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Leverage Redemption S01E04 The Tower Job/The Ark S01E09 The Painful Way.
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Has anyone else started watching this series called The Ark because I just started watching it and it reminds me of The 100
Should I write a book about the series???
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So, the fic that shall not be made public (because I don’t much care about making it readable ;p ) has reached 10k. Nice.
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I already miss my space best friend (alicia nevins)
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Oh. My. Gosh!!!!! Look at what I just found right here:
Here, as you can see, Jeff Stinco is listed on the website called OnThisDay.com, where they have listed him under the August 22, 1978 section underneath "Famous Birthdays".
Sometimes between 2018 or 2019, On This Day listed James Corden next to Jeff Stinco, who is still in the "Famous Birthdays" section for August 22, 1978, and I am supposed to be okay with that? This is not right at all.
Here are the people born on August 22, 1975. Jeff Stinco isn't even listed here, for crying out loud!
Here, they made Jeff's name go up in terms of popularity between him and James Corden. At least they knew something they didn't know about. But they still went ahead and made his year of birth/age incorrect!
Here is a full length version of famous people who were born in August 1975, and Jeff Stinco is not even listed on there, he's listed on the August 1978 section instead! What the firetruck?????
This isn't even funny. This isn't even that funny. This is not funny at all! Is On This Day joking? Do these people know that this is a game? I'm really angry about this. They literally put Jeff Stinco and James Corden right next to each other on the August 22, 1978 section on their website. You can't just put this iconic pop punk king next to some loser who does carpool karaokes for a living on his talk show and who can't act to save his life like that! That's not how it works around here, On This Day!
Here, in the world of Jeff Stinco, you have to at least fucking try to get his year of birth and his age correctly right. 1978 is not the year he was born in!
Jeff Stinco was born in 1975, meaning that he was born around the same time as Charlize Theron (who was born sixteen days before Jeff) and Rodrigo Santoro!
He was not born around the same time as James Corden and Kobe Bryant!
Jeff Stinco and James Corden don't even belong together, and I wouldn't want to believe that a beautiful angelic man like Jeff, would be born around the same time as some slimy slimeball talk show host!
Now what if I changed every single website and told everybody that Jeff Stinco was born in 1975 and that he should've been a Grammy winner, a Oscar winner, a Emmy winner, and also even a Tony winner, to make him become a EGOT at 47 years old?
Now that is some comedy gold right there.
Because Jeff Stinco, Charlize Theron, Sara Ramirez, Mbali Gasa, Sheree Murphy, Shelly Cole, Vera Jordanova, Daniella van Graas, Stéphanie Szostak, Eliza Carthy, Shaniqua Miles, Chynna Clugston Flores, Eicca Toppinen, Kyle Cook, Nick Loeb, Rodrigo Santoro, Casey Affleck, Taika Waititi, Mandy Leigh, Ingrid Rubio, Aryiro Strataki, Chris Nevin, N.D. Kalu, Trevor Pryce, Andy Hallett, Beau Morgan, Kaipo Spenser, Antony Cotton, Jamie McGonnigal, Renate Götschl, Rik Platvoet, Victor Zambrano, Alshermond Singleton, Edgar Renteria, Jimmy van Fessem, Koray Candemir, Jeremy Scott, Mahesh Babu, Mathew James Coad, Mike Lamb, Lise Mackie, Davey von Bohlen, Ronald Clarke, Anders Myrvold, Paul Gaudoin, Raegan Scott, Regan Upshaw, James Carpinello, Jason Gleasman, Joe Perry, Shoaib Akhtar, Mike Vrabel, Viaceslav Ivanovski, Bertrand Berry, Vijay Bharadwaj, Didier Agathe, Felicia Zimmermann, George Stults, İlhan Mansız, Simon Katich, Marcus Mastin, Marianne Garvey, Tracie Thoms, Alicia Witt, Charles Cornelius Smith, Clint Bolton, Robert Enes, Joe Andruzzi, Mark de Vries, Jeremy Horn, Molly Tuter, Petria Thomas, Morgan Ensberg, Shea Seals, Jonny Moseley, Mark Rudan, Gareth Farrelly, Jamie Cureton, Dante Basco, Radhi Jaïdi, Takahiro Suwa, Daniel Harding, James Black, Gaahl, Mase, and Mineiro all share the same birthday month and year as each other.
August 1975.
Is when these people were born.
That.
Just that.
That alone is literally funny.
Jeff Stinco and 81 other famous people were all born on August 1975.
It's way better than just putting Jeff's name up with people like James Corden, Kobe Bryant, Jess Margera, Kel Mitchell, Amber Brkich, and Countess Vaughn, and then claiming that he was born on August 1978, just like them, but he is not.
Holy Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Girmante Vaikute, I am so angry right now. I am so angry at these people and these websites not knowing who Jeff Stinco is and what year he was born in.
If James Corden ever starts doing a carpool karaoke episode with Jeff Stinco when he finally comes back to singing again on his talk show, I will lose my shit at this and there will be h-e-double hockey sticks to pay.
How dare you compare Jeff to that loser who is not a good actor, who is not a good comedian, his jokes are not even that funny, and oh, should I say this, he is terrible to his fans too, may I should say it again for once though?
I got anger management issues about three different things all at once: Jeff Stinco's year of birth and his age not being right by people, images and videos of Britney Spears attending the premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood still being there on her name to this very exact day, and men with beards having no more than over 100,000 tweets to their names on Twitter and they are the ones who are child sex predators who does bad things to children. Those are the real things I am disgruntled about.
You're in a world into not being a Stinc Icon, On This Day. Screw your "accuracies" if you can't get Jeff's age right!
Make Jeff Stinco a singer again, On This Day. You'll get it right soon, you know? And he will get his singing career back and live his life in peace, thank you very much for reading this and goodbye ;)
#jeff stinco#jeff stinco deserves better#make jeff stinco a singer again#fuck james corden#james corden sucks#jeff stinco and james corden don't go well together#fuck you on this day for messing up jeff stinco's year of birth and his age!!!
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: What Do We Know Of Time? by Patricia Hemminger
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What Do We Know of Time? includes poems that speak of loss, both personal and environmental, of origins of ancestors, Earth and the cosmos, of birth and joy in everyday moments. Some poems connect human experience with scientific fact and many revolve around observations from the natural world. Interspersed throughout the book are moments when time stops and the world is seen through a different lens.
The experience of growing up in rural North Yorkshire, UK along with her science background and love of nature informs and inspires Patricia Hemminger’s poetry. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals including Spillway, Streetlight Magazine and River Heron Review. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and is a graduate of NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) and of Drew University’s MFA Poetry and Poetry in Translation Program. Patricia lives with her husband in Sussex County, New Jersey.
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Reading Patricia Hemminger‘s visionary What Do We Know of Time? is a delight and a privilege. We watch bird, beast and flower offer themselves to her lucid and sensuous language, and see how she herself flowers as a poet by speaking for living things, for village and countryside and ancestors. The profound past and the remote cosmos are nearby. “I see that we are mayflies of the cosmos,” she says. Vitality and mortality are her companions in this tenderly crafted, soul-satisfying work.
–Alicia Ostriker, New York State Poet Laureate, Author of The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems, 2002-2018
Patricia Hemminger’s poems invite the reader to examine the natural world through a scientific lens that shifts between the infinitely small and the grand galactic views of an astronomer’s glass. Here, things matter across the scales of time and distance. Rich in language and metaphoric illuminations, What Do We Know of Time? delivers the thrill of inward discoveries in ordinary moments like fishing at night or sitting together in a garden. In the way science and art are, at their best, inextricably entangled, these poems forge a crafted and deeply moving ecopoetic narrative.
–Sean Nevin, author of Oblivio Gate, Southern Illinois University Press.
Hemminger’s meticulous science-mind wanders sea-trails and woodland paths, village lanes and city oases, measuring mortality and the enticing immortal. The “dandelion clocks” and faraway stars, exploded, have already “flung their elemental seeds.” Though time, like reverie, cannot be charted, Hemminger studies and sings it, an abandon that I love. It’s as if her lyricism tastes revelation and seasons mortality with that essence. In two remarkable gestures, Hemminger offers that we “understand meaning belongs to the feeling world/that lawmakers cannot bear to inhabit,” and affirms love’s fusion: present-past-present: “ripples/of the stretch of tangled weeds,/that revealed us, standing there/with nothing now between us.” Only love—for grandchild, mother, husband, planetary convergences and explosions, and for an erotic Other—interrupts the dreamscape. I’m seduced, too, and follow the poet’s maps.
–Judith Vollmer, Vollmer is the author of six books of poetry, including The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming, Spring 2022, University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize)
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Not A Book Friday
This is not the movie (or movies) that star Angelina Jolie. All three movies are based on the same video game that has been around since the 90s I think, but, the two ‘franchises’ are most definitely different. (If you’re looking for the original Tomb Raider series, they’re actually called ‘Lara Croft’ followed by a subtitle).
