Horror films have always been extremely popular. However, in recent years, the majority of films made have been horror, making it the most popular genre on the market. In reality, industries from all over the world are experimenting with horror, combining it with other genres, and coming up with novel ideas you never thought possible.
Hollywood is notorious for producing a slew of blockbuster horror films and series, and the year 2021 has been no exception. Some of the popular releases include Candyman, Conjuring 3, Halloween Kills, and A Quiet Place 2. That is not to say that we will overlook the lesser-known jewels that have been released this year as stand-alone films that are not part of a larger series and do not include a well-known cast.
However, in such a crowded market, it might be difficult to keep track of all the films and what transpired in them. In this video, we’ll discuss fifteen such horror films that were released in 2021, with a spoiler alert: we’ll be discussing the narrative. And this list will include films ranging from human-animal hybrids to angry bar singers. Buddha’s creatures have been transformed into cryogenic clones and Vampires to a woman who is sexually attracted to automobiles (amazing, right?) The list is much longer.
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Antlers
Along with his son Aiden and an accomplice, Frank Weaver, who operates a meth factory, is assaulted by an unknown entity. Frank and his son survive but a critical condition probes Frank to ask Aiden’s older brother Lucas to keep them locked inside.
Lucas gathers roadkill, hunts small animals, and brings them back to his house. His instructor Julia is concerned because he sketches terrifying things and acts oddly. While trying to bond with him, she realizes that Lucas is being abused at home. Having undergone childhood abuse herself, courtesy an alcoholic father, she decides to help Lucas out.
Julia looks into Lucas’ life and discovers a shabby house where she hears odd noises. Meanwhile, the sheriff finds the remains of Frank’s accomplice in the woods. The truth is, Frank and Aiden were kept in that very rundown home and Lucas collected animal carcasses to feed them.
Ellen, the principal, pays a visit to the dilapidated house and enters the chamber where Frank and Aiden were confined. They kill her and a transformation causes antlers to burst out of Ellen’s body. The police find an antler along with the remains of Frank’s accomplice back in the mine as well.
Lucas’ school bully is killed by Frank, who transforms into an antlered beast. Lucas’ health deteriorates out of fear and he is taken to the hospital. Julia volunteers to let him live with her.
When Native American Warren Stokes sees Lucas’ paintings, he recognises the image as the Algonquin, a famous cannibalistic beast. The spirit jumps from person to person and can only be killed while it is being fed. Julia tells Lucas that Frank is dead but Lucas tells her how Frank will take him down to the mine.
Frank, who is now an Algonquin, gets into a fight with the sheriffs, which includes Julia’s brother Paul. After Lucas and Julia enter the mine and realize that Frank is in fact, a wendigo, they manage to kill him with a lot of effort. The spirit of the wendigo now possesses Aiden but Julia ends the curse by stabbing him to death.
However, towards the end of the film, Paul coughs up a black bile, much as Frank did when the wendigo seized him.
The film’s greatest flaw is its lack of a satisfying conclusion. Even though this has seemingly become a common route for horror movies to take, Antlers manages to keep the tension, give the resolution, and birth the tension again better than most other movies. The addition of some Native American lore makes the story richer and more dynamic.
No One Gets Out Alive
Amber is an illegal Mexican immigrant who relocates to Cleveland following the death of her mother. She takes refuge in a dilapidated boarding house run by a man called Red. Soon, she begins to experience strange things in her life, especially at home.
She sees Red’s ill brother Becker bashing his head against the door one night. She gives a co-worker her saved money to acquire a fake ID for her so that she can keep working but he takes the money and bolts. Amber asks her boss for his address but is fired.
Her cousin Beto is also unwilling to assist her, and she does not want to return to the house, so she dials Red. At her boarding house, she is forced into her room where she locks herself inside. Two Romanian women, who have moved into the house, join her.
Red and Becker are getting ready to take the three women downstairs. Becker assassinates Beto as well. Amber hears Red’s narrative. his dad was an archeologist who visited Mexico in 1963. He had brought back a stone box with himself. The box compelled Red’s parents to murder women, who were the strange ghosts that Amber had been feeling in the house. Even though Red did not intend to live the same way, the death of each woman helped better the health of Becker, his ill brother.
