

It’s as ambitious and outrageous a genre narrative as you might presume, with a high percentage of engaging sci-fi-freaky hijinks that continually challenge best friends who won’t let mortality or reality harsh their vibes. Nothing is ever what it seems, nor are character deaths beholden to typical Hollywood standards. Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes play slackers who can travel through dimensions and timestreams by using a drug called “Soy Sauce ” Paul Giamatti is the reporter interviewing Dave in the present day. Legendary horror director Don Coscarelli adapts David Wong’s oddball novel about missing dogs, supernatural cults, and meat monsters. I know what you’re thinking, but no spoilers. Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown.Worth it for GDT’s ever-interesting perspective on humanity and his beginning collaboration with a babyfaced Ron Perlman playing some international goomba crime goon.
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GDT directs the vampire movie of his dreams, challenging the way audiences comprehend familiar tropes in unfamiliar ways. Cronos is an alternative take on vampires that questions the imprisonment that is eternity and introduces common vampire mythology using a golden insect-shaped device. No bitten necks or missing reflections in mirrors. Guillermo del Toro’s feature debut is a vampire film barely interested in Dracula prototype vampires. Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook.This article is frequently amended to remove films no longer on HBO Max and to include more horror movies that are now available on the service. Diving deeper, let’s look at the growing horror film catalog HBO Max has to offer. Where Netflix once had one, or even both The Conjuring films available to stream, the emergence of HBO Max has stolen away titles not already locked into contracts elsewhere.

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It's an adaptation of the Alvin Schwartz books, and in his review, GameSpot's Rafael Motamayor described it as a "great gateway horror movie for kids to get terrified and then hooked for life to the genre." So here's some other great gateway horrors that both kids and adults can get scared to.Since HBO Max is the destination for Warner Brothers content, James Wan’s The Conjuring Universe alone provides a strong horror draw. The Guillermo Del Toro-produced Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark is now in theaters, and it shows that horror aimed at a younger audience is still being made. But that's not to say the best PG-13 horror movies are in any way compromised, and often linger in the mind longer than their more gory R-rated counterparts. These films often have a more fantastical quality-unsurprisingly, there aren't many PG-13 rated slasher movies-and are as much about giving the audience a good time as they are scaring them witless. Instead atmosphere, tension, and suggestion can be relied on for the frights, as well as good old-fashioned monsters. Explicit gore and brutal violence is out. Horror at PG-13 (and PG) means delivering the the genre in a different-and often equally effective-way as R. "I created the problem and I also supplied the solution," Spielberg once said in an interview. It was the outcry at the PG given to Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the summer of 1984 that led Steven Spielberg (who produced the former and directed the latter) to suggest that the MPAA adopt an intermediary rating, which they did within a few months. And conversely, before the arrival of the PG-13 in 1984, scary films like Jaws and Poltergeist were released with PG ratings. Many modern PG-13 rated horror films would've easily been rated R a couple of decades ago. Horror that can be watched by younger people has inevitably changed a lot over the years. The results are some truly memorable movies. There is something about a young person's imagination that can make horror far more potent than it would be for an adult, taking scary characters and scenes at face value in a way that older, more cynical and knowing audiences do not. Many of the classic fairy tales that we all grew up with are, at heart, blood-thirsty and pretty disturbing-and in many cases, they've been softened for modern audiences from their more frightening original visions. We might think of literature aimed at younger audiences as funny, heartwarming, moral, and safe, but horror enters the stories we read from an extremely early age and has done so for hundreds of years. There is a great tradition of scary stories for kids.