This Tomb Raider has a much serious-er Lara Croft, who doesn’t really want to go tomb raid and save the world at first. There’s also a really nice beat at the end where I know that I was sorta shocked. (And hopefully it leads to somehow a sequel too!)
I will admit that as action movies, I liked the previous two Lara Croft movies a little better, but as a movie movie, I thought this one had much more of a nuanced story that was more than just super slow mo awesomeness and many guns.
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“The Accidental Patient”
When Cain tries to be a hero at a crash scene, he is struck by a car, causing Chastain’s doctors to put aside their personal issues to try and save his life. Conrad and Nic team up to help one of the crash victims, whose secretive past makes it difficult to identify a diagnosis. Meanwhile, Bell brings his TV crew to the hospital in hopes of garnering positive attention for Chastain, and Mina opens up to Nic, only to find out that Nic is holding on to a secret of her own.
Original Airdate: January 26, 2021
Written By: Marc Halsey & Todd Harthan
Directed By: Rob Greenlea
Starring:
Matt Czuchry - Conrad Hawkins
Emily VanCamp - Nic Nevin
Manish Dayal - Devon Pravesh
Shaunette Renée Wilson - Mina Okafor
Bruce Greenwood - Randolph Bell
Malcolm-Jamal Warner - AJ Austin
Jane Leeves - Kitt Voss
Morris Chestnut - Barrett Cain
Guest Cast:
Vince Foster - Dr. Paul Chu
Kerr Smith - Jacob Yorn
Katie Parker - Eva Wolman
Don Stallings - Winston McCloud
Isaiah Jarel - Emmett Mackey
David Shae - Terry Berndahl
Nathan Sutton - Darren Miller
Glenn Magee - Agent Brooks
Sarafina King - Ariana
Euseph Messiah - Nurse Clyde Cooper
Michael Christopher Rodney - Brandon David
Melissa Saint-Amand - Alicia Nelson
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mSpirations New Year's resolution & January update🥳🎉✨
mSpirations is a one-woman blog, so it will take a while catching up, but with a better organization (which I have had for half a year) it is possible (I hope 🤞)
(please be patient 🙏)
Happy and healthy New Year
So without further ado let's get into it. 👇
New Year's resolution:
Start making sets with Toni Topaz, Sara Lance, Clarke Griffin, Jade West, Nic Nevin
Complete the character of Clara Oswald (from season 8 episode 8 and start season 9)
End Season 2 and 3 (which will start on April 16) with Fallon Carrington and start Season 4 (sets still released on Fridays)
Finish the character of Paige Dineen (from season 4 episode 7)
Do Alicia Clark season 2 (maybe 3)
Continue the character of Kara Danvers, Addy Carver, Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons
As for movies:
Make sets with "Avengers" and more specifically with Wanda Maximoff
As soon as I manage to watch "The Suicide Squad 2" and “5 Years Apart” there will be sets with Harley Quinn and Emma (I can’t wait)
Implement Karen (Chloe Bennet) sets from the “Valley Girl”
Figure out Alexandra Daddario's sets in “Texas Chainsaw” and “San Andreas”
Compose the sets of Lucy Hale in “Truth or Dare” and “Fantasy Island”
Moreover?
I don't know that yet, keep checking to know more. 😁
Click "KEEP READING" to know what awaits us in January
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Movie - “Sorority Row” - Fashion (7.01 - 28.01) (Old polyvore sets)
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Fallon Carrington (”Dynasty) - Fashion
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FEBRUARY - small change
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Female Canadians Masterlist
2000s
Adrianna Di Liello
Alexandra Chaves
Ali Skovbye
Anna Cathart
Anna Pniowsky
Ava Grace Cooper
Beatrice Kitsos
Ella Ballentine
Ella Farlinger
London Robertson
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Minnie Mills
Olivia Solo
Paulina Alexis
Peyton Kennedy
Whitney Peak
Yael Yurman
90s
Aadila Dosani
Aislinn Paul
Aleece Wilson
Alessia Cara
Alexia Fast
Alexa Rose Steele
Alexandra Beaton
Alexandria Benoit
Alicia Josipovic
Alison Thornton
Aliza Vellani
Allie Goodbun
Alyssa Baker
Amalia Williamson
Amanda Arcuri
Amy Forsyth
Ana Golja
Anais Pouliot
Bailey Pelkman
Brenna O’Brien
Briar Nolet
Brittany Raymond
Caitlin Mitchell Markovitch
Camille Cresencia Mills
Chelsea Clark
Chloe Rose
Conner Dwelly
Cristine Prosperi
Daniela Bobadilla
Daniel Illescas
Eliana Jones
Emilia McCarthy
Emilija Baranac
Emily Bett Rickards
Emmerly Tinglin
Grace Dove
Hayley Law
Humberly González
Inanna Sarkis
Jamie Bloch
Jeni Ross
Jenna Clause
Jocelyn Hudon
Jordan AlexanderA
Kacey Rohl
Karena Evans
Karis Cameron
Katherine Barrell
Katie Douglas
Keara Graves
Kiana Madeira
Kirsten Prout
Laine MacNeil
Maddie Phillips
Melinda Shankar
Melissa Roxburgh
Merritt Patterson
Morgan Taylor Campbell
Natalie Hall
Olivia Ryan Stern
Olivia Scriven
Sarah Dugdale
Sarah Fisher
Sarah Grey
Sarah Jeffery
Sasha Clements
Skylar Healey
Taylor Hickson
Taylor Russell
Tiera Skovbye
Vanessa Grasse
Vanessa Morgan
Willa Milner
Zenia Marshall
Zoe Belkin
Zoe de Grand Maison
80s
Ace Hicks
Alex Paxton Beesley
Alexz Johnson
Ali Liebert
Alison Pill
Alli Chung
Allie Bertram
Allie MacDonald
Alvina August
Amanda Crew
Amber Borycki
Amber Marshall
Andrea Bang
Anna Paquin
Annie Murphy
Brie Blair
Brooke D’Orsay
Brooke Nevin
Carly Pope
Carly Rae Jepsen
Chelsea Brummet
Chelsea Hobbs
Christie Burke
Christie Laing
Cobie Smulders
Crystal Lowe
Danielle Kind
Elana Dunkelman
Elise Gatien
Emily vanCamp
Italia Ricci
Jessalyn Wanlim
Jessica Lowndes
Jewel Staite
Jill Morrison
Kaitlyn Leeb
Kate Corbett
Katherine Ryan
Kristen Hager
Kristin Kreuk
Kylie Bunbury
Laura Vandervoort
Lauren Collins
Mae Martin
Mackenzie Davis
Martha MacIsaac
Megan Park
Meghan Ory
Melissa McIntyre
Melissa O’Neil
Miriam McDonald
Missy Peregrym
Nikohl Boosheri
Rebecca Dalton
Sara Canning
Sarah Barrable-Tishauer
Sarah Gadon
Sarah Lind
Shannon Baker
Shay Mitchell
Sheila Shah
Shenae Grimes
Tasya Tells
Tatiana Maslany
Tori Anderson
Valerie Tian
Vanessa Lengies
70s
A. J. Cook
Alex Rice
Alexandra Castillo
Amanda Brugel
Amber Goldfarb
America Olivo
Brigitte Kingsley
Brittany Allen
Caroline Dhavernas
Chandra West
Chelah Horsdal
Erica Durance
Gabrielle Miller
Glenda Braganza
Inga Cadranel
Jennifer Finnigan
Jennifer Robertson
Katheryn Winnick
Kathleen Robertson
Keegan Connor Tracy
Kelly Hope Taylor
Maxim Roy
Melanie Paxson
Michelle Nolden
Piercey Dalton
Rachel McAdams
Rekha Sharma
Sabrina Grdevich
Sarah Chalke
Zoie Palmer
60s
Anke Engelke
Gloria Reuben
Leslie Hope
Melissa DiMarco
50s
Gwynyth Walsh
Marilyn Norry
Unknown Birthday
Alison Wandzura
Beatrice King
Carina Battrick
Catherine Lough Haggquist
Daniela Sandiford
Emma Paetz
Genevieve DeGraves
Jena Skodje
Kayla Heller
Melanie Nicholls King
Olivia Cheng
Romi Shraiter
Shailene Garnett
Siobhan Murphy
Stephanie Costa
Tanya Moodie
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Best Modern Horror Movies
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Every once in a while, someone likes to declare that the horror genre is dead, and so far, every one of those predictions has been wrong.
Horror movies have been around almost as long as filmmaking itself, and while the genre has always been cyclical in nature –dipping, sometimes drastically, in both quality and quantity from time to time — all it usually takes is a well-timed box office hit, a fresh new angle or a hot young filmmaker to reanimate it again.
The 21st century has been, overall, an extremely healthy one for horror. There’s been the usual amount of dross, of course, but the genre has branched out in a number of interesting new directions as well. We had absolutely no problem tallying the initial batch of movies for this article, and have just continued to update it ever since, starting with the newest and going back in time from there.
