![]() ![]() But thanks to remarkable set pieces, provocative if underdeveloped themes, brilliant production design and strong performances from Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun, the sci-fi no-Western about horse-wrangling siblings investigating a UFO is a worthy follow-up. Nope owes a lot to Jaws it lacks the focus of its predecessors as it bites off more than it can chew. Nope (2022) #ĭoes Jordan Peele’s third, largest-scale outing have the revolutionary punch of Get Out, or the under-the-skin creepiness of Us? Nope. The original director’s cut is readily available to watch at home, with a bleaker, better ending than what played in theaters. ![]() The other key to 1408‘s success is Cusack’s expertly measured performance he spends the first third of the picture smirking with disbelief, the rest of it freaking out. A strong example of how to generate tension within a confined setting, 1408 also has memorable jolts courtesy of director Mikael Håfström. He pursues a night in the titular cursed room at New York’s Dolphin Hotel expecting to roll his eyes and make a quick buck, only to discover genuine supernatural menace. ![]() Based on a 1999 audiobook that eventually became a novella, the chiller stars John Cusack as a cynical and depressed writer of cheap haunted vacation books who doesn’t believe a word he writes. 147. 1408 (2007) #įew adaptations of Stephen King’s work feel like a story leaping off the page quite like 1408. There have been over a half-dozen direct-to-video sequels and spinoffs, and counting. Ron Underwood’s comedy hybrid about killer, toothy gigantic worms wreaking havoc in the American West recently turned 30, and it’s now a bona fide horror classic. The scares are far outmatched with laughs, but make no mistake: Freaky is a great horror film. Vaughn does his best comedic work since Wedding Crashers, and this movie makes Newton a star. Landon maximizes the premise, subverting tropes with maniacal glee, and building characters we actually care about. It’s a bit devastating that most people won’t see Freaky with a packed theater even watching from home, it’s likely you’ll shout and guffaw non-stop. Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton star in a comic thriller about a teen misfit who swaps bodies with a serial killer. Freaky (2020) #Ī savage teen comedy worthy of Heathers comparisons and a nimble slasher worthy of Carpenter and Craven approval, Christopher Landon‘s most assured film to date is an instant genre classic. It was nominated for one Academy Award, for Best Original Score. The Amityville Horror received negative-to-mixed reviews upon release but was a huge box office success ($86.4 million in domestic receipts against a $4.7 million budget, the second highest-grossing film in the U.S of the year). Initially conceived as a made-for-television film, The Amityville Horror‘s big marketing hook was that it was “based on true events.” The Amityville Horror (1979) #īased on Jay Anson‘s 1977 book of the same name, Stuart Rosenberg‘s chiller stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a young couple who combat supernatural forces in their new home. Meticulously based on real accounts of internet predators, Megan is Missing is a grueling experience, and it’s clear Goi made it for the right reasons. Some seriously bad acting in the early stretches is nearly a deal-breaker, then in a moment (it’s quite literally instantaneous) the film shifts into graphic terror that will haunt your memory, rough going for even the most hardened audiences. Recently trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, especially with younger audiences, Michael Goi’s microbudget found-footage picture tells an all-too plausible story of a man stalking and preying upon teen girls via the internet. Best Horror Movies of All Time # 151. Megan is Missing (2011) #Ī mixed bag overall, but so hard-hitting in its climaxes it’s impossible not to list it here. ![]()
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