I went through a lot of Hulu's "Into the Dark" movie catalog over a year or so while I had it. Basically a series of creepy movies with a whole bunch of different scenarios.
A lot of folks here would hate some of these because they're brimming with various levels of wokeness. Almost every single one of 'em has a female lead (usually a pretty hot one) and the villains are usually white men. So after a while you can tell who is gonna be who, and who is gonna turn out to be evil or untrustworthy, by a couple minutes into a movie. It gets super-predictable. Like in "School Spirit" there's a killer loose in a group of kids in detention, and you know it's gonna be the white guy before the movie even gets rolling.
Even when the white male characters get to be benevolent or the protagonist, they're shown to be deeply flawed by doing out of left-field stupid shit just to let you know you shouldn't cheer for them too much. In other words the wokeness actually gets in the way of the storytelling in a major way in a lot of these.
So why bother with these? There are some really good movies in there. "A Nasty Piece of Work", "They Come Knocking", "Tentacles", "Down", and "Wounds" are all worth seeing. Some people really enjoy "Pooka" as well. They're good October watching.
Ones to probably avoid: "Pure", "Treehouse", "Pilgrim", "School Spirit"
The best one is hands-down "A Nasty Piece of Work". I thought "Tentacles" was the 2nd-best (as a side note, this might be the only one with an actual decent strong male protagonist), with "Wounds" 3rd... the last one is easy to miss because for some reason it isn't included with the rest of the series on any lists that I've seen.
Trailers for some of the better ones:
This page has trailers for most of them:
Let's get freaked out 🔪
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