Outcast

Kyle Barnes is the reason nobody in Rome, West Virginia will look him in the eye. The people there blame him for what happened to his wife and daughter, though nothing is ever said outright, which is exactly the point.

It is a possession story, but not the jump scare kind. The dread builds through what a small town whispers and refuses to say out loud, and through a man who cannot prove his own innocence because the truth is too strange to say aloud. Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta made the comic it is drawn from, so there is a page trail if you fancy knowing where the blood first came from.

This is one for the slow burn crowd. If you like your fear to creep rather than jump, and you don't mind a town keeping its secrets close, you'll be at home here. It rewards patience more than it rewards nerve.

Watch it on a night when you want something slower and heavier than a slasher, the sort that sits with you after the screen goes dark. Not one for background noise. Put the phone down for this.