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Observance(2015): A deeply disturbing, must-watch body horror movie

The horror genre has evolved pretty decently. Today, the genre isn't a homogeneous entity. It has become diverse and some of the very interesting experiments are happening in the genre of horror. Joseph Sim's Observance (2015) is an interesting film that shows us the immense possibilities of the horror genre. The film is about a cash-strapped private investigator accepting a job that requires him to spy on a woman and report back to the employer. The detective, Parker, occupies a seemingly run-down apartment that provides him a proper view of  his subject and starts watching her through a DSLR camera with a long-range lens attached on it. The premise reminds us about Alfred Hitchcock's voyeur thriller Rear Window . In Rear Window, the protagonist is physically unable to move due to a broken leg. In Observance, the hero seems physically alright but his mind is wounded. His son has died, his marriage is falling apart and is nearly bankrupt. Parker feels some...

Horror Movie to Watch: It Comes at Night(2017)

It Comes at Night sending chills down your spine. But, you can’t see what 'it' is. You can only watch in horror what 'it' does to the people who become the victims.  This is one of those rare movies that doesn't insist on scaring you in every sequence with a ghost or a monster jumping onto its hapless victim out of nowhere when you least expect it. Director Trey Edward Shults believes in making you watch what would happen to you when the world ends. At the beginning of the movie we see three people wearing gas masks and gloves attending to an elderly man who is heavily sick. His body is full of spores. He is Bud, the dad of Sarah. Sarah, son Travis and her husband Paul ( Joel Edgerton ) has decided to kill Bud to save the family from being infected from an unknown virus that apparently wiped out a major number of the human population. They kill him and burn the body. Paul and his family live in a house in the woods. One night a man breaks into the ...