3. Creep
With just two characters, a few locations and one camera, Patrick Brice pulls off so much more in Creep than most big budget, mainstream horror flicks did this year. The movie follows a videographer looking for work who takes on a project for a guy he met on Craiglist, only to discover that something might be a bit off about this man. Mark Duplass creates one of the great horror characters of this decade in Josef, a guy who seems perfectly normal on the surface but is unsettling in a very subtle way. All these moments of awkwardness are sprinkled into Aaron’s initial meeting with him, and it’s like Josef is slowly pushing the boundaries of what Aaron will find acceptable until it snowballs into something highly disturbing. It would be far less interesting if the man our protagonist finds on Craigslist was some sort of obviously evil psychopath, but the subtlety of Duplass’ performance makes this a much more complicated film to take in. Because the two lead performances and the convincing dialogue plants this all firmly in reality, seeing where things go in the second half is unbelievably terrifying because we have been so thoroughly convinced that this is not occurring in a fictional version of reality. As a result, just a guy dancing in a goofy way becomes one of the most nightmare-inducing sequences of 2015, and that's one hell of an accomplishment.
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