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7 Comments Jorge Loser @loserjorgeEvery year the end of summer turns the first days of autumn into a countdown to Halloween in which it is no longer useful to have a marathon of terror on the night of the dead. October is the month of terror and many want to celebrate the big night of spooky with horror movies and series in advance. Sitges begins, the platforms unleash their entire arsenal and the big genre premieres accumulate on the billboard.
Vampires, slashers, werewolves or demons, horror movies have a wide variety of options to try to give us a hard time. We review the different plots of the genre in 31 sections to see each day of the month a horror movie or series of a subgenre different from the previous one.
1- Werewolves | Human Wolves (1981)
If its first 10 minutes are like a weird tale fantasy, the first half of 'Human Wolves' runs like a kind of giallo with werewolves. Full of style, elegance and strange atmosphere, it does not resemble any particular horror film and this is a good reason to elevate it over its more famous contemporaries, with a formal beauty and an almost anachronistic soundtrack, it works as a horror murder mystery with one of the best beheadings in the history of cinema, thermal subjective vision that precedes 'Predator' and an Albert Finney in grace.
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A key pioneer of the subgenre of space horror, 'Terror in space' tells the story of the passengers of a ship attracted by a strange signal to an inhospitable and desert planet. Literally a Mario Bava work of gothic science fiction from which they have drunk a lot from 'Alien, the eighth passenger' to 'Final Horizon'. A small artisan work of art that uses lighting and color to define perception and recreate locations without building large sets. and in whose aesthetics similarities are already appreciated
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Extreme and diabolical production Tigon, a perverse and sadistic horror coming of age that amalgamates all the basic foundations of folk horror in cinema: a religious cult that exemplifies the struggle between Christianity and pre-Christian practices associated with natural landscapes, highlighting the connection between paganism and nature. In its background is a response to the climate of the time and the hippie counterculture in full swing, to the point that the screenwriter Robert Wynne-Simmons admitted that he was partially inspired by the Manson family.
Available on Filmin and Amazon Prime
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Military horror miniseries on Netflix in the vein of 'The Outpost' and 'Demons', with roots in Hindu folklore, current local political tensions and ghosts of colonialism, which does not renounce an eighties spirit of zombie series B and unsparing possessions in gore, but with a strange tone that mixes purely cultural ideological conflicts and ecology of India and on the other hand with a festive vein with totally unreal and magical demon-zombies, typical of an Italian production of its stage of horror of splendor.
Available on Netflix
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On TVE 2 it was not unusual for Amicus movies to be shown at eight in the evening, so 'Dr Terror' was one of the first contacts with the British troop that rivaled Hammer doing terror. One of the most complete anthologies of horror stories of the house, which also featured a diabolical Peter Cushing orchestrating one of the best stories of interconnection of segments of the entire subgenre.
Available on Amazon Prime
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The only feature film by designer Saul Bass is a forgotten classic of horror science fiction, with an apocalyptic touch that slowly creates chills under the skin with its almost documentary approach to entomology, trying to show how ants could own the world in equal intellectual conditions to man. A surreal delirium, beautiful and well ahead of its time.
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A colorful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe by Roger Corman that left us with many of the most beautiful images of 1960s US gothic horror. Starring Vincent Price, his influence on future satanic cinema is often omitted. It is curious to rediscover in his plot how, in the midst of a plague epidemic, the rich and noble isolate themselves, celebrate and pretend that nothing is happening outside, until the plague enters their castle. Horror fiction, relevant through the centuries.
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8- Youth | The House with the Clock on the Wall (2018)
The premiere of 'Tales at Nightfall' (2021) on Netflix reminds us that horror to enter the genre can be as fun as some adult works and no one better to do it well than Eli Roth, who went from horror movies to Shed to the fantastic blockbuster for all audiences with a nice terrifying adventure that combines the charm of the magical real-action Disney films of the 70s and 80s with the spirit of RL Stine and the Addams family with terrifying scenes such as the demon of war And you miss like baby Jack Black.
Available on Filmin and Netflix
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Released theatrically without promotion, David Prior's debut earned a reputation as the cult horror film of 2020 thanks to its darkly nihilistic take on the genre and its uncompromising take on 'Angel Heart' via cosmic horror and the forms of 'the Ring'. 'The empty Man' is an extraordinary journey into the heart of darkness that questions reality with a nihilistic horror approach, more or less liked by the followers of Thomas Ligotti, it is the closest that cinema has come to adapting his work, which is not saying much.
Available on Disney+
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10- Ghosts | The Enfield Affair (2015)
Before 'The Warren File 2: The Enfield Case' (The Conjuring 2, 2016), this British miniseries made a more realistic representation than Wan's of the famous 1977 case but without giving up the supernatural and the scares. Hell, a family from north London who experience a series of terrifying and unexplained incidents and how an investigator believes it to be a scam, but the more he examines the evidence, the more signs he receives that it may be true.