Amber is tethered to a stone slab, the box in front of her open, and one of the Romanian females has been beheaded. She had relocated to the United States after her mother’s death, which she had begun to reflect about. A creature emerges from the box and reads her mind: Amber had killed her mother. The creature, who is the Aztec Goddess of Paradise who requires sacrifice, Ītzpāpālōtl, accepts her sacrifice and goes back to the box.
Becker and Red are preparing the last girl for sacrifice, when Becker finds that he is no longer mending. Amber injures Red with an old weapon. Becker kills the other woman and begins to choke Amber. She also gets Red downstairs in the basement and ties him onto the stone table. The creature bites his head off.
Becker’s ankle had been shattered, but when Amber arrived, she saw that it had miraculously healed as a consequence of her sacrificing Red to the Goddess. Red also becomes one of the Ghosts in the house.
People who have moved away from their hometowns yet are struggling to make ends meet in their new places are likely to find this film frightening than it should be. Not only is the premise solid but the actors have managed to do a splendid job with their roles as well. Most importantly, the realistic horror used in the movie is what sends the shivers down the spine.
Sacrifice
After murdering her cultist husband, Mrs. Jorstad fled to America with her son Isaac. After twenty-five years, Isaac returns to Norway with his pregnant wife Emma to collect his fortune. However, Emma begins to have nightmares about a cult, her unborn child, aquatic monsters and Isaac going insane.
Renate, the local sheriff, inquires about Isaac’s legendary father’s death. Despite Isaac’s assurances that her father abandoned him, as his mother said, Renate believes his mother murdered her spouse.
Isaac and Emma visit Renate for supper and see an unusual effigy, which turns out to be a memorial to Renate’s late spouse. Isaac gets weird looks from her daughter Astrid. Renate discusses an ancient aquatic deity called The Slumbering One over dinner. She then takes them to an annual sacrament where Isaac is made to join Renate’s robed cult in the water. Following the baptism ritual for The Slumbering One, Isaac begins to behave strangely which irks Emma.
Isaac goes to the river alone, where he is approached by a naked Astrid, with whom he has a mysterious chat.
When Emma and Isaac meet with their agent to sell their childhood home, Isaac refuses to leave, which catches Emma off guard. Emma flees after knocking Isaac out during their fierce argument.
Emma seeks assistance from Renate and discovers Isaac at her home. She passed out because the water she drank had been tainted. When she wakes up, she finds herself tied to an altar surrounded by cultists. Isaac tries to stab Emma’s stomach but is taken captive by Renate’s orders instead. She reveals that Isaac was supposed to be their sacrifice but his mother had run off with him all those years ago. He is then decapitated and his body is set onto the water.
Sacrifice is a testament to the fact that Lovecraftian horror never goes out of style. The film is genre-defying, with a complex premise that keeps the spectator guessing as the truth emerges layer by layer.
Lamb
In Iceland, a mysterious, heavy-breathing monster frightens a herd of horses. Farmer Maria and her husband Ingvar learn that one of their sheep has given birth to a human-sheep hybrid.
The pair grow fond of the creature, naming it Ada in honour of Maria’s late daughter. Ada’s birth mother becomes a source of contention for the family when she hangs out at their home, wanting to contact Ada.
Ada vanishes and resurfaces next to her mother, but Maria murders her and burys her body. Petur, Ingvar’s brother, is there during the incident. Petur keeps approaching Maria sexually when she’s alone. He is also repelled by Ada because she is half-animal. Petur takes Ada on an early morning walk with the intention of shooting her as he was disgusted by the family’s attachment to the strange creature. However, he has a change of heart and grows a fondness for her.
Ada detects an unseen thing near their barn one evening while the four of them spend time together. It takes the gun and kills the household dog. Meanwhile, Ingvar goes to bed while Petur starts to make sexual advances at Maria. After being rejected by her, he reveals that he knew about Maria killing Ada’s mother and uses this information to blackmail Maria into having sex with him.
