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Dec 6, 2023 · Published. 4 months ago. on. December 6, 2023. By. Meagan Navarro. It’s that time of the year again when the Sundance Film Festival shares all of its horror discoveries that’ll help define...
- Meagan Navarro
- Yoga Hosers
- Hell Baby
- Bound to Vengeance
- Carnage Park
- Buried
- The Woman
- 31
- Antibirth
- Black Rock
- Grace
You had me at ancient evil. A Canadian camp effort that revitalizes the best part of Tusk, Yoga Hosersis a truly wild ride best enjoyed when you’re halfway deep in a two-four. (Meg Shields)
Written and directed by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, the hilarious duo behind cult favorite Reno 911!, Hell Baby delivers a send-up of the Evil Child subgenre that admittedly leans more on the comedic side of horror with the comic chops of its cast featuring Keegan-Michael Key, Riki Lindhorne, Leslie Bibb, and Rob Corddry, among others. Whi...
The setup to José Manuel Cravioto’s feature is a promising one as a young woman escapes her sadistic captor and makes the risky choice to help the other women in chains instead of simply saving herself. Lead Tina Ivlevraises expectations even further with an engaging and energetic performance. It’s all for naught, though, thanks to a script that ma...
A botched bank robbery ends with the unfortunate hostage left in the middle of the desert where she becomes the prey for a deranged ex-military sniper. A great performance from Pat Healyis the only saving grace for the so-so exploitation throwback. (Chris Coffel)
The best thing I can say about Rodrigo Cortés’ low-budget thriller is that it’s exactly as advertised. As the title would suggest, Ryan Reynolds’ Iraq-based civilian worker spends the entire real time film buried in a wooden coffin. This bottle concept is also the film’s downfall, though, as plot machinations and a hit-or-miss script keep Buried fr...
Lucky McKee’s adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s novel isn’t for the faint-hearted, but it’s a brutal and effective examination of toxic masculinity and humankind’s savagery. The story follows a patriarch and his family as they keep a cannibal woman captive and abuse her. Of course, the real monster here isn’t the woman who likes to partake in the consum...
Woo boy, people do not like Rob Zombie’s film 31. And while I don’t believe anything I can say will change that fact, I do see 31 from a perspective that may lend the film more merit than it’s previously been given. When a few of his non-horror projects fell through, I think Zombie was understandably upset. So upset that he funneled all of that pai...
From Cronenberg to Henenlotter, there is something about Body Horror that I find so fascinating as an adult. It’s possibly because the subgenre is at its best when layering in metaphors about pain and lack of control — which I find personally cathartic — while still maintaining its bouncy and sharp tone. Danny Perez’s Antibirth, starring the ever-r...
Actor, writer, and director Katie Aselton, though working with a familiar concept, made Black Rock an effectively unsettling thriller. Three estranged friends, played by Aselton, Kate Bosworth, and Lake Bell, embark on a camping trip that is turned into a fight after the women encounter several men on a hunting trip. Certain aspects of the film are...
I’ll never experience the horror of motherhood, but Grace is all I need whenever I’m feeling broody. The movie tells the story of a grieving mom and her undead fetus its need for human blood. And what’s a mother to do when her offspring gets hungry? You do the math. Unfortunately, though, Grace is too dull to live up to its awesome concept and will...
- KILLERS (1997) Dave Larson and David Gunn play the James brothers in Mike Mendez’s directorial debut. “Mike Mendez’s film is a completely delirious excursion into the genre that chronicles the exploits of killers,” wrote Geoff Gilmore.
- CUBE (1998) After screening at the Festival, ‘Cube’ went on to break box office records for Canadian films. What happens when you plunge six unwilling strangers into a horrifying maze where they’re forced to frantically search for the path that’ll lead them to safety?
- THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez shot ‘The Blair Witch Project’ on 16mm film in real time. “Deftly building suspense through sound, visuals, and performances of unparalleled realism, The Blair Witch Project’s violence is psychological, not physical; nary a drop of blood is spackled on screen,” wrote Rebecca Yeldham of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s inventive found footage–style thriller.
- PSYCHO BEACH PARTY (2000) Lauren Ambrose stars as Florence “Chicklet” Forrest in ‘Psycho Beach Party.’ “Shaking bikinis, muscled surfers, a wannabe surf babe with a split personality, a mom with an agenda, and a few severed body parts are just some of the problems facing Captain Monica Sharp when she is called to investigate a recent rash of gory Malibu murders,” wrote John Cooper of Robert Lee King’s Psycho Beach Party.
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- Dead Alive. Let’s look at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival to establish the relationship between Sundance and horror. We see the “Park City at Midnight” era in full effect, allowing more obscure and strange films to showcase during the usually awards-friendly film festival.
- The Babadook. 2014 is one of those quiet banger years for horror. Plenty of indie favorites would go on to make a lasting impression. You can’t mention films with an impact like that without mentioning The Babadook.
- The Night House. The latest film on this list, The Night House, is a modern classic. So much of this film plays like classic horror, giving you a bit of Polanski but still feeling wholly original.
- The Witch. To think Robert Eggers only entered the lives of horror fans in just 2015. The filmmaker took the festival by storm that year, declaring 2015 Sundance the year of The Witch.
- Birth/Rebirth. Laura Moss’ feature debut, co-written with frequent collaborator Brendan J. O’Brien, is a dark riff on a “Frankenstein” tale in which a doctor (Marin Ireland), who believes she has found the cure for death, steals the corpse of a young girl (A.J.
- Run Rabbit Run. One of the first key acquisitions of the festival was Netflix picking up this Aussie take on “The Babadook,” starring “Succession” favorite Sarah Snook as a fertility doctor whose relationship with daughter (Lily LaTorre) begins to fray when she starts doing creepy kid movie things, like wearing weird masks and feeling a peculiar fondness for old family photos.
- Infinity Pool. Although the premise of this luxury-skewering tale might mimic “White Lotus” or “The Menu,” “Infinity Pool” veers in a far different direction than those more mainstream titles, fusing the psychedelic and nauseating imagery from 2020’s “Possessor” into the tale of a man tasting the wild side of wealth, but not able to hold on when things get too real.
- Talk to Me. Twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou helmed this Austrian feature about a haunting new game taking teen parties by storm: Hold on to this creepy old hand and you can communicate with the dead, as well as let them temporarily possess your body.
Oct 28, 2011 · The Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight category (formerly known as Park City at Midnight) has been home to some of the most iconic, disturbing, and downright sinister horror films of the past few decades. Here’s the ultimate list of the scariest films to ever screen in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sep 1, 2022 · We’ve compiled a list of Sundance Institute–supported horror films you absolutely must watch before summer ends: from stories of soul-stealing spirits, to tales of friends gone missing and blood-sucking vampires that lurk in the night.
