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Category: horror
Last chance: ‘The Bird with the Crystal Plumage’ – Dario Argento begins on Criterion Channel
The directorial debut of Dario Argento sets the tone and style for his baroque horror films and the genre he helped define: giallo.
The giant monster invasion begins on ‘Cloverfield’ on HBO Max
This high-concept reworking of an old-fashioned creature feature is a 21st century Godzilla movie with a DIY aesthetic. Matt Reeves directs and J.J. Abrams produces.
‘Penny Dreadful: Complete Series’ – Delicious Gothic horror on Showtime Anytime
This cable series stirs the characters of the iconic British horror novels of the 19th century into a shadowy world of vampires, witches, demons, and dark magic in Victorian London. Eva Green, Timothy Dalton, and Josh Hartnett star.
Hammer Films’ ‘The Horror of Dracula’ on HBO Max
Christopher Lee is an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula and Peter Cushing an intense, driven Van Helsing in the 1958 remake of the vampire classic.
‘Train to Busan’ – Korean zombie classic on Hulu, Peacock and more
You could call it “Zombies on a Train”—it certainly makes a catchy logline and it frames the premise accurately and succinctly—but this fleet, fierce, unexpectedly human thriller is so much more than a gimmick.
The slasher horror gets ‘Freaky’ on HBO Max
Vince Vaughn is terrific in this colorful and creative body-swapping twist of the slasher movie. Just call it “Freaky Friday the 13th.”
‘Attack the Block’ – Aliens vs. South London on Amazon Video and Hulu
Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens made him an international star, John Boyega made a name for himself in Attack the Block (2011), an alien invasion movie set in the gang-run projects of South London. While fireworks fill the sky, meteors pelt the streets, unleashing inky-black predators on an unsuspecting gang of teen thugs and […]
Last chance: The United States of ‘Zombieland’ on Netflix
The zombie comedy was hardly fresh territory when Zombieland (2009) came along (and really, will anyone top Shaun of the Dead?) but it nonetheless does a fine job of mining the humor inherent in the end of the world. Jesse Eisenberg is the loner college geek who finds that his obsessive-compulsive instincts are just what […]
Last chance: ‘Goodnight Mommy’ on Hulu
Goodnight Mommy (Germany, 2015) is an unsettling horror film built on scars (physical and psychological) that upset the connection between a mother (Susanne Wuest) and her sons, adolescent twins named Lukas and Elias played by real-life twin brothers Lukas Schwarz and Elias Schwarz. That fraternal connection is apparent in every scene, not just affection but […]