Maria goes along with it and then locks him away in the closet. To drown out the sound of his cries, she plays the piano. She later drives him to the bus station and sends him home. Ingvar wakes up and finds the two to be missing so he takes Ada to fix his broken tractor. While returning, the entity, who turns out to be a ram and man hybrid, similar to Ada, shoots Ingvar and takes Ada away with him into the wilderness.
Maria returns home to discover that the two of them have vanished, and she sets out to find them. After discovering Ingvar’s body, she becomes despondent.
Lamb’s selling point is its unique plot and odd premise. The film is also very emotional, and the actors do an excellent job of expressing those feelings to the audience. It is also minimalistic, allowing each character to have a big impact on the story.
The Night House
Following the suicide of a man called Owen, his wife Beth mulls over his frightening suicide note, which reads, “You were right. There is nothing. Nothing is after you. You’re safe now.” She experiences unusual incidents late at night and discovers their home’s strangely inverted floor plan.
She comes across a photograph of a lady and guesses she is Owen’s mistress. She gets drunk and tells her companion about how she died in an accident for four minutes and saw nothing afterward. Owen had disagreed with her claim. After his death, she was depressed and had begun to sleepwalk but a supernatural present woke her up and she saw women fleeing through the woods. She goes to the lake and finds blood on the boat where Owen had shot himself.
She also discovered her and Owen’s home, although in the opposite order. With Owen, she would see phantom ladies. Beth finds the reversed house again from where she retrieves a strange statue and begins to find out about how Owen would be seen with several women who looked like Beth. She identifies the statue as a voodoo doll and thinks that Owen was trying to trap demonic entities.
Madelyne, a woman in Owen’s images, tells Beth how he choked her after kissing her and then panicked. When Beth goes to the reverse house, she discovers the bodies of his women hidden beneath the floorboards. An invisible presence caresses Beth. She hugs it assuming it to be Owen’s spirit but the spirit shows her visions of her late husband murdering women. The entity identifies itself as ‘Nothing’, i.e the thing Beth saw after she had died. It tried to make Owen kill Beth to bring her back to nothing so he began to kill her look-alikes to trick the entity. Then, it traps Beth in a statuesque position.
Beth’s buddy Claire discovers Beth floating on the boat with a rifle the next day. Despite Nothing’s efforts, Beth decides not to commit suicide. She returns to the real world from the reversed world.
The film has a gloomy and philosophical tone to it. In the mind, we get to witness a reversed mirror reality where most of the mind-boggling occurrences occur. The addition of Rebecca Hall to this psychological horror adds the cherry on top.
Jakob’s Wife
Jakob was a priest with a dreadful marriage to his wife, Anne. Amelia, a little girl, comes to church one day and tells about her alcoholic and abusive mother. Jakob and Anne give her some moral support and all is fine until someone grabs Amelia from behind while she is going back home. She disappears.
Anne is frequently irritated by her spouse and frustrated by their lack of intimacy. As a result, Anne is overjoyed when Tom, an old flame of hers, returns to town. She tells Jakob about meeting him but her husband shows no expression.
Anne puts on her best outfit and goes to meet Tom. When they reunite at a diner, sparks ignite between them once more. Long ago, they used to have their trysts at an abandoned mill. After that date, they decide to revisit that same place. Tom kisses Anne and she goes in for it as well.
She withdraws from the scenario at the last minute because she is married to Jakob and committed to him. Then, out of nowhere, a coffin-sized crate filled with feral rats appears and devours Tom. From the rafters, a shadowy figure swoops down and engulfs Anne. This is the same figure that had captured Amelia.
Anne returns home with damaged clothes, but she begins to change. She starts wearing low-cut clothing, behaving badly, and developing a taste for blood. Her mouth is also burnt by the UV light at the dentist’s as she begins to grow two new teeth.
At the same warehouse where Anne had gone with Tom, Jakob runs into Amelia. She, too, is a vampire. He finds out about Anne’s condition and surprisingly, begins to help her with finding blood to drink and hide the bodies of the people she would kill. In fact, Anne had resorted to killing their neighbors as well.
