Don’t Move (2024) Review
Injecting Netflix’s latest thriller straight into our veins. Does it leave us paralyzed with fright, or catatonic with boredom?
Injecting Netflix’s latest thriller straight into our veins. Does it leave us paralyzed with fright, or catatonic with boredom?
The prompt I got for this screenplay was that it had to involve New Year’s Eve and the song “Don’t Fear the Reaper”. The rest is based on true events.
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If you walked away from your first viewing of Best Picture nominee The Zone of Interest disappointed – good. That’s the point. Spoilers ahead.
We got a little bit of everything in the horror genre in 2023: legacy sequels, big studio popcorn flicks, experimental arthouse films, jaw-dropping feature debuts. The continued growth of the direct-to-streaming market is paying dividends for fans of diverse, albeit lower budget, movies. Whatever your particular brand of scary movie, you’ll find something to like in the list below. 10. Birth/Rebirth A mourning mother encounters an antisocial, genius medical worker who just might have a…
20. Cobweb This film spins a beautiful web of atmosphere and tension. The action takes place in a gloomy, creaky old house where you can practically feel the monsters under the bed, in the closet – or in the walls. Woody Norman plays the role of dejected and perpetually horrified little boy wonderfully; you really care for him when his parents start acting more and more unhinged. Antony Starr in particular threads the needle between…
#30. There’s Something Wrong with the Children There’s nothing wrong with the family drama that is skillfully developed in the first third of this film, nor with the way the script weaves the supernatural horror of the second act into all the cracks in those relationships to see who breaks first. Some uneven acting and questionable decisions of the characters in the last act prevent this from getting any higher on this list, but don’t…