Sinistercertainly earns its R-rating, as it features some truly shocking moments of gore in its final sequence.

Among many other things,Midsommarintroduced the idea that Pugh was one of her generations most defining scream queens.

Hayden Panettiere as Kirby in Scream 4

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Ethan Hawke in ‘Sinister’

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Noah Wiseman screaming in the back of a car in The Babadook

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Carolyn Perron (Lili Taylor) holds a lit match in the dark in ‘The Conjuring.'

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Kaylie (Karen Gillan) sitting at a table and looking across it at someone offscreen to her right in Oculus

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Jack Reynor and Florence Pugh gazing upward as they stand in a dirt clearing in “Midsommar”

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A close-up shot of Thomas Wake looking terrified in The Lighthouse.

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Colin Farrell as Jerry in his front lawn looking at a person offscreen in Fright Night

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Lupita Nyong’o holding Evan Alex and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Us.

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Scarlett Johansson looks into the sunlight in ‘Under the Skin’

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