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No other film on this list is likely to fare as well on Oscars night as Get Out, 2017's runaway horror hit about white suburbanites with a twisted plan for their black house guest.

Not exact matches

Christianson adds that he's heard horror stories about kids hitting their parents up for money or asking them to guarantee their mortgages later in life.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

With backing from QC Entertainment, Blumhouse Productions (the company behind horror hits «Paranormal Activity» and most recently «Split») and distribution from Universal Pictures, Peele turned the pitch into a script filled with scares, laughs and searing social commentary about race and racism in America.

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow - up his aforementioned hit horror - com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most - likely R - rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons.

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

Indeed, John Krasinski's horror hit is all about sound and makes brilliant use of silence as a storytelling device.

As for Silent House, it's got the benefit of riding the Elizabeth Olsen wave and being the first horror film to hit in about a month.

One uniting theme we've heard in conversations about cult horror hit «The Babadook» is what a shame it is that genre fare is so resolutely ignored by the Academy.

Sinister (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- Ethan Hawke makes his horror film debut in this twisted tale about a true crime writer so desperate for another hit he moves his family into the home of a grisly murder.

Ever since Get Out hit theaters, people have been talking about it — from how it's more than just a horror flick to the records it's breaking at the box office.

(8) The Divide — I know that FRONTIER (S) seems to be somewhat of an overlooked hit amongst certain circles of horror fans, but I found it to be somewhat boring and tame for some of the new wave French films that came about around the same time.

Although remakes are ten - a-penny these days, and mostly not a patch on the original, THN is excited about FRIGHT NIGHT — with a strong cast, great source material, and its tongue (and fangs) wedged firmly in the cheek, this could be the horror hit of the year.

Say what you want about the company but you can not deny that they know how to make a hit horror film that pleases horror audiences, and it is a huge move in the right direction when their very first step was to get Carpenter back involved.

Blown away by the hit horror movie, the author and educator decided to design a semester - long special course about how horror and anti-black racism have intertwined in the cinema.

Aside from being an exceptionally well - crafted (and therefore effective) haunted - house tale, the fun thing about James Wan's 2013 horror hit The Conjuring was its connection to the real - life exploits of famed New England ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

IT (2017, R), based on the Stephen King novel, is the sleeper hit of the year: an R - rated horror film about a group of children haunted and hunted by a demonic clown (Bill Skarsgard).

He's injected odd moments of kitchen - sink realism into a gangster saga (Down Terrace) and surreal dollops of WTF horror into a hit - men thriller (Kill List); surely no one expected director Ben Wheatley to play a comedy about a camping vacation straight, right?

Kevin Smith is currently in the midst of shooting his indie horror flick Red State (he released the mysterious first photo via Twitter), but earlier this year he had also been talking a lot about his proposed hockey movie Hit Somebody.

Horror fans haven't seen much from the genre this summer, but that is all about to change when director James Wan's The Conjuring hits theaters on July 19.

The film eventually abandons the experiential horror of the early scenes in favor of agonizing over funeral plans, references to the King Arthur stories (the Broadway hit «Camelot» gets not one, but two airings), and one too many speeches about legacy, as Jackie works out her fears and anxieties in conversation with a priest (John Hurt, exceptional), an anguished Bobby Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), and a loyal confidante (Greta Gerwig).

The hottest young actress in Hollywood, Maika Monroe, talks to IGN about her breakout indie horror hits It Follows and The Guest.

His horror satire about racism and liberal hypocrisy, «Get Out,» was one of the biggest and most socially relevant hits of 2017.

We caught up with sound designers Byron Bullock and Sam Cooper to chat about the audio elements of the hit survival horror game.