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9. The Conjuring (2013)
This movie has a lot of classic elements of a haunting/possession story. It’s also one of those movies that makes the best use of sound. There are sounds in this movie that give me the chills. I don’t know exactly how it’s done, but there are some definite frequencies embedded in the sounds of this movie that are designed to give you a physical response even when there is nothing visually scary at the moment. The best haunting/possession movies make great use of the house or building the story takes place, and the house in this movie is definitely used to great effect. The scenes when the mother becomes possessed are very intense. When you first see her peeking through under the sheets she looked a lot like Marilyn Manson circa “Anti-Christ SuperStar.” I kind of joked about it at the time I first saw the movie, singing “The Beautiful People” when she peeked through but it was still very intense.
Norway’s deepest fjord isn’t just unleashing a mythic monster in Kraken, but its monstrous deep sea parasites as well.
Watch our exclusive clip below, which introduces the skittering, skin-crawling aquatic menaces on the attack.
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the Kraken in select theaters and on digital June 12.
Here’s the synopsis: “A marine biologist encounters several strange occurrences while researching a fjord, including the brutal deaths of two local teenagers. At the bottom of Norway’s deepest fjord rests a mythical monster as large as a mountain, with a myriad of arms ready to crush and devour anything they can grab.”
Pål Øie (The Tunnel) directs from a script by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Jelen Rasmussen, and Natasha Arthur.
Sara Khorami (Troll 2), Mikkel Bratt Silset, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Jenny Evensen, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Jon Erik Myre, Hans Morten Hansen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, and Filip Bargee Ramberg star.
The behemoth beast from the deep is the latest kaiju-sized aquatic creature harboring a horde of bloodthirsty parasites, joining the likes of Cloverfield and Underwater. Naturally, the Kraken itself serves as the much bigger threat.
It’s also about time that the Kraken received its own feature; though Meg 2: The Trench featured a Kraken-like beast in its climax, the Kraken hasn’t been fully unleashed since Clash of the Titans.
Watch out for the Kraken in limited theaters and on VOD this Friday.