Here is a list of some popular and critically acclaimed horror movies from 2018 with a brief summary:

• “Hereditary”: After the passing of her grandmother, a family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
• “A Quiet Place”: In a post-apocalyptic world where sound attracts deadly creatures, a family must navigate through life in silence to survive.
• “The Ritual”: A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that’s stalking them.
• “Annihilation”: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don’t apply.
• “The Haunting of Hill House”: Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
• “Halloween”: Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
• “Suspiria”: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.
• “The Strangers: Prey at Night”: A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to survive.
• “The Nun”: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2,” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

Please note that this list is not comprehensive and other horror movies might also be considered as best, but these are some of the popular and critically acclaimed horror movies of 2018.