The creative minds behind Scary Movie— the Wayans Brothers for the first few, and Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker later on — come from TV sketch comedy, and the Scary Movie movies are less driven by plot than a series of sketch-like comic setpieces. Sketch dominates Sublette’s background, ...
How to watch: The Old Dark House is now streaming on Tubi. 7. Little Shop of Horrors While Roger Corman’s original 1960 version of Little Shop is great, Frank Oz’s 1986 adaptation of the off-Broadway musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman based on Corman’s flick is far more fun...
Jump scares are the bread and butter of horror movies. They’re guaranteed to keep an audience on the edge of their seats. After all, it’s scientifically proven that a well-placed jump scare releases excitatory hormones in humans. But they’re used so frequently that the whole concept has...
Another of the finest horror movies of the last decade, David Robert Mitchell’sIt Follows(2015) contains a simple, terrifyingly primal idea. A pretty, young, blonde teen, Jay Height (Maika Monroe) decides to sleep with a boy she likes; when she does, he informs her that he has passed...
Watch it on: Amazon, YouTube, Tubi, or Pluto TV, all for free! 5. Barbarian (2022), dir. Zach Cregger 20th Century Studios SYNOPSIS: A young woman books an Airbnb in Detroit only to find that it's already occupied by another guest. While uneasy, she nevertheless makes the decisio...