Make The Horror Genre Great Again
“I want to feel something.”
“I laugh at them because I’m not easily scared.”
“I watch them in hopes of being scared.”
These are the common responses from horror junkies when asked about their addiction to the horror movie genre. Some might not be able to put it into words but they share the same sentiment. The truth is that the cream of the horror movies, at their cores, are metaphors of experiences from our lives; physical, psychological, or even spiritual. If romantic movies remind you of someone who broke your heart, it’s the horror movies that make you feel something other than depression. Here are some of the horror movies for the horror fans out there.
Hereditary (2018)
“I never wanted to be your mother.”
Director and Screenwriter, Ari Aster merges two different horror genres, psychological horror, and paranormal horror, while Toni Collette delivers a performance of her lifetime. The first half of the movie will keep you guessing whether the characters are actually losing their minds or is there really a supernatural entity that is haunting them. The grand scheme is revealed in the second half of the movie and at the end, every piece of the puzzle fits together. Whether the ending is a happy one or not, it is for you to decide but if you did.
Midsommar (2019)
“You are our May Queen”
Ari Aster again hits the home-run with this one. A trip to Sweden with friends and a misfit suffering from panic attacks; it’s a psychological horror movie where machinations of a neo-pagan cult shift the power in favor of the most vulnerable one. Florence Pugh takes us on an emotional rollercoaster about conquering our fears and breaking away the chains that hold us back, or probably burning them
The Witch (2015)
“Corruption, thou art my father!”
Written and directed by Robert Eggers, The Witch, or as the poster says ‘The VVitch’, is set in the early 17th Century in New England. A Puritan family, a husband, and a wife, and their three children are banished from the colony over a religious dispute and are forced to survive at the edge of the unholy wilderness. The disappearance of their newborn baby and the arrival of a black goat, Black Philip, set the family on a path of self-destruction. The set design and the language are as historically accurate as possible and the story itself is based on historical accounts. If you want to get into unconventional horror movies, Black Philip shall guide thy hand.
Saint Maud (2021)
“He’s physically in me and around me.”
With director Rose Glass’s first full feature movie and Morfydd Clark’s breakthrough role, Saint Maud is a women-centric movie about horrors that occur when faith, fanaticism, madness, and eroticism come together. The transformation of a devout Christian nurse who takes care of her patients to a religious fanatic wants to save the soul of her sinful dying patient because haunting voice-overs told her to; Saint Maud is a slow-paced movie with an ending that is going to give you nightmares.
Apostle (2018)
“I fear our Lord no longer hears my prayer.”
A ransom, a remote island, a cult, a false prophet, blood sacrifices and forced abortions; Apostle has it all. Set in 1905, a brother decides to rescue his sister who has been kidnapped by a sinister religious cult who ‘worships’ an ancient goddess cult on a remote island. A series of events leads to menacing revelations about the Island’s past and an ending no one could have predicted.
The Ritual (2017)
‘If the shortcut was a shortcut, it wouldn’t be called a shortcut, it would be called a route.’
At first glance, The Ritual might seem as your regular camping gone bad movie but there is more o this than meets the eye. A guilty conscience, a deep-seated remorse and a horror based on Norse mythology all take their toll on the group as their sanity is ebbed away little by little. Lost in the far northern reaches of Sweden’s forests surrounded by Eldar Futhark, the group struggles to survive and find their way back to humanity.
Overlord (2018)
“A thousand year army needs thousand year soldiers”
World War II, Nazis, Evil Scientists, Zombies; as of now, Overlord is the closest thing we have to a Castle Wolfenstein movie. A paratrooper squad is sent to infiltrate and destroy a church which has been turned into German radio-jamming tower. After a fateful encounter with a young woman from the village and a series of unusual paranormal events, they realize their mission is much more than blowing up some tower.
Give these movies a watch and stay tuned for more content on horror movies.
