Top 20 Films of 2020 (#20 – 11)
Welcome, one and all, to my Movies Year in Review for 2020! I’m your host Jeremy Thomas, and today we’ll starting a look at the best and worst films of the past 12 months. Keep in mind that
this list is meant to be my personal opinion and not a definitive list. You’re free to disagree; you can even say my list is wrong but stating that an opinion is “wrong” is just silly. With that in mind, let’s get right into it!
My 2020 movies year in review is back for week two in the 411 Movie Zone! Last week, we looked at the worst films of 2020 and I’m more than happy to be done with those abominations. But with every bad, there must be some good and this week brings us to the best films of the year. 2020 obviously saw many changes to the movie industry, and that resulted in a lot of major films being pushed out to 2021. While it would be easy to think that meant 2020 was a bad year for film, it was actually remarkably good. Horror a
Says YOU: Dread Central Readers Picked the Top 10 Horror Movies of 2020! By Josh Millican
Each December/January, every horror website on the planet tells YOU what the best genre films of the year are/were–and we’re no different.
Last week, however, we took the
unprecedented move of asking YOU, our readers, to tell US what the best horror movies of 2020 were–and the masses have spoken!
Check out YOUR PICKS for the Top 10 Horror Movies of 2020 below!
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Synopsis:
After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism that infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.
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Not really easy jump scares Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The dollhouse at the beginning of The Lodge (2020) reminds you of the opening scene of Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2019). But it’s wholly coincidental: Hereditary was still in postproduction when the directors of The Lodge, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, were wrapping up. The mood and the texture are different too: Ari Aster’s blend of supernatural horror and family feud looks, and feels, a world or two away from Franz-Fiala’s more restrained drama. Like all good horror, The Lodge doesn’t slip into easy jump scares; it grabs our attention because of, and not despite, its ambiance. The first half, in particular, is a tour de force: it simply goes on unnerving us, pitting child against adult and paving the way for the second half.
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Counting down the best cinematic achievements of the calendar year.
Eliza Scanlen ponders the Australian sky from her backyard in Babyteeth.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past summer, the body that gives out the Oscars made the absurd and illogical decision that this year will end in February instead of December, so that films released two weeks after Valentine’s Day will still be eligible for the Academy Awards for this year. They probably want traditional Oscar bait pictures to be released, but most such prestige dramas have already come out, on streaming if not in theaters.
The Best Horror Films of 2020
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Heading into this year, horror fans were looking forward to celebrating a tremendous slate of new releases in some of the genre s most iconic properties. Whether it be
Spiral: From the Book of Saw or
Candyman or
A Quiet Place Part II or
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, no matter what your interests might be, 2020 was set to bring back a number of beloved franchises. The world had other plans for audiences this year, with a majority of the year s most anticipated titles delayed to sometime next year, all while audiences felt like they were living in their own personal horror movie.