They’re in our lungs, our blood, our food and drinking water even the air we breathe. PV ClimaxĬast: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart It’s astounding to behold decades later.įilled with great high school archetypes that are subverted just enough to keep things interesting, a haunting score by Carpenter, and a brief appearance by Harry Dean Stanton, Christine is popcorn 1980s horror at its best. The special effects team made rubber molds of Christine and then imploded it, running the shot in reverse in the film to evoke the effect of a self-healing vehicle. The car can heal itself, an effect that is shown on camera in full, glorious display. The practical effects in Christine deserve special recognition here. It’s a great time for everybody, except Arnie’s human loved ones. He also starts to dress and act more like a greaser dirtbag from the 1950s. He quickly becomes obsessed with the car, named “Christine,” and human and vehicle both become jealous of anybody who might interrupt their time together. When the two come across a broken-down old Plymouth Fury (a vehicle that we’ve already seen commit murder and mayhem in an opening sequence set in a 1950s car assembly plant), Arnie decides he must have it.
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AG ChristineĬast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra PaulĪ high school horror movie about a nerd who falls in love with a haunted car, Christine is an extraordinary Stephen King adaptation and a standout in John Carpenter’s consistently excellent filmography.Īrnie (Keith Gordon) is an unpopular high schooler in California who has just one friend, a popular football player named Dennis (John Stockwell, who in many ways is the emotional core of the movie, as someone who cares deeply about Arnie). Annihilation helps realize this strange Earth-but-not incredibly well, with beautiful and haunting production design and a finale as memorable as any horror movie on this list. At the center of all of this is a lighthouse the group must reach. The area that was hit has slowly spread and grown into what’s now known as The Shimmer, an area where nature seems to be taking over everything around it, but it’s a different kind of nature strange, unnaturally green plants grow over everything, and creatures (animals and humans) slowly merge with the vegetation around them. Pete Volk Annihilation Image: Paramount PicturesĬast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina RodriguezĪnnihilation might be the creepiest movie about plants ever made (with all due respect to The Ruins.)Īnnihilation follows a group of scientists (played by a phenomenal group of actors) investigating an area struck by a meteor. What follows is a tightly crafted thriller with great performances, outstanding direction, and enough tension to keep your heart pounding throughout the 98-minute running time. After he slashes her tires, she crashes and wakes up in his basement. If that wasn’t enough stress, a creepy man (Marc Menchaca) appears to be following her on the road. Jessica (Jules Willcox), a recent widow, is in the midst of moving. Austen GoslinĬast: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony HealdĪ taut spine-chiller from John Hyams ( Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning), Alone is your classic woman-on-the-run thriller. You can’t really ask any more from a horror movie than that. Hereditary is elegantly creepy, right up until the point that it becomes terrifying. You definitely remember that it’s good, but you probably don’t remember just how great it really is.
Who’s to say which is scarier in this movie, the verbal immolation or the literal one?Įven if you’ve seen it already, you probably owe this movie a rewatch. And that’s where the witchy stuff starts.įrom there everything descends into a complicated mishmash of tightly coiled family drama, supernatural plotting, and years-old resentments, and it’s absolutely excellent.
She eventually learns this group of old people all belonged to the same bizarre semi-cult her mother did. During the funeral service, Annie notices quite a few people are here to mourn the mother she thought had no friends. The movie follows Annie Graham, a difficult mother of two, who just lost her mom. The poster child for the misguided term “elevated horror,” and the subject of more than a few memes (particularly around telephone poles), the thing that often gets lost about Hereditary is that it’s actually really fucking good. Hereditary is a victim of its own success. Cast: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro
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