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- The Brood (1979) David Cronenberg's spin on the rise of psychotherapy in the late-'70s is a body horror classic. Samantha Eggar plays Nola, a mentally disturbed woman who is undergoing a controversial form of therapy under Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed).
- Carnival of Souls (1962) After surviving a near-fatal car accident, a young church organist (Candace Hilligoss) tries to move on with her life, but remains haunted by visions of the undead.
- Carrie (1976) Shy outcast Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is mercilessly mocked by her high-school peers in this horror classic, adapted from Stephen King's first novel.
- The Conjuring (2013) Despite positive reviews upon its release, few could have predicted that this supernatural horror film would launch a billion-dollar franchise.
- Leviathan
- The Strangers
- Friday The 13th
- Hereditary
- The Visit
- The Amityville Horror
- Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
- The Monster
- Orphan
Full disclosure: Leviathan is nowhere near a perfect movie. It's an underwater Alien and The Thing ripoff without apology. The reason it gets a recommendation is because of the outstanding creature effects of the Leviathan monstrosity that evolves bigger and fishier with each crew member's death. A cast including Peter Weller, Ernie Hudson, Daniel ...
“Because you were home.” Is there a more chilling line in horror? Bryan Bertino’s home invasion double-broiler doesn’t need supernatural occurrences or fantasy concepts. Strangers pick a house and terrorize the inhabitants because they want to, and that’s what makes this one so unforgivably despicable. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are splendid targ...
Here’s the paragraph where I say Marcus Nispel’s Friday the 13th remake is one of the franchise’s best entries. How it melds the first three Friday the 13th movies into a leaner, more vicious 2000s vision is so slick, speeding through the milestones of Jason Voorhees becoming the iteration we all know with pep in its step. Derek Mears plays a menac...
You know Hereditary is fantastic. I know Hereditary is fantastic. What’s the point of adding it to this list? Everybody needs a reminder now and again. If this were a just world, the Oscars wouldn’t have snubbed Toni Collette’s performance from consideration (the Academy has a well-known horror problem). Ari Aster bursts onto the scene with a debut...
M. Night Shyamalan has many great films in his filmography, and I'd argue The Visit is right up there towards the top. Shyamalan dips his toe into the found footage subgenre with a trip to Grandma and Grandpa’s house that goes horribly awry. Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie are scene stealers as “Nana” and “Pop Pop,” senior citizens who start terr...
The Amityville Horror (2005) is so much more than Ryan Reynolds’ washboard abs. Platinum Dunes made a name in the 2000s remaking classic horror films by modern horror standards, and The Amityville Horror is one of their successes. You know the Long Island story about a house that drives the Lutz family crazy, especially Reynolds’ George, and the re...
Is Jason Takes Manhattan the best Friday the 13th film? Or even the best Friday the 13th sequel? Nope, both of those belong to Part VI: Jason Lives. But is Jason Takes Manhattan an underappreciated Friday the 13th sequel? Absolutely. It spends way more time on a boat than advertised, so it’s more like Jason Takes A Cruise To Manhattan, but that’s n...
Xbox Kinect almost killed the Paranormal Activity franchise (Paranormal Activity 4), but The Marked Ones refused to let the whole series die. The terrifying sorta-sequel, written and directed by Christopher Landon, is a film he described as a “cousin” entry that steps away from whitewashed suburbia to embrace a Latinx perspective. The simple act of...
The Monster is an A24 horror film from The Strangers writer and director Bryan Bertino that never got what it deserved. There’s such power in the otherwise simple story about a mother played by Zoe Kazan protecting her daughter from an unidentified monster after a car accident. Bertino isn’t hiding messages as Kazan’s alcoholic parent shows her dau...
People still talk about the ending of Orphan for a reason. If you still need to see it, who am I to ruin the surprise? It's based on a true media report, which makes the shocking adoption thriller even more twisted. Isabelle Fuhrman is so very good at playing sweet, innocent Esther, especially when the ending veers into crazy town. It's not as good...
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Max now has one of the best catalogues of all the streaming services — especially when it comes to horror movies. Here are scariest, from classics like ‘The Amityville Horror’ to newer ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Looking for the scariest movies on streaming? Here are the best horror movies on HBO Max right now, from Evil Dead Rise to Barbarian.
- The Conjuring (2013) Haunted house movies had seen better days and director James Wan showed he agreed by literally returning to those days with a film set in the subgenre’s prime: the 1970s.
- Poltergeist (1982) The early 1980s would prove to be a sweet spot for the haunted house subgenre and Poltergeist is widely considered to be the crown jewel of the era.
- It (2017) The traumatic disillusionment of growing up affects many children, but often goes unseen. Stephen King brought that feeling to life in his 1986 novel It in the form of a creature that specializes in traumatic illusion when not disguising itself as a symbol of innocence.
- The Shining (1980) Fans of Stephen King go back and forth over what is truly the most terrifying adaptation of his work, with most choosing this story of a recovering alcoholic writer (Jack Nicholson) driven insane by the manipulative presence haunting the empty hotel his wife (Shelly Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd) are looking after during a lonely winter.
May 2, 2024 · There are strange, foundational early horror films, such as Haxan or Vampyr, along with classics of world cinema like Japan’s Kwaidan, Onibaba and House. There are also indie gems like We’re All...
May 3, 2024 · These are the very best horror movies now on Max. Samuel R. Murrian and Matthew Huff. Updated: May 3, 2024. Max, previously HBO Max, has one of the most impressive film and TV catalogs...