The authorities become aware of the strange incidents and are on the verge of apprehending Jakob. Jakob later learns from the vampiric figure that he converted Anne into a vampire because he lusted after her. Jakob and Anne try to kill it and the police intervene as well, but the entity is immune to bullets. However, Jakob manages to kill it in the end and draws the symbol of a holy cross at the back of its head.
As the film comes to a climax, Anne leans in for a kiss, but in actuality, she’s baring her fangs to drain Jakob’s blood.
Jakob’s Wife is a terrific picture with a high replay value, thanks to a well-paced and interesting plot with just enough spice. Anne’s dramatic character once she transforms into a vampire adds to the film’s flavor, and the transformation in Jakob and Anne’s relationship keeps things intriguing.
Titane
Alexia is a young child who bothers her father while driving, resulting in a car accident. She has a terrible skull injury that necessitates the implantation of a titanium plate into her skull. After being discharged from the hospital, she begins to disregard her parents and grows passionate about their car.
Alexia grows up to become a motor show showgirl. A male fan aggressively kisses her one day, prompting her to kill him with a metal hairpin. She goes to take a shower when the car she modeled with enters her space and she has sex with the car. Easily one of the weirdest plots ever.
Alexia is discovered to be a serial killer, but her parents are completely unaware. She knows she is pregnant with the car’s child after she begins to ooze motor oil. She tries to use the hairpin to abort her potential Lightning McQueen of a child but fails.
Alexia burns her house on fire and disguises herself to avoid the cops. She impersonates Adrien Legrand, a long-missing youngster, and manages to pass for him, so Adrien’s father adopts Alexia as his child.
Alexia joins the fire department as an apprentice, learning from her new ‘father,’ Vincent. Because of his possessiveness, Alexia intends to flee the location. Vincent goes on to experience a cardiac arrhythmia due to his abuse of steroids.
When Vincent’s estranged wife visits Adrien, she discovers a pregnant Alexia in her female form. She prefers to keep the information hidden. Vincent finds out as well but feeds into his own delusion by calling her his son.
The firefighters, who were already skeptical of Adrien, ask Alexia to dance to the music at a fire station celebration. Vincent, frustrated, walks out as she breaks out in showgirl dancing. Alexia once again has sex and this time its a firetruck. Metrosexuality is a thing maybe.
Her body begins to deteriorate, revealing more and more metal plates beneath her skin. As she approaches the end of her pregnancy, she tells Vincent the truth, and he assists her in the delivery of her baby. The titanium side of her skull splits open to give birth and she dies. As the baby with a titanium spine is born, Vincent tells him, “I’m here”.
Titan is without a doubt the film on this list with the strangest plot. In this body horror, Agathe Rousselle also provides a brave performance, dealing with her daddy issues through a love for cars that transcends the love that people in the real world might have for their desired vehicles.
Censor
During the 1985 Video Nasty scandal, Enid Blaine worked for the British Board of Film Classification. Her censorship is really severe.
Her parents spoke about her sister Nina’s abduction one night at supper. Despite the fact that Nina is legally dead, Enid believes her sister is still alive someplace.
Meanwhile, the husband murders a mother and her children. The newspaper links this tragedy to the killings in a film Enid rated a few months ago, criticising her for approving such a film as the censor. She is approached by Doug Smart who asks her to allow horror director Fredrick North to screen his old film Don’t Go in the Church. As the movie ends, Enid notices the similarities between the movie and the disappearance of Nina.
She obtains a DVD of the director’s forbidden films and studies them, discovering that the lead actress Alice Lee resembles her sister. She grew obsessed with meeting Fredrick North in order to find her lost sister and save her. She inquires Doug about it who forces Enid to have sex with her. However, she resists and accidentally kills him.
She obtains North’s address and locates the set of the Don’t Go in the Church sequel. She kills an actor named Charles because she believes he will harm Alice Lee. Lee flees the set while Enid pleads with her to be Nina. Enid collapses in the woods.
