![]() Perri Nemiroffĭirector: Susanne Bier | Run Time: 124 minutesĬast: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver, Danielle Macdonald It’s one of those movies that’ll have you leaning in more and more with its early curiosities before absolutely exploding with creativity as Chloe discovers more and more about her reality. Okay, are you ready for that semi-spoilery detail to further emphasize how wildly impressive this film is? Here it goes I love a good big-budget superhero film as much as anyone, but if you’re looking to see what can be accomplished with a limited budget in the genre, Freaks is an absolute must-see. He’s always told her that the outside world is a dangerous place, but the older Chloe gets, the more tempted she becomes to venture out - and then she finally does. She’s spent her entire life completely isolated from the world inside her home with her father, Henry ( Emile Hirsch). The movie features a show-stopping performance from Lexy Kolker as seven-year-old Chloe. But, do know that this is one of the best character-driven sci-fi thrillers of 2019. Stein’s Freaks for the very end of this blurb because I would suggest jumping into this story knowing as little as possible. I’m going to save one of the major things that wows me about Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein | Run Time: 105 minutesĬast: Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, Lexy Kolker – Haleigh Foutchĭirectors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Gore-phobes be warned though! At its core, Gerald’s Game is a lovely film about surviving trauma, but it is also a brutal survival film and one climactic scene (which was infamously hard to read, let alone watch) wins the gold star for the most vocal audience freak-out I’ve ever heard in a movie theater. Understandably, it was long thought unfilmable, but Mike Flanagan’s tender, terrifying 2017 adaptation proved the naysayers wrong with a heartfelt but oh-so-horrifying film that’s faithful to King’s work in all the right ways. It’s also entirely first-person, taking place inside the mind of a woman left handcuffed to the bed in a remote cabin after her husband dies of a heart attack in the middle of a tryst. It’s the very definition of a page-turner, keeping you glued to the next word, following one woman’s seemingly impossible fight to survive a very slow, silent death while tending to the trauma she’s buried deep inside herself. In novella form, Gerald’s Game makes for one of Stephen King’s queasiest, most relentlessly gripping works. Haleigh Foutchĭirector: Mike Flanagan | Run Time: 103 minutesĬast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas Oxygen doesn't always land its twists before you figure them out, but when a filmmaker is as attuned to dialing up the tension as Aja is, your stomach's gonna wind up in your throat whether you see the next drop in the track coming or not. Aja doesn't fully leave behind his horror touch and the flourishes of body horror only serve to further ramp up your adrenaline. ![]() ![]() With his 2021 Netflix original Oxygen, the filmmaker steps (slightly) back from the horror and leans all the way in on the thrills, following a woman ( Mélanie Laurent) who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or - her biggest problem - what to do about her rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Director: Alexandre Aja | Run Time: 101 minutesĬast: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidiįrom High Tension to The Hills Have Eyes to Crawl, Alexandre Aja is responsible for some of the most pulse-pounding, skin-crawling, relentlessly intense movies of the 21st Century. ![]()
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