![]() Night Shyamalan) released downright nutty studio horrors. Though they didn’t quite make our list, two of the genre’s biggest names (James Wan and M. Not “weird places” like Shudder, though the horror streamer had its best year of original programming yet, but “weird places” like poking and prodding at our fears so that even the normal tropes of horror-your slashers, your werewolf flicks, your creature features-were blessed by a tinge of madness. ![]() And, maybe it’s just us, but stewing in that unprecedented stress led us to some weird places. Sure, we were still freaked out and pissed off and scared for our lives in a more tangible sense than many have ever felt, but we were also exhausted and disillusioned by this sustained heightened state. If 2020 helped capture the isolating terror and binding racial tension that permeated that year’s terrible events, the frustratingly repetitive quagmire of 2021 only made its horror films reflective of its audience’s broadening anxieties. ![]()
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