Synopsis:
When their mother descends into madness, siblings Gretel and Hansel must fend for themselves in the dark and unforgiving woods. Hungry and scared, they fortuitously stumble upon a bounty of food left outside an isolated home. Invited inside by the seemingly friendly owner, the children soon suspect that her generous but mysterious behaviour is part of a sinister plan to do them harm.
Gretel & Hansel is directed by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (
The Blackcoat’s Daughter) from a screenplay penned by Rob Hayes. The film stars Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, and Alice Krige.
Trivia:
The crone played by Alice Krige is never named in the movie, but the Amazon Prime feature that lists the movie’s cast identifies her as “Holda”. (
2020 was a weird year for movies: closed theaters, no Marvel movies, and the new Bond movie and
The Fast and the Furious sequel pushed to 2021.
But limitations on theater attendance not only pushed studios to experiment with their releases, but also allowed some smaller genre movies to attract attention that usually would have been taken by blockbuster franchise films. In other words, 2020 made room for some great new genre movies, and gave viewers more of an opportunity to watch them.
Here are ten of the best sci-fi and horror movies of 2020 (in no particular order), all of which you can watch right now.
Josh Millican’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2020 By Josh Millican
Candyman,
A Quiet Place 2, and
Godzilla vs Kong in 2020 but COVID-19 had other plans for us. This year saw the entertainment industry upended, with theaters, studios, and distributors scrambling to find a new way of conducting business during a pandemic. As a result, many of my most anticipated horror movies of 2020 were shelved.
It doesn’t mean that this was a bad year for horror movies 2020 was anything but. The lack of blockbusters allowed indies to shine bright, soaking-up the limelight normally reserved for major players. At this point in time, there’s no way of knowing if films like