Enid is awakened by a joyous image of her sister, and the two joyfully depart for their parents’ house. The ban on violent films, the abolition of unemployment, and the abolition of crime are all announced on the car radio. However, her dream state breaks and Enid sees that she has kidnapped Alice who begs Enid’s parents for help. Enid smiles.
Censor is a smart horror film that successfully proceeds from getting us sympathise with the protagonist to watching her go insane while attempting to reclaim her sister. The film successfully balances pain, violence, and terror to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats.
Oxygen
A woman is stuck in a cryogenic unit, and her oxygen levels are rapidly dwindling. She had no recollection of herself or why she was in cryogenics due to her memory loss. An advanced AI named MILO or the Medical Interface Liaison Officer assists her but it cannot open the cryogenic unit without an administrator code.
She is able to leave the pod and call emergency personnel by transmitting herself. According to the manufacturer, the unit she was in was destroyed three years ago. The woman then uses the AI to look for information on herself from the past. She learns that she is Elizabeth Hansen, who is a cryogenic doctor. She has a husband, Leo Ferguson, about whom she finds out on social media.
She finds his phone number on his profile and calls him, but the phone is answered by a woman. She informs the woman that she is Leo’s wife and that she needs to talk with him, but the phone is disconnected. Meanwhile, Elizabeth’s oxygen levels keep falling and she gets electrocuted while trying to open the pod.
When the cops contact her, she becomes skeptical of them. The unidentified woman contacts her again, giving her the administrator code but warning her that opening the pod will kill her. When Elizabeth uses the code to release herself, she learns that she had been asleep for 34 years. She had a secret mission, traveling to a new planet as Earth was toast and also due to a potential horrible virus which had killed her husband Leo.
She decides to correct the situation, but she is unable to do so because the data surpasses capacity. Her oxygen levels drop, prompting her to open the pod and commit suicide. She then learns that Leo and 10,000 others were in a hypersleep as well and sees how his scar was gone. From a video presented to her, she learns that she is a genetic clone of the original Elizabeth Hansen with implanted memories.
MILO starts a euthanasia process because he has no hope of surviving, but Elizabeth stops him. She reverts to a hypersleep state by diverting the processor’s function. The movie ends with Leo and Elizabeth embracing each other on a new planet.
Oxygen embarks on an exciting sci-fi horror adventure. And just when you believe the film has gone far enough off the rails, it surprises you with a completely unexpected conclusion.
Blood Red Sky
A plane is hijacked while in the air. The controller successfully lands it at an RAF facility. The man at the cockpit is considered to be the hijacker despite his injuries. Nadja, a German widow, gets ready to fly to New York with her son Elias.
Elias had leukaemia and was about to board a plane to see a top doctor. Nadja wants to assist him in his recovery. At the airport, Nadja takes medicine that makes her very uncomfortable while Elias becomes friends with a guy called Farid. Meanwhile, the co-pilot and a group of men murder three air marshals and sabotage the black box. The leader asks the passengers to stay put until a ransom is paid. Nadja is shot several times and the hijackers force Farid to make it look like a terrorist-induced suicide attack on record so that the plane is shot down.
As she regains consciousness, Nadja relives her husband’s death. She considers being attacked by a vampire who bit Nadja and turned her into one. She stole vials of vampire suppressants and burnt the house down.
After sucking the blood of a hijacker, she changes into a vampire. Before he can convert into a vampire, Nadja bites another hijacker and kills him. They realize that they are dealing with a supernatural force and use UV light to subdue her. Elias tries to save Nadja but accidentally shoots out a window. The hijackers collect samples of blood from Nadja and Eightball injects it into himself. Eightball attacks his own peers and is locked and secured in the plane by Nadja and her helpers.
Eightball is set loose by a dying passenger who, instead of being bitten, gets killed. Several passengers are turned into vampires by Eightball. Nadja uses the hijackers’ explosives to sacrifice herself and prevent vampirism from spreading. Eightball drains her blood and tries to attack Elias when Farid steers the plane towards the Sun, causing Eightball to burn down from the sunrays.
