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The strange year of 2020 has brought many disappointments, including the closing of theatres and the delay of many of the most anticipated films of the year. As a result, cinephiles and casual movie-goers alike have had to curb their expectations for upcoming movies and try to enjoy what they could from the comfort of their own home. However, this doesn’t mean that there weren’t new movies available, and many of the films that did come out were hardly a disappointment.
With the biggest wide releases postponed to 2021, there was a lot more room for directorial debuts to gain exposure and recognition through on-demand releases and streaming services. Not only that, but these emerging voices often felt like the most impressive and unique compared to the 2020 films that had established filmmakers and higher budgets. With that in mind, the following list details ten of these great directorial debuts that came out in 2020. For the purpose of this list, all the debuts will be narrative
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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.
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When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin), inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family’s decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay’s concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she’s been clashes with Sam’s unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back. As Edna’s behaviour turns increasingly volatile, both begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her…