When a reclusive old lady dies in an isolated house out in the marshes, a young lawyer is sent to sort out her estate. There’s nothing restrained about this movie, nothing ordinary; it sneaks up on you and worms its way into your brain. The Witch is a period piece, and the language is suitably archaic, but don’t let that put you off: it’s a brilliantly chilling portrayal of Puritan life, where belief can mean the difference between life and death, and horror is only ever one failed crop away. Lugosi’s oddly cadenced speech has been emulated and parodied a zillion times, which takes away some of its power; Frye’s performance, on the other hand, is just downright disturbing. They start feeling rattled when Tun’s photography is blighted by misty shadows and they both suffer from the odd hallucination which seems to show that their hit and run victim (Achita Sikamana) isn’t resting in peace. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is wonderful, sodden with guilt and tension right from the opening scene. A Netflix movie which could make a mark come award’s season the directorial debut of Remi Weekes sees a Sudanese refugee couple seek housing in London only to find themselves haunted by ghosts of the past and present. It’s atmospheric, lovingly photographed and, of course, Elmi is awesome in the lead role. She materializes in his bed every time he and Holly have sex – she might be dead, but she’s not letting go. For no apparent reason, one day every living being in the English village of Midwich falls unconscious. Despite his sweet-sounding name, that’s not something you really want to do: Daniel Robitaille was a murdered artist, stung to death by bees in a racist attack, and so he tends not to be in a good mood when he shows up. Directed by Nicholas Verso. Fittingly, it’s got the hallucinogenic quality of a fever dream, and the various incarnations of Death are wonderfully creepy. It has a fairly straightforward, Dracula-esque story, but the plot’s not the point. Creepy isn’t the same as scary. 14 talking about this. When a pair of sisters return from a mental hospital, having been traumatised by their mother’s death, they find their new stepmother difficult to adjust to. He can’t move on, can’t live with the uncertainty, so when Saskia’s kidnapper reveals himself and offers to show Rex what happened to her, his curiosity wins out. When the plantation owner goes to Legendre for help winning the heart of the girl he loves, he’s handed a dose of the zombie potion – and now the only way to break Legendre’s spell over the innocent girl is to kill him. A choice of 245 of the best horror movies released from 2000 to 2021. She’s never quite recovered from her mother’s suicide, and when she goes to a party where talk turns to witchcraft and human sacrifice, her sanity starts to unravel. The shadowy figure of a man is glimpsed several times throughout the show, some appearances more obvious than others, and as viewers call in to share their own stories, things get weirder and weirder…Okay, this isn’t technically a film, but it is so amazingly creepy and brilliant that it couldn’t be left off the list. With his eerie eyes and wonderful accent, he’s brilliantly threatening as the charming Count, but despite his iconic performance here, he’s not the creepiest thing about this film. When Sara undergoes experimental surgery and subsequently kills herself, Julia suspects foul play – and, indeed, something weird seems to be going on, with whisperings about an invisible man lurking in the shadows. One of the most stylishly shot found footage movies you’ll ever see, the makers know the rules of the genre well enough that when they break them, it adds to the story rather than detracting from it. Puzzled, Koichi visits Saki and attempts to show her a photograph of Nishino, but she doesn't remember him. (Well, that, and the fact that no one realized getting bitten by a ghoul would lead to death and reincarnation. Beautifully shot with a great score, The Perfume of the Lady in Black is a dreamy, unsettling film where nothing is ever as it seems. James Wan’s ode to ’70s horror has plenty in common with The Amityville Horror, but it also has plenty of ideas of its own – and at least half a dozen moments that’ll make your heart leap into your mouth. Koichi goes into the chamber and finds Yasuko and Tanimoto, but is confronted by Nishino holding Yasuko at gunpoint. It’s genuinely scary and has a few scenes that are in the running for most horrifying of 2020. Where would horror films be without photographic dark rooms? The director behind such ghoulish and unsettling gems like Severance, Triangle and especially Black Death may have delivered his most ambitious genre mash-up yet.It also might be his most disappointing. The way director Mike Flanagan plays with reality, building unbearable uncertainty through camera angles and false memories, makes this film both incredibly scary and impossibly sad. Julia and her twin sister, Sara, both suffer from the same degenerative disease – one that causes them to go blind. Cine Independiente, de Culto y Merchandising Halloween Kills hits theaters October 16, 2020. There’s enough time spent on character development that you really feel it when the group starts to get thinned out; there’s some incredibly painful-looking gore; and there are some amazingly freaky monsters. Dec 18, 2020 Share After nine months of lockdowns across the country, it’s somehow fitting that the most popular home of 2020 on realtor.com® is a house with an actual nine-cell jail out back . By Abdullah Al-Ghamdi Published Jan 09, 2020 Just before Christmas, young Zoe, her brother Franklin and their family move into a secluded mansion with a dark past. Del Toro’s visual flair is in full effect here, and every frame of this film (even the scary ones) are stunningly beautiful to look at. A couple of Londoners holidaying in Cornwall stumble across a gorgeous abandoned house on the seafront and immediately decide they want to buy it. This film’s got it all: foreboding mythology, grotesque body horror, and the most amazing line of foreshadowing dialogue you’ll ever hear. Creepy Tales Of Pizza and Gore, 2020. Bela Lugosi is the definitive Dracula. Directed by Floria Sigismondi. This story has it all. The shine might’ve come off this movie because the Paranormal Activity franchise has become Lionsgate’s new one-every-Halloween cash cow, but there’s something deliciously creepy about this movie. The Merrye children live out in the middle of nowhere, with only one another and their family chauffeur, Bruno (Lon Chaney Jr) for company. When a local news crew decided to tag along with the fire brigade for an evening, they probably didn’t realise they’d end up fighting from their lives in a zombie-infested tower block. The mystery caller leaves a horrifying voicemail: the sound of the phone’s owner screaming in agony. Either way, though, the film is terrifying. 