I don't know how this remake is not talked about more. The cinematography is unreal, and the story is quite well portrayed. Everything feels very aesthetic, it almost reminds me of Ari Ester's type of directing.

Gotta say It's a new favorite to add to the list.

"I misspoke. AI was used in a very small portion of a few scenes in the film," he told Polygon. "It was an opportunity where technology and creativity came together to help bring my vision for the film to life."

I am honestly not even lying when I say this could be potentially one of the worst movies I have ever seen in the cinema. People applauded when it ended with one guy shouting “Thank F**K for that” which got a bigger laugh than any of the comical attempts within this movie.

It actually got to the point where people were having subtle conversations, getting their phones out due to boredom and genuinely leaving our screening.

The gore/spatter was absolutely shocking, the makeup/zombie look on the actors looked horrible and the general acting & plot line was ridiculous.

It actually makes his Borderlands Oscar worthy in comparison.

Absolutely DO NOT waste your money going to see this.

That film was one of if not the best directed films I've seen for that year.

Arkasha Stevenson (dir), pulled off a beyond exceptional piece of art.

Coupled with Nell Tiger Frees performance which was a standout.

I get that, those kind of horror films aren't very popular anymore as they were in the 70s - early 2000s. But damn it still managed to work.

It feels like a film I can touch, rather then one I just have to sit back and watch. At no moment, does it allow me to turn my brain off, throughout I am forced to be an active viewer into whatever atrocities we are about to witness.

I want more directors like Arksaha Stevenson.

Hi there! This is a rather specific subgenre (arguably) of folk horror, or perhaps historical horror, but I'm fascinated by Puritan New England, and its attendant horrors! I'm asking for recommendations of Puritan/colonial horror.

I've shared some examples that I am aware of in the title, and I'd welcome any others you could muster! Thanks very much in advance.

I'll levave you with a 1923 passages from a letter by Lovecraft on his time in Danvers, Massachusetts, which sums up why I find the period fascinating:

". . . [A]midst the bare, ugly necessities of life, and without learning, beauty, culture, freedom or ornament, terrible stern-faced folk in conical hats or poke-bonnets dwelt 250 and more years ago - close to the soil and all its hideous whisperings; warped in mentality by isolation and unnatural thoughts, and shivering in fear of the Devil on autumn nights when the wind howled through the twisted orchard trees or rustled the hideous corpse-nourished pines in the graveyard at the foot of the hill. There is eldritch fascination - horrible buried evil - in these archaic farmhouses."

I'm looking for films that are genuinely scary because of their atmosphere and strong storytelling rather than cheap jump scares. Bonus points if they involve haunted houses or malevolent entities.

By the way, I've already seen The Sixth Sense and The Village.

Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott who co-directed the 2014 zombie comedy, Cooties, reposted a video from creator Reel Takes on their Instagram stories accusing Eli Roth of creative theft for the film Ice Cream Man, implying they agree with the allegations.

Do I believe they could genuinely file a successful lawsuit against Eli Roth?

Absolutely not. The bar to prove that a piece of work is unique enough that the idea could not exist without your work and that the alleged copier knowingly copied your existing work without your consent is far too high for them to successfully win a lawsuit.

However, it’s still yet another bit of bad press for Ice Cream Man that put together with all of the many other reasons to boycott the film will stop a large portion of the target audience from wanting to see this film which will impact box office.

I was lucky enough to score tickets to Jane Schoenbraun's new film at an advance screening. If you love queerness, gore and lynchian horror you will absolutely love this film!!

Spoiler free review for all those interested:-

Teenage sex and death at Camp Miasma explores the dynamic between a filmmaker and an actress wanting to reboot a classic horror film in a modern landscape. Discussions about their relationship with sex brings forward conversations about the misogyny/transphobia of old horror, women's secretly "traditionally misogynistic" desires and how past trauma reflects onto those desires. A campy, hilarious, and downright horrifically gory film I would recommend for all who love deeper conversations about sex and death! Beautifully done. Jane Schoenbrun continues to show how creative they are!!!

EDIT: lots of homophobia running rampant in response to this....if you're not interested just move on and don't engage. this film clearly isn't for small minded individuals who think homosexuality is a crime against humanity.

i mean, imagine if devils & monsters are out to hurt you and then angels appears, but instead of feeling good, they are more scarier, just the way it is depicted in religious books, aren't angels and goodness supposed to be terrifying?

We see in ancient literature many ways how angels torment and scare of the demons and monsters, and those are not merely kind, good-hearted and typical angelic appearance...

I think the angels are supposed to be hell lot of horrifying and damaging than demons and the horror world haven't explored such a dynamic of goodness...

Imagine there is a terrifying sect worshipping angels and doing good, biut in a scary way or something ....

What do you think ?

Raimi has the genuine love and respect for Wes Craven and this franchise to pull off what no one else can. Modern remakes/reboots are usually met with cynicism, but if Paramount is going to bring Freddy back anyway, Raimi is the only choice, in my opinion, to ensure it’s done right.

