Synopsis:
A mother and a father take their kids for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves

Rationale:
The top horror of 2019, from the same producers as Antebellum. Lupita Nyong’o’s was critically praised and many thought she was snubbed by the Academy.

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Alternative:

The Butterfly Effect

Synopsis:
Evan Treborn has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial moments of his life have disappeared into a black hole of forgetting, his boyhood marred by a series of terrifying events he can’t remember. Determined to do something now that he was incapable of doing then, Evan purposely travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved ones these traumatic experiences. By altering the events of the past, Evan hopes to transform the present.

Rationale:
Not a horror film, but it does have that time-travel element to it. A better film than those scores would imply. Watch the director’s cut if you can, as it has a more dark and interesting ending.

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