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Take all the sweet and insulin, the season of fear has arrived!And to prepare you, we selected the most productive Halloween videos on Netflix.
How exactly a pagan harvest festival became a month-long birthday component of carving pumpkins, decorating your home with giant spiders, and setting up a death-themed Twitter demo call is a question for the ancients (perhaps to enchant in a dusty text in an attic complete with pentagrams and runes), But it’s still a culture, and watching horror videos while filling up on candy is part of it.
As you prepare for the big night itself, we’re offering you a list of the most productive horror videos streaming on Netflix right now. Horror videos are still scary, and everything else.
Let’s start in the scariest order of all: alphabetical!
Stanley Kubrick’s early ’70s masterpiece, based on Anthony Burgess’ novel, is rarely related to Halloween, but it is: it’s a horror movie. The concept of government control of the brain? Well, this movie has both. In addition, the “avant-garde” look espoused by Malcolm McDowell and his Droogs is a Halloween dress chosen by angry partygoers for decades. Viddy well!
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Samara Weaving: Does she come to your suburban house to protect you at night, or does she and her team of self-proclaimed “sexy people” come to perform satanic rituals?In the words of a beloved GIF, “why not both?””This energetic, eye-catching and incredibly bloody (but funny) horror photo has a bit of compatibility for director McG, who brought us the first Charlie’s Angels films and produced The O. C. Bella Thorne, Hana Mae Lee, Robbie Amell and Andrew Bachelor, the whole circle of Weaving devil worshippers who want the ‘blood of the innocents’, that is, a human sacrifice in the form of our pre-teen protagonist, played through a wide-eyed Judah Lewis.
Danish director Susanne Bier (whose In a Better World won the Oscar for best foreign language) and screenwriter Eric Heisserer (who wrote Final Arrival and Destination 5) teamed up to create what long-term historians could be Netflix’s first viral sensation based on an original film. Sandra Bullock, an artist who crosses genres like Kool-Aid Man through walls, plays a protective mother in a dystopian setting where evil creatures force other innocent people to commit suicide, but only if they are watched. As such, our heroes in this survival horror symbol (and those of us who took over the “Bird Box Challenge” to make people laugh online) will have to traverse streams and forests blindfolded. John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Jacki Weaver, Trevante Rhodes, Rosa Salazar and Machine co-star Gun Kelly.
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There’s no shortage of low-budget horror movies that use social media and/or women on camera as hooks, and CAM is the most productive of the bunch. Written through Isa Mazzei, adapting her own ebook about her reporting in the field, and directed through Daniel Goldhaber, whose recent How To Blow Up A Pipeline is making moves on the festival circuit, CAM certainly has some blood and scares, but it puts you under the skin with her annoying Twilight Zone-and. Madeline Brewer plays the camera woman “Lola” whose popularity on a service for adults she is surpassed by another, also called Lola, who looks and sounds *exactly like her-* and the scenes of our Lola with the other Lola are very scary.
Wait, what’s The Conjuring 2 again? The “Conjure-verse” is a vast pocket universe if you count all the prequels and sequels, however, it’s where the series took off, with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson returning as paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren (based on genuine life). Lorraine and Ed). This time they are going to the England of the 70s and, honestly, what can be scarier than this place?This movie has Ouija boards, rotating crucifixes and an 11-year-old boy who looks like a boy in his seventies. Also: Patrick Wilson in a sweater vest. There is a cold in the air, after all.
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By Julie Miller
And now we triumph in the subcategory of Halloween movie setting. Crimson Peak is scary (unless you’re the coward of all cowards), but director Guillermo Del Toro is right in his detail in an Edwardian-era English mansion. It’s a love story more than anything else, but with ghosts, nobility without money, deteriorating buildings, masses of eyeballs and some of the strangest snowfall in cinema. Among the films released in the last 10 years, this is a must-have detail for anyone interested in del Toro’s design (perhaps even more so than the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water), and the performances through Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Hunnam (underrated!) are also perfect.