So here are over 50 terrifying favorites that you can use for your own personal Halloween film festival — and we promise that this lineup delivers. Brace yourselves for a look at the best horror movies of the 21st century.
These are the very best modern horror movies…
Saint Maud (2020)
As our own Rosie Fletcher said in her review, Saint Maud is “a strange, gorgeous, and deeply disturbing chiller which mixes psychological, religious, and body horror to form something that feels utterly original.” She added that the film “messes with your perceptions of what’s real and what isn’t and comes with an ending that’s so simultaneously euphoric and horrific it feels like a punch in the heart.”
She’s right on the money. Morfydd Clark is outstanding in the title role, a private nurse who believes she can speak directly with God and decides it’s her mission to save the soul of the dying, debauched professional dancer (Jennifer Ehle) she is caring for. Maud lives right on the knife’s edge between spiritual ecstasy and mental illness, and director Rose Glass’ debut feature captures the surreal, horrific netherworld that is this tormented young woman’s life.
Saint Maud is out in theaters in the UK now.
Relic (2020)
The horror film at its best allows us to experience our deepest real-life fears in metaphorical terms, which is what the excellent Relic does with specificity, empathy, and atmosphere to spare. Emily Mortimer plays Kay, a workaholic single mom who gets a call from the police that her elderly mother Edna is missing from her home in the Australian countryside. When Kay and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) drive out from Melbourne to the house, Edna (Robyn Nevin) reappears after two days–but cannot recall where she’s been.
Edna’s house–untidy, dark, and littered with odd notes and markings–and behavior lead Kay and a local doctor to surmise that the headstrong Edna is slowly sinking into the grip of dementia. But something else is at hand — an unseen presence that can seemingly bend reality — and the feature debut of director Natalie Erika James works so well because of its complete cohesion between characters, theme and imagery. Grief and loss ooze from every frame of the film, along with an impending sense of dread and claustrophobia.
Watch Relic on Amazon
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Color Out of Space (2020)
Color Out of Space adapts what legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered his personal favorite short story, “The Colour Out of Space.” Although the film is set in the present, it is faithful to the original 1927 narrative, in which a family is both driven to madness and altered physically by the presence of an alien entity that has landed on their farm in a meteorite.
Starring a typically unpredictable Nicolas Cage, Color Out of Space is flawed in many ways, but is distinguished by three things: the return of director Richard Stanley (Hardware) after too many years away from features, a plethora of eerie and downright disturbing imagery, and an overall atmosphere that comes damn close to that of Lovecraft himself.
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The Lodge (2020)
The Lodge stars an excellent Riley Keough as Grace, a troubled young woman in love with Richard (Richard Madden) a journalist who wrote a book about the suicide cult she is the only survivor of. Their relationship triggers Richard’s estranged wife (Alicia Silverstone) to commit suicide, leaving the former couple’s two children devastated.
Six months later, Richard, Grace and the children head up to Richard’s remote winter lodge in an effort for all of them to heal. But a series of unexplained events occur that may be tied to Grace’s past or the death of the children’s mother — or both. Directed by Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (the harrowing Goodnight Mommy), The Lodge reeks with dread and leads to a thoroughly unsettling finish.
Watch The Lodge on Amazon
Wounds (2019)
This Hulu original stars Armie Hammer as Will, a New Orleans bartender whose discovery of an abandoned mobile phone in his place of business portends the arrival of an unspeakable evil, a malevolence that infects him, his girlfriend (Dakota Johnson) and almost everything in his life.
British-Iranian director Babek Anvari (2016’s supremely eerie Under the Shadow), creates an atmosphere of extreme dread and rot here, from the cockroaches Will is constantly killing behind the bar to the frightening images and sounds that keep appearing on that damn phone. Based on a novella called The Visible Filth by acclaimed horror writer Nathan Ballingrud, Wounds leaves much unexplained but that’s kind of the point: horror is often most effective when it can’t be rationalized.
Watch Wounds on Hulu
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2019)
There’s a reason why no less a maestro than Guillermo Del Toro is a fan of this deeply felt and moving film: it covers much of the same territory that he has explored in some of his greatest works like The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth — the place where imagination, childhood innocence and real world corruption intersect in a surreal, dangerous yet fantastical landscape.
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After her mother goes missing in the latest cartel rampage through an unnamed and anarchy-plagued Mexican city, a young girl (Paola Lara) finds herself living on rooftops with a small band of little boys and haunted by an apparition that may or may not be her mother. Director and writer Issa Lopez wrings emotion, humor and even minor triumphs out of this dark scenario, while not shying away from its more disturbing implications.
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Ready or Not (2019)
Darkly funny and subversive, Ready or Not is an out-of-nowhere surprise that deftly weds (pun intended) an acidic black comedy about income inequality and the politics of marriage to a more gruesome thriller about being chased around an old, dark house by a deranged family of Satanists. If that doesn’t pull you in, nothing will.
Samara Weaving is an appealing lead as the young woman who marries into a clan of vast wealth and privilege, only to find out where they came from and what the family must do to maintain them. Weaving is excellent at both the comedy and horror, while Andie MacDowell and Henry Czerny lead a sparkling supporting cast of cracked characters. It may not be especially scary, but ready or not, this one’s a real crowd-pleaser.
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Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Who would have thunk that the third time would be the charm for this popular Conjuring spin-off series? First-time director Gary Dauberman — who wrote all three entries in the sub-franchise — rises to the challenge and brings a wonderful sense of atmospherics and dread to the proceedings that was lacking in the earlier films. Anyone who channels the lighting schemes of horror legends like Mario Bava is all right in our book.
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Annabelle Comes Home also proves to be the sharpest-written of the bunch, as four girls — one of them the daughter of Conjuring ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who cameo here) — try to fight off the evil title doll as she unleashes hell on them over the course of one night. The cast is given depth and agency, which makes us care all the more when Dauberman turns the movie into a full-on monster mash. This one’s old school fun.
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Midsommar (2019)
Ari Aster blew everyone away in 2018 with his writing and directing debut, Hereditary (see below), a frightening tale of family dysfunction, grief, memory and naked witches summoning an ancient demon (Was that a spoiler? Sorry). His follow-up, Midsommar, wears its direct influences on its sleeve and tries a little too hard to signal its own importance, but it’s supremely eerie in its own way and quite nasty in what it shows and what it hints at.
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By David Crow and 3 others
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Midsommar: Florence Pugh Considers Ending Theories, May Queen Fandom
By David Crow
Four college friends — including disintegrating couple Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) — are invited by an exchange student to Sweden, where they’ll visit the reclusive commune in which he was raised. Fans of films like The Wicker Man will have a pretty good sense of what’s coming, even if Aster doesn’t quite answer all the questions he raises. What he does do, however, is chill the blood with both the way the travelers turn on each other and how the Harga find spirituality and transcendence in their deeply disturbing rituals.
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Us (2019)
The second feature from Get Out writer/director Jordan Peele still cleverly uses the horror genre for social commentary, but the focus is less directly on race this time and more on class and privilege. Lupita Nyong’o is outstanding as Adelaide, whose well-off family is terrorized by savage doppelgangers intent on murdering them. Who those duplicates are, and what they mean, provides for a biting commentary on the haves and the have-nots.
Some of the story logic is fuzzier this time around, but Peele is still adept at creating a genuine atmosphere of dread while deploying well-worn horror tricks in unique new ways. He also gets tremendous performances out of his cast, including Black Panther’s Winston Duke and The Handmaid Tale’s Elisabeth Moss, in what is ultimately a solid sophomore outing for the director.
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Halloween (2018)
After years of mostly lackluster sequels and reboots, director David Gordon Green (and his co-writer Danny McBride) take this horror icon both back to the roots and into the future. The result is a direct sequel to the original that ignores all the other films and concentrates, with stark precision, on two ideas: the concept of Michael Myers as a primal force of evil and the theme of PTSD as exemplified by Jamie Lee Curtis’ powerful performance as a permanently damaged Laurie Strode.
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Halloween: Timeline Explained for Horror Movie Franchise
By Daniel Kurland
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch Deserves Another Look
By Jim Knipfel
Both a thrilling rollercoaster ride and a chilling exploration of an unknowable psyche, the new Halloween is also relevant to what’s happening in 2018 — making The Shape a valid and still scary vessel for whatever metaphor you want him to represent.
Mandy (2018)
Dream-like, surreal and hypnotic — when it’s not screaming with rage — Mandy may be more interested in atmosphere and imagery than story (the plot is admittedly far too simple for the movie’s two-hour length) but is an unnerving experience nonetheless.
At the center of this boldly experimental assault from director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) is a primal performance from Nicolas Cage, whose reputation for gonzo performances does a disservice to the raw emotion he can still deliver as a lumberjack out for vengeance against a frightening cult. Mandy might try your patience, but its visual poetry and uncaged (ha ha) star are never dull.
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Hereditary (2018)
It’s still hard to believe that this is the first feature ever from writer/director Ari Aster, who brings a literal parade of horrors to his terrifying exploration of a family’s complete breakdown from forces within and without.
