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Small Screens, Big Scares: 10 More Terrifying TV Movies
Now, Chad Collins compiles another list of terrifying made-for-TV movies! Did your favorite make the list? By Chad Collins
In June of last year, I highlighted my
favorite made-for-television horror movies. The response was somewhat divisive, in large part on account of the perceived snubs (sorry,
Salem’s Lot fans). It’s curious, though, because made-for-TV horror movies are, in a sense, a subgenre of their own. Shades of Aaron-Spelling’s heyday, even among those titles he did not produce, permeate almost every entry in the canon of televised scare fests. Despite the diversity– some muted and washed-out, some vibrant and lively, others adapted from seminal pieces of genre fiction– there’s something linking them all together.
Here’s a film that would have benefited from being shot in black and white. For about 2/3rds of its runtime, “The Woman in Black 2” evokes memories of the films of producer Val Lewton. There’s a deliberately slower pace and the unsettling feeling that the titular creature physically haunts every frame. The camera ominously prowls over that which it surveys, and on more than one occasion, we question whether we’ve seen something or the mere hint of something in the background. Ominous noises are a fixture on the soundtrack. Any horror depicted is a manifestation of the hero’s psychological issues, brought forth by the stressful situation in which she has found herself.