Dread Central’s Best and Worst Horror Films of 2015
Steve Barton
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Mad Max: Fury Road
No surprise here. Quite simply, one of the Greatest Motion Pictures Ever Made and a historic event in genre film, this should go at the top of everybody’s 2015 list without question.
The Revenant
Easily the best horror film of the year, an ultra-violent cinematic shock treatment that is horrifying beyond belief, morally gray and brilliant to its molecules. Oh yeah, and it has Mad Max in it, too.
Bone Tomahawk
Probably the most vile offering in old school splatterpunk horror cinema since the glory days of Lucio Fulci and also the one of the ONLY “torture porn” films I’ve ever seen where the torture actually feels less like someone telling an old bad joke I’ve heard before, but more like an inevitable and inescapable force of nature. (See also: The Revenant.)
Ex Machina
I like this one a LOT because it’s basically a high-tech remake of one of those old “castle horror” films where the wide-eyed young hero shows up at the mad scientist’s house in the dead of night, and the baddie gives him crazy eyes and invites him up to look at what’s “on the slab.” The tension is raw and organic, like a tsunami of fucked-up humanity. (See also: Bone Tomahawk.)
The Big Short
You don’t think this is a horror film? Think again. We’re all doomed. These are the harbingers of the apocalypse. Fury Road, here we come…
Honorable Mention: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There were a LOT of really bad movies out this year. I try not to point too many of them out these days, as there are other people who quite enjoy doing that and I’m kind of done with being a smarmy, windy know-it-all “internet film critic.” In other words, I try to accentuate the positive and ignore the negative. But since I’ve been ASKED TO, here is a small cross-section of the twenty or thirty films I thought were pretty awful in 2015, each summed up in as few words as possible.
Jupiter Ascending
Obtuse.
It Follows
Overrated.
Spectre
Obligatory.
Chappie
Obstreperous.
Jurassic World
Give me a fuckin’ break, guys…
