Must-See Horror Titles Coming To Netflix In July
As June winds to a close and with July right around the corner, Netflix has officially released [...]
The Void (2017) - Available 7/5
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to see Lucio Fulci direct a siege thriller like Assault on Precinct 13 if it was set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft, then The Void is right up your alley.
When a local police officer sees a man stumble out of the woods in front of his cruiser, he rushes the man to the only hospital nearby, which happens to have suffered a fire and is in transition to a new facility. The injured and delusional man can't give any coherent answers as to what happened to him or who he was running from, so when a group of cloaked figures begin to appear outside the hospital, the few individuals inside realize their nightmare is only beginning.
Full of wonderfully executed practical special effects, The Void pays homage to films like The Beyond and Hellbound: Hellraiser II with its ideas of alternate dimensions and a twisted reality that forces audiences to check their perceptions of the real world at the door.
Delicatessen (1991) - Available 7/1
Although not a straightforward horror film, Delicatessen is full of enough bizarre and twisted ideas to appease the most devout fans of Terry Gilliam and tales of post-apocalyptic societies.
In a rundown tenement building in France, a landlord runs a butcher shop and entices victims to apply for a job as a handyman, only to chop them up and serve them as meat to his tenants. In this world, the only true currency is food, forcing the landlord to take these desperate measures. When a new handyman takes the position and falls in love with the landlord's daughter, the two hatch an escape by working with an underground resistance of vegetarians, hoping to save the handyman from becoming a meal.
The film was such an homage to Gilliam's dark sense of humor that it was distributed in North America with the added "presented by Terry Gilliam" to promotional materials. Delicatessen might not be the scariest of horror films, but it's one of the funniest versions of a dystopia you'll see.
prevnextSpawn (1997) - Available 7/1
Before Hellboy, before Blade, the closest thing comic fans could get to seeing a horror comic brought to life was with 1997's Spawn.
When a top military soldier gets sent on a mission where his superior officer aims to have him killed, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) finds himself in Hell for all of the terrible things he's done throughout his life. When he confronts a ruler of Hell, he's offered the opportunity to go back to the world of the living, so long as he agrees to lead Hell's army when it comes time for the Armageddon. Upon returning to the living world, Simmons finds that five years have passed since his death and his fiancée has moved on, leaving him with incredible powers that he aims to use for good before the Armageddon arrives.
Far from being what anyone would call a "good" movie, Spawn is a good representation of how far we've come with comic book adaptations. With a new Hellboy on the way and with an adaptation of Justice League Dark on the horizon, it's worth paying respects to this schlocky mess to realize how good we have it now.
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