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Hereditary: The Real Story of King Paimon
By Tony Sokol
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Hereditary Ending Explained
By David Crow
Toni Collette is off-the-charts stunning as the mother who tries to hold her clan together even in the face of unspeakable tragedy and the knowledge that her own family history is working against them. Harrowing and thoroughly unsettling, Hereditary is perhaps the best example yet of a new wave of genre films that are about something while still scaring the living shit out of you.
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The Endless (2018)
Two brothers (played by Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, who also directed, produced, edited and wrote the film) return to the cult they once belonged to as youths, each carrying different memories of their time there and different expectations of what they’ll find in the present. But neither sibling is prepared for the inexplicable events that occur once they arrive.
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By Alec Bojalad
Following their features Resolution and Spring, the Benson/Morehead team once again prove themselves adept at creating believable, atmospheric, dread-infused horror with limited resources. These guys clearly know what they’re doing, and the eerie The Endless is a strong next step for them.
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A Quiet Place (2018)
Who knew that mild Jim Halpert from The Office would end up directing one of the most acclaimed and outright scary movies of the past few years? In his third outing behind the camera (which he also co-wrote and stars in), John Krasinski uses silence — which can be deployed to great effect in horror movies — in the most ingenious manner possible. He, Emily Blunt and their three children live in a near-future world overrun by hideous, blind creatures that use their superior hearing to track prey by sound, thus necessitating that the human survivors remain as quiet as possible.
The result is a thriller in which literally every footstep is suffused with dread and a rusty nail becomes an object of extreme terror. While the script creaks a bit and could have used some better development, there’s no doubt that Krasinski directs this for maximum tension while getting terrific work out of himself, his wife and the kids. A Quiet Place is not just compelling horror, but a loud announcement of an outstanding new directorial talent.
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It (2017)
It’s been a long time since a Stephen King screen adaptation really got the author’s work and intent right, but It does so and then some. Full of heart and warmth for its seven young main characters — all of whom are perfectly cast — It sets them against an insidious evil in the shape of Bill Skarsgard’s unforgettable Pennywise the Clown.
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Upcoming Stephen King Movies and TV Shows in Development
By Matthew Byrd and 6 others
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It Chapter Two Ending Explained
By John Saavedra
Director Andy Muschietti’s take on King’s masterpiece is humane, moving and even funny — a coming-of-age story that also happens to be an engrossing and unsettling monster tale. It’s very rare that a truly “epic” horror movie is released, but It can stand proudly in that rarefied category.
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It Comes at Night (2017)
Was this movie mismarketed? Or did audiences just reject its overwhelming, unrelenting bleakness? Either way it’s one of the overlooked horror gems of the past few years. Writer/director Trey Edward Shults is not interested in the whys or hows of his post-apocalyptic setting — he just puts regular, fearful human beings into the aftermath and lets us watch them as any chance for survival slowly unravels.
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Best Horror Movies Streaming on HBO Max
By David Crow and 2 others
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Best Horror Movies to Watch on Shudder Right Now
By Rosie Fletcher and 1 other
Understated, incredibly claustrophobic (the house is a character itself) and stocked with great performances from Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, and the rest of the cast, It Comes at Night is as naturalistic as a horror movie gets — and is all the more terrifying for it.
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Split (2017)
This was the film we had the toughest time deciding whether or not to include on this list. Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan gives it the structure, atmosphere and tone of a horror movie, yet it’s clear now that it’s also an origin story for a comic book-style supervillain and a de facto sequel to his Unbreakable.
But for most of its running time, Split is a harrowing, darkly humorous psychological thriller anchored by an incredible performance from James McAvoy as a man with 24 different personalities in his brain — as well as a monstrous 25th that is about to emerge.
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2017)
Not just one of the best horror movies of 2017, The Girl with All the Gifts was one of the best movies of that year. Moving and compassionate while at the same time frightening and dread-inducing, the movie puts a fresh spin on the zombie genre and creates memorable, empathetic characters who grapple with questions of not just what it means to be human, but what it means to be alive.
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Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream
By David Crow and 2 others
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How Scorn Turned the Art of H.R. Giger into a Nightmarish Horror Game World
By John Saavedra
Stars Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Glenn Close give top-shelf performances, but the movie belongs to young Sennia Nanua as the flesh-eating yet fully sentient Melanie, who may be a forerunner of a new, unexpected step in the evolution of whatever the human race ends up becoming. Gripping from start to finish.
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Raw (2017)
Deeply graphic and disturbing, yet also rich with symbolism and subtext, Raw is both as grisly and sophisticated as horror movies come. The movie also touches on gender politics and family dynamics in its tale of two sisters at a French veterinary school who awaken to the power of their own bodies as well as primal, vicious hungers neither one of them thought possible. Director/writer Julia Ducournau stages the film in gritty, intimate style, making the gnawing on human flesh all the more horrific to watch. Raw is a movie that lives up to its name.
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Get Out (2017)
The directorial debut of comedy writer/actor Jordan Peele is a sharp, funny and creepy horror satire on race relations, white liberal hubris and socal justice. It’s also a genuinely suspenseful thriller, albeit with nods to earlier movies like The Stepford Wives, and proves that horror continues to be an effective genre through which to tell culturally and socially relevant stories.
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The Underrated Horror Movies of the 1990s
By Ryan Lambie
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The Best Creepy Horror Movies
By Sarah Dobbs and 1 other
Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris, a young African-American photographer who heads to the country with his white girlfriend (Alison Williams) to meet her parents for the first time. The meeting does not go well as Chris realizes that the seemingly nice yet awkward Armitages (led by an excellent Catherine Keener) are not what they appear to be at all. Get Out is thrilling, refreshing and a nice change of pace for the genre.
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Under the Shadow (2016)
International cinema has been exploring genre with great success in recent years, and this intimate yet mournful thriller, set in 1980s Tehran during the ongoing and brutal war between Iran and Iraq, is one of the more thoughtful and unique horror movies to emerge from that creative wellspring.
Iranian politics and social mores are woven carefully into the plot, which follows a woman and her daughter who are haunted by a djinn (an evil spirit) that may have been unleashed when their apartment building is shelled. The metaphor of the evil set free by war is fairly on the nose, but director Babak Anvari still constructs an atmosphere of slowly ascending terror and macabre imagery.
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Train to Busan (2016)
Just when you thought the zombie genre had been utterly exhausted, someone comes along and reinvigorates it. Director Yeon Sang-ho’s South Korean production brought something back to the genre that had been gradually draining out of it: humanity.
Sure there’s a bit of sentimentality too in this story of a father trying desperately to get his daughter to her mom by train as a zombie plague breaks out, but the movie’s well-drawn characters, subtle social commentary (some on the train feel they are more worthy of survival than others) and frightening action sequences add up to a thrilling and emotionally powerful ride.
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The Wailing (2016)
South Korea struck again with this epic-length (156 minutes!) story of possession and exorcism in a small village from director Na Hong-jin. Once again a father must fight to save his daughter’s life: in this case he is a cop (Kwak Dowon) investigating a series of mysterious and violent deaths, only to discover that they have a supernatural cause that soon infects his family.
Despite odd moments of humor here and there, The Wailing is almost unremittingly bleak and its imagery is thoroughly unsettling. Deliberately paced and building an atmosphere of unspeakable dread, The Wailing is a standout of Asian horror.
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The Invitation (2016)
This intense little psychological thriller from director Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body) starts off as a weirdly off-kilter domestic melodrama and shifts disquietingly into outright paranoia as it explores the dynamics of grief, modern relationships and how well we really know our friends and neighbors.
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By Sarah Dobbs
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The Scariest Star Trek Episodes
By Juliette Harrisson
Kusama’s deft handling of the material and setting (an angular and eventually sinister L.A. house), as well as a superb cast (led by Logan Marshall-Green and Tammy Blanchard, with support from the always creepy John Carroll Lynch) elevate the standard dinner party thriller into something a bit more special. And the final scene is a knockout.
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The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2 is a rare example of a horror sequel equaling or even surpassing the original. This time the focus is more directly on paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) as their skills, courage and faith are tested by England’s famous Enfield Poltergeist.
Director James Wan once again proves himself a master at using negative space, sound (or lack thereof) and period detail to wring goosebumps out of even the most jaded viewer, and the deeper characterizations make the stakes that much higher as well. There are few horror “epics,” but The Conjuring 2 comes close to being one.
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The Witch (2016)
A stunning feature film debut from director Robert Eggers, The Witch tells the story of a 17th century Puritan family who are excommunicated from their village and build their own farm on the edge of a vast forest — only to be preyed upon by an ancient, malevolent witch who lives deep in the woods. Touching on themes of religious persecution and mania, sexual awakening and humanity vs. nature, The Witch is a fully immersive and wholly terrifying experience.
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The Witch Has One of Horror’s Greatest Endings
By David Crow
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By Louisa Mellor
Director Robert Eggers maintains astonishing control of mood and texture throughout, and the entire cast — including newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy as the family’s teen daughter — seems eerily snatched out of the past. The Witch is classic supernatural horror.
