![]() A mid-film musical moment that you won't forget separates the two parts of this story-but, as we mentioned in the write-up for Pearl, there's more to come in the utterly unexpected X cinematic universe. But every part of X is, simply exceptionally made, and West makes choices that will keep you in awe. Set in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, '70s-inspired locale of South Texas, X follows a group of charismatic actors and filmmakers (Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell, and Kid Cudi) who set out to make a low-budget but artful adult film-before, you guessed it, wild shit starts to happen. And while it keeps all of the conventions of the subgenre that people love-great characters, interesting set pieces and tension, and grisly kills-Ti West's filmmaking is what sets the movie apart. ERĪ good old fashioned slasher is probably the biggest crowd-pleaser genre in the horror oeuvre. And that's a pretty ideal horror movie outcome. Regardless- First Reformed will leave you on edge and unsettled. ![]() Schrader has experience with horror- Taxi Driver has the same sort of slow-burn not-quite-horror-but-you-could-make-the-case vibe, and the man directed Cat People, which may not be the most memorable horror movie but did get an unforgettable David Bowie theme song. ![]() Ethan Hawke, masterful in his portrayal of the optimistic (at first) small church Reverend Ernst Toller, gives one of his best performances, slowly letting viewers see his character lose it little by little after an encounter with an environmentalist shakes him to his core. What made us really consider First Reformed for the list of A24's greatest horror movies is the fact that legendary writer/director Paul Schrader is simply a master of slow-building, always-simmering, utterly-inevitable dread. Woodshock (2017)įirst Reformed checks basically none of the surface-level boxes of what might come to mind when thinking of horror movies. But that's a conversation for another story.īelow, you can find our definitive ranking of all the scary, spooky, and upsettingly well-made horror movies that A24 has put out. If someone wanted, they could probably make the case that A24's first real horror movie was 2013's Spring Breakers. A24's first horror movie, in our eyes, was either Denis Villeneuve's Enemy or the Scarlett Johansson-starring Under the Skin, both of which came out in 2014. We made some interesting inclusions on our list below-some that some might not agree with. Sometimes "horror" can be a tricky genre to draw lines around. ![]() ![]() (Some might call their take on the genre “elevated horror,” but that’s not really a term we believe in, as it implies there’s something that needed to be “elevated,” and there have consistently been fantastic films in horror for nearly 100 years.) By our count, the company behind movies like Moonlight, Lady Bird, Uncut Gems, and Everything Everywhere All At Once has produced or distributed 28 horror movies. The villain in many modern horror hits isn't necessarily a big scary guy in a mask with a machete-these are movies that know how to build tension in other, more subtle ways.Īnd nobody in Hollywood has been more consistent at releasing these sorts of new-age horror films than A24. The late 2010s and early 2020s have been a bit harder to pin down, but if there's anything really linking the horror world together-and sure, you could take a page out of Jamie Lee Curtis' playbook and go with trauma, but what fun is that?-it's the idea of a horror movie that would rather go for a real, cinematic, artistic feel than the near-slapstick jump scares and thrills that something like a Friday the 13th sequel may have gone for in the mid '80s. These are movies that have, organically within their worlds, talked about leaving a room by yourself, a killer coming back for one last scare, and watching some sort of video tape that might wind up killing you. ONE THING THAT both the Screamand Scary Movie franchises have done so well throughout their near 30 years of existence is collect and dissect trends within the world of horror movies. ![]()
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