Elias saves Nadja with his own blood, but she leaves because she doesn’t want to taste his blood. Following the landing, the authorities board the plane. Nadja turns into a vampire completely after feeding on a soldier and heads towards Elias to devour him. He had a detonator in his teddy bear, which he activates to kill all the vampires, Nadja included.
There’s plenty of gore to keep a horror enthusiast happy. The film combines elements of both a vampire and a heist film. It then makes the two work well with one another.
The 8th Night
The story takes place two and a half millennia ago, when a monster ran amok. It had intended for the earth to be filled with unending sorrow. It also could not be killed and so, Buddha ripped its eyes out to stop its rampage. It had one black and one red eye. One eye was buried deep in the Far East mountains while the other went to the Far West. This was done to ensure that the monster is never resurrected after both eyes are united.
Centuries go by. A disgraced professor swears to find the monster’s eyes and reawaken the monster’s crimson eye to prove that the legend about Buddha and the monster is true. Meanwhile, Monk Ha-jung, who protects one of the two caskets, realizes that the monster’s red eye has reawakened. There’s also another monk called Park Jin-soo, who is important to the plot.
The monk informs his disciple Cheong-Seok of the red eye’s emergence. Cheong-Seok had made a two-month promise not to speak.
To stop the disaster, the red eye would possess seven people in a chain, and one of them would have to be slain while possessed. The universe would end on the eighth day after combining with the black eye. The monk Park Jin-soo becomes one of its victims as well. Monk Ha-Jung gives Cheong-Seok a black container and asks him to bring Park to him but before Cheong-Seok can do so, the monk dies.
Cheong-Seok sets out to locate Park, but the black container is taken. He begins to suspect a lovely young lady, but she vanishes. He meets Park that night, who communicates with Monk Ha-Jung spiritually. He speaks about how they have to kill a girl who will be the seventh person to be possessed.
Park and Cheong-Seok try to find the girl, but Park is attacked by detective Kim Ho-tae, who suspects him of the murders. Cheong-Seok meets a girl who is possessed and informs Park about her. Park goes to kill her against Cheong-Seok’s wishes, who wanted to save her but this girl was a different girl. The detective intervenes again and fights Park while the originally possessed girl appears and shifts the possession onto another detective. We also find out that Park’s family had been killed accidentally so out of vengeance, he had tried to kill their child, but stopped himself.
Before the eighth night, Park visits a temple, while the detective gets the true tale from an elderly woman. The lovely lady was a devil that never aged, and she adored the archaeologist. She had also given him her blood to reawaken the red eye. Park reaches the same place where Cheong-Seok was with the girl and they realize that she had stolen the black eye.
Park begins a ceremony, but is attacked by the possessed detective. The demonic entity transfers on to Cheong-Seok when he is killed. Park uses spells to fight it and realizes it is the same boy he had tried to kill. In the end, his spells work out and the demon shifts to Park’s body. This time, Cheong-Seok kills Park to prevent the catastrophe and then goes back to the desert to bury the boxes with the red eyes.
With so many possessions and key personalities, the movie can be a little confusing at times, but it’s well worth it. It has a great emotional value and a lot of unexpected twists, making it a must-see.
The Unholy
In the beginning, a woman named Mary Elnor is executed after being accused of witchcraft. Prior to her death, her spirit is confined to the body of a doll.
Gerry Fenn, a discredited journalist, investigates instances involving forbidden subjects. As suspicious behaviour is revealed in Elnor’s hometown of Boston, he travels there for business. He discovers Elnor’s doll before leaving and crushes it but it frees Mary’s spirit. He gets into an accident later as a girl named Alice runs across the road. She speaks to him and collapses. When he takes her to a church, he learns that she is deaf. He decides to stay back to investigate the story.
The next day, Alice begins to communicate, and the media lauds her remarkable deaths. When she tells Gary about it, he discovers that Alice has been communicating with an entity known as Mary, whom she believes to be Virgin Mary. Gary begins to sense how ominous the situation can get and partners with Father William Hagan. He had a book about Mary Elnor, a witch whose body was never found.
Gerry befriends physician Natalie Gates, and the two come across information unearthed by Fr. Hagan, indicating that Mary had sold her soul to Satan in exchange for power. Satan would grant her and her descendants, one of whom was Alice, the ability to do amazing acts in order to persuade others to pledge their allegiance to Satan.
