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The 8 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘First Cow,’ ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ & More

September 8, 2020 1:37 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spl...

‘Parasite’: Bong Joon Ho Reveals To The Playlist Five Films That Influenced His Masterpiece

Gregory Ellwood

October 11, 2019 9:59 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, News

"Parasite" has finally arrived in theaters (in New York and Los Angeles, at least) and has proved that the Palm d'Or bestowed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and his AMPAS member filled jury at the 2019 Cannes F...

‘Halloween’ Deleted Scene Pays Homage To The Franchise’s Connection To ‘Psycho’

Charles Barfield

November 20, 2018 12:56 pm

News

There’s nothing scarier than a shower. Seriously. If you, like me, are an avid horror movie enthusiast that watches way too much true crime content on Netflix, then you probably realize that the shower is one o...

How Horror Cinematography Taps Into Our Primal Fears

Julia Teti

November 17, 2018 9:50 am

News, Video

The best kind of horror films are the ones that haunt an audience long after leaving their seats. Horror films keep us up at night because we hear the eerie music playing over and again in our minds. But the mo...

The Essentials: Best Horror Movies Of The 1960s

The Playlist Staff

October 31, 2017 1:25 pm

Features, News

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Before 1960, horror movies were, shall we say, a little more prudent and followed, more or less, conventional narrative structures and genre tropes that never crossed the line into the full-on taboo. The '60s w...

The Essentials: The 25 Best Movies About Serial Killers

The Playlist Staff

October 30, 2017 5:05 pm

Features, News

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From movies, documentaries, novels and non-fiction books to plays and podcasts, serial killers have fascinated in pretty much every medium possible. The mind of a killer, their disturbing motivations, their oft...

The Essentials: The Best Horror Movie Franchises Ranked

Ryan Oliver and The Playlist Staff

October 30, 2017 12:55 pm

Features, News

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Horror movie fans don’t have it easy and their love of horror franchises can be like being stuck in an abusive relationship. The first installment of any horror movie, the ones crystallized into the canon as cl...

’78/52′ Trailer: ‘Psycho’ Shower Scene Gets Deconstructed

Kevin Jagernauth

August 30, 2017 10:46 am

News, Trailers

57 years have passed since Alfred Hitchcock shocked audiences with "Psycho," and while the decades since have seen plenty of iconic horror sequences, the shower scene with Janet Leigh still towers above them al...

Supercut Savors These Eye-Popping Uses Of Match Cuts

Joe Blessing

June 30, 2017 3:33 pm

News

While film can encompass elements of many other art forms – music, performance, visual composition, etc. – some techniques like the match cut are solely the province of the medium. The match cut, a juxtapositio...

The 50 Best Movie Plot Twists Of All Time

Oliver Lyttelton and Jessica Kiang

January 18, 2017 2:02 pm

Features

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M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie in theaters this week, “Split,” in which James McAvoy plays a man with 23 personalities who kidnaps three teenage girls. Shyamalan came to fame (and the billing of "the next S...

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