This box office sensation that has won 3 Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Director for John Boorman) is not usually related to Halloween. On the contrary, it looks like a summer movie, with an organization of others partying. Canoe trip. But it is a symbol of the horror of survival, with shocking acts of violence. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty are 4 Atlanta businessmen who sit rudely out of detail among the locals, whose landscape is about to be seriously altered due to an upcoming dam. I wish the gang broke up after their lovely encounter with the banjo!
This often-overlooked film is just one of many foreign-language gems hidden deep within Netflix’s servers. Philippine principal Mikhail Red analyzes the name with a chilling story of a Catholic school for girls tormented beyond suicide. The location mixes modernist architecture with classic devout iconography, and while there’s not too much gore (though there are plenty of jumps), it’s the tone that works wonders here. Bright candles, shadows, masses of eyeballs (what’s scarier than eyeballs?) feeling of terror.
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Netflix’s big Halloween bet for 2021 is a trilogy of R. L. Stine videos that jump from the 1990s to the 1970s, then to the past 1600s and vice versa. Rare is the film franchise that includes puritanical New England, a summer camp and Spencer Gifts. The overall package is a gift for teens who need to prove themselves with real disgust at an epic sleepover. (But don’t fall asleep! Sarah Proud’s witch curse will invade your dreams. )In the sandbox on Friday the 13th, it would possibly be the best, but the “global construction” of the entire company is rich and sticks to landing.
It’s only a matter of time before this list of the most productive Halloween videos on Netflix called Mike Flanagan appears. He is the general ghost of the great red streamer who created popular series such as The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass. With Gerald’s Game, she adapts Stephen King’s 1992 novel about a woman (played by Carla Gugino) who allows her husband (Bruce Greenwood) to put her in bed in an attempt to bring things to life. He then died of a central attack. How the hell is he going to get out of this?The answer will surprise you and make you vomit too!
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By Julie Miller
Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku play South Sudanese refugees whose daughter dies in her dangerous escape. They are granted asylum in Britain and placed in a house. . . nothing glamorous in the suburbs of London. (Imagine the back canopy from Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, even worse. ) Here they face Byzantine regulations (thanks to their social worker, Matt Smith), racist neighbors and, of course, a disturbing mind. The unwanted guest is what the Dinka call a monkey, which requires sacrifice. The final segment of the film gives the narrative an unforeseen direction, which combines at the end for a satisfying conclusion.
Do you need to see June Squibb wearing a T-shirt that says “Boner Donor”?Adam Sandler returns as an annoying man-boy, this time a Halloween-obsessed fool named Hubie DuBois, who naturally lives in Salem, Massachusetts. (Sandler himself grew up in New Hampshire, so close. ) There’s a lot of fear here, with a production design that is deliberately on the side of the “Halloween Spirit. “supernatural things and you will have to prove your bravery to save the day. Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Tim Meadows, Steve Buscemi and most of Sandler’s other regulars are back, adding Maya Rudolph dressed as Frankenstein’s bride. Halloween movie for families!
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By Julie Miller
Here’s a suggestion: If you’re looking for professional mental advice, make sure you know someone who has all the proper credentials. Kate Siegel doesn’t do it in this charming B photo when she succumbs to Jason’s charms (and hypnosis). O’Mara’s malicious head shrinker at Hypnotic. Al first, sessions give some energy to his focus, but then he starts to have memory loss. Could it, in some way, be guilty of the horrible death of our heroine’s fiancé due to sesame allergies (see notes)?Can it really, as the film suggests, scare someone to death?Watch this movie to find out for yourself!
The scariest pronoun in culture is there and able to drag you down the drain. The first part of Stephen King’s great novel that took you a whole summer to read was a great workplace sensation, as was its sequel (which has to air somewhere else. ) The Losers, Pennywise the Clown and “you’ll float, too” all have their origins here, plus the general feeling that Maine is a haunted place, and whether you deserve to do your utmost to get around if you ever move on to New Brunswick.
