People having panic attacks talk about the sensation of the walls closing in, a feeling with which this critic is not totally unfamiliar, but lately, it’s been more like they’re alive.

If I time everything correctly, I only have to venture out beyond the confines of my clean (well, sanitary) apartment and into the viral wilds of New York once per week to replenish supplies of groceries and red wine. That means that in the best-case scenario, the body will remain in what an optimist would generously describe as a “cozy” space for one-hundred-and-sixty-ish hours at a time.

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He’s tackled horror-comedy, action-comedy, alien-comedy, and of course, most recently, heist-thriller…sorta comedy. Next, for filmmaker Edgar Wright, he’s going to tackle a genre that is devoid of comedy and is apparently, a straight-up psychological horror-thriller.

READ MORE: Guillermo Del Toro & Edgar Wright’s 2018 Top 10 Films Includes ‘Roma,’ ‘Mandy,’ ‘First Reformed’ & More

According to an interview with Empire, Wright discussed his idea for a new film, and also gives an update about the status of a potential “Baby Driver 2.” First things first, however, the filmmaker talks about his next project and his inspirations for the film.

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Before 1960, horror movies were, shall we say, a little more prudent and followed, more or less, conventional narrative structures and genre tropes that never crossed the line into the full-on taboo. The ’60s was the decade when ratings boards were put into precarious positions by rebel filmmakers and were pressured to condemn or even ban films that were being deemed by advocate groups as “morally wrong.” The decade in cinema might have not been as groundbreaking and envelope-pushing had it not started with a bang.

Continue reading The Essentials: Best Horror Movies Of The 1960s at The Playlist.

Continuing our onslaught of horror features in the name of Halloween (here’s The 15 Best Found Footage Horror Films Ever; Best Horror Films of the 1970s; Best Horror Films of the 1980s; The 25 Best Foreign Language Horror Films Ever and there’s much more to come), today we celebrate an element that often gets overlooked in genre films: the look. Through meticulous production design and foreboding cinematography, the imagery in a horror film illuminates the fear of the unknown and the psychological tremors felt by the humans (or non-humans) to a level that can make us whimper just that bit louder or feel our blood run just that bit colder.

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It’s the beginning of the spookiest month of the year, so it’s no accident that this week will see the release of one of the best horror films of the year, Babak Anvari‘s “Under the Shadow” (our review). It was well received at Sundance and throughout the year at its various festival berths, but if you haven’t heard as much about it as you did about, say, “The Babadook” or “The Witch,” there’s a simple reason: although it’s a U.K.

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“Repulsion” – Released July 28
Hitting July 28 is Roman Polanski’s classic surrealist, psychological thriller, “Repulsion,” where the director (enjoyably?) tortured a comely and then 20-year-old Catherine Deneuve in his first English-language film.

Continue reading Criterion Brings Minor Godards, Classic Polanski Horror And Marathon-Long Kobayashi Trilogy In July at The Playlist.