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00:00Demon dogs from hell, creepy spider puppets, and a deadly movie that kills anyone who watches
00:06it.
00:07Amazon Prime is loaded with some seriously bone-chilling horror movies you can stream
00:10or rent with your Prime subscription right now.
00:13In 1958, Hammer Films earned a worldwide box office hit with Horror of Dracula.
00:18The British company naturally began work on a sequel, but there was a catch.
00:22Christopher Lee, who starred as Dracula in the film, was uninterested in reprising the
00:26role.
00:27The two were able to retain Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, and Hammer commenced The Brides
00:31of Dracula with David Peele as the seductive disciple of the Count.
00:34Despite Lee's absence, Brides is one of Hammer's best vampire titles.
00:38Cushing is as much a man of action as he is an academic, and his battles with Peele and
00:42his vampire brides have a pulp-cereal intensity.
00:45In 2023's Violet, the film's namesake is a young girl living in an idyllic Australian
00:57town.
00:58However, her mother, Sonya, believes she is marked for death.
01:00Sonya sleepwalks through a mental minefield of childhood trauma and near-constant hallucinations.
01:05She is also convinced that a monstrous figure that haunted her years ago now intends to
01:09take away Violet.
01:10Australian director Stephen J. Mihajlović employs in Violet what ScreenSpace calls brilliantly
01:15realized bleakness to depict Sonya's damaged perspective.
01:18Her world with Violet virtually glows with positive energy, while her fears blossom into
01:22oversaturated, childlike nightmares.
01:25At the 2023 film's core, however, is a heart-rending examination of the toll taken by mental abuse
01:30and how some victims are compelled to repeat their trauma on the very people they fight
01:34to protect.
01:36The 2014 supernatural thriller The Taking of Deborah Logan is one of the most underrated
01:40found-footage horror films of recent years, and proves that the subgenre can still generate
01:44some chills beyond the VHS franchise.
01:46It starts on familiar footing.
01:48A small film crew working on a documentary about Alzheimer's disease discovers that their
01:52elderly subject, Deborah Logan, is exhibiting symptoms unassociated with the condition.
01:57One of these symptoms is the ability to speak new languages.
02:00Though her behavior is initially dismissed, the crew begins to suspect that supernatural
02:03forces are at play.
02:05Adam Robitel, in his feature directorial debut, shows remarkable restraint in Deborah Logan.
02:10He dodges many well-worn found-footage tropes, like jump scares, and keeps the action grounded
02:14in reality.
02:15The pace is steady, and there's no rush to get to scary material.
02:19His three-person camera crew and Deborah's beleaguered daughter take their time in reviewing
02:23the material and hold off on declaring anything otherworldly until the evidence presents no
02:28other option.
02:29This patience pays off in the final moments, when Robitel offers up some truly nerve-rattling
02:34images.
02:36The possum referred to in the title of this 2018 psychological thriller is a hideous puppet
02:39with a spider's body and a wide-eyed human head.
02:42It's the kind of thing that you'd want to get rid of at any cost, but Philip finds himself
02:46unable to part ways with the puppet.
02:48A troubled orphan, Philip has returned home in hopes of losing Possum.
02:51However, each attempt not only brings it back to him, it also drags Philip deeper into the
02:55horrors of his past.
02:56Writer-director Matthew Holness employs a melancholy visual and musical palette drawn
03:00from educational films of the 1970s.
03:03But Possum isn't a nostalgia exercise, as with Violet, its focus is on the lingering
03:07and devastating impact of trauma, and how it can reshape how the mind perceives the
03:11world.
03:12Its most disturbing moments are painful and frightening.
03:152020's Amulet offers indelible nightmare fuel from both visual and metaphoric standpoints.
03:20Romanian actor Aleks Sikoranu is a traumatized soldier living in squalor in London.
03:25One day, he meets a nun who offers him a job helping a woman with her dying mother.
03:29What Sikoranu finds is a deranged elderly woman in the attic who occasionally gives
03:33birth to albino monster bats.
03:35"...Can you take it away, please, outside?"
03:43But Amulet is more than just a creature feature with Cronenberg elements.
