Best A24 Movies for suspense

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Best for suspense

You Can See Everything

5.0 attribute score

Highest scored product for this attribute based on supporting review evidence.

Safest pick

Backrooms

4.7 attribute score

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Most evidence

How to Make a Killing

13 supporting reviews

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Best overall product

The Invite

4.5 overall score

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#1 You Can See Everything
5.0

Despite its nonfiction premise, the constant reversals and unsettling exchanges create genuine suspense.

Pros: originality, humor

#2 Primetime
4.7

The film becomes especially potent when the ratings pressure and final operation converge. Multiple accounts describe the climax as heartpounding, riveting, harrowing, or intensely tense.

Pros: lead performance, visual style

Cons: theme depth, story quality

#3 Backrooms
4.7

Long corridors, distant noises, hidden figures, and unstable camera movement sustain a persistent sense of danger. Reviewers repeatedly praised the film for making anticipation and uncertainty more frightening than overt...

Pros: acting performance, scares

Cons: ending satisfaction, plot clarity

#4 The Death of Robin Hood
4.5

Despite its contemplative second half, the film often preserves a sense that Robin’s past will catch up with him. Reviewers praised the twists and sustained unease even when action recedes.

Pros: visual style, cinematography

Cons: story quality, pacing

#5 The Drama
4.4

Suspense is a notable strength when the wedding preparations turn psychologically tense. Editing, sound, and performance make ordinary situations feel increasingly ominous and unstable.

Pros: humor, theme depth

Cons: character development, screenplay quality

#6 The Invite
4.0

The apartment becomes a claustrophobic emotional trap as grievances, secrets, and attraction accumulate. The tension comes from social and marital danger rather than conventional thriller mechanics.

Pros: humor, screenplay quality

Cons: score quality, runtime

#7 How to Make a Killing
3.2

The framing device and predictability often weaken suspense, though several viewers still enjoy the late-game tension and third-act escalation.

Pros: lead performance, humor

Cons: entertainment value, originality

#8 Onslaught
3.0

Suspense is inconsistent: the best early sequences build strong anticipation, but other viewers felt the film rarely sustains genuine tension once the siege begins.

Pros: lead performance, entertainment value

Cons: action sequences, ending satisfaction