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Nazis, Cheap Thrills, And Big Bad Wolves: The 13 Best Horror Movies Of 2014

While reflecting on an entire year's worth of horror movies may sound like a tremendous chore, there's no better feeling than reliving some of your favorite cinematic moments after the dust has settled and no more films remain unreleased. Sure, sifting through the worst of the worst may be not be an enviable task - which I did for my Worst Horror Movies Of 2014 feature already - but my "Best Of" work is where the movie Gods show their mercy. This is my exploration of the best horror had to offer this year, and my chance to tip my hat towards those horror films that remind me why a genre full of murder, mayhem, and spooky horrors provides the highest highs Hollywood can provide.

3) Big Bad Wolves

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While you might not be afraid of one big bad wolf, how about going up against three of them? Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado dig deep in creating Big Bad Wolves, a revenge thriller that disregards cutesy games and channels raw, irrational emotion that will ruin fairy tales for anyone with a moral backbone. Being dubbed “The Best Movie Of The Year” by Quentin Tarantino, it’s easy to get lost in this chaotic collision of heartbreak, redemption, and judicial thinking – along with obvious undertones of seething rage.

Here’s how it starts: Gidi (Tzahi Grad) is a father whose daughter has just been murdered (brutally), Dror (Rotem Keinan) is the only suspect, and Miki (Lior Ashkenazi) is a detective convinced that Dror is the killer. Gidi takes matters into his own hands when he believes Dror walks free, capturing the suspected deviant, yet Miki’s own plans land him in Gidi’s trap as well. From here we’re subjected to torture scenes and unnerving tension, built with movies like I Saw The Devil and Oldboy in mind – but with an Israeli twist.

It’s, like, really good. Trust me.