The funny thing is that this ambitious study of an ex-cop (James Badge Dale) who investigates a missing girl has already started to develop a cult following of its own. The Empty ManĢ0th Century Fox had absolutely no idea what to do with David Prior’s adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, and so quietly shuttled it into theaters and then VOD. Don’t you owe it to yourself to see a movie that can boast that trivia? The final act of Diabolique is a beauty, anchored by a wonderful horror movie twist that no one saw coming when it was released but has been copied dozens of times since, including by the masters of the form. DiaboliqueĪlfred Hitchcock reportedly made Psycho because he wanted to make a movie that scared him as much as Diabolique. A low-budget stunner, this film instantly announced Del Toro as a major voice in the genre (and started his working relationship with Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman). Long before winning awards for Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, the brilliant Guillermo del Toro made his directorial debut with this 1993 Mexican vampire film. Go back to the beginning and watch the first and arguably still best film in the series, a fantastic haunted house movie that revitalized the genre.
Is this the biggest horror movie of the 2010s? Not only did it make James Wan into a major director, but it spawned its own multiple title franchise with spin-offs like The Nun and Annabelle. You can see this film’s DNA in hundreds of horror movies to follow, but it’s still wonderfully creepy when judged on its own terms. These visions lead her to an abandoned carnival. Candace Hilligoss plays a woman who starts having terrifying visions after surviving a car accident. One of the best horror movies ever made, Herk Harvey’s 1962 film is an early cult classic, a film made for almost no money that became an influential masterpiece. Tense and clever, it premiered at Sundance and has become something of a cult classic in the decade since. Largely a one-man show, this is a clever filmmaking exercise as Reynolds does everything he can to avoid his underground fate. Ryan Reynolds does his best non-costume film work in this 2010 thriller about a man who wakes up to find he’s been buried alive. It was only mildly received in 1979 but has become a cult classic in the four decades since.
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A series of brutal murders takes place against this twisted, very Cronenberg backdrop.
This thriller is one of David Cronenberg’s best, the story of a controversial psychologist (Oliver Reed) whose treatment of a mentally ill patient and her ex-husband gets, shall we say, intense. Horror filmmakers have been remaking the bare bones of The Blob over and over again (and the 1988 version is great too), but it’s the original 1958 genre classic that’s on HBO Max, known for its icky killer stuff but also because it’s the film debut of Steve McQueen, who plays the only guy who can stop an interstellar entity that grows bigger with each life it takes. There’s something so timeless about the image of an actual slimy blob crawling through a small town. A fairy tale about people who live in darkness, Antlers is one of the most underrated genre films of 2021. The film tells the tale of a schoolteacher (Keri Russell) who suspects one of her students has a troubled home life but has no idea what she’s going to uncover.
Scott Cooper ( Hostiles) turned from his more traditional dramatic forms of storytelling to craft a horror movie with producer Guillermo del Toro and co-writer Nick Antosca ( Channel Zero). (It also marks Drew Barrymore’s debut, for all the trivia nuts out there.) This 1980 flick features the film debut of William Hurt, who plays a psychopathologist who experiments with altered states of mind with terrifying results. Altered StatesĮveryone loves the surreal horror of David Lynch, but it feels like not enough people have appropriately honored the crazy vision of Ken Russell, who adapted the novel of the same name by Paddy Chayefsky into this totally bonkers thriller about the impact of sensory deprivation. The impressive sequel, 28 Weeks Later, is also on HBO Max. Yes, it will almost certainly play differently after the events of 2020 than it ever has before. Society has disappeared because of a highly contagious virus. It’s the story of a man (Cillian Murphy) who wakes up to discover that the world around him is gone. Danny Boyle directed this unexpected critical and commercial darling, a film that influenced dozens of inferior works in the two decades since its release.
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