Great film, really nails the characters and atmosphere. Probably one of the saddest endings I've seen in a film in a while. I'm curious what others thought of the film.

Why theory is omaybe my favourite podcast and I just had to share this. A very academic approach to their analysis and heavily focus on psychoanalysis.

Exploring the classical horror film in terms of the antagonism between life and the beyond, inclusive of death. They focus on the films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Godzilla, and Psycho.

Give this a go, its definitely worth a listen!

Revisiting Ti West's amazing flick with a little Joe Bob commentary and caught this tidbit in the Special Thanks.

It has the occasional humorous moment and overall was an enjoyable watch. It kept my interest the entire time largely due to it steering clear of too many typical horror tropes and how unpredictable it was.

A mixture of H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond, The Blair Witch Project, and the real-life Project MKUltra experiments conducted by the U.S. Government from the 1950s to early 1970s, Banshee Chapter is an impressively adept and character-focused horror movie.

Also, Black Mass and Man Eater Godzilla count.

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There’s nothing I find so cheering, these days, as the rise of the horror movie. Take its intrusion into this year’s summer blockbusters. We have the usual soulless franchises and deadly repeats – Despicable Me 4, Deadpool 3, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die – and then we have a flicker of light in the dark. Turns out that audiences do want new stories, they do want new characters, and they do want inventive film-making after all. Because a genuinely imaginative – arthouse, even – movie is predicted to draw in big audiences and make a great deal of money. It has come in the form of a horror film: Longlegs.

Just released on Friday and starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer, Longlegs has been reviewed, variously, as “the scariest film of the decade”, and “a film in which every frame is a nightmare”. But it is also starkly beautiful – starting from the opening shot, as we follow a small girl’s progress through a snowy landscape. We move through claustrophobic basements and misty woods, our eyes flicking to layers of shadow in the background, to wherever the characters have last omitted to look. The film is thick with references for film buffs; flashbacks are indicated through texture and ratio changes; there are arty bursts of absurdity.

Yet the film is also expected to gross some $20m (£15.5m) in the US on its opening weekend – an astonishing haul for an indie movie. A BBC review suggests that in future, “horror movies could become the new summer blockbusters, while superhero movies become the counter-programming alternatives”.

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In fact, until a couple of years ago, it was quite routine for horror films to promote themselves to journalists and awards committees by strenuously denying they were horror films at all: instead they claimed to be “elevated horror”, “post-horror”, or “extreme drama”. Darren Aronofsky once described his film Mother!, in which a newborn child is eaten by a mob, as a “thriller” with “home invasion elements”.

But now the genre is at last on course for rehabilitation. What started in 2017, when Jordan Peele released the high-concept gothic Get Out, has continued in a stream of inventive horror films: Hereditary, Us, Nope, Lamb, M3GAN, Talk to Me, Beau Is Afraid. Accolades have mounted, and film-makers no longer have to dredge around for actors, worried the stigma will tank their careers.

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But the really good news, I think, is that the rise of the horror film bucks a dismal pattern. Mainstream cinema is now choked by franchises from the likes of Marvel and DC. Films for grown-ups are increasingly packaged in the bright colours of comic books and infected with parables from the nursery: good overcomes evil, hard work pays off, friendship is nice. We get the same characters, and the same stories, in the same fish-bowl universes.

Horror, by contrast, has become ever more sophisticated, interrogating contemporary anxieties – where do evil and vice really lie? – and playing with form. Last year, Huesera: The Bone Woman drew us into the experience of postpartum psychosis; 2020’s The Invisible Man took us on an empathetic journey with a victim of domestic abuse.

• 00:00 Longlegs
• 02:20 Latency
• 04:44 Alien: Romulus
• 06:44 Sting
• 08:55 A Quiet Place: Day One
• 11:22 Never Let Go
• 13:38 The Strangers: Chapter 1
• 16:02 The Exorcism
• 18:25 Cuckoo
• 20:49 Tarot
• 22:31 I Saw the TV Glow
• 24:44 Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
• 26:50 Terrifier 3
• 28:54 Wake Up
• 31:10 Bloodline Killer

I couldn't believe I missed this film for so many years. I saw it on a recommendation on Reddit for the saddest horror film, and it didn't disappoint.

It's a Spanish film, so if subtitles don't bother you too much I highly highly recommend a viewing. The ending left me reeling.

Follow the link to find trailers to some upcoming independent horror films that will be coming to a variety of streaming services and physical media!

