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Best Horror movies that are under the radar?

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I just keep seeing movies that are in my Netflix account. I've got "Don't Look Now" in there, and I almost watched it last night. Instead, I saw "The Deaths of Ian Stone" and "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film."

The latter was an interesting summary of how horror films have always been reflective of America's fears and insecurities. It doesn't go too in-depth, but given that it was spanning 100 years of cinema, I didn't really expect it to. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre and wants to see how horror films have evolved over the course of a century.

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I just saw a pretty good "under the radar" horror film called "The Deaths of Ian Stone." It was part of 2007's "8 Films to Die For" After Dark Horrorfest.

The film is a strange mix of Groundhog Day and Jacob's Ladder. Everyday, Ian Stone is chased and inevitably killed by demonic, shapeshifting beings that follow him from one life to the next. I don't want to get into the specifics, but if you liked Jacob's Ladder you should like this one.

It's a fairly original film, and yet I couldn't help drawing some comparisons with Jacob's Ladder. In both films, a character is chased by demon-like characters, and the line between fantasy and reality is blurred (in part due to drug use -- again, in both films). The Deaths of Ian Stone borrows much imagery and symbolism from Jacob's Ladder as well, such as trains, light and dark, operating rooms, and some "impaling" scenes. Also, remember the creepy, super-fast head shakes from Jacob's Ladder? They're in this film as well.

Don't let these comparisons dissuade you from seeing the film -- it is by no means a rip-off of Jacob's Ladder.

I looked up the writer of this film and found he also wrote They, which was made back in 2002. There are some similarities between those two as well -- namely the use of fear and some of those same head-shaking techniques.

Two thumbs up.

I saw this and enjoyed it as well

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