Has Hollywood been taken over by ghouls, wandering ghosts, mortifying mirrors and possessed infants or are we hallucinating? After last year’s The Conjuring upped the ante, this year there are as many as 42 horror films releasing in the West! Last week saw the release of the first of the ghastly gang — Oculus . This brother-sister drama featuring a haunted mirror has just kick-started this spooky journey. For horror lovers, there’s quite a smattering — drama, comedy and even the romantic variety to petrify you.
We pick out a handful demanding your shrieks.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Game for a romantic drama vampire film anyone? Only Lovers Left Alive has generated such interest that you might just want to invest a romantic date on it. The film, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, is getting a phased out release worldwide. The vampire couple shares a loving relationship that has stood its ground through centuries and also shares a love for the arts and refined ‘tastes’! Will they ever return to their ‘vampirish’ ways?
The Purge: Anarchy
Sequel to the hit 2013 film The Purge , this one’s a horror-thriller directed and written by James DeMonaco. The concept is pretty vexing: The Purge is an annual event where all crimes become legal for 12 hours and all emergency services are shut down. On the night of the Purge, a man (Frank Grillo) sets out to get vengeance from the man who killed his son, but is compelled to assist a mother and daughter who were taken from their home, along with a couple left stranded on the highway, in surviving that one bizarre night.
The Den
The Den has a delightful and dangerous premise. A young student of social media studies is preparing her graduation thesis on the online activities of random people using a webcam website called The Den. She is understandably disappointed when her results are not as ‘interesting’ as she had hoped to support her paper and her grant. Just then she stumbles upon a video that appears to be of a gruesome murder. Blood, gore and mind-numbing acts follow.
Resident Evil 6
It’s the final instalment of Resident Evil , the Capcom-video game based film series of the same name, and Milla Jovovich fans are waiting to sink their teeth into this one. Bioengineering pharmaceutical company Umbrella Corporation acts as the main antagonist creating the T-virus that’s responsible for the zombie apocalypse. The films follow Alice, (original character created for the films), once a security operative working for Umbrella and now its ultimate enemy.
Cooties
Unlikely heroes make for great stories. So when a mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school and the kids transmogrify into mass savages, a substitute teacher along with his crush lead a band that’s fighting for its lives! Funny? The film directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott stars Elijah Wood and Alison Pill.
The Babadook
Kids and their monster fright could soon get to you too! This Australian film tells the story of a mother who tries to handle her young son’s behaviour after the violent death of her husband. Up comes a storybook called The Babadook with the same creature that her son seems to be conjuring. And then the mom begins to see it too. That makes for the perfect bedtime story.