Mary attempts to assassinate Gerry, but is thwarted by Messenger Delgarde’s crucifix. While Alice attempts to host a church service under the tree, Gerry and Natalie undertake a ceremony to put an end to the chaos. However, Mary appears again.
Alice encourages people to vow their allegiance to Mary, but Gerry tries to dismiss the miracles as placebo effects. Mary warns Alice that if she interrupts the ceremony, she would be silenced for the rest of her life. Alice realizes Mary’s true nature and confirms that these weren’t godly miracles.
Mary comes from a flaming tree and attempts to murder Gerry, but Alice saves him by sacrificing herself. Mary vanishes, as Alice was her only connection to the live world. Gerry begs God to save Alice and it works but she comes back deaf. The others cured by Satan’s powers return to their original state.
The film has fared far better with the general public than it did with critics. This story has a lot of promise and possibility. The religious premise and Alice’s arc draws the audience in.
Last Night in Soho
Ellie Turner is infatuated with the Swinging Sixties’ style and music and aspires to be a fashion designer. Ellie would occasionally see her designer mother’s ghost in mirrors because she had killed herself when she was a child.
She relocates to London to pursue a career in fashion and rents a bedsit from Ms. Collins. She experiences a vivid dream in which she is transported to the 1960s. A blonde woman called Sandie walks into the Cafe de Paris and asks about being a singer. She also has an affair with the charming manager called Jack.
The next day, Ellie is inspired by Sandie and creates a dress. She also discovers a love bite on the back of her neck.
Sandie auditions at a Soho nightclub in another dream, then returns to Ellie’s leased bedsit. Inspired, Ellie changes her appearance to mimic Sandie’s and gets work at a pub where a silver-haired man notices her. Later, she dreams about Sandie being pimped out by Jack to male business associates.
Ellie’s initial life begins to mimic Sandie’s, particularly when it comes to abusive males. She attends the Halloween party with John and he comes to the bedsit with her but has a vision of Jack killing Sandie. She tracks down the silver-haired man, who she considers to be the real world equivalent of Jack. Meanwhile, the police do not take her seriously.
Ellie is unable to locate any information about Sandie in the press. Ellie’s spirits begin to materialise, and she feels compelled to avenge Sandie. She confronts the silver-haired man who denies killing Sandie but dies that very day in a car accident. After the man’s name is revealed, Ellie learns that he was someone who had helped Sandie escape her life as a prostitute.
Ellie, distraught, chooses to flee London. When she tells Ms Collins about her plans to leave, she discovers that Ms Collins is actually Sandie. But, Sandie had killed Jack. She would lure the men she was pimped out to and kill them as well. She had drugged Ellie’s tea to kill her and ensure her silence.
Ms Collins stabs John as he tries to help Ellie. Sandie’s victims’ souls ask Ellie to assassinate Ms Collins. The ghost of Jack slaps her as well so she tries to kill herself after the police arrive. Ellie stops her as she understands why Ms. Collins killed the men. The house was on fire due to the woman’s cigarettes and she asks Ellie to flee with John while Sandie died in the fire.
Ellie becomes a successful designer as time passes. Her mother’s ghost congratulates her in the mirror, followed by Sandie’s, who blows her a kiss.
The film not only has a lot of horror components, but it’s also a great choice if you want a girl flick and horror at the same time. For the lead actress and, by extension, the audience, an inventive dreamscape creates an intriguing environment. The revelations might not be super unexpected but it is great to see the movie not demonize Sandie.
The Feast
For a vacation, a family from London has arrived at their opulent farmhouse in the countryside.
The patriarch, Gwyn, is a dishonest member of Parliament. He had amassed his money and fortune by auctioning off Wales’ history to the highest bidder. He also drilled the land to death for his personal profits.
Glenda is his wife, and the couple has two sons: Gweirydd, who dresses in unitards about the house, appears like a serial murderer. Guto is the other son, and he is a recovering heroin addict. He was brought to the farm so that he could get rid of his drug addiction.
