Continuing my look at notable 2024 films, today I’m covering the Horror movies.
Every year I seem to have 11 titles vying for my list of top ten movies — 11 films I can’t imagine not making the cut. But one always has to drop to the ranks of the runners-up.
This year that movie is Strange Darling, writer-director JT Mollner’s devilishly clever cat-and-mouse thriller about an encounter with a serial killer.
My final horror movie post of the year sings the praises of the genre’s acting. While many low-budget scary movies are notorious for wooden performances, particularly by dim-witted teens being lined up for slaughter, others are showcases for extraordinary screen acting.
The Academy Awards have famously ignored this genre, along with comedy, for nearly 100 years. Only six actors have won Oscars for horror movies: Frederic March for 1931’s Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Ruth Gordon for 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby, Kathy Bates for 1990’s Misery, both Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster for 1991’s Silence of the Lambs, and Natalie Portman for 2010’s Black Swan.
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