Richard Ayoade got his start with the show, while Marenghi himself, Matthew Holness, drops his promising directorial debut “ Possum” next year, and in between came this gloriously nasty, darkly funny first feature from Alice Lowe, who broke out on ‘Darkplace’ before connecting with a wider crowd with Ben Wheatley’s “ Sightseers.” “Prevenge” certainly shares a sensibility with that movie in its story of a grieving, heavily pregnant woman persuaded, seemingly, by the voice of her unborn child, to take bloody revenge on the people she blames for her boyfriend’s death. It’s the cultiest of cult shows, but it feels like one day that early 00s British comedy “ Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace” will be seen as the same kind of talent factory as “The Simpsons” or “The Dana Carvey Show” were. Take a look, and let us know if we missed your own faves in the comments.Ĭlick here for our full coverage of the best of 2017, including Best Cinematography, Posters, Trailers and the 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2018 Given that the genre’s often overlooked in our end of year coverage, we try to give it a special focus in a feature that picks out our very favorite horrors of the year: below you’ll find the 15 best that we saw.
And two further original horror pics became giant smashes, one of which is all but certain to become the first horror movie to pick up a Best Picture Oscar nod, and maybe even win the damn thing, since “ Silence Of The Lambs.”īut even outside the mainstream, there was a wealth of great work, from international debuts to Netflix gems.
And, unsurprisingly, given that waking up every morning in 2017 has been like stepping into a John Carpenter nightmare, the last 12 months has seen the horror boom bigger than ever.Ī mid-budget Stephen King adaptation became the biggest-ever movie in the genre (and outgrossed most of the superhero movies and tentpole sequels while it was at it).
The horror films resurgence of the last few years has been a remarkable thing to watch: some of the most exciting new filmmakers to emerge have been working in the genre, and plenty of masters have been doing some of the best work of their careers.
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