Every week, we will curate a collection of titles - movies, TV, general miscellanea - for you to watch (and in some cases, read, or listen to), in a series we call Weekend Binge. The selection will be based on a theme which binds the picks - which could be extremely blunt in certain instances, or confusingly abstract in some. No rules apply, other than the end goal being getting some great entertainment to watch.
While the idea is to base the theme on the week’s major events - it could be the release of a new movie, or show - we could also use this opportunity to comment on our world in general, and turn to art to wrap our heads around some of the more difficult stories of the past seven days.
It has been a fascinating year for horror movies. Usually, each year produces a handful of breakout hits - the sort of film that plays to packed houses at genre festivals, gets scooped up by upstart studios, and is premiered at midnight screenings amid frenzied online buzz - films like Don’t Breathe (2016), or The Witch the year before that. But 2017 has been different. This has been the year of blockbuster horror - thanks mostly to the record-breaking It.
You’ll read about the fantastic Stephen King adaptation here, in our list of the best horror movies of 2017, along with a selection of smaller films - gems like Get Out (our top pick) and mother! (whose existence itself is a bit of a miracle).
So as a run up to Halloween, we’ve selected 13 outstanding horror movies from 2017, in no particular order:
Split
Split is perhaps the most Hitchcockian film M Night Shyalamalan has made: Tight, claustrophobic, and when it needs to be, completely and utterly bonkers. It’s the sort of film that can – like James McAvoy’s character – switch effortlessly between white-knuckle thrills, gory horror, and when you least expect it, grotesque, morbid humour.
It
It’s at its best – ironically, for a scary movie – not when it is tormenting its young heroes with fresh evil every 15 minutes, but when it’s laying in the fields with them. In that regard, it’s a better coming of age drama than it is a scary film - but that’s what elevates it.
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