Few production companies and studios have enjoyed as outsized an impact on modern horror as A24.
Heres where theyve taken us over the last 11 years…
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Not that the movie is lacking in talent.
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Slice (2018)
Austin VeselysSliceplays like the pilot of a potential television series.
Its a shame because conceptually there is a lot of appeal inSlices setup.
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Unfortunately, the actual film is paper thin.
And more damning than its Gateway to Hell is that none of this is very funny.
At only 83 minutes,Slicefeels like an eternity of waiting for a pizza that never arrives.
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False Positive (2021)
False Positiveis a movie perpetually on the verge of making an interesting choice.
The narrative is undercooked, and the third act revelation can somehow be both at once disturbing and anticlimactic.
Its an idea that shouldve been harrowing but winds up strangled in the crib.
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But as a film, it still left many of us wanting.
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The Hole in the Ground (2019)
Being a single parent is hard.
Such is the plot ofThe Hole in the Ground, A24s solid but vaguely underwhelming chiller.
A middling horror that youre more likely to describe as quite good rather than great.
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But when she unexpectedly returns from the dead things just dont quite click.
Is it because the relationship has run its course?
Or is it that shes gradually turning into a flesh hungry undead monster?
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They call it all style and no substance.
Yet we ask you, is there a better description for 80s Hollywood thanall style?
But it is still oh, so satisfying to watch Goth systematically dismantle and unman Mr. Footloose.
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These two invisible threats eat away at whats left of our civilized selves.
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Nonetheless, it achieves that metaphor through some genuinely unsettling and unforgettable imagery.
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And when perceptions blur, a truth is uncovered thats absolutely haunting.
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Enemydoesnt offer easy answers and its shocking ending is very much open to wide interpretation.
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West then turns those respites into a hell alongside his muse, Ms. Goth.
Lamb (2021)
The most disturbing thing about Valdimar JohannssonsLambis how natural it all feels.
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Suffice to say the film is a slow-burning march toward perdition told in triptych.
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As a former dancer, she will drink, smoke, and love in her final days.
An unforgettable film that singles Glass out as absolutely one to watch.
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Which makes the brutally coldblooded nihilism running throughTalk to Mes veins all the more shocking.
to possess their bodies for minutes at a time while holding the severed hand of a deceased medium.
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Those 1930s-1950s influences dont quite line up withPearls actual setting in 1919, but itfeelsright.
The choice to build an entire movie around Goths own distinct blend of peculiar charisma is also a winner.
It also evokes a cinematic vernacular that no less than Martin Scorsese was awed by.
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A cacophony of online accusations and recriminations among those who hadnt even seen the movie followed.
Its hard to think of a better (if unintended) example ofBodies Bodies Bodies devastating satire.
As much dark comedy/murder mystery whodunit as it is an actual chiller, Halina RejinsBodies Bodies Bodiesis not subtle.
It also becomes just brutal in how it handles its many shades of toxic heroines.
Attempts to tear the movie down for its undeniable self-satisfied smirk just winds up playing into its larger game.
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It leaves you rattled without a single jump scare or visual effect.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
How long have we been on this rock?
Its a simple question posed by one lighthouse keeper (or wicke) to another inRobert EggersThe Lighthouse.
But as anyone whos viewed the movie can attest, its answer is nigh unknowable.
Yet Dafoe and Pattinson never descend into caricature; they instead feast on their Sisyphean characters.
More esoteric and ambiguous thanThe Witch, some might defy categorizingThe Lighthouseas a full-throated horror.
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