Cadi, a young woman, is hired to look after the house. While Cadi cleans the rooms, Gwyn hunts outside, and a white sheet on the table gets muddy. However, she did not have any dirt on her hands. She feels emotionally drawn to a painting in the house while Gweirydd begins to get attracted to her.
Glenda’s parents owned the farm and the farmhouse. The family had completely renovated the house and sold a piece of the farm to a man named Euros.
Cadi is distressed when Gwyn brings home two dead rabbits. Her relationship with Gweirydd deepens as well. We also find out that Cadi’s clothes get dirty whenever she feels troubled. Later, Gwyn hears a weird sound that hurts his ears.
Guto approaches Cadi for drugs while Gweirydd goes missing. She brings him to the adjacent woods and assists him in locating hallucinogenic mushrooms, which may or may not be poisonous. Guto takes them anyway and Gweirydd witnesses Cadi help his brother get drugs despite trying to stay clean.
Euros, a businessman who is staying with the family, come home for supper. Glenda’s parents would never have allowed the area to be exploited, but Euros and Gwyn intend to devastate the environment by mining for profit. And Glenda supports them as well, due to her greed for money.
Mair, another woman, joins the group. Her spouse is unable to do so since he is investigating an automobile that has drowned in a nearby lake. The family tries to convince Mair to give her land for mining as well and offers to let her profit off of it and get rich. Mair turns the offer down.
Guto, on the other hand, makes medications with those mushrooms. Because the mushroom was deadly, his leg begins to rot and his bed is bloodied, so Cadi takes him outside. Later she comes back to the place to make out with Gweirydd. She makes Gweirydd chop off Guto’s infected leg and later, murders him.
Mair returns to the farmhouse and points to the painting Cadi was in, describing how an entity was sleeping in a location that should not be disturbed. The car submerged in the lake, according to Mair, belonged to Cadi, who was presumed deceased. The entity had taken over her body with the intention of killing all the people leeching off of its land.
Cadi murders Gwyn when he returns to the house, which is actually the entity’s house. Glenda realizes her family has died, and she thinks it is due to their greed. In the end, she kills off the last two greedy people, Euros, and then herself. The entity goes back to sleep.
The Feast is a fantastic horror film with a moral message. The story’s tables are reversed as the human family is shown to be the true villains, with the aggressive monster avenging its land against greedy humans. Thanksgiving in a parallel universe.
Superdeep
Anna Fedorova, a Russian scientist, has given her approval to the human vaccines that her team has developed. Dr. Maxim Zotoff, on the other hand, dies due to a lack of testing. Anna, remorseful, stops the experiments. However, she is persuaded to continue as Russian soldiers in Africa depended on the vaccines.
Anna devised an antidote, prompting the commanding officer to assign her a new assignment. Twenty personnel had vanished from Kola Superdeep, a top-secret underground research facility. Some unknown illness had been on the loose and Anna was required to retrieve the samples from the deep borehole. In return, she would get the credits and eventually head the Military’s Biological Defense Institute,
Anna arrives in Murmansk and takes a sample from a body. She discovers a strange cellular parasite and descends to the borehole’s bottom depths. She realizes the infection at this place is so lethal that it can cause humanity to go extinct due to how contagious the parasite was.
To extend the colony, it preyed on the host’s body. Anna recognized why Dr. Grigoriev, the former head of research, had kept the disease’s facts hidden. The parasites could control the nervous and muscular systems of the host as well. The parasite eventually turned into a big, gory monster.
To prevent the parasite from making its way into the outside world, Anna sealed the facility so that no one else could enter. She demolished the elevator, but the troops had to pull her off since she had been infected. Anna was subsequently taken to a research facility where she tried to threaten everyone with a grenade. The ones in Murmansk who were infected with the parasite tried to kill themselves for the sake of humanity. In the end, she pulled the grenade pin.
The film is a little sloppy at times, but the premise is frightening and intriguing. The inclusion of biological warfare adds to the realism of the situation, especially at a time when the globe has been unable to eradicate a virus that has tormented humanity.
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