SEEKING THRILLS
4 Horror Films To Look Out For
Who says horror is only for Halloween? If you’re looking to be scared out of your mind in your next trip to the theater, the cinematic world is serving up some thrilling choices. The next few months will offer up some of the scariest movies to be released this year, so keep these four films in your line of sight:
PET SEMATARY
Stephen King adaptations aren’t a new fad, but the most-recent remakes of classic films based on his novels are definitely trending (see It chapters one and two). The next film to get a facelift is Pet Sematary, which was first made in 1989. In case you don’t know the plot already, it’s about a family who moves to a house built on a “Pet Sematary.” Those animals then come back to life, just not in their original form.
Pet Sematary premieres April 5.
BRIGHTBURN
Brightburn has all of the right material to prosper and to reel people into its plot, but those components could also make it flop. When a child crashes to Earth, instead of saving mankind, he tries to destroy it. The film stars a distressed Elizabeth Banks as the kid’s mother. Brightburn looks like a combination of Superman, Signs and maybe even The Mothman Prophecies (the boy has glowing red eyes and wings?) — an interesting mix of films to say the least.
Brightburn hits theaters May 24.
MA
It’s hard to imagine Octavia Spencer in a horror film. In most of her roles, she has played a motherly figure, which might play into the premise of Ma. Spencer takes in a group of teenagers one night, and soon enough she allows them to party in her basement on a weekly basis. They say you shouldn’t trust strangers, but clues in the trailer hint that Ma might know the kids better than they think.
Ma premieres May 31.
MIDSOMMAR
Ari Aster shook up the horror world with his ground-breaking Hereditary, so one could say his follow up is highly anticipated. Spoiler alert: Hereditary was about a cult, and so is Midsommar. What is so unusual about this film is it appears to take place during the daylight. Can a horror film really be scary if there are no shadows for creatures to lurk in? Well, if any director could pull of this genre-bending format, it’s Aster.
Midsommar will be released this summer.