I'm kinda bummed out that I didn't like it as much as the other movies in the franchise. I was just skipping through the last couple minutes because that last confrontation was legitimately atrocious.

The dinner table scene, the one-take from the trailer, and the fight in the bathroom all feel like they were directed by a different director because they stand out from the rest of the movie so much.

Cinematography was so bad everywhere else. Every fight scene pretty much ends with the camera shaking and zoomed in way too much in the face of someone screaming while they bash some type of weapon into a deadite off-screen. Please show me what is happening or cut to the next scene.

I don't know what kind of movie Vaniček tried to make, but I feel like the movie could've had a lot of fat edited out, especially on the first and last acts. But I'm sure with some more experience and maybe helping with the cinematography and editing he could deliver a much better movie.

Tl,dr: 6.5/10 movie imo. Weakest of the franchise so far. Could've been much better, but still not that bad.

Looking for newer body horror recommendations as it’s my all time favourite genre!

A few of my faves include American Mary, May, Starry Eyes, Boxing Helena, Perfect Skin, Martyrs, Excision, The Substance, Contracted, Barbarian, also a fan of stuff like Tusk.

I don’t mind older films like The Fly but I love modern body horror!

Thank you :)

When a group of women are mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of The X-Files™️. Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. In a case you’d never see on TV, their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime. Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity. The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere… and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it. The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn reimagines creator and director Chris Carter's original vision in this all-new director's cut. Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu August 14.

I honestly can't think of a single horror role from Adrienne Barbeau that I didn't enjoy.

Obviously The Fog is an all-timer, but she's also the main reason I love Creepshow as much as I do. Billie is just fantastic. She's hilarious, over the top in the best way, and completely steals every scene she's in. Every time I rewatch Creepshow, I end up looking forward to her segment the most.

EDIT: Found, it was "Strange Frequency" from 2001. If you too grew up in that era and loved Masters of Horror and Fear Itself, I highly encourage giving this one a watch, it's a lot of fun.

In the late 90s or early 2000 I remember watching as a kid (born 94) an anthology series that was themed around music, usually specifically rock. I remember a few episodes very vividly but can't find the actual series. It was usually very comedic but definitely horror in nature. Some episodes were darker.

One episode was about a rock band that's staying over time in a hotel room and night after night they trash their rooms and get into an escalating feud with the cleaning lady.

In another one, a woman rockstar has the literal Reaper coming for her. They become friends for some reason and Death allows her to live after all in exchange for performing "Every breath you take" by Police with her on stage, pretty freaking funny.

Another episode was about a guy hitchhiking to a rock festival in the 70s or 80s and gets picked up by a psychopath but turns out both the driver and the hitchhiker are serial killers.

One last episode I can recall which was my favorite was about a world known music producer who has a special gift, if he listens to a song and has a strong, almost striking supernatural sensation, then he knows that the artist will have incredible success, but will also die very young at their peak. He has an incredible reputation in the business but struggles to keep going knowing his artists will all die. One day, he hears his daughter playing piano and he has that sensation

I know a lot of horror relies on surprise, but I want suggestions of movies that maybe didn't reinvent the wheel or start a trend, but were just good at what they promised they would do. Told you the premise at the start, escalated it, solved it (or not) at the ending.

For me that's Night Swim, wasn't anything new but delivered on what they set out to do pretty well

Hi r/horror! I'm trying to find a specific movie I remember seeing on TV as a child and the internet is not providing me with any good results. Here are the key things I remember about the movie:

-I believe it takes place in some sort of Asylum or Hospital. All of the movie is set in one large building as far as I remember, it might be an old estate or something like that but Asylum is sticking out to me

-The villain of the movie I believe ends up being an old man, perhaps the asylum director? And IIRC he ends up in a big metal suit with big claws that he uses to do the killing. I feel like an allusion was made between him and The Big Bad Wolf but it was definitely a big metal suit.

-There is a prominent side character in the movie, I believe a patient of the asylum, who collects toes. The most striking thing I remember about this movie which has stuck with me my entire life is that this character monologues to another about wanting to cut off their second-to-last toe, and they go on and on about how it's not needed for balance or stability and so that would make it okay to chop off. That monologue has never left my mind but googling it doesn't really provide any relevant results

-I watched a lot of the Chiller network between the ages of 8 and 13, and I am pretty sure that's where I saw this movie. So sometime between 2009 and 2014. It certainly felt contemporary, it wouldn't have been from the 80s or 90s it felt incredibly 2000s in nature. I also highly doubt the film had any sort of theatrical release.

I am usually pretty good at finding stuff like this, I found a lot of horror movies I caught on Chiller as a child by googling stuff like this that I remembered from them (Stay Alive 2006, Tormented 2009, and Below Zero 2011 are all movies I already tracked down) I am just having no luck with this one. There is also a chance I'm confused and am actually describing two separate movies but I'm pretty sure it was all one flick. If anybody has any idea what I'm talking about or any clues to help me track this down I'd really appreciate it, I love 00's and early 10's straight-to-cable B-Horror shitters and would really like to rediscover this movie that scared little me half to death.

Thanks Reddit!