Hungry Hearts, Insidious: Chapter 3, The Nightmare and We Are Still Here are all out as of June 5th. It’s an embarrassment of riches.
2015 just might prove to be a special year for genre fans. It Follows broke through. Spring swooned. Backcountry gave us an unreal, likely historic cinematic bear attack. That’s not to mention all that’s to come including The Witch, The Hallow, Hellions, Felt and The Midnight Swim. We’ll likely not agree on everything (what’s the fun in that), but it’s a seriously exciting time that is often consistently characterized as not.
Case in point: This weekend. Just today, four really strong horror films hit. Hungry Hearts, Insidious: Chapter 3, The Nightmare and We Are Still Here are all striking, different pieces of genre cinema and all worth supporting. And feel free to use this space, not an article but a central reminder and forum, to come back and discuss them once you’ve watched. Let’s get into it.
Reviews, interviews, clips are linked in the gallery, below.
June 5th Movies
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June 5th Movies #1
Hungry Hearts (Dir. Saverio Costanzo)
VOD and Limited Theatrical, IFC
Adam Driver & Alba Rohrwacher star in this paranoid view of new parenthood, an escalating thriller of anxiety as the life of a child is more and more in danger.
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June 5th Movies #2
Insidious: Chapter 3 (Dir. Leigh Whannell)
Focus Features/Gramercy Pictues, Everywhere
Series writer Leigh Whannell makes an impressive directorial debut with this prequel. Imbued with a less colorful vibe, Insidious: Chapter 3 proves a slightly different take on this world. It's grim, ghastly, creepy and aggressive.
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June 5th Movies #3
The Nightmare (Dir. Rodney Ascher)
Gravitas Ventures, VOD and Limited Theatrical
This bonafide horror-doc examines the sleep paralysis phenomenon and then proceeds to re-enact sufferers' stories in terrifying form. A terrifically eerie blend of reality and horror.
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June 5th Movies #4
We Are Still Here (Dir. Ted Geoghegan)
Dark Sky Films, VOD and Limited Theatrical
Fulci vibes. Dan Curtis vibes. 70s era chills. Ted Geoghegan's tale of a grieving couple and their new home is one that effectively carries the haunted, folktales tradition to a gory, fiery murderous ghost end.
