They explore everything from the pull of the ancestral to the slipperiness of identity to the rattling depths of seclusion, revealing just how haunting and delightful a scare can be, even in the worst of times. The films on this list - curated by Alison Willmore and Angelica Jade Bastién - represent ten of the best horror offerings of this surreal year, each, in their own ways, capable of captivating a distracted audience largely confined to their homes. Would horror movies have the same pull on our small screens, with the realities of quarantine not exactly out of frame? According to our critics, the answer is: Without a doubt. Horror fans, like the rest of cinephiles, were deprived of the ability to sit in a darkened, crowded theater and let a story envelop them. In the midst of a pandemic, movies have quietly premiered in a handful of open theaters, been rushed on demand, or, if they’re lucky, found footing on some streaming platform. What does it mean to choose fear in a year already dominated by it?įilm itself has also experienced a strange run. The category’s penchant for toying with societal taboos and visceral antagonisms might make it, for some, a strange one to explore in 2020, what with so many parts of the world still ravaged by the very real, panic-inducing effects of COVID-19: death and unprecedented isolation, among other things.
Horror is a genre predicated on pushing the boundaries of one of the most essential and revealing of human emotions: fear. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos by IFC Midnight, Neon and Shudder, What does it mean to choose fear in a year already dominated by it?
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