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The Visit (2015)
M. Night Shyamalan began a welcome and long-overdue comeback with this quirky and creepy little found-footage experiment, which focuses on a teen brother and sister who make an unforgettable and eventually terrifying trip to visit the grandparents they’ve never met.
Shyamalan seems comfortable working within the lower-budget confines of the Blumhouse scream factory, and he manages to inject both a nice streak of morbid humor and enough of his trademark character touches to keep us off-balance. The movie has an unsettling tone throughout and, for the first time in a long time, the “twist” is well-earned and shocking.
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It Follows (2014)
One of the best horror films of the past couple of years is, like all the genre’s standout entries, rich in metaphor and subtext – is the curse passed through sex among the movie’s characters a stand-in for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, or is the sex act itself a way to affirm life or at least postpone the inevitable onset of death? Writer/director David Robert Mitchell keeps it ambiguous – much to some viewers’ chagrin – and instead focuses on the movie’s overall atmosphere and tone, which is dream-like and full of dread.
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It Follows: A Homecoming for ’80s Horror
By David Crow
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It Follows’ terrifying horror lineage
By Ryan Lambie
Lead actress Maika Monroe is a star in the making, but the most unforgettable thing about It Follows is its implacable walking phantoms, who cause your flesh to crawl every time they enter the frame.
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The Babadook (2014)
An instant classic upon its release, this Australian shocker is, astoundingly, the debut film from writer/director Jennifer Kent, who retains the kind of complete and unwavering grip on her story, themes and tone that you would expect from a much more seasoned filmmaker. Essie Davis is outstanding as Amelia, a widowed mother still reeling from the loss of her husband Oskar as she does her exhausted best to raise their troubled six-year-old son Sam (Noah Wiseman), who was born the night that Oskar died.
Enter the Babadook, the subject of a frightening storybook that Sam finds and an entity that is soon terrorizing mother and child. Thoroughly frightening and unnerving, The Babadook is also quite profound as it touches on the nature of grief and parenthood, hinting that both can drive a person to the edge of madness — or into the clutches of the Babadook.
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Oculus (2014)
Following his ultra-low-budget indie debut Absentia, writer/director Mike Flanagan expanded his short student film into this striking tale of supernatural and psychological terror. Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) stars as a woman who believes that an antique mirror has been responsible for the tragic history of her family, and sets out to destroy it by any means she can. The mirror, however, has other plans.
Set in two parallel timelines that eventually intersect, Oculus is original, creepy and filled with mounting tension; the film is steeped not just in the atmosphere of ‘70s horror cinema but also modern supernatural literature. With more features to his name since (including Ouija: Origin of Evil, his adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House) Flanagan is a talent to watch.
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You’re Next (2013)
Home invasion movies can kind of be formulaic after a while, but director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest) find a way to freshen it up by turning You’re Next into a macabre soap opera as well. In the meantime, however, there’s a ton of suspense and bloody mayhem to satiate fans of visceral horror, and the family dynamics at work make for a nice counterpoint to the terror.
The cast is terrific, a mix of horror vets (Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden) and mumblecore regulars, and Sharni Vinson is outstanding as the dinner guest with a secret of her own.
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The Conjuring (2013)
A film about real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren had been in development for nearly 20 years — outlasting Ed himself — before finally coming to fruition in 2013 as The Conjuring. Based on a case the Warrens investigated concerning the haunting of a family farm by a witch, the film afforded director James Wan the change to take the horror skills he had honed on his previous project, Insidious, and apply them to a larger scale Hollywood production.
The result was a genuinely scary experience with plenty of atmosphere and just enough empathy for the family and the Warrens to elevate the movie about the usual shock tactics. It was also a major box office hit, making it that rare genre entry that was enjoyed by both critics and audiences.
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Both a deconstruction of the genre and one of the 21st century’s best horror movies in its own right, The Cabin in the Woods could only be the work of Joss Whedon (co-writer) and Drew Goddard (co-writer and director), whose love and understanding of both the genre and the wider pop culture context around it make this one of the smartest satires in recent memory. Proposing that the standard template for a horror film is what keeps the real horrors at bay, the movie turns that formula on its head yet works it to maximum effect.
Goddard is assured in his directorial debut, the cast (including a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth and a brilliant Richard Jenkins as one of the weary “technicians” pulling the strings) is game, and the movie nails its meta premise perfectly.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Adapted from Lionel Shriver’s novel and directed by Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin is the perennial “evil child” story disguised as an arthouse film. But the combination works, thanks to Ramsay’s striking direction and imagery and two knockout performances by Tilda Swinton as the mother and a frightening Ezra Miller as Kevin. Swinton’s anguished portrayal deepens the film’s themes and offers a searing and complex picture of a parent’s occasional ambivalence toward their own child.
Yet the movie doesn’t skimp on its horrors either, both psychological and physical, and stretches the boundaries of what can be considered a horror movie.
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Kill List (2011)
With just one feature to his credit before this (Down Terrace), director and co-writer Ben Wheatley hits his second film clear out of the park, fashioning it into a mash-up of gritty crime thriller and chilling Lovecraftian horror tale. The result is a unique movie that’s not quite like anything else on this list and will you leave you shaken to the core. Two former British soldiers turned hit men (Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley) take a job in which they must kill three people — a priest, a video archivist, and a member of Parliament — but soon find out that they have gotten involved with something far beyond their experience and understanding.
The somber mood, ambiguous plot (Wheatley deliberately and correctly leaves much unexplained) and almost unwatchable bursts of violence come to a boil in the truly horrifying and enigmatic climax.
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Insidious (2011)
After one hit (Saw) and a couple of misses (Dead Silence and Death Sentence), writer/director James Wan and his writing partner Leigh Whannell scored with this tiny ($1 million budget) indie that became a huge hit (and sadly spawned two lousy follow-ups). But Insidious deserved its success: it’s a genuinely scary film, with Wan displaying a tremendous talent for utilizing the camera frame, darkness and silence to create an oppressive atmosphere of dread only enhanced by some truly bizarre manifestations.
In pulling tricks from all eras of horror, Wan came up with something original, terrifying and entertaining – a horror ride that all fans could enjoy.
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Director Kim Ji-Woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) sends an intelligence agent (Lee Byung-hun) on a mission of vengeance against a sadistic serial killer (Choi Min-sik) in this shocking and stunningly depraved cat and mouse thriller in which all notions of morality go out the window along with numerous bloody body parts. Yet Kim keeps you invested in the characters as well, and this Korean epic has an undertone of sadness that’s hard to shake. Kim holds it all together masterfully, creating a horrifying experience like nothing else we saw the year it came out.
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The House of the Devil (2009)
Indie auteur Ti West’s homage to the horror movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s is replete with stylistic touches from both decades, ranging from the old-school opening credits to the use of zoom lenses to the 16mm film stock meant to look retro. But this isn’t just a pastiche: while The House of the Devil is the definition of a “slow burn” film — which may leave some viewers impatient — the payoff is worth it as babysitter Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is subjected to a night of Satanic horrors that will leave you shaken.
West is an expert at leading us along and then tightening the screws hard, and if you told me that The House of the Devil had actually come out around 1981 or so, I just might have believed you.
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Paranormal Activity (2009)
For better or worse, Oren Peli’s homemade, shoestring thriller kicked off a tidal wave of films using the “found footage” or “faux doc” style of moviemaking, an esthetic that has proven increasingly confining and exhausted. But there’s no denying the strength of a few early contenders, starting with this. Peli shows us almost nothing in terms of visual effects, which only heightens the experience: you can’t help but feel a powerful sense of dread every time his camera sits and stares into the shadowy abyss of the couple’s bedroom while they sleep.
Tons of sequels, rehashes and rip-offs later, Paranormal Activity remains authentically frightening and deserves its berth on a list of the century’s best horror movies.
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Let the Right One In / Let Me In (2008/2010)
In an era of endless bloodsucking YA hotties, leave it to an 11-year-old girl to create the best and eeriest vampire seen on the screen in years. Based on a novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist and directed by fellow Swede Tomas Alfredson, this is the story of the friendship that grows between lonely, bullied 12-year-old Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) and the little girl who lives in the apartment next door, Eli (Lina Leandersson) — an ancient vampire inside the body of a child. Let the Right One In is scary, funny, romantic and also quite mournful, tackling themes of youth, sexuality, loyalty, loss of innocence and love within a terrific and haunting vampire tale.
The two child actors are outstanding, with Leandersson projecting an otherworldliness and weariness far beyond her years. Credit is also due to the English-language remake by director Matt Reeves, who stayed largely faithful to the original while tweaking its meaning slightly (his actors, Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee, are fine if not quite as good as the Swedish cast).
