As 2024 got here to an in depth, I had a reasonably beefy backlog of must-see horror titles to get by means of. I like for my year-end lists to be as correct as potential, so the ultimate December stretch is at all times fairly thrilling to me. Something I didn’t have an opportunity to catch upon launch is locked right into a curated catch-up checklist. Mainly, December will get to be fairly spooky.
Final yr, titles like Crimson Rooms floored me, simply discovering their method into my Prime 10 on the ultimate second. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Girl of the Hour, didn’t fairly make the lower, although it was undoubtedly one of the vital chilling serial killer pics in current reminiscence. I even had a ton of enjoyable with Amber Alert, a direct-to-video Hayden Panettiere thriller that’s precisely what it seems like. However there’s one film that stole my coronary heart. A suggestion I’d been that means to look at that just about modified my life for the higher after I lastly received round to it. And now, lastly, you may catch it streaming on Shudder.
Per Shudder: When a noble emissary of the King of France is attacked and deserted within the distant countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, remoted manor.
It’s The Vourdalak, child. The place do I even start? How about revisiting what I wrote in regards to the movie final month? I mentioned, “The Vourdalak is electrical debut filmmaking, so gothic, so assured, so replete with the visible prowess of filmmakers like Roger Corman and Jean Rollin, it confidently, deservedly enters the canon of the Fantastique.” There’s a lot artistry on show, a lot earnest tragedy merged with genuinely hanging scares, The Vourdalak is extra than simply that bizarre French horror film it may be diminished to. It’s form of a masterpiece?
It’s no marvel The Vourdalak was one in all 2024’s best-reviewed horror motion pictures. Genuinely, the movie is that good. It’s evocative, tragic, scary, humorous, and options the perfect puppetry work this facet of Possum. Now that the movie is streaming on Shudder, everybody can lastly meet up with one in all 2024’s best-hidden gems. Take a look at what followers are saying on-line beneath:
Although it was technically launched final yr, THE VOURDALAK is the primary movie I’ve watched this yr that I’ve actually liked. It merely gave me what the others didn’t: a life dimension vampire puppet. pic.twitter.com/yxcXjw8tSx
— Bonkers Ass Cinema (@bonkersasscin) August 28, 2024
Apropos the discourse du jour, only a pleasant reminder that we received an excellent, very bizarre, and splendidly stylized vampire film earlier this yr: The Vourdalak pic.twitter.com/fhfhdfqLhG
— Daniel Gorman (@DanielGorman20) December 4, 2024
on the dialogue of nosferatu-esque vampires, i simply watched this indie french horror referred to as ‘the vourdalak’ from adrien beau. it simply got here out final yr and i would like extra individuals to look at it pic.twitter.com/hlEvzEOc0n
— padmé (@ashVSthedead) January 5, 2025
havent seen eggman’s nosferatu however final night time at 2am I watched The Vourdalak and I betcha its waaaay higher and unquestionably extra distinctive and progressive
— SavageWeekday (@MatthewRegula) January 29, 2025
What do you assume? Any plans to look at The Vourdalak now that the movie is streaming on Shudder? Please, please watch The Vourdalak or I’ll ship a Vourdalak after you. Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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