Barbarian is one of several surprise horror hits this Halloween season, alongside Smile and Terrifier 2. Tess Marshall (Georgia Campbell) books an Airbnb at an old house in Detroit located in a rundown neighborhood. When she gets there, however, she finds Keith Toshko (Bill Skarsgård) already staying there. Then things go from being awkward to being weird.
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Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back. This time, he’s set his sights on the Shaw siblings. There’s Sienna (Lauren LaVera), who for Halloween this year is making this handmade and awesome-looking Valkyrie costume. There’s also her younger brother Jonathan (Elliot Fullam), a young boy with a fixation on Art for reasons that only become clear later.
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It’s All Hallows’ Eve and a violent lunatic named Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton in his film debut) has a whole garbage bag full of violent instruments with which to murder people with. And murder them he does. Two of the people he ends up setting his sights on our friends Tara Hayes (Jenna Kanell) and Dawn (Catherine Corcoran).
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism is about a best friend who undergoes an exorcism.
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Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling) is a CIA assassin whose target at the movie’s start is Dining Car (Callan Mulvey). After completing his mission with help from fellow agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas), Six acquires a MacGuffin with things about CIA official Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page) that he’s not supposed to know.
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Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a brilliant scientist with a rare blood disease. Alongside his college Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), Morbius is looking to find a cure for himself and his rich, surrogate brother Milo (Matt Smith). Eventually, Morbius starts experimenting with putting vampire bat DNA into a human, turning himself into a living vampire. A vampire that looks worse than the ones in Fright Night (1985), The Lost Boys, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, From Dusk Till Dawn, and John Carpenter’s Vampires, all of which were made more than a decade ago.
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Finney (Mason Thames) is a young child taken by the Grabber (Ethan Hawke), a child abductor who leaves black balloons behind at the scene of his crimes. The film was based on the short story of the same name by Joe Hill. You can find it in one of the author’s anthologies—20th Century Ghosts. Later retitled The Black Phone Stories to capitalize on the movie.
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After assisting several other heroes in other movies, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Stephen Strange for the first time in his own film since 2016 (god, that seems like a million years ago). He is joined by a newcomer to the Marvel Cinematic Univers (MCU), Xochitl Gomez, who holds her own against all the established Marvel stars. Gomez plays America Chavez, a girl being hunted by demons for her multiverse hopping powers. Strange can think of only one person, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), to help him save America.
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Amleth (Oscar Novak) is a young Viking prince who’s the son of King Aurvandill War-Raven (Ethan Hawke) and Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman). One day, Aurvandill and Amelth are ambushed by men working for Fjölnir (Claes Bang), Aurvandill’s brother. Amleth manages to escape, but his father is killed, and Gudrún is taken as Fjölnir’s bride. Years later, Amleth becomes Alexander Skarsgård, who sets out to avenge his father. There are no vampires (NSFW) this time around, though.
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Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy) is the daughter of local Sheriff Brent Marken (Michael Biehn) and the final girl of Cherry Falls, a slasher movie from the early 2000s. Though not by virtue of being the only virgin in the film. Most of the girls at Jody’s school seem to have never had sex, which is a massive problem when a mysterious killer targets the town’s virgins—leading the town’s teenagers to throw a massive orgy in a secret location.
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