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En route to a staggering $30 million opening weekend and certified fresh 95% on the Tomatometer produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, even before blowing away expectations. M3GAN It was already a cult hit thanks to its hilarious WTF trailer. Viewers expecting a mere “Killer Robot” retread didn’t know what to think. M3GAN’killer debut.Currently, we can also expect a sequel to the film in 2025 (yes, it’s called M3GAN 2.0), stars Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are set to reprise their respective roles, and Akela Cooper is back to write the script.
If you’re like many moviegoers who left the theater wanting more horror movies that zigzag when you expected them to zigzag, then you have a choice. From new releases to his cult classics, here are 10 horror movies that defy expectations, make surprise left turns, and fill audiences’ heads with his WTF. oh, May have some spoilers aheadSo please tread carefully.
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This is the movie that made Japan’s Golemei star Takashi Miike known to the world. audition It’s about a lonely recent widower looking for love who devises a fake audition for a nonexistent project in order for a film producer friend to meet a new woman. One of the participants is a beautiful woman named Asami, whose widow immediately falls in love with her.What follows is red flag after red flag – why are all the contacts listed on her resume missing? It’s a movie that feels like fatal charm Also basic instinct But then….well, neither of those things. This is for those with a strong stomach.
“When I thought it was safe to book an Airbnb…” savage A lone woman lifts you up with some sort of movie about having to share a double-booked rental house with a creepy guy, and then takes you on an entirely different (and far more terrifying) journey. to go. Just when you think you’re behind the wheel, it throws something else at you. It’s full of ghastly surprises, and the better you don’t know to go inside. So let’s shut up now.
The setup is not a horror movie cliche. As a hurricane rages through the area, clueless teenagers gather for a night of debauchery in a sprawling mansion. A blackout and a corpse signal, right? Well, yes…but not in the way you’re thinking. Despite the seemingly traditional premise, body body body It quickly moved from horror to black comedy whodunnit, skewering Gen Z culture along the way. The final reveal – exactly what happened to kick off the next night of panic and terror – completely flips everything we’ve seen so far, and it’s completely pitch black and hilarious.
Another film based on traditional horror movie conventions – horny teens, creepy huts, quirky locals – cabin in the woods Set up a game board with everything you think you know and flip it off the table.As the layers begin to peel away and the story begins to unfold, it’s one of “Wait, what?” Right after “Wait, what?” moments until the final bloody finale. It works both as meta-him jokes and a kind of “horror movie mixtape” that somehow keeps finding new left turns.
It’s rare to find a movie whose twist is so dramatic and abrupt that the first and second halves feel like two completely different movies. For a while, from dusk till dawn It delivers exactly what you’d expect from a Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino co-production. Long and funny monologues on questionable topics, black-clad criminals escaping the law, and even The Big Kahuna Burger. ‘s hostage (a widower and former minister played by Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and his children played by Ernest Liu) find themselves in The Titty Twister, a cheesy striptease bar in London. middle of the desert. Then things suddenly turn violently into horror, and the club becomes a vampire-infested Alamo.
it’s really hard to talk malignant Without detracting from revealing who, what, and where the killer is, but if you’re expecting something else: “the killer was in the protagonist’s head all along”, you …Well, it’s hard to say. Surprise and right? malignant – Directed by James Wan (Insidious, magic trickand is also a producer M3GAN) – It’s about a woman who believes her violent dreams actually affect the real world. The film then reveals a truly ridiculous twist that instantly elevates the whole exercise to cult status.
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Many of the films associated with the “torture porn” subgenre have been little more than nasty excuses for being grossly misogynistic, with very little story.in the meantime martyr It certainly shares similarities with some of these movies. It’s more at its heart, revealed in shocking twist after shocking reveal, all built around a truly uncomfortable viewing. . The premise starts off easy – a woman who escaped imprisonment and torture sets out to take revenge on those she felt responsible – but the story unfolds in a way you’ve never seen before. No. It’s a rare film that’s well made and really hard to recommend. martyr It’s not fun or easy to watch, but it won’t be forgotten anytime soon, with many disturbing surprises and graphic images.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you mix one part glass onion (2022) with one copy The cook and the thief and his wife and lover (1989) Slight Furikake Tips (1985), and if Gordon Ramsay baked it all in broth when he was at his most mad, you would have some ideas menu experience. A twisty and disturbing thriller, Hoodie is a dark tale in which his snobs and the wealthy elite are served as the main course. Starring Ralph Fiennes (you don’t have to work hard to be insecure) and Anya Taylor-Joy, menu Not stingy with social commentary, but full of misdirection and unexpected hard lefts.
The very definition of “slow burn”. A conservative Danish family of father, mother and daughter befriends a more relaxed and adventurous Dutch family of father, mother and son when both families are vacationing in Italy. Months later, the Danes’ surprise invitation to come to the Dutch’s house for a long weekend ignites a tense, eerie and unsettling story.what are you good at speak no evil The point is that I’m not quite sure if the anxiety is due to cultural differences.Are Danes simply being too nervous? –or if something strange is really going on. It’s a dumbfounding and very nasty gut punch.
You can’t accuse director Tobe Hooper of being lazy.original texas chainsaw massacre It was dirty and dirty, and at times felt a little too real, like Hooper was a documentalist stumbled upon something he had never seen before. The same could have easily been followed up. Instead, Hooper captivated audiences with familiar titles and completely swiped the rug from under them. From deliberately stylized lighting and colors (like a comic book inspired look) creep show) fans were scratching their heads at this bizarre attempt at slapstick comedy, and newbies were completely confused. Hated upon its release, it has since become a WTF cult classic.
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