And while the computer - generated skeletal ghosts are very cool to look at, 2013's del Toro - produced Mama, also starring Chastain, is
a far scarier film.
Not exact matches
So if you're looking for a genuinely
scary shark
film, look no
further than The Reef.
Sleek and
scary, this bio-thriller has plenty of yuckiness to keep genre fans happy, but it layers in all kinds of interesting themes and character details to lift it
far above most of these
films...
He lets scenes play out uncomfortably, whether it's funny (Kayla's learning about oral sex via YouTube) or
scary (Kayla being pressured by a high school senior in a scene that
further complicates the
film's tone).
It's some kind of feat the hype surrounding Jennifer Kent's much - acclaimed horror
film has gotten to the point where it feels like watching the «
scariest film in years» this
far into 2015 is, yeah, a little like... Continue reading The Babadook
As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with
far scarier convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national discourse has swung into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the
film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).
Several of his
films sit just outside the top 100, if this list were ever to be expanded, but The Conjuring can't be denied as the Wan representative because it is
far and away the
scariest of all his feature
films.
With spotty acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the
film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all about
scary images set to ominous music, caring
far less about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.
Having spent my entire life so
far in the frozen tundra of Minnesota, I'm admittedly biased when I say that Fargo is Joel and Ethan Coen's best
film to date outside of, perhaps, the comparably tight and bloody No Country for Old Men — which, come to think of it, also boils down to yokels and
scary mute motherfuckers chasing down a briefcase full of cash.
Although the
film came under fire from some «horror fans» for not being «
scary» enough, the criticism is
far off base.
What makes [the
film] even
scarier is that it is something that is not
far off if we don't pull it together.