and seemingly life-drained attendant (a nod perhaps to Shaun of the Dead's walking. In the meantime, let’s look back at Netflix’s in-house thrillers and chillers and see which were downright scary and which were just scary bad.
Watch it on ROW8, Prime Video, Vudu Movie & TV Store. Shaun of the Dead, a comedy movie starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, and Lucy Davis is available to stream now.
It’s a real megamix of genres, with paranormal activity, domestic drama, a neighbourhood serial killer and a potential alternative universe all crammed into the first 45 minutes, yet somehow all the disparate strands come together cohesively to tell a story that’s as believable as it is brilliantly shot. The other scene that, for me, really makes sense of the film is where. An aimless TV salesman (Simon Pegg) and his best pal must save their friends and family from the zombies that have overrun London. The eponymous character, Shaun, and his best mate, Ed, decide to round up Shaun’s girlfriend, her mates, Shaun’s mum and stepdad, and head over to a pub called the Winchester (where Shaun and Ed. Overall Locke is a must watch movie on Netflix and its full of surprises. Helen Hunt is excellent as wealthy psychologist Jackie Harper, the wife of detective Greg (Jon Tenney) and mother to a teenage son who hates her for having an affair with a work colleague. Shaun of the Dead is a fantastic movie and if you haven’t seen it, please do so now. Directed and written by Steven Knight, Locke is a story of a construction manager Ivan Locke who faces a series of events for the biggest project of his career. The debut screenplay from actor-turned-writer Devon Graye, it features all the hallmarks of a great horror: suffocating sense of foreboding, sinister soundtrack, abrupt editing, a strong subplot, thoroughly satisfying twists and turns throughout, plus the ending you least expect. Even the camera movements are eerie in I See You, the 2018 psychological thriller about a small-town detective investigating the disappearance of a ten-year-old boy.