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- Requiem for a Dream (2000) Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream" is a horror movie where the demon eating away at its four core characters is addiction.
- Ichi the Killer (2001) Hideo Yamamoto is enjoying some celebration lately. His seinen manga "Homunculus" is enjoying a vivid adaptation on Netflix, and is one of /Film's selections for Best Horror Movies of the year.
- Suicide Club (2001) Sion Sono's 2001 indie film "Suicide Club" exists at the intersection of two other contemporary Japanese horror movies. It shares DNA with the techno-horror "Pulse," which captured turn-of-the-millennium fears that the Internet could become a terrible force for evil (fears that were validated a few years later when Twitter was invented).
- Cabin Fever (2002 and 2016) Eli Roth might not be your favorite horror director, but no one can deny the staying power of his gruesome romp "Cabin Fever."
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- The Woman in The Window
- The Paramedic
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Disturbing in the way it depicts possession and how it is sometimes connected to our own inner demons, ‘The Deliverance’ shows an alcoholic and abusive mother (Andra Day) coming face to face with a demonic force that has taken hold of her children. The only for her to save them is to accept her sins and claim the Almighty as her savior. The questio...
This Philippine horror film follows a childless couple, Clark (Derek Ramsay) and Eileen (Beauty Gonzalez), who take in a little girl after she knocks on their door on a rainy night. However, the girl, Jade (Erin Espiritu), claims to be Clark’s daughter. Soon, dark supernatural events start occurring inside the house, and unbeknownst to the couple, ...
Directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, this South African noir explores the illicit affair between an introverted high school teacher named Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano) and his student, sixteen-year-old Nolitha (Petronella Tshuma). While the affair begins on a steamy note, it soon becomes disastrous, and we find out that behind all that goodness lies a...
In Joe Wright’s ‘The Woman in the Window,’ psychological intrigue and an unsettling atmosphere converge to craft a compelling thriller. Amy Adams takes on the role of Dr. Anna Fox, an agoraphobic woman who becomes a witness to a potential crime in her neighbor’s home. The film unfolds as a captivating exploration of perception and reality, skillful...
‘The Paramedic,’ a Spanish thriller directed by Carles Torras, delves into psychological horror with a disturbing narrative. Starring Mario Casas as Ángel, a paramedic turned stalker after a tragic accident, the film unravels his descent into obsession and manipulation. The unsettling portrayal of Ángel’s unraveling psyche, coupled with Casas’ chil...
‘Creep’ introduces us to struggling videographer Aaron and starts quite innocently as he accepts an assignment to travel to a remote cabin for a day’s work. Once at the location, Aaron meets his client, Josef, who claims he is living with a brain tumor and might die before his wife gives birth to their child. Hence, he tasks Aaron with recording a ...
During the Tehran missile attacks of 1984, a man departs for the war, leaving behind his wife and daughter alone in their apartment. A common Islamic belief suggests that Djinn are evil entities that are carried by the wind to places that instill terror and suffering. When everyone else leaves, the mother and the daughter remain alone, hunting down...
Directed by Mar Targarona and starring Marina Gatell and Pablo Derqui, ‘Two’ is a true-to-form disturbing film that shows two people, Sara and David, who wake up in a hotel room nude and realize that their bodies have been sewn together at the abdomen region. With neither of them having any idea how they got there or who stitched them up, they try ...
An adaptation of the eponymous novel by Stephanie Perkins, ‘There’s Someone Inside Your House,’ revolves around Makani and a group of her friends from Osborne High School as they race against time to defeat a terrifying serial killer. The killer, whose only M.O. is to wear the faces of the victims while committing the murder, seems to be targeting ...
Based on the book ‘All Things Cease to Appear ‘ by Elizabeth Brundage, ‘Things Heard & Seen’ revolves around Catherine Claire, an art restorer, who moves into a farmhouse in Upstate New York along with her husband and daughter. Although she seems to have a perfect family, the film soon breaks the illusion as it shows her living with bulimia. On the...
1 day ago · A bloody (quite literally) spectacle that owes as much to David Cronenberg's body horror as it does to campy midnight movies from the olden days, Coralie Fargeat's The Substance is one of 2024's ...
Oct 6, 2020 · A 2017 study by the University of Toledo’s Department of Health and Recreation found that binge-watching TV or movies can increase symptoms of anxiety and disrupt sleep, even when they aren’t ...
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- Last Night In Soho (2021) Available to stream on Apple TV. One of the most recent additions to the psychological horror genre is Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho.
- The Silence of The Lamps (1991) Available to stream on Prime Video, Roku, Tubi, Kanopy, and Pluto TV. The Silence of the Lambs seems to have a reputation as being a bloody and gruesome movie, and while there are certainly those elements, much of the uneasy comes from the foreboding feel.
- Les Diaboliques (1955) Available to stream on HBO Max, Roku, The Criterion Channel, and Plex. One might think that older movies can't deliver the same level of horror as modern offerings of the genre.
- The Fly (1986) Available to stream on Prime Video. While psychological horror movies are usually a very cerebral experience, that doesn't mean they can't also deliver on the gore and gruesomeness of other horror movies.
Oct 29, 2021 · The specific sub-genre of disturbing movies, in particular—with their extended, realistic scenes of extreme violence, anxiety-inducing edits, torture, and total disregard for human life—offer a...
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