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Martyrs (2008)
Brutal and almost unwatchable, Martyrs represented perhaps the apex of the French extreme horror movement. A young woman (Morjana Alaoui) finds herself the subject of vicious “tests” by a secret society, aimed at creating a “martyr” whose suffering can give them a transcendental glimpse into the afterlife. The ordeal she goes through is just the grand finale of a nihilistic exercise in depravity. Director Pascal Laugier’s plunge into unrelieved sadism is given context by its powerful, eerie climax — if you can make it to the end.
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The Strangers (2008)
Writer and director Bryan Bertino made quite a splash with his debut feature, which relied more on a mounting sense of dread and escalating suspense than violence and gore. The story is a simple, straightforward home invasion narrative, but Bertino keeps it creepy and unsettling throughout thanks to some eerie imagery and his three terrifying antagonists. Bertino has directed some features since – the direct-to-video found footage thriller Mockingbird and The Monster – but The Strangers remains an impressively chilling calling card.
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Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
Michael Dougherty’s Halloween-themed anthology sat on the shelf for nearly two years until finally (and criminally) getting just a direct-to-home-video release, but the wait was worth it. Dougherty wrote and directed a loving homage not just to the year’s most haunted holiday, but to horror movies and ghost stories in general, delivering four interconnected tales that each serve as a nasty, creepy and thoroughly entertaining exercise in traditional horror, with just the right amounts of atmosphere, scares and gore.
A lot of the best horror movies of this century aim to get under your skin in an unpleasant way, whereas Trick ‘R Treat just wants to have fun – and does.
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[REC] (2007)
This nasty shock to the system from Spanish horror specialist Jaume Balaguero uses the “found footage” style in logical fashion, as it’s told from the point of view of a news team that accompanies a fire brigade to a call at an apartment building. Things quickly take a turn not just for the bad but for the unspeakable as our heroes confront a zombie plague of a horrific nature, and [REC] rubs your nose in every nightmarish moment. The building itself is a spectacular, claustrophobic setting, and what [REC] lacks in meaningful character development it makes up in relentless terror and dread.
Take a good, stiff drink before watching.
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The Mist (2007)
A faithful and pretty great Stephen King adaptation, The Mist is terrifying not just for the macabre monsters that come streaming out of the title cloud to lay siege on a small group of people trapped in a supermarket, but for the way those people turn so quickly on each other as well.
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Revisiting the Ending of The Mist
By Dan Cooper
Writer/director Frank Darabont, nailing his third King-based adaptation after The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, innately understands that King’s stories are often so disquieting because of the human monsters in them as well as the slimy, tentacled ones. In this case the threat is Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a religious fanatic who quickly does her best to divide the supermarket into two hostile camps — I’ll let you work out the metaphors.
Beyond that, however, The Mist is a genuinely scary monsterpalooza, with one of the bleakest endings ever. When you go even darker than the King original, that’s saying something.
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The Orphanage (2006)
The debut feature from Spanish director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible) was produced by his friend Guillermo Del Toro, and frankly feels like it. It certainly has many of the hallmarks of Del Toro’s own Spanish-language horror films, with its focus on children, its marvelously atmospheric setting, its short bursts of shocking violence and its ghostly apparitions.
Either way, it’s a rich, beautifully crafted film that becomes unexpectedly and powerfully emotional at the finish. Belen Rueda is sensational as Laura, who returns to her childhood home — an old orphanage — with her husband and adopted son, only to find that it is not exactly empty. An English-language remake was planned for a long time, but perhaps fortunately, it has not happened.
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The Descent (2005)
Six women go exploring an unmapped cave system, with tragic and terrifying consequences, in writer/director Neil Marshall’s (Dog Soldiers) riveting horror hit. Marshall subverts the genre with his strong all-female cast (not a male hero in sight), refusing to dumb them down, but then puts the screws to them by introducing the blind humanoid inhabitants of the caves, surely one of the most horrific monster creations of the decade.
The movie is unstoppably scary, showing no mercy to the characters or the audience (one shock early in the film makes this writer jump to this day), but also examines how far people will go to survive in seemingly impossible circumstances. The Descent is a harrowing, suffocating masterpiece.
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
This loving homage to the films of George A. Romero — the father of the modern zombie movie — and to the horror genre in general launched the careers of director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost outside of the U.K. And deservedly so: Shaun is a near-perfect blend of horror and comedy, energized by Wright’s visceral style of directing and flavored with clever pop culture and genre references that are even more delicious if you’re a fan.
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By Kirsten Howard
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The Walking Dead vs. Real-Life Survivalists: How to Prep for The Zombie Apocalypse
By Ron Hogan
Pegg and Frost are perfect as two slackers who must contend with a zombie apocalypse — two of the least likely but most endearingly goofy heroes you’ll ever meet.
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Saw (2004)
Saw is now so closely associated with the torture porn genre that its numerous sequels almost singlehandedly gave birth to that people often don’t remember that the original is more of a suspenseful police procedural and genuinely gripping puzzlebox than an outright exercise in sadism. Not that Saw is a sitting-room drama either: there are plenty of visceral moments in the film, and even in his feature debut, director James Wan (The Conjuring) displays a surprising amount of control and confidence in his handling of the horrors.
Saw may or may not be a truly great film, but its influence is enormous and it still packs one of the best endings the genre has ever seen.
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28 Days Later (2002)
Looking at Danny Boyle’s revisionist zombie film now, its grimy handheld video esthetic is getting perhaps just a wee bit dated — but even that fails to dilute the sheer aggressive energy of Boyle’s take on the horror genre.
The movie, like its spiritual forefather Night of the Living Dead, is also rich in political and social subtext, while balancing moments of outright terror with passages of almost poetic reflection. Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland expertly reinvigorated a subgenre that had been nearly moribund, paving the way for both the superb (The Walking Dead) and the silly (the film version of World War Z).
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The Ring (2002)
It was a foregone conclusion that the Japanese horror smash Ringu (1998), after becoming an underground sensation internationally, would be the subject of a big-budget Hollywood remake. But who imagined it would be this good? Director Gore Verbinski and writers Scott Frank and Ehren Kruger retain the original’s focus on atmosphere and creepy imagery over cheap scares, while Naomi Watts — fresh off her sensational turn in Mulholland Drive — is excellent as the reporter and mother who discovers the haunted videotape that causes viewers to die in seven days.
The American version fleshes out a few more narrative points that the Japanese film left ambiguous, but never wavers from its tone of quietly mounting terror. There have been plenty of J-horror remakes in the wake of The Ring, but it remains the first and the best.
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Debate rages (even now, between this writer and his editor) over whether Mulholland Drive is actually a horror movie, but the simple truth is that filmmaking legend David Lynch has incorporated elements of horror into many of his films. No one comes as close to capturing the essence of a nightmare on screen, and Mulholland Drive contains two of the century’s most skin-freezing scenes: the infamous diner sequence and the discovery of a decomposing corpse in a darkened apartment.
Even if the plot didn’t invoke the genre in other ways — including a supernatural force at work in Hollywood and the Repulsion-like disintegration of a young woman’s mind — those two scenes would be enough to earn a spot on this list.
Watch Mulholland Drive on Amazon
The Others (2001)
Alejandro Amenabar (Open Your Eyes) wrote and directed this elegant ghost story. Nicole Kidman is superb as Grace, who relocates herself and her two small children to a remote country estate in the aftermath of World War II. Their highly structured life — the children are sensitive to sunlight and must stay in darkened rooms — is shattered by mysterious presences in the house. Amenabar relies on mood, atmosphere and a few well-placed scares to make this an excellent modern-day companion to classics like The Haunting and The Innocents.
Watch The Others on Amazon Prime
Session 9 (2001)
“Location, location, location” is what makes this tiny independent chiller from writer/director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) work so well and keeps its reputation intact. A five-man asbestos abatement team is hired to clean out the abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusetts, but the crew, led by the stressed-out Gordon (Peter Mullan), soon finds itself at the mercy of both personal tensions and an unseen force inside the facility.
Anderson shot the movie at the real Danvers, and the empty treatment rooms and labyrinthine underground tunnels create an undeniable atmosphere of disquiet and uncertainty. The nearly gore-free movie is a model of how a fantastic setting, a solid cast and an almost complete lack of jump scares can make for a thoroughly haunting viewing experience.
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Guillermo Del Toro has made several great movies in his career so far, but for our money this remains his best, scariest and most profoundly affecting work (Pan’s Labyrinth is a close, close second). The Devil’s Backbone is a ghost story set during the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, at an orphanage for boys where an unexploded bomb is embedded in the courtyard and a spirit is wandering the halls at night.
The movie is drenched in both a heavy atmosphere of dread and a blanket of sadness; its mournful elegance counterbalances some of its more chilling scenes of terror. This is dark supernatural storytelling at its finest and a marvelous example of just how high the horror genre — so often maligned by critics — can reach.
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Kairo (2001)
Films like Ringu and Juon were the cornerstones of the Japanese horror explosion of the late ‘90s, but for my money, Kairo is the pinnacle of that era. Director/writer Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film is one of the most unnerving exercises in surreal horror ever made, with one frightening image after another washing onto the screen. Although the movie’s central idea – -that the realm of the dead is infiltrating our world through the internet – is original and compelling, its presentation is somewhat murky. But Kurosawa doesn’t necessarily feel the need to spell things out: he wants to instead lure you into a living nightmare – which Kairo accomplishes over and over again.
