It Follows is a film that thrives in the borders, not so much about the horror that leaps out in front of you, but the deeper anxiety that waits at the verge of consciousness-until, one day soon, it’s there, reminding you that your time is limited, and that you will never be safe. In a dilapidating ice cream stand on 12 Mile, in the ’60s-style ranch homes of Ferndale or Berkley, in a game of Parcheesi played by pale teenagers with nasally, nothing accents-if you’ve never been, you’d never recognize the stale, gray nostalgia creeping into every corner of David Robert Mitchell’s terrifying film, but it’s there, and it feels like Metro Detroit. The specter of Old Detroit haunts It Follows. Year: 2015 Director: David Robert Mitchell Stars: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary Rating: R That’s the finest of lines Peele and Get Out walk without stumbling. At worst it’s a setup for such macabre developments as are found in the domain of horror. At best Chris’s ordeal is bizarre and dizzying, the kind of thing he might bitterly chuckle about in retrospect. Put indelicately, Get Out is about being black and surrounded by whites who squeeze your biceps without asking, who fetishize you to your face, who analyze your blackness as if it’s a fashion trend. Chris immediately feels out of place events escalate from there, taking the narrative in a ghastly direction that ultimately ties back to the unsettling sensation of being the “other” in a room full of people who aren’t like you-and never let you forget it. Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams) go to spend a weekend with her folks in their lavish upstate New York mansion, where they’re throwing the annual Armitage bash with all their friends in attendance. Peele’s a natural behind the camera, but Get Out benefits most from its deceptively trim premise, a simplicity which belies rich thematic depth. Year: 2017 Director: Jordan Peele Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Lil Rel Howery Rating: R The best horror movies streaming on Shudder. The best horror movies streaming on Hulu. The best horror movies streaming on Amazon Prime. You may also want to consult the following horror-centric lists: The highest-ranked films are obviously essentials. The lowest-ranked films are of the “fun-bad” variety-flawed, but easily enjoyable for one reason or another. We invite you to use this list as a guide. If there’s one horror area where Netflix has excelled, it’s in limited series. They’re not technically movies, but they’re impossible to leave off this list. Don’t expect to find many franchise staples in the mold of Halloween or Friday the 13th, but don’t sleep on The Haunting of Hill House, Cabinet of Curiosities or Midnight Mass, either. Still, there are quality films to be found here, typically of the modern variety, from comedies like The Babysitter, to more obscure (and disturbing) titles such as Creep, It Follows, Apostle or newer films like His House and the Fear Street trilogy. All of those films are now gone-usually replaced by low-budget, direct-to-VOD films with suspiciously similar one-word titles, like Demonic, Desolate and Incarnate. At various points in the last few years, for instance, Netflix could boast movies like The Shining, Scream, Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs or Young Frankenstein, along with recent indie greats like The Witch, The Descent or The Babadook. As competing services, and especially genre-specific ones such as Shudder, continue to expand their horror movie collections, it’s harder and harder for Netflix to project any sense of comprehensiveness, and its library becomes more static and reliant upon Netflix Originals on a monthly basis. Assessing the quality of offerings available from Netflix in 2023, it quickly becomes clear that their horror library is a real mixed bag.
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