While The Heretics doesn’t offer anything super new to the subgenre, its plodding, hallucinogenic story is certainly entertaining. The Heretics Let it be known that I’m a sucker for demonic movies. While the movie isn’t quite perfection, it’s still a great, creepy way to spend an October evening. That sparks an unnerving and haunting series of events which twist and turn several times before dropping you on your head. The two cellists strike up a love affair in Shanghai and decide to take an impromptu road trip. Her revered mentor, in the meantime, has put all of his effort into elevating another cellist prodigy played by Logan Browning. Allison Williams plays a phenom cellist forced to retire from a skyrocketing career to take care of her sick mother. The Perfection is a welcome addition to that roster. The Perfection Except for a few duds like Bird Box, Netflix has produced a number of decent horror movies like Apostle and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. What follows could be seen as fairly predictable, but The Ones Below is another movie that succeeds on its understated, yet unsettling execution. The Ones Below When new people move into the apartment below the main characters, everyone bonds over how both couples are expecting their first child. I could not take my eyes away from the tense panic that envelops this movie, and its gruesome, fearless ending is absolutely worth your time. There isn’t much to Super Dark Times’ paranoid story about friendship gone very awry, but the careful way the plot is handled makes it enormously atmospheric and utterly engrossing. Still, there is a subdued dread in this small story that I really vibed with and believe many others will as well. Super Dark Times As a dude who grew up in the Indiana suburbs, I recognize that Super Dark Times’ plot - which centers around a group made up of that same demographic - might appeal more to me than others. Furthermore, as I watched and gradually realized that The Endless was made by co-director/writers Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead, who made one of my all-time favorite horror gems Resolutions, it took my love of The Endless to a whole new level. As time upends itself in their wake, the movie’s careful pace blossoms into a truly unnerving experience. The brothers return to a group of people who live their lives in service to a secret force hidden on the land. I’m a sucker for a good cult horror film and The Endless is definitely that. The Endless The Endless centers around two brothers returning to a small commune (read: cult) in which they were raised after receiving peculiar videotapes recording their youth. The enclosed quarters swiftly grow even more claustrophobic, the veering plot takes turn after turn, and while it isn’t the best story overall, it still makes for a super entertaining, and creepy, watch. Mysteries quickly arise as they try to uncover the cause of her death and what they find grows increasingly unsettling. The entire cast consists only of a father and son performing the autopsy and the woman on the slab. The Autopsy of Jane Doe This is another small-scale delight that begins when the body of an unidentified woman enters a mortuary for an autopsy. The only information that appears to give them any guidance is a message flickering on the TV screen that reads: “Await further instructions.” Its small scale, hyper-paranoid themes, bonkers plot, and simply wonderful practical effects make this one of my favorite hidden gems this year. An estranged man and his girlfriend return home for Christmas and just as the tension gets too tough to bear, the family finds that they have been trapped in their house through shocking circumstances. STREAMING ON NETFLIX Await Further Instructions Await Further Instructions slams together a few of my favorite horror movie tropes and locks them in a British house over the holidays.
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