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That’s our list — did we miss any of your favorites that you’d like to add? Let us know below!
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Film Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2017/18
The award season is about to begin. Here are the recipients for the various cinematic lifetime achievement awards.
Academy Awards: Charles Burnett, Owen Roizman, Donald Sutherland and Agnes Varda
Golden Globes: Oprah Winfrey
BAFTA: Ridley Scott
Cesar Awards: Penelope Cruz
American Film Institute: George Clooney
SAG Awards: Morgan Freeman
Kennedy Center Honors: Norman Lear
Cannes Film Festival: Martin Scorsese
Venice Film Festival: Stephen Frears, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford
Berlin Film Festival: Willem Dafoe
Writers Guild Awards: John Waters and Len Wein (posthumous)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Max von Sydow
European Film Awards: Julie Delpy and Alexander Sokurov
Sarajevo Film Festival: John Cleese and Oliver Stone
Locarno Festival: Todd Haynes, Adrien Brody, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nastassja Kinski and Jean-Marie Straub
Zurich Film Festival: Glenn Close, Andrew Garfield, Oliver Stone and Jake Gyllenhaal
Rose d’Or Awards: Angela Lansbury
Burbank International Film Festival: Veronica Cartwright
Australian Writers Guild: Andrew Knight
Hamptons Film Festival: Julie Andrews
VES LifetimeAchievement Award: Jon Favreau
Platino Ibero-American Film Awards: Edward James Olmos
Ischia Global Film and Music Fest: Roman Polanski and Armand Assante
Munich Film Festival: Bryan Cranston
Camerimage: John Toll and Phillip Noyce
Rome Film Festival: David Lynch
British Academy Britannia Awards: Matt Damon, Dick Van Dyke, Kenneth Branagh, Ava DuVernay and Claire Foy
Odesa International Film Festival: Agnieszka Holland
Oceanside International Film Festival: Alan Roderick-Jones
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival: John Sayles and Maggie Renzi
Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival: Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes
Riverside International Film Festival: Stu Krieger
Telluride International Film Festival: Ed Lachman
DOC NYC: Errol Morris and Sheila Nevins
Hoboken International Film Festival: Armand Assante
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival: Dee Wallace
San Sebastián Film Festival: Agnes Varda and Monica Bellucci
Arpa International Film Festival: Terry George, Carl Weathers and Alexander Dinelaris
World Soundtrack Awards: David Shire
El Gouna Film Festival: Forest Whitaker
Heartland Film Festival: Rob Reiner
Asian World Film Festival: George Takei
DC South Asia Film Festival: Zeenat Aman
Inspiring City Awards: Billy Connolly
New York City Horror Film Festival: Brad Dourif
Windsor International Film Festival: Lois Smith
SCAD Savannah Film Festival: Richard Gere
Stockholm Film Festival: Vanessa Redgrave and Pablo Larrain
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival: Stanley Nelson
Antalya Film Festival: Christopher Walken
Lumière Award: Wong Kar-Wai
Hollywood Film Awards: Gary Oldman
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: Burt Reynolds
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards: Errol Morris
Woodstock Film Awards: Bill Pullman
Directors Guild of Canada Awards: Don Shebib
European Animation Awards: Richard Williams
Los Cabos Fest: Nicole Kidman
Israel Film Festival: Jeffrey Tambor and Lior Ashkenazi
Annie Awards: James Baxter, Stephen Hillenburg, Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
International Film Festival of India: Atom Egoyan
Dubai International Film Festival: Patrick Stewart, Wahid Hamed and Irrfan Kahn
International Film Festival of Kerala: Alexander Sokurov
Art Directors Guild: John Moffitt, James J. Murakami, Martin Kline, Norm Newberry, Kathleen Kennedy, Ron Clements and John Musker
New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Molly Haskell
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild: Greg Gannom and Mary Gurerro
Movies for Grownups Awards: Helen Mirren
Golden Horse Awards: Hsu Feng
Women in Film and Television Awards: Celia Imrie
Goteborg Film Festival: Alicia Vikander
Gotham Awards: Nicole Kidman
Denver Film Festival: Aaron Sorkin
Athena Film Festival: Barbara Kopple
SFFILM Awards: Kate Winslet
International Cinematographers Guild: Betty White
American Black Film Festival: Billy Dee Williams
Looking Ahead Awards: Charlotte Rae
San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival: Susan Arnold and Donna Roth
Goteborg Film Festival: Juliette Binoche
Sedona International Film Festival: Jane Alexander
Beaufort International Film Festival: Dale Dye
Canadian Screen Awards: Clark Johnson
Costume Designers Guild: Guillermo Del Toro and Joanna Johnson
Animafest Zagreb: Paul Fierlinger
WGAW's Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement: James L. Brooks
Irish Film and Television Academy Awards: Gabriel Byrne
Chaplin Award: Helen Mirren
Austin Film Festival: Roger Corman
Satellite Awards: Dabney Coleman
Lumiere Awards: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Monica Bellucci
Governor General Performing Arts Award: Genevieve Bujold
Annecy International Animated Film Festival: Brad Bird
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Coriolanus starring Tom Hiddleston, see June 4
Carousel with Nathan Gunn Kelli O’Hara. See June 5
Jonny Orsini and Nathan Lane in The Nance, See June 12
Heroes of the Fourth Turning see June 13
Aenid Moloney in “Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom” see June 16 (Bloom’s Day of course)
Click here for June 1 openings
Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list demonstrating the perseverance and resilience of an art form that is adjusting to the shut-down of physical stages.
Among the one-time only star-studded spectacles in June: We Are One Public at the Public Theater (see June 1), two different Tony Awards celebrations (see June 7, the date that the Tony Awards would have taken place) and the New York Times’ “Offstage: Opening Night” (see June 11.) This last show launches a series that will feature performances from shows that opened (or should have opened) in the 2019-2020 season.
Pride Plays festival director Nick Mayo with producers Michael Urie and Doug Nevin
Among the other exciting new online series in June: Lincoln Center’s Dance Week (which continues every day through June 4th) and its Broadway Fridays (Carousel on June 5th, The Nance on June 12, Act One on June 19), and Pride Plays, a partnership between Playbill and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, which will present “a live streamed theatrical event from the LGBTQIA+ theatrical canon” every Friday in June (including Mort Crowley’s sequel to The Boys in the Band. See June 26) — plus 11 new LGBT plays by emerging writers at dates yet to be announced.
Also take note of The Civilians’ ninth annual Findings series, which for the first time is going online. The five offerings in this year’s groundbreaking documentary theater series share “a common thread of how humanity perseveres and seeks out joy through adversity.”
Since so many shows are being put together at the last minute — sometimes not announced until the very day of their launch — I will be updating/filling in this preview guide every day, and highlighting the offerings each new day with the link up top. This calendar as of this moment offers a glimpse of what’s in store. Come back day by day for a better look.
Here are some ongoing series that have proven to be reliable sources of art and entertainment.
Four offer live performances (often called readings) of original plays:
The Homebound Project
Livelabs: One Acts from MCC
Play-PerView
Viral Monologues from 24 Hour Plays
(Play-PerView makes an exception to its original plays with what counts as a coup — the live reading of the Pulitzer finalist play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. see June 13)
A fifth offers live readings of classics and recent favorites: Plays in the House, Stars in the House’s twice weekly matinees and now Plays in the House Teen Edition.
Three offer recordings of previous (glorious) stage productions.
Metropolitan Opera
National Theatre at Home
The Shows Must Go On from Andrew Lloyd Webber
For details about these and other ongoing series, check out my post Where To Get Your Theater Fix Online (which lists, for example, the many long-running online sites such as BraadwayHD and Marquee TV that offer video-capture recordings of shows that were on stage)
All performances are free unless otherwise noted, although almost all hope for a donation (either to themselves or to a designated charity.)
*My definition of theater for the purposes of this calendar generally does not extend to variety shows, cast reunions, galas, panel discussions, documentaries, classes, interviews — all of which are in abundance this month, many worth checking out, but it would be too Herculean a task to list them all in a monthly calendar. My focus here is on creative storytelling in performance. (I make an occasional exception for a high-profile Netathon,involving many theater artists.)
June 1
We Are One Public
The Public Theater
Live beginning at 8 p.m.
A 90-minute Netathon (my term for the starry online fundraising concerts of the pandemic era) featuring “cameo appearances” by Jane Fonda, Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Meryl Streep, and “stories and songs” by Antonio Banderas, Laura Benanti, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Danielle Brooks, Glenn Close, Jenn Colella, Elvis Costello, Claire Danes, Holly Gould, Danai Gurira, Anne Hathaway, Stephanie Hsu, Oscar Isaac, Nikki M. James, John Leguizamo, Audra McDonald, Grace McLean, Sandra Oh, Mia Pak, David Hyde Pierce, Phillipa Soo, Trudie Styler & Sting, Will Swenson, Shaina Taub, Kuhoo Verma, Ada Westfall, Kate Wetherhead.
