Top rated movies with scenery-chewing performance that have ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with scenery-chewing performance and ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with scenery-chewing performance and ratcheting up tension, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Let Him Go (2020)

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

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2020-11-05 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Diane Lane, Kevin Costner

Rating

rating icon 6.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    control freak
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wacko
  3. Ranked #1 for
    top-notch

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2 Villains (2019)

When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.

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2019-09-20 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scenery-chewing performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    thin
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sympathetic

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3 The Stylist (2020)

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

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2020-09-26 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant

Rating

rating icon 5.09
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    tight editing
  2. Ranked #2 for
    swift pace
  3. Ranked #2 for
    becoming obsessed

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4 The Prototype (2022)

A government agent stumbles upon an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. Using a blue liquid created by the aliens to make soldiers stronger, he becomes The Prototype-the only hope for mankind.

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2022-02-25 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Victoria De Mare, Theresa Tilly

Rating

rating icon 4.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absorbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    well-executed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    thought-provoking theme

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5 The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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2019-10-18 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.509
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    iconography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crazy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    lovecraftian

Trailer

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6 The Outfit (2022)

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

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2022-02-25 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch

Rating

rating icon 7.092
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    full of twists and turns
  2. Ranked #1 for
    plenty of twist
  3. Ranked #1 for
    crazy plot

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7 The Good Nurse (2022)

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

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2022-10-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Rating

rating icon 6.901
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high caliber
  2. Ranked #2 for
    absorbing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    engaging

Trailer

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8 The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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2020-10-29 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr.

Rating

rating icon 6.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely frightening
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with eeriness
  3. Ranked #1 for
    atmospheric

Trailer

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9 Run (2020)

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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2020-11-20 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen

Rating

rating icon 7.261
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    on edge of seat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    psychologically thrilling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with WTF moments

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10 Boiling Point (2021)

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.

Info

2021-07-05 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson

Rating

rating icon 7.233
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    all major player cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gripping drama
  3. Ranked #1 for
    relentless

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Boiling Point trailer
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