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An excellent example of the golden age of “high” horror (say 3 times like “Candyman” around gorehounds and let’s see what happens) that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in a not-very-current reality, It Follows creates a physical manifestation of destruction after a sexual encounter, which can only be avoided by connecting with another person and sending the demon after them. It’s like an STD for which no cream can beat the rash!Among the many fun things about this The movie is how it changes the most fundamental trope of horror film: Historically, the couple who have sex is the first to be killed. Here, you have to lie down to survive!
If you don’t think it’s a horror movie, it’s transparent that you’ve never been caught in a quagmire of remorse where emotional violence throws shrapnel in all directions. well, then there’s no blood (wait, actually, there’s this piece with the cutter) and no violence (wait, Adam Driver digging a hole in the wall was an endless meme) but there was a catharsis. How you paint this for Halloween is up to you.
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We’re back in (oh, no!) Maine for another short story written by Stephen King. This time, Thomas Jane and his young son are trapped in a supermarket as a mysterious fog (and headline) engulfs the city. vicious creatures that cling, fly and frolical. Most sensibly, Marcia Gay Harden helps keep chattering about sin and the end of the world. Through Jones, William Sadler and Frances Sternhagen all make appearances, as does an emotionally brutal ending. Director Frank Darabont, who in the past had directed the dramas King The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, was horrified after that, and a small television screen called The Walking Dead appeared.
Here’s another anonymous horror winner on Netflix that is a wonderful selection of Halloween movies. Cristina Rodlo plays a Mexican immigrant who discovers paintings under the table in a clandestine Cleveland workshop and a “no-questions-asked” position to live in a huge, run-down house. While it’s photogenic, there are screams coming from somewhere in the middle of the night, and some of the other women who live there disappear. The story is headed in a supernatural direction, but much of the concern comes less from the demons archaeological artifacts than from the hundred and one tactics that only seek to stay afloat are exploited through other people who seem, at first, to be kind.
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Ah, yes, not just a movie based on a board game, but a prequel to a movie about a board game. But wait! And just because Ouija forums are sold through Hasbro doesn’t mean they don’t have genuine roots in the occult!evil!), this symbol of supernatural terror with genuine scares surprised many critics given the boring first Ouija. Henry Thomas as a tormented priest is a great added touch.
Alison Williams and Logan Browning star in this film All About Eve (or, at least, Showgirls) set in the world of classical music. The first part of the film takes place in Shanghai and a vacation in China, and while the setting is beautiful, once the horror side of this film is resumed, things surely become disgusting. While it’s far from tortured porn, it’s definitely a “I dare you to see it” movie, with lots of vomit and dirt implicit in its underwear. , and leaks that thin the screen. The last act, set in a New England conservatory, derails in a more occult way in general. Disgusting quality awaits you!
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This is non-negotiable. Not only one of the most productive horror videos streaming lately on Netflix, but one of the most productive videos of the past 10 years, Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a stunning coming-of-age drama that reaches the intake of human flesh. (Hey, we’re all different. ) This French-language film is one of those films that ends with an “aha!”This makes you reevaluate much of what you’ve already noticed to realize the clues that fall by the wayside. That’s one more. Garance Marillier is glorious in the first year of college negotiating social structures that must, among other things, remove the stool from an impacted cow. Is that what they pay tuition for?
It is the fifth of six Resident Evil films starring Milla Jovovich, most of which were directed by her husband Paul W. S. Anderson and is by far the most unbalanced. The transparent glow dazzles and overwhelms you. As usual, Umbrella Corporation is evil and turns other people into zombies, and Milla will kill them acrobatically dressed in extravagant outfits that come with a harness. The twist here is implanted memories (or exchange of realities) in which he also lives a comfortable suburban life. Highlights come with action visuals in New York’s Times Square, Moscow’s Red Square, and a brightly lit white corridor.