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Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the comedy-horror-romance movie follows a struggling writer named James Bishop, who is dealing with a messy breakup with the help of his best friend while trying to finish his latest book before the impending nuclear zombie apocalypse.

Josh Monkarsh wrote and directed “As We Know It.” He says the story reflects the misadventures, friendships and heartbreak of his childhood as he grew up in ’90s-era Los Angeles. Two big sources of inspiration were John Carpenter’s sci-fi action film “They Live” and John Hughes’ coming-of-age favorite “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

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1. Alien
2. Let the Right One In
3. Aliens
4. Jaws
5. The Silence of the Lambs

Rotten Tomatoes' top 200

Director Leone expressed his excitement about the upcoming re-release, saying,

“This year has been unlike anything we could have imagined. To see all the love Terrifier 2 has received and the excitement this release has inspired from fans new and old, is truly beyond words. As a thank you to our fans and the many people who worked tirelessly on this release, we want to bring it back to the big screen where it belongs. And more than that, while fans eagerly await the release of Terrifier 3 next year, we want the chance to share what we’ve been working on for the third installment because a year is just too long to wait.”

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In today’s video we take a look at some of our favorite Cosmic Horror movies you should definitely watch.

Stories of space and body horror mixed with existential dread.

Video made by Moises & Sergio Velasquez

■ Time Stamps:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 0:51 - Event Horizon
• 1:52 - In the Mouth of Madness
• 2:58 - Annihilation
• 3:59 - The Mist
• 5:11 - Ad
• 6:18 - The Void
• 7:31 - The Empty Man
• 8:45 - Viewers’ Choice
• 10:28 - The Thing
• 11:33 - Outro

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List of horror B-movies from the 1980s and 1990s

A piece about a group of friends who go on a hiking trip in Sweden only to have things go awry.

I rather enjoyed it! Only recently hearing about its existence once I heard the premise I immediately added it to my Trakt watchlist. As a Midsommar fan spooky things happening in Sweden is a favorite horror subgenre.

Add it to your Trakt.

Before Jigsaw, Pennywise, and Ghostface, there was Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man. Yeah, horror movies and their monsters were more about creaky doors, freaky costumes, and spooky atmospheres than green-screen frights, puzzling torture porn, and high-octane mayhem.

So ahead, we're breaking down the horror movies that stand out in the crypt of classics; those that required their filmmakers to act as mad scientists to craft eerie and visceral tales with nothing but great storytelling and a formidable fog machine.

Link - Cosmic horror has been established as one of the most chilling sub-genres in horror cinema. With a focus on the unknown, isolation, and the human mind, cosmic horror plays on the imaginations of audiences rather than going all out on gore and jump scares. Instead of ghosts, serial killers, or vampires, these stories focus on the endless possibilities of the universe's fictional horrors.

Early 20th-century author H.P. Lovecraft gave Cosmic horror prominence through stories like At the Mountain of Madness, The Hound, and The Call of Cthulhu. The genre can be challenging to pull off in cinema, but plenty of films have tried to capture the terror of the unknown and unimaginable. Everything from stories of paranoia to questions about reality itself has made up cosmic horror in cinema.

I’m watching the new VHS85 and I saw the first one but I’ve missed everything else. Have they ever detailed what’s going on story outside the tapes?

As with most films I went into this completely blind and it turned out to be one of my favorites of 2023. While not super original, the acting is top notch, set design is phenomenal, and atmosphere is pretty unsettling at times.

*** Mild Spoilers ***

Creepy monster design will make you check the closets tonight. Anyone with kids might find this one tough to watch in some parts.

I’ve always been curious if it was well known that Myers wouldn’t be in it? Was there a big disappointment around that?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into theaters… Cineverse, in partnership with Bloody Disgusting, announce the return of the unrated mega-slasher Terrifier 2 to theaters nationwide beginning November 1. That’s right, we’re extending the Halloween season this year, bringing Art the Clown back to the big screen for the hit sequel’s 1-year anniversary!

The movie will feature a special introduction from Creator Damien Leone along with a never-before-seen Terrifier 3 teaser, both exclusive to theaters!

In addition, on opening night, the first 100 fans at each theater will receive an exclusive Terrifier 3 poster. As quantities are extremely limited, the team behind Terrifier recommends that you get to the theater early. Tickets are on sale now wherever movie tickets are sold – Fandango, the official website and Atom Tickets. ...