Sullivan

Storyline: Newlywed Jennifer (Brenda Song) is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell (Mike Vogel), is thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he reintroduces her to their secluded mountain estate, Detective Page (Dennis Haysbert) pursues Jennifer’s assailant – his daughter went missing and was never found. The same fate now awaits Jennifer, unless someone realizes that her loving caretaker is her captor.

Plot: On a rainy night, a woman (Brenda Song) is fleeing down the street from an unknown pursuer. She is struck by a car, leaving her injured and unconscious. When she wakes up in the hospital, she has amnesia and remembers nothing about the incident or her life prior. A man named Russell Williams (played by Mike Vogel) introduces himself as her husband and tells her that her name is Jennifer. He tries to help her regain her memories by showing her photos of her life and explaining that her parents died in a fire two years ago, she had quit her job, and she rarely talks to her friends anymore.

Detective Frank Page, played by Dennis Haysbert, becomes obsessed with his work after failing to find his own daughter’s kidnapper. He starts investigating an accident involving a woman named Jennifer and becomes suspicious of a man named Russell, who drives a truck similar to one seen in the vicinity where Jennifer was hit. After Jennifer is released from the hospital, Russell takes her to their secluded home. Jennifer starts experiencing brief flashes of memories from the rainy night of her accident and becomes uneasy when she realizes that Russell has been locking her inside the house at night due to his strange behaviour.

Cast: Berenice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Lea, Leviant

Director: Xavier Gens

Storyline: Summer 2024. Paris is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river. To avoid a bloodbath at the city’s heart, they must join forces with Adil, the Seine River police commander.

Plot: Near the Great Pacific garbage patch, a marine researcher Sophia Assalas and her team search for Lilith, a tagged shortfin mako shark. Her husband Chris leads a diving team, that consists of 3 other drivers; Sam, Juan and Tom, leaving Sophia and Jade onboard. The team observed an unusual sight of mako hunting in packs before they located Lilith, who has grown much larger since she was last sighted.

As the shark appears to be non-aggressive, Chris attempts to take a blood sample from Lilith however, the shark suddenly snaps and kills him, Sam, Juan and Tom. Sophia then leaves the safety of the boat and goes after Lilith, before getting entangled in a net and is dragged far beneath the surface as the shark escapes into the depths. Even though she manages to free herself, she still suffers from injuries due to the severe change in pressure.

Fast forward three years, Sophia is now working at an aquarium in Paris. Environmentalists Mika and Ben inform Sophia that Lilith’s tracking beacon is still active and that she has travelled from the Pacific and up the River Seine and seems to be trapped in the city. After a man is found dead with shark bite wounds, police diver Adil recruits Sophia to help find and kill the shark, but Mika and Ben off the beacon before they can do so in the hope that they can rescue her later.