Maeve Higgins stars as Rose, a somewhat withdrawn driving instructor who can see ghosts, but would prefer not to… until she’s enlisted by a single father (Barry Ward) to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a has-been rock star (Will Forte) who plans to sacrifice her to restart his stalled music career. Extra Ordinary, written and directed by Irish filmmakers Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, is a dead charming supernatural comedy in the vein of Ghostbusters or The Frighteners. Not every Halloween movie needs to be straight-up scary. Streaming on The Criterion Channel The Wailing is streaming on Amazon, Hoopla and Shudder. (Korean director Na Hong-Jin tried something similar 20 years later in The Wailing, if you’re looking for a double-feature of ambiguous menace.) He just structures a series of enigmatic conversations that drape the entire film in an illogical, unrelenting anxiety that makes you feel like the whole world is sliding slowly into madness. But Kurosawa refuses to release any of the story’s mounting tension with chases or jump scares. On paper, it’s another of the dozens of serial-killer procedurals made after Seven supercharged the subgenre, with Koji Yashuko and Tsuyoshi Ujiki as a police detective and psychologist trying to figure out why random strangers are committing similar murders all over Tokyo. It may have been released in 1997, but Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s unnerving thriller has been out of circulation for more than a decade, only recently returning to circulation in a new digital restoration. These are the best new horror movies to watch in 2020 (so far). We’ve had seven months to redefine our collective concept of what’s scary here’s what I think still works. So I made you a list of 10 new horror movies (including one recent re-release) worth streaming on a chilly October night – or beyond. But if we’re all staying home this year, that just gives us more time to watch scary movies. Parties are cancelled, trick-or-treating is complicated and costumes are exclusively for Instagram. Like literally everything else in 2020, Halloween is going to be different.
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