Netflix: February Horror Roundup
It’s been a few months since we delivered a Netflix roundup piece, and there’s good reason for that: Genre additions have been a bit slim as of late. It’s hard to fault Netflix for dumping holiday-themed films on their streaming outlet during November and December. Those are awfully festive months so we can give Netflix a pass.
Things should have – realistically – taken a positive turn in January, but yet again, the head honchos at Netflix left us lovers of the macabre out in the rain, waiting for something to not only stream, but talk about.
Now the tides are really turning, and some awesome movies/TV shows are surfacing on Netflix once more, designed to keep freaks like you and me pleased. While some of the selections you’ll see in this roundup have been featured for a few weeks, these are all fairly new additions (or returning pictures) to Netflix, so get your day-to-day duties handled and prepare to veg out!
The Stranger (review):
A mysterious man arrives in a small American town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
Para Elisa (archives):
Para Elisa is a terrifying story based on a simple, innocent children’s game. Something that looks naive and harmless turns into the worst nightmare, into the struggle to escape a tragic and expected end, into an explicit and inevitable horror.
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (review):
40 years after Arthur Kipps’ experience at Eel Marsh house, a group of children under the care of two women, escaping from war-torn London, arrive to the house and become the next target for the ghost of Jennette Humfrye, otherwise known as The Woman in Black. With the help of a fellow soldier, the women and children must fend off the spirit of Jennette Humfrye and end her presence once and for all.
Bound to Vengeance (review):
A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.
“iZombie” (Season 1) (archives):
“iZombie” is an adaptation of the comic series by the same name. The series is a supernatural crime procedural that centers on a med student-turned-zombie named Liv who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. With each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories.
“From Dusk Till Dawn” (Season 2) (archives):
Season Two begins with our characters in their separate worlds – Santanico (Gonzalez) and Richie (Holtz) are outside Houston, living like Bonnie and Clyde; Seth and Kate (Madison Davenport) are scraping by South of the Border; and Freddie Gonzalez (Jessie Garcia) is protecting his wife and young daughter in a Houston suburb. And Carlos Madrigal (Valderrama) and Scott Fuller (Brandon Soo-Hoo) emerge from the Titty Twister, changed men. They will all come together once again – this time facing off against an even bigger threat.
Burying the Ex (review):
When Max (Yelchin) learns that his new live-in girlfriend, Evelyn (Greene), is controlling and manipulative, he is afraid to end the relationship. However, fate intervenes, and Evelyn is killed in a freak accident. A couple months have passed, and Max meets his dream girl, Olivia (Daddario). The new romance gets tricky when Evelyn comes back from the grave and insists on continuing their once relationship by all means.
The Harvest (review):
A couple who keeps their sick son in a secluded environment find their controlled lives challenged by a young girl who moves in next door.
Extraterrestrial (review):
A group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods find themselves terrorized by alien visitors.
Monsters: Dark Continent (review):
Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a proliferation of monsters in that region. The Army decide to draft in more numbers to help deal with this insurgency.
The Hollow (archives):
It’s Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it’s not something you can kill. It’s only something you can try and survive.
The Diabolical (review):
Madison, a single mother, and her children are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. She seeks help from her scientist boyfriend, Nikolai, who begins a hunt to destroy the violent spirit that paranormal experts are too frightened to take on.
Hellions (review):
A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
“The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” (archives):
Fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie Borden after her controversial acquittal of the double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.
Sharknado 3 (archives):
When Fin and April go to Florida for the summer vacation, strong winds and lots of rain come to the state, bringing with them a Sharknado. The Sharknado then goes to Washington D.C., and sharks begin falling from the sky. It’s up to Fin and April to stop the Sharknado the third time.
“Bates Motel” (Season 3) (archives):
“Bates Motel” is a contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film Psycho and gives a portrayal of how Norman Bates’ (Freddie Highmore) psyche unravels through his teenage years. Fans discover the dark, twisted backstory of Norman Bates and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), truly is.
Curve (review):
Mallory Rutledge is driving her fiancé’s truck to Denver to meet him and get married. While driving in the lonely road, she talks to her sister, Ella, and decides to take a detour to visit the Grand Canyon. Out of the blue, the truck stops and Mallory can get no service in her cell phone. However, the gentle drifter Christian Laughton offers to fix the car, and Mallory accepts. Then she offers a ride to him, and when she is driving, he says pornographic things to her. She asks him to leave, but he shows her a knife and tells her to go to a derelict motel. Mallory sees that the psychopath Christian is not wearing his seat bell and decides to throw the truck off the road in a curve. But Mallory’s leg is trapped in the overturned car, and Christian leaves her without any help, the beginning of Mallory’s worst nightmare. Will she escape from the vehicle and from the psychopath?
Pay the Ghost (review):
One year after Mike Lawford’s young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, he is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son–and in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.
Dark Was the Night (review):
Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.
Last Shift (review):
From director Anthony DiBlasi comes a Manson-inspired horror film centering around a transitioning police station. Officer Jessica Loren has been assigned to wait for a Hazmat team to pick up bio-hazardous waste from the station’s armory. But unbeknownst to Jessica, cult Leader John Michael Paymon has haunted the department ever since he and two of this followers committed suicide a year ago to date. And now, Jessica is about to find out how dangerous they can be when she’s left alone on this last shift.
Turbo Kid (review):
In a post-apocalyptic future, THE KID, a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books, must face his fears and become a reluctant hero when he meets a mysterious girl named APPLE. Despite their efforts to keep to themselves, ZEUS, the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland, plagues THE KID and APPLE. Armed with little more than blind faith and an ancient turbocharged weapon, THE KID learns of justice and friendship and embarks on an incredible journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl of his dreams.
Contracted: Phase II (archives):
Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.
The Veil (review):
Twenty-five years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow.
Visions (review):
After moving to a vineyard to start a new life with her husband, a pregnant woman begins to experience terrifying visions.
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