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The Best Folk Horror Films You Need To Know

October 27, 2021 12:04 pm

The first wave of films categorized under the "folk horror" niche arguably crested in the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, though movies the label applies to existed prior to this span of time, à la Finland's "Th...

The 100 Best Films Of The Decade [2010s]

The Playlist Staff

December 2, 2019 11:32 am

Features, News

Look, making a Best of Decade list is an impossibility. As the 2010s come to a close, we’ve been agonizing over this (long-delayed) list for half a year now and even had to take a break and put it away this sum...

The Best Horror Movies Of The Decade [2010s]

The Playlist Staff

October 30, 2019 1:24 pm

Features, News

The 2010s felt like a banner decade for the horror genre. It’s difficult to say that definitively as time is the only thing that can really make that distinction, but as the decade comes to a close, it feels li...

Ridley Scott Eyes Producing English-Language Remake Of ‘The Wailing’

Kevin Jagernauth

January 19, 2017 1:29 pm

News

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Given the rave reviews, multiple best-of-2016 appearances, and huge buzz, it's not a big surprise that Na Hong-Jin's "The Wailing" is being eyed for a remake. But what is surprising are the questions of how an ...

Jessica Kiang’s Top 20 Films Of 2016

Jessica Kiang

January 2, 2017 2:56 pm

Features

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I don't think I'm the only person to have wondered about the usefulness of watching, discussing and writing about film — or any art — when it feels like outside the theater, the sky is falling. Great chunks of ...

The 25 Best 2016 Films You Might Not Have Seen

Jessica Kiang

December 29, 2016 12:12 pm

Features

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There's too much TV, too many films, and there have been a few other things going on in 2016. So for sure, there are very few of us, even among the fraternity of full-time film commentators, who can say they've...

Oli Lyttelton’s Top 15 Films Of 2016

Oliver Lyttelton

December 28, 2016 11:19 am

Features

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I promised my editors that I’d ease off on the ‘2016 was awful’ intros to our year-end features. That said, fuck 2016, right in the eye. It’s been a crappy twelve months personally and politically (though happi...

The 15 Best Horror Films Of 2016

Drew Taylor and Rodrigo Perez

December 21, 2016 1:17 pm

Features

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Maybe it was just because it provided a respite from the year’s most terrifying drama, “American Horror Story: The 2016 Presidential Election,” but the past 12 months have been unusually good for the horror mov...

The 25 Best Action Sequences Of 2016

The Playlist Staff

December 16, 2016 2:24 pm

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A few weeks into our annual year-end binge of the Best and Worst of the movies in 2016, and we’ve looked at the finest trailers and posters, the best movies and TV shows, the breakthrough directors and actors, ...

The 25 Best Films Of 2016

The Playlist Staff

December 13, 2016 1:16 pm

Features

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Those of us who call it home can kind of take it for granted, but it's an honor and a pleasure to be part of a collective effort like The Playlist, and that's never made more abundantly clear than when we compi...

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