welcome to amazon primer scary movies
for beginners
you probably clicked on this video
because you're a huge fraidy cat that
can't watch a horror movie made for
children without peeing your pants
by the end of this marathon you'll walk
away with the knowledge
guts and bladder control to jump into
four new blumhouse movies coming to
amazon prime video
just in time for spooky season
is there anything on your mind troubling
thoughts
remember you just say to yourself i run
my mind it does not run me
everyone thinks you're crazy
i run my mind positive
this is scary movies for beginners on
amazon prime video
let's dip our toes in the water with
drew goddard's 2012 horror satire the
cabin in the woods
we have a winner it's the buckners
ladies and gentlemen
the nurse w cabin in the woods
follows a group of college students
taking a weekend trip out to a deserted
cabin in the forest
it quickly becomes clear that their trip
is being manipulated by a mysterious lab
of underground technicians dedicated to
killing the group
in a bizarre ritual involving classic
horror movie tropes
that's not fair i had zombies too yes
you did yes you had zombies
but this is zombie redneck torture
family see
they're entirely separate species it's
basically a meta-narrative poking fun at
the genre
this movie is really fun just for its
sheer volume of references alone
it's delightful for both horror noobs
and experts alike
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you you you you
you the cabin in the woods was
drew goddard's directorial debut
who also wrote cloverfield the
screenplay for the martian
and went on to create daredevil i give
this one
one out of five giant invisible force
fields
not really scary at all
next check out a classic dracula movie
with werner herzog's 1979 film
nosferatu the vampire we follow jonathan
harker
a real estate agent in wismar germany
with a nice house and a sweet wife
lucy everything's going fine until one
day his crazy boss sends him all the way
out to transylvania
to close a deal with an interested buyer
count dracula
played by long time herzog collaborator
klaus kinski
count dracula turns out to be kind of a
creeper and he travels all the way to
wismar so he can turn harker's wife
spread the bubonic plague and do other
normal vampire stuff
kinski's performance as dracula ranges
from creepy intimidating
to a creepy pathetic and i'm really into
it
can you imagine and during centuries
experiencing each day the same futile
things nosferatu the vampire was
directed by the og werner herzog who
started work on the film
the same day count dracula became public
domain
this guy's entire filmography slaps with
highlights such as
fitzgeraldo grizzly man bad lieutenant
port of call new orleans
as well as a minor role on the
mandalorian to name just a few
i give nosferatu the vampire two out of
five side draculas
creepy but not scary
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let's hit another classic horror
subgenre with the granddaddy of all
zombie movies
george romero's knight of the living
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night of the living dead follows a group
of strangers trying to ride out the
zombie apocalypse together
on a farm in the middle of nowhere
partially eaten by their slayers is true
no further details available at this
time what follows is the creation of
every single zombie movie trope you've
ever seen
you've got your protagonist who just
wants to get out of this alive
the naive but helpful guy the guy who is
clearly going to betray you
the person stupidly protecting their
family member that has been bitten
the iconic zombie arms bursting through
the window bit
this movie did it all it's also a pretty
timeless narrative about the breakdown
of social order in the face of a
mysterious pandemic that prevents us
from seeing one another's humanity
for me the scariest part of night of the
living dead is that the zombies in it
seemed really good with tools and trying
to use doorknobs
we're basically no better than them at
that point
night of the living dead was directed by
horror genius george romero whose
legendary career spans four decades
he followed up night of the living dead
with more horror classics like
dawn of the dead day of the dead and
martin
i give this one three out of five zombie
hands pawing at you from
a broken window
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i think you're ready for our next film
it's the 2019
pagan mind movie midsummer
oh yeah
midsummer stars florence pugh as college
student danny whose sister kills herself
and their parents at the very beginning
of the film yikes
to get over her loss danny decides to
join her anthropology major boyfriend
christian and his classmates on their
trip to a remote nordic pagan community
to observe their once every 90 years
mid-summer ritual
as it turns out pagans go really hard
and all the sunshine and psychedelic
drugs
soon give way to terror
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beyond the immediate scary stuff there's
something deeply unnerving about the way
the camera so
precisely captures all of the
unexplained rituals
it's like they're part of some larger
system that outsiders can't perceive
or comprehend until it's too late
midsummer was directed by ari astor who
has said that he considers the film
closer to a fairy tale than a horror
movie
then again this guy makes terrifying
films like hereditary for a living so i
think his standards for what's scary are
way higher than mine
i give this one 4 out of 5 florence pews
bawling her eyes out in a billowy flower
dress
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strap in for our last pick it's luca
guadagnino's 2018
amazon original suspiria three four
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a remake of dario argento's 1977
all-time classic suspiria follows dakota
johnson as young american dancer susie
who's moved to berlin to join the
all-girls dance school of her dreams
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there's just one catch the company is
run by a bunch of old german witches and
the girls keep mysteriously vanishing
rounding out the cast are mia goth and
chloe grace moretz as fellow students
and tilda swinton in three separate
roles including witchy dance instructor
miss block
the piece will be called vida earthman
open again ali
what really stands out to me about this
movie is the body horror
take a look at the way the edit and the
sound design are used to depict this
creepy psychic link between all the
people in the school
the building itself and the evil that
lurks underneath ugh
amazon suspiria was directed by luca
guaranino
one of the most prominent stylists
working in hollywood today
he's best known for his uber sensual
desire trilogy
including i am love a bigger splash and
call me by your name
his take on suspiria freaked me the
out
five out of five what you told us yeah
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