75 talking about this. They embark on an odd friendship/proto-romance, but Abby has a secret: she’s a vampire. Is Caligari a hypnotist, a murderer, or both? It is a brand new release for the streaming service, and follows a family as they experience psychologically thrilling supernatural events. It’s a little bit Wicker Man, a little bit Rosemary’s Baby, and a lot of creepiness. Nishino then brings Yasuko down into his chamber and shows her the mother's body and forces her to help Mio dispose of the body. Most of the film is improvised; the actors are really filming the scenes themselves, working from a loose outline of the plot, but without prior knowledge of what half the scares were going to be. Tap to unmute. One of the best movies of the year, Rose Glass’s feature debut is a study of a young palliative care nurse who starts to believe she’s on a mission from God to save the soul of her dying patient. 504 talking about this. Their new home isn’t in the nicest of areas, but it might be alright if it weren’t for the leaky ceiling – and, um, that creepy little girl lurking in the shadows, the one who’s never there when you take a second look. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a struggling writer who gets a winter job as caretaker of The Overlook Hotel, where the isolation and/or ghosts send him out of his mind. (That’s not a spoiler, by the way – but if I told you how he killed his victims, that might be.). The ending is vaguely preposterous, but the rest of the film is creepy enough that it’s forgivable. The wrap-around sees a consultant arrive at a country home only to find that he recognizes all of the guests at the house – he’s seen them all in a dream. To be effectively creepy, a film needs to establish a certain atmosphere; it needs to draw you in and make you care. Having resigned as a profiler following an injury, Koichi Takakura and his wife Yasuko move to a place closer to his new job as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. Tanimoto discovers the chamber, but is incapacitated by Nishino. Cat People is sad as well as eerie, with an increasingly paranoid atmosphere enhanced by skillful shadow play. Picking up a mysterious hitchhiker is an even worse idea. As Harry Powell, a bizarrely religious conman, he’s terrifying, whether he’s preaching about the evils of fornication or chasing the children of his latest victim across the country in an attempt to steal a stash of money he knows they’re hiding. The premise is that, as the title suggests, teenagers are receiving missed calls on their mobile phones. Not many films could make a sheet of printed fabric terrifying, but, Bella (Diana Wynyard) thinks she’s losing her mind. A group of cops answers a call from the middle of nowhere and unwittingly stumble into something that can only be described as ‘a nightmare’ in this skin-crawlingly nasty Turkish horror. Rex dedicates his time to trying to find her, but to no avail. Slowly, inexplicably, a small town is taken over by spirals. The eerie soundtrack and skilful storytelling result in a film which peels back its mysterious layers slowly for a satisfying finish. Once upon a time, the pavilion housed a carnival, but now it’s just an empty building… or is it? There’s no way this love triangle can end happily and, well, it doesn’t. While the adults focus on renovating the place, the bored kids find a toy chest hidden in the attic, and are delighted when the toys inside magically come to life. Brrrr. Following a group of friends who decide to do a seance via a Zoom chat, this ingenious movie trades on the real life friendships of the cast and crew and the absolute ubiquity of the video software during isolation. It ought to feel more dated than it does, but even now, the demonic makeup and scratchy voice of the possessed Regan gives me goosebumps. In 2020, catching up on the best new horror movie is easy―just read the news!!!! Serbian immigrant Irena doesn’t have a friend in the world when she meets Oliver. This is a great, character-driven story with a dry sense of humor, and a mysterious heroine who feels oddly at home with the supernatural. CK Movie Crypt; Creepy Book Club; Stay Haunted; Wicked Wizardry; Creepy Kingdom Classic Podcast; Search. It’s gory, grimy, and really quite disturbing. Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) died in a car crash, which is bad enough, but when he tentatively begins a relationship with his co-worker, Holly (Abigail Hardingham), he finds himself haunted by Nina. Koichi tells Nishino that "this is where you fall," and quickly turns and shoots Nishino. This strange found footage film from Australia takes the format of a mockumentary focusing on the family of a dead girl who think there are supernatural goings on surround their house. The zombies here aren’t flesh-eating ghouls but obedient slaves, working tirelessly in Legendre’s mill. 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New scary noises don’t come along very often, but Ju-on: The Grudge managed to come up with something unlike any other scary noise you’ve heard before. The use of a candy jingle is, against all odds, really eerie, and by paring the story down to its most essential elements (and getting rid of that daft cat scene) Let Me In makes for a scarier watch than Let The Right One In. It’s definitely creepy enough to be worth watching on its own merits. The use of light and shadow in this movie is just stunning; the first time Powell arrives at the Harper house is a particular highlight. Brian Tallerico January 29, 2020. But when a man, his wife and their young child arrive seeking shelter his family life is disrupted. Movie Info. Directed by Henk Pretorius, it's a creepy, well-shot movie that uses Polynesian lore for a fresh genre take. 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