5 Best Workplace Horror Films

We’ve compiled a small list of our favourite workplace based horror films, just in time for Halloween. Lock the doors, dim the lights, and get your coworkers ready for the creepiest office movie marathon.

Bloodsucking B*stards (2015)

“God this company sucks!”

Bloody, ballsy, and just downright silly, Bloodsucking B*stards isn’t one of the most narratively compelling horror films in the list. But what it lacks in substance, it makes up for it with enough quips and gore. Slackers Evan and Tim have started to notice that their once work-shy colleagues, are now over-eager-to-please vampires. They suspect that their new sales manager has something to do with it. The rest of the screen time is devoted to the pair joining forces with the security guard, to battle their way out of the office to survive.

Cabin in the Woods (2012)

“I’m an intern! So that means I don’t qualify for overtime?”

Delightfully bloody and witty, Cabin in the Woods takes a sledgehammer to all the tired out horror film tropes. Five college students take a break and head to a remote forest retreat for a fun filled weekend. College students on break? Check. A remote, run down cabin in the middle of nowhere? Check. Uninviting and intimidating locals with thick regional accents? Check. Weird stuff in the basement? Check. As monsters, ghouls, and ghosts go on the offensive, the group slowing begin to realise that they may be a part of something much bigger. Which may or may not also involve offices at some point. No spoilers here.

Mayhem (2017)

“Welcome to the home of Towers & Smythe Consulting. TSC is a firm fuelled by greed, duplicity, and moral decay.”

Do you ever feel like you get treated unfairly at work? That your colleagues slack off and you’re expected to pick up? Do you ever fantasise about losing all inhibitions and killing everyone in your office? Luckily for you, you don’t have to fantasise (or act out and face going to prison), as Mayhem answers all of your burning questions. Derek Cho (Steven Yeun) is suffering from a bad case of the Mondays, when he gets framed for a legal case gone wrong. Just before being ejected from the building, the entire office gets shut down to be quarantined, as the building becomes infected with a disease that removes all inhibitions and morals, allowing those infected to fulfil their darkest impulses and desires. Teaming up with a rebuffed client, Melanie (played by the world’s new favourite Scream Queen, Samara Weaving), the pair get their revenge.

Alien (1979)

“I admire its purity. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”

Work trips can be such a drag. While on the voyage back to Earth, a spaceship receives a transmission of a nearby moon. The team check the seemingly abandoned ship, only for a member of the crew to be attacked by an alien. After bringing him on the ship for treatment, the creature separates itself in order to wreak havoc. We know this one isn’t technically an office, but the Nostromo was the crew’s workstation (and probably had some sort of space office knocking about). It counts. It features a stellar cast, with Sigourney Weaver’s first starring role.

American Psycho (2000)

“I’m into, uh, well, murders and executions, mostly.”

Perhaps the greatest out of all the workplace horror films ever, American Psycho tops the list. It follows Patrick Bateman, an affluent investment banker, who enjoys all the superficial and dazzling sights New York City has to offer, including dinners in the best restaurants and trips to the hippest nightclubs. However, Bateman conceals a gruesome, bloody second life. As the film goes on, Bateman begins to lose control over his impulses, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Shockingly violent, and at times bitterly amusing, the film (while it misses some of the satire presented in the book) provides a gory side-eye at the shallowness of capitalism and the viciousness of Wall Street. Christian Bale’s unflinching performance has resulted in Bateman becoming one of the most recognisable and iconic horror characters of all time.

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