Our friends at RLJ Entertainment curated this list of horror movies you should watch. Some chilling must-watches include Children of the Corn and Hellraiser.
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Val Lewton: Producing From The Shadows
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When David O. Selznick needed someone to edit the meandering script of Gone With the Wind, he gave it to Val Lewton. And it was Lewton who added the now-famous long, wide shot of the Atlanta rail depot showing the casualty of war. And when Selznick needed someone to edit a script for a British director’s first American film, he tapped Lewton. That film, Rebecca, would earn Hitchcock his only Oscar nomination. To this day, when sound editors want to manufacture a scare on screen, they refer to the “Lewton bus.”
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11 Classic Horror Flicks You Might Have Missed
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Hitchcock cites fairy tale literature as a child’s introduction to horror, but he’s also speaking indirectly about the maturation of horror cinema. The special effects have become more realistic and the violence more explicit, but what frightened us in 1958 remains true for 2018. Classics had to earn your attention through mood and narrative, not with threats of gratuitous jump scares and stomach-churning grotesqueries.
Here’s a list of 11 essential classics of horror cinema that you might have overlooked, all of which are available to view on physical media through Netflix DVD. I’ve drawn the line in the ectoplasm at 1970 because the aesthetics of horror shifted dramatically with the dissolution of the Hays Code and the introduction of the MPAA film ratings system in 1968. American filmmakers immediately began exploring newfound freedoms with regards to graphic depictions of sex and violence, literally rendering the films made before the ratings system a product of a bygone – but no less worthy – era of cinema.
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13 Most Rented Horror Movies
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What are the 13 horror flicks that DVD Netflix members have rented most over the years? Let’s find out!
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“Moneyball” and the Other Brad Pitt Movies We Love
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Over the years, Brad Pitt has developed a presence as an actor with a sort of shambling grace that belies a stubbornly intense spirit. This presence hit its apex with his performance in Moneyball (2011). This list of movies represents the films where Pitt allows us to see that while everything may look easy from the outside, inside there is considerable unnoticed struggle.
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What is "Worst Saturday?" A group of friends gathering to watch movies that are so bad, they're good. And sometimes they're really hard to track down.... unless you have DVD Netflix.
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Interview with Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke
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Jarin Blaschke is an award-winning cinematographer and alumni of the Sundance Director's Lab. He is best known for his work on The Witch (2015), which grossed $40 million worldwide on a budget of $3.5M, winning Best First Feature at The Independent Spirit Awards and Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival. Known for his distinctive, formal, low-light work in the film, Jarin was subsequently chosen as one of Variety’s “10 Cinematographers to Watch for 2015,” and one of “13 Breakthroughs of the Sundance Film Festival” by MovieMaker Magazine. Here we interview him about his work.
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What to Watch When Your Wife Is Watching “Love Actually”
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Let’s say your lovely and delightful wife tells you that her sorta best friend from college is coming over tonight and they are going to drink wine and watch Love Actually together. Uh-oh, that sorta best friend from college.So you’re going to need to find a movie—and probably two—that you can watch by yourself in the bedroom while your wife and her sorta best friend get hammered and watch Love Actually. You’ve got a headache just thinking about it, don’t you? Well, here’s my movie guide for when you’re facing this regrettable situation.
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6 Cult Classics by Disaster Artists
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I’ve got just the idea: the Disaster Artist Party. The Disaster Artist, of course, is the new film from James Franco about the making of the movie The Room, which many consider the worst film ever made. So what, exactly, is a Disaster Artist Party? It is simplicity itself. Rent a really, truly, terrible, awful, very bad movie and show it to friends at a party.Here are my picks for your Disaster Artist Holiday Party.
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The Millennial’s Guide to Gen-X Movie References In Stranger Things 2
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The brilliant sci-fi series Stranger Things has returned to Netflix Streaming for its second season. As you watch it you might find yourself considering the cultural and generational motifs in the series...while you’re getting your pants scared off. The great thing about throwback references? Many of these classics have a home at DVD.com so you can revisit them in all their glory.
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