The Revenger’s Tragedy
Red Bull Theater
Launches 7:30 p.m.
Jesse Berger’s adaptation of Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet, is a searing examination of humankind’s social need for justice and our animal desire for vengeance. Vindice, the “Revenger,” sets off a chain reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice.
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
92nd Y
Recording launches at 8 p.m, available through June 30
Donation to 92nd Street Y required
A recording of the one-man show written and performed by James Lecesne, whose short film “Trevor” spawned The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. I liked this show when I saw it Off-Broadway in 2015. From my review: “A 14-year-old boy is reported missing, and eventually found dead. Chuck DeSantis, who worked the case as a tough-talking detective “in a half-ass town down the Jersey shore,” begins to tell us the story as if it’s a murder mystery, a film noir on stage (“The dark side is my beat.”) But “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”…is not really a murder mystery. It is, above all, a showcase for the impressive theatrical talents of James Lecesne, who portrays the detective and eight other characters, male and female, young and old. He does this without props or a change of costumes — just precise, spot-on gestures; a shift in accent and manner of speech.”
Ten Stories: A Decameron
The Builders Association https://www.buildersdecameron.com/
Throughout the month of May, The Buildings Association theater company presented five live half-hour episodes inspired by the Decameron, Boccaccio’s 14th-century plague-story. Starting today, all will be released for viewing
Burst
Playground Zoomfest
Launches 5 p.m. ET
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital), this play by Rachel Bublitz focuses on Sarah Boyd, the head of one of the fastest growing tech companies in history, at a moment before everything bursts.
June 2
Coppélia
Lincoln Center
Part of Dance Week, the New York City Ballet presents the 19th century comic ballet of a mad inventor and the life-like doll he creates.
June 3
Pues Nada
MCC
Launches at 5:30
This latest play in the LiveLabs One Acts series is written by Aziza Barnes, and features Karen Pittman as St. Francis and Samira Wiley as Sunny
The Homebound Project #3
Launches at 7 p.m.
Available through June 7
$10 donation to No Kid Hungry required
(free to frontline and essential workers)
This third edition of original plays fundraising for No Kid Hungry, on the theme of “champions,” features:
Jennifer Carpenter and Thomas Sadoski in a work by John Guare, directed by Jerry Zaks;
Ralph Brown in a work by Donnetta Lavinia Grays, directed by Jenna Worsham;
Diane Lane in a work by Michael R. Jackson;
Paola Lázaro in a work by Gina Femia, directed by Taylor Reynolds;
Joshua Leonard in a work by Mara Nelson-Greenberg;
Eve Lindley in a work by Daniel Talbott, directed by Kevin Laibson;
Arian Moayed in a work by Xavier Galva;
Ashley Park in a work by Bess Wohl, directed by Leigh Silverman;
Will Pullen in a work by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Jenna Worsham;
Phillipa Soo in a work by Clare Barron, directed by Steven Pasquale; and
Blair Underwood in a work by Korde Arrington Tuttle.
June 4
Coriolanus
National Theatre
Available through June 11
Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal, The Avengers, The Night Manager) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge.
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Alvin Ailey
Lincoln Center
This last show in Dance Week is a 2015 broadcast featuring Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performing Chroma, Grace, Takademe, and its signature dance, Revelations
June 5
Carousel
Lincoln Center
Launches at 8 p.m.
The first of Lincoln Center’s Broadway Fridays features a free digital stream of its concert production of this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical featuring the New York Philharmonic and starring Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley,Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, Tony winner John Cullum, and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck.
Brave Smiles…Another Lesbian Tragedy
Pride Plays
Launches at 7 p.m.
The Five Lesbian Brothers (Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron) directed by Leigh Silverman.
Julius Caesar
Irondale
The second of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.
Candidate X
The Civilians
Launches at 3 p.m.
Part of the Civilians “Findings” series, the show is “a dynamic cross between testimonial-based theatre and dance theatre,” celebrating “the risk-takers who challenge and defy the gendered expectations our country has of those who lead.”
The Nesting Instinct
Playground Zoomfest
Launches 5 p.m. E.T.
Part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital): Two siblings in a house in a Florida flood zone, a pair of blue-footed boobies (those are birds) on a shrinking island are the characters in two of the intertwined stories in this play by Tom Bruett that explores parenthood, identity and the steadfast power of home in a world that is changing drastically.
June 6
The Rendering Cycle
Playground Zoomfest
Launches 5 p.m. ET
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Playground Festival of New Works (this year completely digital), Genevieve Jessee’s ten interwoven short plays
present a theatrical journey through 400 years of the African Diaspora. Directed by Margo Hall
June 7
Tony Awards Celebration
Broadway on Demand and TonyAwards.com
Launches 6 p.m.
A Netathon for American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, co-producers of The Tony Awards (which would have taken place tonight), the hour-long even will celebrate “the Broadway community, the Tony Awards®, and the global impact that Broadway has as a cultural touchstone around the world.”
Show of Shows: Broadway.com Salutes the Tonys
Broadway.com
Launches 7 p.m.
Also a benefit for the Wing and the League, this one is produced by Paul Wontorek, who produced the 90th Sondheim celebration
June 9
Criminal Queerness Festival
Dixon Place
The first day of a festival that runs through June 29th, showcasing queer and trans artists from countries that criminalize or censor LGBTQ+ communities.
June 10
Black Feminist Video Game, African.Isch
The Civilians
Launches at 7 p.m.
Part of the Civilians “Findings” series, the show presents a tapestry of theatrical narratives created from ethnographic interviews within the black community of Berlin, Germany.
June 11
Offstage: Opening Night
Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk and the cast of Company performing the show’s opening number; Tony winner Mary-Louise Parkerperforming a monologue from The Sound Inside; a chat with Slave Play scribe Jeremy O. Harris and a sing-along with Elizabeth Stanley from Jagged Little Pill. Times writers will also discuss some of their favorite moments from the truncated season. 7 p.m. Free, but need to register in advance
As You Like It
Irondale
The third of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.
June 12
The Nance
Lincoln Center
Launches at 8 p.m.
A free digital stream of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2013 Broadway production of Douglas Carter Beane’s dark comedy starring Nathan Lane as a gay burlesque entertainer in the 1930s. ( My review)
One in two
Pride Plays
Donja R. Love’s portrait of what it means to be black and queer in America today.
June 13
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Play-Perview
Launches at 8 p.m.
Required $5 minimum donation
A live one-time Zoom reading of this much-praised (and 2020 Pulitzer finalist) play by Will Arbery “It’s nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They’ve returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood.” My review when it was a Playwrights Horizons
In These Uncertain Times
Source Material
Launches 7:30 p.m.
A digital performance piece that uses drinking competitions, sad Chekhov monologues, and corona-virus meme collages to contemplate the impossibility of theater as we’ve known it, and forge a new path in the art form, while grieving for the past.
Best of Playground 24
Playground Zoomfest
the top 10-minute plays from the 2019-20 season of the Playground Festival.
June 15
This Show Is Money
The Civilians
Launches at 8 p.m.
A musical about the 1 and 99 percent, exploring how our choices with this fictional creation called money affect people around us in ways we find difficult to see.
June 16
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom
Irish Rep
The solo show excerpting the last chapter of “Ulysses” offered online on Bloom’s Day.
Looking for Leroy
New Federal Theatre
featuring AUDELCO Award winning actors Tyler Fauntleroy and Kim Sullivan, directed by Petronia Paley
June 18
Hamlet
Irondale
The third of four installments of a revised version of its 2016 show “1599” nspired by the book “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro.
June 19
Act One
Lincoln Center
Broadway Fridays brings James Lapine stage adaptation of Moss Hart’s memoir for the stage, starring Tony Shalhoub, Andrea Martin and an especially winning Santino Fontana. My review from 2014
Masculinity Max
Pride Plays
A play by MJ Kaufman, directed by Will Davis
June 22
Against Women and Music
The Civilians
Launches at 3 p.m.
Part of the Civilians’ Findings series, an anachronistic chamber musical that explores the notions of privilege, ambition and morality through the eyes of a female piano tuner in the 1800s. At that time, music was considered dangerous for women to play or even hear.
June 24
The Homebound Project #4
June 26
The Men from the Boys
Pride Plays
Mort Crowley’s sequel to The Boys in the Band, showing what happens to the characters
June 28
Pride Spectacular Concert
Playbill
June 30
Two Can Play
New Federal Theatere
Written by Trevor Rhone featuring Ron Bobb-Semple and Joyce Sylvester, directed by Clinton Turner Davis.
June 2020 Online Theater Openings: Pride and Perseverance. What’s Streaming Day by Day Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list demonstrating the perseverance and resilience of an art form that is adjusting to the shut-down of physical stages.
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