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Another year is in the books, and it was a very solid one for horror movies. In addition to some quality work from big franchises like Saw and Scream, the indie horror scene has been a goldmine full of great horror that never got a significant theatrical release–or any theatrical release at all in a bunch of cases.
Let’s celebrate the year in horror by looking at the top-rated horror films by Metacritic score. Metacritic, which is GameSpot’s sister site, aggregates reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, and other media with a weighted average of the individual review scores. Anything that was released in the United States for the first time in 2023, in theaters or on streaming, qualifies, and so it’s not the big titles that dominate this list. Let’s take a look. And after you’re done here, make sure to check out the year’s best and worst movies, according to Metacritic, along with GameSpot’s best movies of 2023.
