With winter upon us, it's the perfect time to curl up and watch some horror films. This list features five chilling movies, including at least two with a snowy backdrop. From a sexually transmitted murderous ghost to shape-shifting monsters, these films are sure to keep you entertained (and scared) all night long.
What to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and more come in and the winter skies darken before midafternoon? It’s traditionally the time for gathering around the fire for ghost stories. Seek out our five horrors (at least two with added snow) if you’re that way inclined. If you just want comfort, then enjoy our five warm hugs.
It Follows, scored through with Freudian dread and eerie electronica, is a fiendishly clever psychological horror about a sexually transmitted murderous ghost. Yes. You did read that correctly. Monroe is pursued slowly and relentlessly by a murderous demon that can take any human form and that only she can see. Her grim fate is sealed … unless she has consenting sex with someone else, and so passes on the curse to another victim. See it before They Follow: the long-awaited sequel which will shoot this year. The Thing is an icy classic. A robust and rightly suspicious Kurt Russell is part of a doomed expedition trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica. Outside – and eventually inside – are shape-shifting monsters able to absorb and perfectly imitate any living being, including humans and, worse, the dog. One by one, the roughneck adventurers succumb. A masterclass in horror timing and uncanny special effects, The Thing teaches us that just because you’re not paranoid, it doesn’t mean the scary skinwalkers aren’t after you. Yakov (Dave Davis) is a lapsed Orthodox Jew attending a support group for people who have recently left the Hasidic community when he is offered some paid work as a “shomer”; that is, to keep vigil over the recently deceased Mr Litvak. The Alzheimer’s-stricken widow immediately warns the young man to leave the premises. He doesn’
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