Really recent one is Get Out, which was really good, though not necessarily what I'd call your usual horror movie.
Just looked at the RT and the reviewers there gave it 99%. Now I don't pay attention to what the critics rate because they're usually full of shit, but I must say at the very least the unanimity of the critics has me intrigued. This in particular:
Get Out has its surface scares, but it's what's lingering beneath that's most frightening: the sense that no matter where you turn, no matter how many people claim they're on your side... they're out to get you.
Got me hooked. Sounds like a dank horror premise, also reminds me of an ancient Greek dude talking shit about one of his colleagues Mennon; Mennon always stole from his friends and not his enemies, because his enemies were always on their guard around him.
Oh! Forgot to mention,
Don't Breathe. This is the only other horror kino I know of that's recent.
Babadook - without spoilers, I'd describe it as a psychological
or supernatural horror that will be especially entertaining to anyone familiar with the stresses of single motherhood. The consequences can be that things fatally fall apart, and one remains haunted by memories of the past.
'Why can't you be normal?' The less is said the better. Ba ba dook dook dook, damn that character design was so good - I couldn't sleep with my wardrobe doors open, for the shadow of my coat gave the impression of Babadook!
Don't Breathe - In a horror movie an antagonist is usually something the protagonists can't fight. An immortal monster, an incorporeal force or perhaps their own mind, but in
Don't Breathe the antagonist is a blind old man who can't even see the protagonists. There's no good guys or bad guys in
Don't Breathe, it's just all the characters stuck in a decaying town left behind by the times, trying to claw their way out with any cash they can find. Things take a turn for the worse when it turns out the blind old man was a war veteran. As you might guess from the title, any sound is a dangerous thing - the moments of silence will have you holding your breath.
It's very worthwhile remaining ignorant of the plot, as the penultimate reveals are definitely surprising in the best ways.
Speaking of 80s horror movies reminds me that Alien: Covenant will be released soon. Alien was 1979. That's close enough to the 80s.
I'm not holding my breath on it being good after Prometheus happened. Especially after some leaked plot elements I've read that hopefully won't be in the final movie, but we'll see if those end up being false.
Guess I'll see it in theaters anyway, with significant trepidation. I barely bother to see movies in theaters anymore because most that I've seen ended up being disappointing. Independence Day: Resurgence, for example. Or Prometheus. Or Master of Disguise.
Wait, no, I think I rented that one. Still, I'm about 80% sure Master of Disguise killed my enthusiasm for movies in general. It was like a special moment in my early teen years where I realized that a movie could actually be bad and that commercials could lie. Before that I think I assumed nobody would spend that much money on something that was bad.
I think the last time I went to a cinema to see a film was the Grand Budapest Hotel - which was not a film I expected to see, and was one that pleasantly surprised me in all the best ways. Still, I get that, in that I rarely watch a film I can't get on box office or sky or something, hell, in the vast majority of blockbusters even if you paid me to watch them I'd decline because they're so uninteresting. Seeing films with no hype, I leave with no disappointment, only the feeling that I wasted my time. And FFS enough with the capeshit origin stories D:
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