Since her acting debut in 2013, Mia Goth has starred in a number of horror movies, but which one is the best? Over the years, Mia Goth has quickly become something of an indie darling, and she seemingly has an affinity for horror flicks. With her recent collaboration with horror filmmaker Ti West, Mia Goth appears to be cementing her position as one of the horror genre's leading talents.
Mia Goth was discovered by a fashion photographer at the Underage Festival in London when she was only 14 years old and was immediately signed to a modeling agency. After being featured in a few advertisements, she began auditioning for film roles at the age of 16. Her first role was in Lars Von Trier's transgressive epic, Nymphomaniac, alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film was released in 2013, the same year she starred in Sky Atlantic's crime series The Tunnel.
Mia Goth started landing leading roles as early as 2015, only two years into her acting career. She starred as one of the leads in the independent post-apocalyptic thriller, The Survivalist, and in Gore Verbinski's A Cure For Wellness, released in 2017. She continued to star in horror movies over the next few years, as well as expanding her range with the romantic period comedy, Emma (starring Anya Taylor-Joy), and the surreal action drama, Mayday. However, the one genre found most consistently throughout her filmography is horror, so here's a ranking of every horror movie Mia Goth has starred in.
6. Marrowbone (2017)
Marrowbone is a 2017 psychological horror movie directed by Sergio G. Sánchez and stars Mia Goth as Jane Marrowbone, the eldest daughter of the mysterious family living on the Marrowbone estate. She and her siblings befriend, Allie (played by Anya Taylor-Joy), who takes it upon herself to help the Marrowbone siblings as they seemingly contend with a ghost. The film is an intriguing blend of different genres, from psychological thriller to crime mystery. However, the whole never really coalesces into anything genuinely scary. Mia Goth delivers a solid performance very much in line with her usual unsettling, off-kilter characters.
5. A Cure For Wellness (2017)
After over a decade of making big-budget adventure flicks like Pirates Of The Caribbean and The Lone Ranger, as well as comedies like Rango and The Weather Man, Gore Verbinski returned to horror in 2017 with A Cure For Wellness. The film stars Mia Goth as Hannah von Reichmerl, a mysterious patient at a wellness center in the Swiss Alps. She becomes involved with Dane Dehaan's character, Lockhart, who attempts to uncover the truth behind this strange place. It turns out that the wellness center's Dr. Heinrich Volmer, played by Jason Isaacs, is a 200-year-old baron who has been prolonging his lifespan by performing macabre medical experiments on the center's patients. Hannah is actually the baron's daughter, whom he intends to impregnate in order to create a "pure" bloodline. Hannah is the perfect encapsulation of what makes Mia Goth's performances so memorable, as she provides an air-fairy kind of ethereality. Although the film itself flounders, especially in its final act, Mia Goth's acting really adds to A Cure For Wellness' bizarre tone.
4. The House (2022)
Netflix's small horror anthology, The House, passed under the radar, but it is still well worth a watch. The film is composed of three stop-motion animated tales each centering around a house and its inhabitants. While The House's ambiguous endings may require explanation, the tone and intricately constructed animation are enough to hold a viewer's attention. Mia Goth provides the voice for a character in the first short. She plays Mabel, the eldest daughter of a poor family that moves into a mansion in exchange for their own modest home. What ensues is a fairytale-like story about how materialism can overshadow human connection.
3. X (2022)
In 2022, Ti West returned with another low-budget modern horror classic. X follows a group of young pornographers who move out to an old Texan couple's rural property in order to shoot an adult movie. The film soon devolves into a terrifying and perverted slasher. While the film is chock full of sex and gore, X is actually a rather sad film about aging, and it explores this theme is the most unsettling manner possible. Mia Goth is already set to return in Ti West's pre-planned prequel, Pearl.
2. High Life (2018)
High Life is the English-language debut of acclaimed French filmmaker, Claire Denis. It stars Robert Pattinson as Monte, a criminal sent on a space mission that involves traveling to a black hole in order to extract its energy. Over the course of the trip, Juliette Binoche's character, a scientist, uses the prisoners as guinea pigs in her experiments. Mia Goth's character is Boyse, one of the prisoners on the spaceship who Binoche's character impregnates. As the only woman onboard able to birth a child, Boyse plays an important role in the film and Mia Goth's performance turns her into a very unconventional character who meets with a tragic end. While High Life is not a conventional horror movie, it is still disturbing and features a number of truly terrifying sequences. The film explores profound themes such as the future of mankind in the space age, gender relations, and the nature of infinity.
1. Suspiria (2018)
Luca Guadagnino's 2018 Suspiria remake sees Mia Goth starring alongside Dakota Johnson as a young dancer trying to make her mark at the Markos dance company in Berlin. The film is a terrifying update of Dario Argento's 1977 classic and explores a number of political and social themes concerning the role of women in society and the changing nature of motherhood. Mia Goth's Sara is the character who uncovers the true nature of the dance company and its mysterious matrons, who are, in fact, witches (as in the original Suspiria). After discovering the matrons' secret chambers, Sara is entranced by the witches and is later disemboweled for their satanic ritual. Sara's dance performance while under the witches' spell is the highlight of the movie in terms of Goth's performance; a haunting sequence in which Mia Goth is able to communicate that her body is no longer her own. Suspiria is certainly the scariest, and most well-directed (thanks to Luca Guadagnino), of Mia Goth's horror movies.