Cult Horror Movies The Choice (2016)

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated.

There’s a longstanding link between sex and violence. When it comes to movies, horror flicks have certainly been keen to exploit the connection.

The 2. 5 best horror movies since 2. Ask horror- movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers. The ’3. 0s had several of Universal’s classic roster of monsters.

The ’4. 0s had Val Lewton. The ’7. 0s had zombies, and giant sharks, and Texas chain saw massacres. Classics take time to solidify, reputations take a minute to build, and hindsight is 2. Plus, you know, Uwe Boll. But looking over the 2.

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United States sometime before today and after January 1, 2. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror operates as a mirror of our anxieties—a warped reflection of everything that’s eating away at us as a culture or keeping us all up at night. And there’s been plenty to lose sleep over these past 1. SARS. The list below could easily double as a guide to the fears and phobias of modern life. Its eclecticism is a testament to just how many different ways we’ve been freaked out since Y2.

K. Sixteen contributors submitted ranked ballots of their favorite horror movies released in the United States since the year 2. These are not the scariest films of our new millennium, but simply the greatest that happen to occupy the horror genre. As such, we tried to be fairly strict with the definition; films that feel like horror but wouldn’t necessarily be classified as such by IMDB or Netflix—like David Lynch’s two post- 2. Pan’s Labyrinth, or Requiem For A Dream—were excluded.

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Sound off in the comments below. There are those who find Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs to be one of the most unsettling and provocative horror films ever made, and then there are those who haven’t seen it yet.

But unlike other extreme horror that relies on shock value and repugnance for its notoriety (A Serbian Film, Human Centipede II), Martyrs isn’t particularly grisly, nor does it wallow in depravity for exploitative button- pushing. The film is almost two movies in one. Depicting a fragile young woman’s efforts to support her friend, who seeks revenge for her abuse as a child, the first half is horror at its simplest and most frightening. But a late and unexpected turn in the story pushes things into utterly new territory, at which point the film becomes horrifying for wholly different reasons. It’s difficult, transcendent, riveting, and never anything but nerve- shredding. And the ending is one for the ages.

The genre can be very regressive in its gender politics, if not grotesque and loathsome in its sexism, but the sly Canadian horror- comedy Ginger Snaps cleverly subverts that tradition by positing lycanthropy as an allegory for a girl’s sexual and physical maturation. The film is empowering in its depiction of a world where female sexuality is a potent, violent, and righteous force. And the film inspired a slew of feminist- leaning horror films that addressed gender forthrightly and smartly, including a memorable segment in the horror anthology Trick ’R Treat. The masked assailants trying to gain entry into the vacation home of an unhappy couple (Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler) aren’t particularly memorable; the film’s bare- bones narrative insists upon that anonymity. No, what makes Bryan Bertino’s film seethe with nail- biting tension is the masterful use of space and silence.

The home becomes a sieve, a place where a threatening presence can intrude upon the frame from any angle. There are no fancy camera tricks or complicated plot twists, just a slowly building sense of dreadful inevitability. Always hanging back, Bertino lets his two leads stand exposed, the large open spaces behind them always promising to release more terrors. It’s a perfect rejoinder to those who value originality over everything.

Going back to basics can reap petrifying rewards, too. Nicole Kidman gives one of her best performances as a widowed mother named Grace, who lives with her two sickly children in an elegant European country house in the mid- 1. WWII. The arrival of eccentric new servants coincides with the family’s increased awareness of some kind of inexplicable presence in the manor, which Grace tries her best to ignore until she’s eventually forced by circumstance to investigate.

Writer- director Alejandro Amenabar teases out the mystery and uses old- fashioned effects to give viewers the creeps; but his best asset is Kidman, whose dawning awareness of what’s happening around her helps turn The Others into a poetic portrait of soul- sick grief. Although most of the U. K.’s monsters have now starved to (re)death, and despite the fact that part of London has been successfully turned into a militarized safe zone overseen by the U.

S., no one is secure in this horror show. That’s apparent from the film’s masterful intro, wherein a terrified husband (Robert Carlyle) is forced to flee his rural enclave—and abandon his loved ones in order to save himself—and continues once the action shifts to those living under American armed- forces protection, which falters after another undead outbreak. Hi-Def Quality Burnt (2015). Frantic blasts of cannibalistic action set to squealing guitars generate adrenalized terror, though more chilling still is the overarching allegorical portrait of a United States failing to maintain control over a rabid, rampaging horde of infected- by- madness enemies. May (Angela Bettis) navigates her lonely world with her mother’s voice in her head—“If you can’t find a friend, make one”—assuring her that ending her isolation is simply a matter of will.

But finding a friend is easier said than done for a mousy, awkward woman with a misaligned eye, an obsession with antique dolls, and too much enthusiasm for the bloodier aspects of her veterinary gig. By the time May takes her quest for human connection to gory extremes, writer- director Lucky Mc. Kee has already laid a sound foundation of empathy. May is a slasher flick with an inverted perspective, as if Friday The 1. Wolf Creek comes alarmingly close.

Greg Mc. Lean’s pitiless Aussie shocker sends a trio of attractive, uncommonly likable twentysomethings into the outer reaches of the Outback, where they’re set upon by a smiling psychopath in a Crocodile Dundee hat. One of a small handful of films to ever earn a straight “F” from Cinema. Score voters, Wolf Creek has proven just a little too sadistic for plenty of viewers.

But there’s an unlikely elegance to its construction, Mc. Lean engendering affection for his sacrificial lambs in the long, tension- building hour before they’re led to the slaughter. Unfairly lumped in with the likes of Saw and Hostel, this backwoods gauntlet owes its nightmarish power not just to the “charms” of its cackling human monster (John Jarratt), but also to the unforgiving sprawl of the Australian wilderness. This is the second of three contract killings that form the black heart of British director Ben Wheatley’s one- of- a- kind feature, so of course there’s no shortage of blood here. But this chimera of a film—part naturalistic marital scream- fest, part on- assignment buddy movie, and, most important for our purposes here, part sticks- and- stones conclave in the Wicker Man mode—is most remarkable for its atmosphere of slow- building menace. Paring down the exposition, Wheatley keeps the audience aligned with his in- the- dark hired guns, though every dread- filled frame cries that something’s amiss.

Lo and behold, it emerges that what they’ve taken on is, almost literally, the job from hell. In some respects, The Host is Bong’s version of a Godzilla movie; in particular, it boasts a similar origin story, with the monster accidentally created by an American military advisor who cuts corners by pouring 2. In lieu of the lumbering beasts familiar from Japanese monster movies, however, Bong and his effects team fashioned a slimy, fast- moving fish with legs, able to wreak havoc on a smaller, more thrilling scale. And yet it’s arguably the least of the hero’s problems, given the outrageous institutional negligence and incompetence on display throughout the movie.

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