Under-the-radar standouts
In a year that saw a lot of horror content flooding screens and streams, it was sometimes easy to overlook movies that were highly entertaining but got a bit lost in the shuffle. The Pope’s Exorcist was met with a shrug when it hit theaters in April, but the Russell-Crowe-as-an-irreverent-priest-fighting-demons tale found new life when it hit Netflix in August. Just as worthy of second-wind discovery status: Brandon Cronenberg’s cleverly shocking Infinity Pool; Kurtis David Harder’s similarly twist-filled Influencer; and Jennifer Reeder’s Perpetrator, a subversive coming-of-age film.
