The best horror movies of 2024 feature plenty of transforming flesh, agitated ghosts, serial killers and a supremely creepy mannequin.

There are certain sequences in horror that affect moviegoers for years, even decades. Seeing the first Crawler in The Descent or the red-faced demon in Insidious gave viewers such a fright, it might still rattle them to this day even if they haven't watched the film in years.

Nosferatu arrives in cinemas this Christmas and Robert Eggers' new movie is the best horror movie of the year, driven by Lily-Rose Depp's excellent performance.

Here are 10 performances that gave me great joy or moved me deeply—or both—in the last year. Every one is a tribute to what actors, at their best, can do—and a reason to keep going to the movies, one of the best ways to feel connected to other humans in an often inhumane world.

She doesn't merely do a serviceable job for a mainstream horror movie - she commits fully to the script's intense demands and delivers a performance that, in a just world, would be courting awards buzz tight now.