Anya Taylor-Joy's Genre-Defining Horror Hit Is Officially Leaving Netflix

Director M. Night Shyamalan's career-saving blockbuster Split is generally regarded as Anya Taylor-Joy's grand introduction as a future star, but the film's success was supplemented by another influential hit that debuted a few days later. Split was released in January 2016, and Taylor-Joy's other hit was released in February, after having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival a year earlier. The second movie was a critical and commercial hit, albeit on a different scale compared to Split. Shyamalan's movie grossed a massive $280 million worldwide against a reported budget of under $10 million, while the second film featuring Taylor-Joy grossed around $40 million against a $4 million budget. It's now streaming on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.

The movie in question remains one of the most influential horror hits of the 21st century. It set the template for the kind of arthouse horror movies that would come to define the genre over the following decade, in addition to introducing the world to one of the genre's most renowned new filmmakers, Robert Eggers. He went on to direct the acclaimed features The Lighthouse, The Northman, and more recently, Nosferatu. Eggers will debut his new film, Werwulf, later this year. It features Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role, and marks a return to the folk horror aesthetic that Eggers began with.