03:46There is a terrible purpose to the old woman and the bats, one that involves otherworldly
03:50retribution for crimes against women, and Sikoranu meets that criteria.
03:55The Innkeepers is director Tai West's take on the classic ghost story, albeit from a
03:59modern perspective.
04:00Set at Connecticut's real, allegedly haunted Yankee Peddler Inn, The Innkeepers stars Sarah
04:04Paxton and Pat Healy as inn employees who alleviate their boredom by investigating rumors
04:09of ghosts on the property.
04:10What follows is less about the search for a spirit than finding one, and all that entails.
04:14Brimming with smart performances and dialogue, The Innkeepers proves, as The Austin Chronicle
04:19wrote, that West is a master of the slow-burning shudder.
04:23You can think of the 2023 Norwegian film Good Boy as a very warped mirror image of Fifty
04:27Shades of Grey.
04:28The movie concerns Sigrid, a young grad student whose desperate search for romance brings
04:32her to Christian.
04:33Like his Fifty Shades namesake, he's handsome, fabulously wealthy, and has a secret.
04:37However, this Christian's quirk involves his best friend, a dog named Frank, who is actually
04:42a man in a dog costume.
04:43There are two directions that a movie like Good Boy can turn.
04:45It can play into the weird but funny premise of a man in a dog costume, or it can drift
04:49into disturbing territory.
04:51Good Boy chooses the latter, and the result is deeply unnerving.
04:55The 2019 indie The Deeper You Dig is one of several independent horror films by filmmaker
05:00John Adams, his wife Toby Poser, and their daughter Zelda Adams.
05:03And yes, that does make this an Adams family production, but don't mistake the Adams films
05:08as morbid comic exercises.
05:10The Adams family regularly makes visually striking films on shoestring budgets that
05:14outcreep many studio efforts.
05:15The Deeper You Dig is no exception.
05:17It stars John as a loner who tries to cover up his accidental murder of a teenage girl,
05:22only to discover that her spirit won't stay quiet for him or her mother.
05:25Yet another meditation on the destructive qualities of guilt and lies, The Deeper You
05:29Dig transcends its modest production values with excellent performances and impressive
05:34special effects.
05:35It's also outrageously gory at times, and doesn't shy away from taboo material.
05:40It's highly unlikely that Antrum, the deadliest film ever made, is going to lead to your demise,
05:44but it may surprise you with its craftiness.
05:46The 2018 Canadian film is actually two pictures.
05:49It's a faux documentary about a Bulgarian film which killed countless viewers, and a
05:53spot-on facsimile of a 1970s horror film about siblings who use black magic to bring
05:58their dead dog back from hell.
05:59The film itself is laden with subliminal images and sounds, all of which underscore its deadly
06:04reputation.
06:05To see what makes Antrum the deadliest movie ever made, you have to watch the whole thing.
06:09In doing so, however, you put your life at risk.
06:11Only the most cynical genre fan would refuse such a proposal, and Antrum delivers as both
06:16a horror movie and a creepy audience participation project.
06:19As The Guardian wrote in its review,
06:20"...even knowing and appreciating the artifice doesn't entirely deprive the film of its eerie
06:25power."
06:27Lucky McKee's The Woman pits the lone survivor of a primitive clan of cannibals played by
06:30Pollyanna McIntosh against the patriarch of a seemingly respectable small-town family.
06:35Sean Bridges plays the patriarch, and he captures McIntosh with the intent of rehabilitating
06:39her.
06:40However, what McIntosh and the audience discover is that his brand of civility is rooted in
06:44torture and abuse.
06:46McIntosh is astonishing in a reprisal of her role from the 2009 film Offspring, which,
06:50like The Woman, was written by and adapted from a novel by the late Jack Ketchum.
06:54Ketchum's work was known for its extreme violence, and The Woman isn't flinching in that regard.
06:58However, Ketchum and McKee also make a strong case for the hypocrisy inherent in those who
07:02proclaim moral superiority over others.
07:05McIntosh reprised her role as The Woman in the 2019 sequel, Darlin, which he also directed.
