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Five Modern Monochrome Horror Movies to Stream This Week

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This Tuesday, December 6, brings History of the Occult to SCREAMBOX, a trippy new horror movie shot in black and white. The release comes on the heels of Netflix’s Silver Screen Horror Edition of “Cabinet of Curiosities” episode “Graveyard Rats,” further proof that monochrome horror still packs a potent punch. Black and white movies evoke vintage classics, but they can instantly set a striking tone when employed in modern genre films.

This week’s streaming picks feature modern monochromatic horror movies that instantly transport you to another time and place, instilling an ominous mood in the process.

As always, here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.


A Field in England – AMC+, Fandor, Freevee, Hulu, Roku Channel, Shudder, Tubi

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Set in 17th-century England during the Civil War, Ben Wheatley’s trippy horror movie follows a trio of deserters. They flee from battle and find themselves on a nightmarish voyage when they cross a circle of magic mushrooms. A Field in England, starring Reece Shearsmith and Kill List’s Michael Smiley, embraces folk horror imagery to illustrate the brutal clash between Catholicism and Paganism. The horror comes from the horrific acts the characters commit and inflict upon each other while under the influence. A horror movie featuring characters tripping on mushrooms gets as wild as you’d expect…. and then some.


A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Criterion Channel, Plex, Pluto TV, Tubi

Described as the first Iranian vampire western upon release, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night defies easy categorization with its arthouse style and a comic book vibe. Writer/Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature debut is a genre-bender shot in black and white. Sheila Vand stars as The Girl, a skateboarding vampire with excellent taste in music and an affinity for ridding Bad City of evil men. It’s dreamy, quiet, and beguiling, with an earworm soundtrack.


November – Kanopy

Based on Andrus Kivirähk’s best-selling novel “Rehepapp,” November is a visually stunning deep-dive into Estonian folklore in the nineteenth century. It’s in a Pagan world where the dead return to dine with the living, werewolves exist, and farmers make Faustian bargains for help in the form of Kratts. At the center of it is a poor farmer’s daughter who falls in love with a fellow villager, who, in turn, loves someone above his class. The pangs of first love would be daunting enough in this strange world, but Paganism and Christianity clash, and the threat of the plague looms near. It’s a gorgeous dark fairy tale that drops you into the deep end of its folklore.


The Eyes of My Mother – HBO Max, Kanopy

Nicolas Pesce’s feature debut blends the beautiful with the disturbing with a serial killer origin story. Francisca (Kika Magalhaes) lives in isolation with her parents, but an unspeakable tragedy leaves her irrevocably altered, shattering her and instilling unnatural curiosities. Pesce evokes sympathy for his killer, even as she commits gruesome acts of violence. Shot in black and white, The Eyes of My Mother makes for one stunning, audacious debut that sticks with you.


The Lighthouse – Kanopy, Showtime

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Thomas Howard (Robert Pattinson) and Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) are stationed on a rocky isle to man the lighthouse for a month. Their drastically different personalities cause them to clash constantly. Extreme isolation means things get weird quickly between them, escalating in a nightmarish fashion. Robert Eggers’ hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers struggling to maintain a semblance of sanity during their stint on a remote, isolated New England Isle makes for one hell of a visual journey rife with dread, farts, and mermaids. 

Horror journalist, RT Top Critic, and Critics Choice Association member. Co-Host of the Bloody Disgusting Podcast. Has appeared on PBS series' Monstrum, served on the SXSW Midnighter shorts jury, and moderated horror panels for WonderCon and SeriesFest.

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‘MaXXXine’ – Mia Goth Takes Hollywood in New Image from Ti West’s Sequel

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One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.

With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.

Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…

“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”

If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.

Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.

Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.

Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.

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