![]() Yes, it’s more thriller than horror, but you get a pretty dark, vicious, horrific view of the world - especially if you watch the entire Millennium trilogy ( The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest are on Prime too). It’s worth finding this clever little indie about a group of Scottish boys who stumble onto something insane in the Scottish Highlands. Known by the better title of Boyz in the Wood when it premiered at SXSW, Get Duked! became a Prime Video original in 2020 and largely disappeared under the waves of new streaming content. It’s a ludicrous thriller filled with people doing the absolute wrong thing that they should be doing in that moment, but its commitment to doling out punishment to its very bad characters makes for an effectively tense experience. Yes, this a horror film that uses an obscene sex act as the inciting incident for a disaster aboard a yacht in Mallorca. Go Google the title of this film (NSFW) and come back. A twist on the Giallo style of Italian filmmaking but with an American perspective, Eyes of Laura Mars is a great, taut movie. She plays Laura, a photographer who begins to see murders through the eyes of a killer. Irvin Kershner directed the 1978 noir thriller that starred the great Faye Dunaway, hot off her Oscar win for Network. The driver covers up the accidental death, leading to a tear in the fabric of supernatural happenings. It’s the tale of a single mother whose daughter is killed one night in a roadside accident. ![]() The Deeper You Digīilled as an Adams Family Production, this is a real labor of DIY indie filmmaking love for a husband/wife writing/directing team, who also star alongside their daughter. Martin Starr and Jocelyn DeBoer join a cast of largely German actors in this story of Nazis returned from the dead to get their gold. Tommy Wirkola followed up his own cult hit with an inspired sequel about Nazi zombies trying to take over the world. Deadĭead Snow 2 is the best horror/comedy that you probably haven’t seen. It stars Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, and Bill Camp, and it’s a must-see. Based on a true story, it depicts a time that a man posed as a police officer, calling a restaurant manager and forcing her through a series of increasingly embarrassing and dangerous tasks. ComplianceĬraig Zobel wrote and directed a stunning 2012 thriller that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. With some clever twists and turns, this could become a cult hit on services like Amazon Prime. ![]() Elijah Wood stars as a young man who seeks out his estranged father (the great Stephen McHattie), and the two attempt to bond, but, well, something isn’t quite right with daddy. Take the trip to this Ant Timpson film that premiered at Tribeca in April of 2019. Sometimes you’re looking horror a bit off the beaten path. A group of people get together for a dinner party when the whole neighborhood goes into a blackout except for the house at the other end of the street, in which the same dinner party appears to be taking place. The idea is one that Rod Serling would have loved. James Ward Byrkit wrote and directed this 2013 gem that has developed quite a cult following over the years since its Fantastic Fest premiere. Carrie is still one of the best King adaptations of all time. Sissy Spacek gives one of her best performances as the title character, a bullied girl who discovers that she’s not your ordinary teenager. Watch Brian De Palma’s masterpiece to flash back to a time when King wasn’t yet a household name. ![]() Stephen King has arguably never been bigger than he is now, with remakes of his classics hitting theaters and new books released every few months. Things get even weirder when an ancient mummy terrorizes their facility. The Evil Dead star plays Elvis Presley-yes, that Elvis-who didn’t actually die and now lives at a nursing home with an old Black man who claims to be JFK, played wonderfully by Ossie Davis. It’s been twenty years since this instant cult classic came into the world, featuring one of Bruce Campbell’s most purely enjoyable performances. Critics were mixed, but it was actually one of the biggest hits of 1972. William Marshall stars as the title character, reimagined as an 18th century African prince turned creature of the night by Count Dracula himself. There’s a subgenre of the subgenre that is Blaxploitation from the 1970s that centered Black horror stories and Blacula is one of the most famous ever. Bingo Hell isn’t as good but features great turns from Adriana Barraza and Richard Brake, as a Faustian bingo hall owner who comes to a community on the edge of poverty and nearly destroys it. The second year of Prime’s Welcome to the Blumhouse had one stand-out in the latest from the clever director Gigi Saul Guerrero, who also helmed the Into the Dark stand-out Culture Shock, over on Hulu.
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