The movie is about kids waking up to suddenly find that their parents are trying to kill them, and Cage and Selma Blair huff and grunt and scream their way through doors, walls, and the script as two suburban parents who have flipped. But it's kind of always been this way for Cage. He's been constantly thrust into bland, one-size-fits-all hero roles, and has nearly always been way too off-base for them. But here the film steers into the skid. Cage is a normal actor gone wild playing a normal dad gone homicidal. You get the sense that after years of films like The Wicker Man, Knowing, Next, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, he has finally found a home.

But while Evans is best-known for directing action, and the awesome 2015 film The Guest has proven that Stevens can definitely pull off a dude on a mission to break as many limbs as possible, Apostle is a slow-paced period piece. Stevens plays a drug addict who's been sent to an island to rescue his sister from a cult. And while it definitely has its gory parts (you'll never look at a drill bit the same way), mostly it's just an unsettling visit to a community that's caught under charismatic (and supernatural) powers.

It just goes to show that if a dude can direct a near-flawless action sequence, he probably has the chops to tackle the timing and visceral nature required for horror too. Also, at one point Dan Stevens loses some fingers in a meat grinder and I yelled "NO, FUCK YOU, MOVIE" at the screen.

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And these couldn't be more different in tone. Murder Party is outlandish, gory, goofy, and has virtually no budget to speak of. Hold The Dark is polished and quiet, and involves a disconcerting and brutal look at loneliness, death, and myth in the Alaskan wilderness. And while it would be dumb and pretentious to say that making a slower, more serious movie means that a director has "grown up," watching these (along with Blue Ruin and Green Room, which are also on Netflix!), show that Saulnier has only improved with time.

Look, I know that "three different roles" makes it sound like we have an Austin Powers situation here, but trust me, and trust Tilda fucking Swinton. She can pull it off. I also know that, at a length of two and a half hours, Suspiria threatens to turn into a dragging affair that forgets to be entertaining as it attends to the whims of its director. But Luca Guadagnino (who previously did the fantastic, very non-horrific Call Me By Your Name), is a master of pacing, and Suspiria becomes the rare horror film that's worth having the runtime of a modern Avengers flick.

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Directed by Bob Clark (who is best known for, holy shit, A Christmas Story), Black Christmas has something that many of the films it spawned doesn't: an unsettling, claustrophobic atmosphere. It refuses to give us any sense of satisfaction, keeping you in a state of murky dread, as it never reveals its killer and never teases a Black Christmas 2: Season's Cleavings. Also, check out the cast: Margot Kidder before she was Lois Lane, John Saxon before he was Cop Dad Supreme in A Nightmare On Elm Street, Olivia Hussey from Romeo And Juliet, and even Kier Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it goes without saying that this is their most important work.

But that name is definitely a diversion. Shipwrecked on an island, a group of people are exposed to poisonous fungi that mutates them beyond recognition. The special effects almost got the film banned in Japan, due to comparisons with the horrific burn injuries many suffered from the atomic bombings just two decades earlier. But while this feels less overt than the nuclear metaphors at play in Godzilla, it makes it no less effective. Matango is a disturbing sci-fi film hiding in goofy sci-fi clothing, and it shows that Honda was far more than just a destroyer of miniature tanks.

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Sure, it's not subtle in the slightest, but director Brian Yuzna, who got his start producing films like the equally gruesome Re-Animator and From Beyond, never intends for it to be. By the time a climactic "orgy" begins, you're supposed to consider these upper-class mutants the grossest people on the planet. Because being a nasty asshole to the less fortunate IS just as disgusting as enveloping people in a fleshy alien cluster of mouths and assholes. Karl Marx said that, I believe.

But Jungle, which basically plays out like The Revenant with less Oscar posturing, might be enough to change your perspective on him forever. Based on a true story, Radcliffe plays a man who becomes lost in the Amazon for three weeks, resulting in an excruciating journey as he finds himself beset by the cruelest psychopathic killer of all: nature. It plays more thriller than straight horror, but there's something about watching the former child star writhe and shriek and hallucinate that finally makes you forget that he spent a decade with a lightning bolt on his forehead.

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However, the form of the golem is tied to the creator's emotional state, and so it comes in the form of her dead son. So filtered through a story of a mother's grief and religious persecution is a movie about a monstrous kid that can tear people apart. It's not perfect, and some of the CGI looks like it recently escaped a PlayStation 3 cutscene, but adding this dash of parental Frankenstein horror gives this particular take on the myth a boost to another, terrifying level.

Set during the Mexican-American War and based on the story of the Donner Party, Ravenous concerns soldiers who, due to various unfortunate circumstances, have begun to nibble on each other. And turn back now if you're hoping that this particular human deli section will be more "tell" than "show." While Ravenous seems like it would be a prime opportunity to deliver commentary on "the things that war does to a man" through many hoarse monologues, it mostly deals with the ramifications of eating all your friends and how that would leave you feeling. Spoiler: For the most part, it leaves you feeling pretty shitty. Thanks for the tip, Ravenous.

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