These movies often employ a combination of suspense, mystery, and outright horror to engage their audience, making extensive use of suspenseful music, dark cinematography, and detailed character development to enhance the eerie atmosphere. The killers in these films are usually characterized by their ...
The initial transformation is so impressive the Academy Awards basically invented the Best Make-Up category just to properly honour Baker’s achievement, and if the movie had nothing else going for it, it would probably still make this list for that scene alone. But the whole thing is ...
It’s an unfortunately common trope that the Black character in many horror movies is the first one to die, and that, plus many other racist Hollywood tropes, is what’s being skewered byThe Blackening. There’s a pretty solid pedigree behindThe Blackening; its creative team includesBarbershop...
character. But it was Lon Chaney Jr.’s portrayal of doomed sad sack Lawrence Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales only to be bitten by a you-know-what, that would help sell these mythical half-man, half-animal creatures as horror-movie staples. Say “werewolf,” and ...
Iris K. Shim wrote and directed this film, and looking up her previous work, I’ve added her documentary The House of Suh to my list of movies to watch. I do hope she will write and direct another horror movie. She’s working with some wonderful elements, but I don’t think the ...
Whether you’re a master of horror, or you’d just like to know how you’re manipulated by your favorite directors, this list will help you discover truly terrifying horror movie tricks. Of the techniques horror movies use to scare you, a few work every time they’re used...
Pearl. As a young woman in 1918 she dreams of escaping and becoming a silent movie star. Yet her dominant mother cannot contain the passionate darkness within Pearl. I much preferred this stylish period and character horror to the exploitative and nastyX(2022). There remains much gruesome viole...
(simone signoret). the movie's ghostly interiors foster a dread that builds toward a thrilling, unpredictable climax. powered by justwatch 9. scream (1996) after a glorious run in the '70s and '80s, horror hit something of a downward slope in the '90s. tropes had grown too shop...
While director Matt Reeves may have described the most recent Batman movie,The Batman(2022), as “almost a horror film,”horror as an aesthetic mood or idiom pervades representations of the character and his world across cinematic history. The stylistically and tonally diverse cinematic projects of...
West has worked in horror for a long time and he is in full command of both the genre tropes and his craft. His camera is fluid but not showy, and he finds the right muted colors and textures to convey the grain of ’70s film stock without making the movie look like a carefully cur...