It Follows takes a simple concept - it’s creepy to have a stranger staring at you - and builds a great horror movie around it. With the help of her friends, Jay struggles to stay on the move and find the origin of the curse. For Jay (Maika Monroe), a night with her shady boyfriend Hugh (Jake Weary), has life-threatening consequences, as Hugh reveals that he has passed on to her a curse, which entails a shapeshifting creature that will pursue her, slowly but unstoppably, until it catches her or she passes the curse on to someone else. Nothing draws the attention of a movie monster like the sound of young people in the throes of passion. The worst thing you can do in a horror movie - outside of maybe splitting up or stumbling into the basement - is to have sex. Zombies may seem like a dead horse at this point, but Train to Busan injects some fresh blood into the concept, offering a claustrophobic, pulse-pounding survival story. Now they and some other survivors must navigate train cars crawling with the undead as the train speeds toward safety. That’s the scenario Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) and his daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an) face when they board a train to Busan at the exact moment a zombie outbreak occurs.
What’s scarier than snakes on a plane? The fees to check a bag these days, for one, but also zombies on a train. Critically praised for its nearly dialogue-free story and creative use of sound, Hush is widely regarded as a modern horror masterpiece of cinema. The film follows a deaf-mute novelist (Siegel) who finds herself pursued by a murderous stalker while staying at her remote house in the woods. Brilliantly paced and acted, with creative use of sound, the film is a modern horror touchstone that was followed by a well-received 2021 sequel.īefore he turned gothic horror into mainstream hits with The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, filmmaker Mike Flanagan co-wrote and directed this 2016 home-intruder thriller starring Hill House actress Kate Siegel, who also co-wrote the script with Flanagan. Krasinski was joined in the cast by his real-world wife, Emily Blunt, as well as young actors Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. John Krasinski co-wrote and directed the 2018 film, which became one of the year’s biggest hits and the recipient of a long list of awards for both the cast’s performances and various technical achievements. Silence is the only way to stay safe in this terrifyingly tense franchise that follows a family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where extraterrestrial creatures stalk anything that makes a sound. While Vaughn and Newton are endlessly entertaining to watch, the film mixes equal amounts of scares and laughs into its entertaining, shockingly gory, and smartly scripted version of an old-school slasher flick. Kathryn Newton plays the teenager who suddenly finds herself inhabiting a middle-aged murderer’s body.
The body-swapping comedy got a dark twist in this 2020 slasher film that cast Vince Vaughn as a seemingly unstoppable killer terrorizing a small town, only to end up accidentally switching bodies with one of his intended victims: A teenage girl. Looking to streaming something other than scares? We’ve also rounded up the best movies on Netflix and best movies on Hulu, as well as the best movies on Amazon Prime and best movies on Disney+.
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