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Eye on Horror Podcast Host Jacob Davison’s Top Ten of 2020
The year 2020 will forever be infamous to human civilization. Particularly when it comes to cinema. The pandemic reduced most movie watching experiences to small screens and drive-ins for most of the year and the effects are all-encompassing. Still, there were plenty of fine films released in one form or another and well worth watching.
With that in mind, I put together a list of my top 10 favorite movies that I got to see this year and hope you watch, too! Make sure to listen to the latest episode of EYE ON HORROR for more commentary on my tops as well as my co-host’s Jonathan Correia and James Jay Edward’s picks!
10. The Mortuary Collection
The anthology is one of the longest and most traditional forms of horror storytelling. It’s always a blast when a new one manages to charge the format with new blood, and The Mortuary Collection has blood galore! Hosted by Clancy Brown as a narrative mortician who is as entertaining as he is eerie, The Mortuary Collection digs up some fun tales of karmic comeuppance like the EC Comics inspired anthologies of old.
Streaming on Shudder and Prime Video
9. Spree
Horror is often reflective of the times, and a recurring cycle is that of diabolical character studies. Like Fade To Black, Star Time, and American Psycho, Spree follows a deranged individual as they breakdown further into madness. In this case, a psychotic rideshare driver played by Stranger Things‘ Joe Keery who’s obsessed with two things: internet fame and mass murder.
Streaming on Hulu and digital rental/purchase on Prime Video
8. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Small towns are seen as ideal Americana. Where everyone knows each other’s name, where family values are held on high, and where everything is nice and peaceful. But what happens when there’s a werewolf on the loose? This is what happens when a small skiing town comes under siege from a rash of full moon murders. Causing the rustic facade to fall apart like a cross between JAWS and Fargo as the stressed out cop in charge (Jim Cummings) starts to lose his grip. Also featuring Riki Lindhome a final and memorable performance by genre mainstay Robert Forster.
Available on Blu-Ray and Digital
7. The Invisible Man
Being able to see a movie in a packed cinema has now become memories I hold onto fondly. Of such, seeing Leigh Whannell’s intense remake of the Universal horror classic on the big screen was an experience I will never forget! The story follow Elisabeth Moss as the wife of an abusive and controlling scientist who kills himself after she leaves him. But has she truly gotten away? When weird things sabotage her life more and more, she’ll have to figure out who or what is stalking her. A masterclass in tension that caused the audience to erupt in screens and cries. Whether in a seat or on the couch, you’ll be on the edge!
Available to stream on HBOMax, on 4K/Blu-Ray/DVD, and Digital everywhere
6. What Happens Next Will Scare You
This one’s a bit of a cheat since it hasn’t officially come out yet, but having watched it on the Nightmares Film fest digital festival circuit, I had to champion it! From the makers of the reality bending found footage frights of The WNUF Halloween Special comes an update for the modern internet age of Creepypasta. Following the skeleton crew of journalists for a clickbait website as they desperately try to scrounge up some genuinely terrifying found footage to pick up clicks. But has what they found from the bowels of the web too real? An inventive take on both found footage and horror anthology, I cannot recommend this one enough for when it’s officially released.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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