The 15 Best Horror Films Of 2016
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 Best Cinematography Of 2016
As we slowly and eagerly await the end of a year that history will squint back on forever, we can take some solace in knowing that it hasn’t been completely devoid of good things. And if you’ve been following o...
Oktay Ege Kozak’s Top 10 Films Of 2016
We compiled an aggregated Playlist Best Films Of 2015 which you can find here. However, regular contributors were also given the chance to submit personal lists.
I think we can all agree that 2016 has been a...
The 30 Best Film Scores & Soundtracks Of 2016
It’s been something of a mixed year for movies in some ways — a fairly sparse first half of the year, including the worst blockbuster season in living memory, followed by an absolutely rammed fall season that, ...
Celebrating The Films Of 2016
It's too bad that who dismissively write off 2016 as "a bad movie year" couldn't find more than a few films to treasure across the last twelve months. Sure, blockbuster movies were pretty terrible all around, b...
The 25 Best Performances In Horror Movies
It’s the witching hour, and we’re just in time to serve you our final frightening dish in our Halloween-themed horror banquet. We’ve discussed the best of the genre from the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and this cent...
The Pros & Cons Of Jump Scares
Jump scares kinda suck, don’t they? Well, it depends on who you ask. For YouTube’s Now You See It, it’s like a magic trick: it’s all about the build-up, the 30 seconds before you reveal your hand. But in most h...
The 50 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century So Far
We’ve been having a bit of a horror-fest at The Playlist this month (terrifying Halloween party costumes of choice at Playlist Towers include: Mike Pence, the ghost of the never-made second season of “Vinyl” an...
The Movies That Changed My Life: ‘Under The Shadow’ Director Babak Anvari
Horror generally doesn't get the respect it deserves at the Academy Awards, which makes it all the more remarkable that the U.K. selected Babak Anvari's "Under The Shadow" as its entry for Best Foreign Film at ...
Exploring The Horrific Depths Of ‘The Witch’
The horror genre has had something of a boom lately. In the past few years a handful of arthouse directors have managed to reinvigorate the rote and familiar genre script (though, Hollywood, like always, is lag...