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By Julie Miller
Four British boys take a holiday in the Swedish mountains, with ruinous results. They pass there in honor of a friend who was the concept but who died in a robbery at a liquor store. Rafe Spall is the friend most affected by guilt, as he did not act and helped the attack. There’s some degree of connection between humans in nature, but then there’s a twisted ankle, a resolution to “cut through the forest,” and that’s where the scary stuff starts. When you see glyphs carved into the sides of trees, that’s when you know how to pass, but at that moment it’s dark, it’s raining and some creature is in its path. Note to me: move to the Bahamas instead.
Could there be a better name for a best Halloween movie?This PG-13 adaptation of a beloved e-book series bears Guillermo Del Toro’s manufacturer’s stamp and sticks to an easy-to-digest formula. Some of the short stories already known to readers of the franchise, a spirit is unleashed when a haunted e-book is ripped from a haunted house. It is ok. Children need to be challenged and they have to do it for themselves when they hide their eyes. (Maybe while shooting the spider-filled yetton, how disgusting!)
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By Julie Miller
Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma is, in fact, what Hollywood means through a four-quadrant movie. A computer-generated talking dog (the headline of Scoothrough-Doo!) only makes you more of a winner. It’s definitely a Halloween movie from a clever circle of relatives, and even the youngest audience might not be too afraid of g-g-ghosts. Why you don’t look now is a mystery (cough).
This is not the original, grimy, grotesque, historical film from 1974. We know this because it’s Chain Saw, not Chainsaw (keep that one in your pocket to see anecdotes at the bar). This version, well, listen, let’s be honest, it’s not a masterpiece. Alexandra Daddario’s in 2013 was better. But it’s a branded horror movie and it’s just gone off the press, and you need to stream anything where you know what you’re going to get. Maybe take some KFC or Taco Bell and enjoy it.
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By Julie Miller
Cornfields are actually over-indexed in horror movies, right?Well, this one takes place in Nebraska, so at least it makes sense. when the community’s alpha male asshole finally dies. They didn’t like the guy, but the murder?The trick here is that kids don’t just end up dying, they have their top hidden secrets exposed on social media right before they get run over. (This, I’m sure, doesn’t end up being a symbol of something. ) Another twist is that the killer deploys the use of a 3D printer to create a mask of the victim. Never accept anyone as true with a 3D printer, this is (perhaps) one of the classes here.
Here’s another foreign language winner from deep in Netflix archives. Set in Iran and set during the devastating Iran-Iraq War, Under the Shadow begins as a typical drama about a mother and daughter looking to get by as the walls literally crumble around them. And that’s where geniuses come in. Part of this is obviously a policy about Iran’s harsh Islamic legislation (director Babak Anvari is Persian-British, and the film was nominated across the UK for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category), especially when a missile pierces the circle of kin-building but remains untapped. Finally, the looming spirits and the warring nations crescendo into genuine terror.
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Among the many films that take position completely “on a computer screen”, this is the first to attract the attention of the general public. (It also got more likes; it wreaked havoc at the box office. )While operating systems would arguably seem a bit dated, the drama, centered on cyberbullying, would not. Various messaging, video, and social media apps are used to push the narrative, in which an organization is haunted (perhaps) by the spirit of a woman who committed suicide. Skype’s charming ringtone becomes a “ring for you” carillon in this highly effective and artistic film.
It goes via @thehorrormaster on Twitter and has been seen with Halloween, so it would be absurd if a sure John Carpenter did not appear in the list of the most productive Halloween videos on Netflix. Vampires (technically called John Carpenter’s vampires) is, uh, not your most productive hour. It’s not The Thing or They Live or even The Fog. But maybe you’ve never gotten into it after all those years, and it definitely has a quality. It has James Woods and Daniel as vampire, hunters, Sheryl Lee as medium and Maximillian Schell as cardinal. (This is a Catholic clergyman, not a bird. )It’s incredibly gory (a lovely piece by Greg Nicotero) and while the storytelling can be sloppy, sometimes, especially around Halloween, it’s fun to watch vampires and vampire hunters do their thing.
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