07:09The film followed the clique's eldest daughter after the events in The Woman.
07:13Grief and guilt
07:14Those two engines of destruction that have motivated many horror movies in the past fuels
07:19The Dark and the Wicked, a slow-boiling, supernatural shocker from Brian Bertino.
07:24The film is about siblings who come to believe that supernatural forces are responsible for
07:28their family's decline.
07:30They are reluctant to return to their family home, but even more worried to leave, especially
07:34after their mother's horrible demise and father's declining health.
07:37That hesitation proves their undoing.
07:39The siblings are ultimately rooted to the spot by confusion and sadness and terror,
07:43and it's soon too late to take any action.
07:45Or maybe there was never any chance at all.
07:47Bertino keeps his answers close to the vest but spares nothing in brutal shocks.
07:52In 2023's Stop Motion, Ella is a skilled animator whose talent has been sidelined for years
07:57as she helps her mother, a legendary filmmaker but an abusive parent, complete her final
08:01Stop Motion animation project.
08:03Ella is so defeated that when her mother dies, she can only think of one thing — to finish
08:07her mother's film.
08:08"...bringing dead things to life."
08:14But the arrival of a strange girl puts Ella on a different track.
08:17The girl wants her to work on a new animated project, one about a little girl and a monster
08:21called the Ashman.
08:22The girl's suggestions grow frightening and weird, but as Ella grows more obsessed with
08:27stepping into the spotlight, she finds herself unable to refuse the new ideas.
08:31The uncanny qualities of Stop Motion, which gives life to an inanimate object, serves
08:35as an apt metaphor of Ella's sleepwalking existence.
08:38She's so damaged by her mother's dominance that it's no wonder that her dream project
08:42is a nightmare populated by misshapen monsters.
08:44The New York Times wrote in its review,
08:46"...each element moves in lockstep to forge a deeply troubling intimacy between Ella and
08:51her repellent figurines."
08:52David Cronenberg
08:53Infinity Pool director Brandon Cronenberg isn't the only one of David Cronenberg's children
08:58to follow in their father's unique footsteps.
09:00Photographer Caitlin Cronenberg made her feature directorial debut in 2024 with Humane, a darkly
09:05satirical science fiction film which explores how disaster brings out mankind's worst instincts.
09:10The film also dips into the family's frequent showcase, horror.
09:13The disaster in Humane is an ecological catastrophe which may lead to the world ending.
09:17However, humans can prevent it by shedding 20 percent of their population through voluntary
09:22euthanasia.
09:23Those that submit are hailed as heroes, which suits a pompous, self-important newscaster.
09:27However, it doesn't work for his combative children, who soon find out from a government
09:30official that a second sacrifice is required.
09:33As a result, bloody mayhem ensues.
09:35Cronenberg enlists a terrific cast, including Jay Beruchel and Emily Hampshire.
09:39Furthermore, Humane echoes aspects of her father's best work, most notably the implacability
09:44of science and nature, while establishing her as a singular filmmaker of her own right.
09:49In the eyes of my mother, a young girl named Francisca lives a very isolated life that
09:53hinges on religion, anatomy, and no human interaction beyond her very odd parents.
09:59When a psychotic stranger kills her mother and her father dies after punishing the killer,
10:04Francisca's mind turns inward and dark.
10:06After her own devices, imprisonment comes to mean love, torture means care, and affection
10:10is taken by lethal force.
10:12Writer-director Nicholas Pesce's 2016 feature enfolds in high-contrast black-and-white images
10:17which depict lyrical landscapes and horrible deaths with eerie beauty.
10:20Adding to the alarming mix is the idea that Francisca's actions, while monstrous, aren't
10:24entirely evil.
10:25Deprived of a normal upbringing, she is simply responding to her surroundings with the tools
10:29she's been given.
10:30In her review of the film on TheBlueLenses.com, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas wrote,
10:35This is no easy task, and this is not in any sense an easy film to watch, but The Eyes
10:39of My Mother is an insightful, meaningful, and exquisitely beautiful horror film, and
10:43undoubtedly one of the genre's most important offerings of 2016.