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Made up in time by the success of the wild 'The Descent' (2005), this little sister of Christopher Smith put a subterranean creature first cousin of those of Neil Marshall inside the twists and turns of the London underground, proposing a revision of the claimable 'Subhumans' (1974) in survival horror key. Much better than remembered.
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In EspinofThe 31 best horror movies of the decade (2010-2019)12- Witchcraft | The Viji (1967)
The first clearly horror film from the Soviet Union, which adapted a popular story collected by Nikolai Gogol in the text that also inspired 'The Demon's Mask' by Mario Bava, a hidden gem of 60s horror, which portrays the three nights nightmare of a seminarian who must watch over the corpse of a witch, with an incredible climax of delicious expressionist horrors, stop motion and hallucinogenic apparitions. Absolute classic.
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'Midnight Mass' is the horror phenomenon of the year, a direct and mature religious horror miniseries, as if 'Ordet' clashed with Stephen King, who never hides his themes or his approach to them, but proposes a blank canvas to interpret her devastating look at devotion, with unthinkable decisions and brave twists that separate her from other Netflix products through a tale of miracles, fanaticism and creatures of the night.
Available on Netflix
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Not all the segments of the found footage anthology saga V/H/S are good, in fact, a couple were saved from the first one and two others from this one, recognized as the best of the tetralogy. However, the story 'Safe Haven', directed by two hands by Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto is a classic of the subgenre in itself in which a group of documentary filmmakers decides to go into Indonesia to interview the leader of a sect and discover his doctrine, without waiting for the apocalypse to be unleashed right there, live.
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15- Psychological horror | The Chimeric Tenant (Le Locataire, 1976)
A masterpiece of psychological horror that revolves around identity, with Polanski himself advancing ideas from 'The Pianist', and the idea of the paranoid Polish Jews forced to hide in their apartments surrounded by hostile neighbors that the protagonist sees as the monsters that they really are. A circular nightmare with almost surreal logic much more influential than is usually attributed to it and with scenes of pure panic.
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A forgotten masterpiece by Stuart Gordon, in which the director of 'Re-Animator' switched to a gothic register, with a spellbinding sinister fairy tale tone. perfect mix of his own obsessions with those of Charles Band, which is probably the best living doll movie of his era, a year before Chucky was born, and was the first of many in the same subgenre at the company Empire.
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One of the great masterpieces of silent horror, often forgotten because of the different remakes, in which expressionism, the dreamlike and the gothic came together to form an influential psychological nightmare about the hell of guilt. Conrad Veidt completed his lineup of horror icons along with 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', 'The Student from Prague' and 'The Man Who Laughs'.
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18- Possessions and exorcisms | The Exorcist: The Series (2016-2018)
Although playing under the shadow of a classic can play against it, the 'The Exorcist' series only used its noble title as a letter of introduction, but it never wants or seeks to be an adaptation at the height of its reference. Rather, it is a semianthological series, that is, a different case per season, with two priests like the Warrens, in charge of supernatural cases while they are being persecuted by the Vatican itself, now corrupt, as in the series '30 Coins'. That is to say, a kind of 'Supernatural' with tension, twists and cliffhangers from beginning to end, the closest thing that television has been to portraying the Wan brand terror in its heyday.
Available on Amazon Prime Video
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A faithful adaptation of the story by Washington Irving, in which the sequence in which Ichabod Crane is chased by the Headless Horseman is one of the most terrifying pieces in animated cinema, due to its use of all kinds of gothic resources in an atmosphere of terror that precedes Mario Bava and the Hammer and an ambiguous ending that leaves an uncomfortable feeling of emptiness. The recreation of the decapitated man as an authentic infernal being was accompanied by a pumpkin on fire, recalling the Irish jack-o'-lantern and reactivated the American Halloween tradition of decorating that vegetable.
Available on Disney+
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With each passing year it's harder to come to grips with how 'The Wellness Cure' managed to get its world premiere. A miracle of the most sumptuous, excessive, beautiful and suicidal horror cinema in a return of the gothic to mainstream cinema through an aesthetic labyrinth full of symbols, clues and visions, in a sensory syntax that explodes in a delirium of visual influences, of the Corman from Poe to Italian horror, an absolute film-experience.
Available on Amazon Prime and Fubo
In Xataka'The wellness cure' is not like other recent horror movies, but it is full of references21- Surreal | Channel Zero (2016-2018)
The 16 most suicidal, strange and terrifying hours of recent television. When 'Channel Zero' premiered, we didn't know that almost five years later there would be nothing like it since then, nor a voice as personal as Nick Antosca's. Fortunately, the author has returned with the great 'New flavor of cherry' but the level of terror of seasons like 'Candle cove' or 'Butcher's Block' has not been experienced again on the small screen.
