Dead & Buried tells the tale of Potter's Bluff, a small town on the California coast where the locals can't seem to stop themselves from brutally murdering all of the tourists. We do love ourselves a "seaside town with a secret" horror story (see also: Messiah of Evil), and 1981’s Dead & Buried ranks up there among the creepiest of them all.īased on the novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and adapted by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett (who co-wrote Alien), Dead & Buried is perched somewhere between The Fog and Re-Animator.
How to watch: We Need to Talk About Kevin is now streaming free with Prime Video. More meditative than attention-grabbing, director Lynne Ramsay's psychological thriller asks you to make sense of the senseless, even as this tale's inescapably horrible conclusion looms large. Reilly lead as the parents of Kevin, a disturbed teenager played by Ezra Miller (which turned out to be some fortuitous casting), who goes on an unexplained killing spree. We Need to Talk About Kevin is an exploration of warning signs and violence that's sure to leave many viewers feeling unsteady. How to watch: Deathdream is now streaming free with Prime Video. Specifically, he is now one who sits around in sunglasses all day and then goes out and steals people's blood via syringe every night.ĭirector Bob Clark (best known for the holiday duology of A Christmas Story and Black Christmas) and his Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things writer Alan Ormsby were the masterminds behind this deeply disturbed folk tale, which turned the very real PTSD that returning veterans and their families were going through into the stuff of symbolic and scary horror. Romero modernized the horror genre by injecting political allegory into it with Night of the Living Dead, Deathdream tackled the ongoing nightmare of the Vietnam War by telling the story of a soldier killed in action who nevertheless goes and returns to his family home, albeit a changed man. How to watch: Suspiria (2018) is now streaming free with Prime Video. Yes, it's all fear, but fear of different kinds that present an unsettling experience unto itself.
With this mission in mind, Suspiria is a gratifying watch that exemplifies how identical genre tropes can be employed for disparate emotional effects. This 2018 Suspiria remake has been described by director Luca Guadagnino and star Tilda Swinton as a "cover" of Dario Argento's 1977 classic - exploring rather than mimicking Argento's perspective on supernatural horror. Credit: Amazon Studios / Moviestore / Shutterstock
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