Available on HBO
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Beyond Argento and Serio Martino there are a lot of giallos that are very worthwhile. 'The Red Lady' is about the curse of the Wildenbrüc family, condemned to experience a series of seven murders committed by a family member returned from the dead. Hidden underground vaults and other gothic elements color the classic murder mystery, with suspense and plenty of style, but with a killer who seems to preempt the masked slasher with creative, bloody and stylized kills including impalement.
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Based on a 1963 pulp novel by David Ely, 'Devilish Scheme' deals with 1960s paranoia through a sinister corporation giving people a chance to start over. John Frankenheimer uses a unique style of icy black-and-white psychedelic neo-noir, well ahead of his time, to make a satirical commentary on consumerism where selling a whole new life is the ultimate purchase. Sci-fi elements and Philip K. Dick ideas present in 'Let Me Out' and an agony of horror in the form, from the Saul Bass credits to the shocking ending that rounds out a circular nightmare.
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Possessions, demons, monsters, magic, rituals, gore... and black humor. Sam Raimi recovered the playful splatstick tone of the 'Evil Dead' saga for television with three seasons dedicated to the character of Ash Williams who merges with the Bruce Campbell character in a twilight vision of the antihero in frenetic half-hour episodes without a minute of filler and with all the imaginable gags in a mega plot that got more fully into the influence of Lovecraft in the trilogy.
Available on Netflix
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When we talk about remakes in horror movies, they are usually new adaptations of literary works that serve as base material for countless versions. This 'Nosferatu' could be a case since the expressionist classic was an apocryphal adaptation of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', however, Werner Herzog's film is based on Murnau's filmic vision to make a reinterpretation of the images increasing the discoveries of that, insisting on the idea of the plague and the look of fantasy and staged story of the vampire myth. Monumental.
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The golden age of J-Horror had an overdose of ghost movies, variations and Sadako and other long-haired Yurei in which terror was limited to scares, apparitions and supernatural revenge. The exploitation was such that it soon ceased to be of interest and international passion gave way to commercial assimilation. However, along the way there were oddities that had nothing to do with black hairs, like this modest, but very atmospheric, sample of night terror in a hospital. A spiral of grotesque moments within a nightmare logic that should be rescued.
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27- Haunted House | The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Mike Flanagan departed from the source material to focus on the core of his favorite themes: obsession and pain somatized in the form of fear, glancing at both Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, to deliver an outstanding gothic melancholy drama riddled with multiple jump scare sequences. memorable. A masterful reimagining of the gothic classic that explores family disintegration through trauma and brilliant imagery of brooding spectral horror. His episodes of the woman with the broken neck and the funeral are television history.
Available on Netflix
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A perfect movie for All Souls' Night: The weirdest sequel to Carpenter's classic wasn't a slasher, didn't have Michael Myers, and didn't copy the structure of the first for the umpteenth time. It was about killer automata powered by the spirit of Samhain. It was not cut with gore effects, and his perverse plan of distributing masks for the costumes of the night of the dead to the children so that they finish them off in a synchronized way ended up working without leaving hope. The best sequel to the original.
Available on Movistar+
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Alexandre Aja rose from a doubtful period showing that a good idea, well developed, can bring out the best in the genre without more alibis or ornaments than necessary. Like a neighborhood bar menu del dia cooked by a Michelin-starred chef, 'Hell Underwater' is a concise, efficient, spectacular and gory crocodile movie. The perfect example of summer horror movies.
Available on Netflix
In EspinofThe 13 best horror movies of 201930- Vampires | Dracula and the twins (Twins of Evil, 1971)
A Hammer bauble in the middle of the decadent era, with all the good things about the gothic atmosphere of Dracula and Christopher Lee but with an extra spicy and sordid, courtesy of a John Hough, already preparing his 'The Legend of Hell's Mansion' with esoteric wisps, and satanic eroticism at the height of the lucifer genre, resulting in a film with a camp cover but much darker than it seems, with a symptomatic change in the role of Peter Cushing, from a benevolent figure to a puritan in the style of 'Witchfinder General ' in a disbelieving look at the forces of good that reflects the perception of authority during a turbulent decade.
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31 - Slasher | The street of terror (Fear Street, 2021)
The summer phenomenon of Netflix. A very fun and light trilogy but also includes many poison arrows to police and the power of prejudice. The most complete slasher is 1978, because the blood and sex filth of the 80s has sneaked in for very old people in a format with wickerwork, advertising, and a product bill for high school kids barely old enough to watch it. Unheard of in a PG-13 rated multiplex release arena and quite subversive in posing as a throwaway entertainment product on today's most popular platform.
Available on Netflix
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