From those using shocks to shine a light on racial injustice to others who just know sadistic clowns are scary, here are the auteurs of chills currently ripping up the rulebook
Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money
The Get Out director’s spring-loaded allegories for the perils, nuances and contradictions of Black life in the US have spawned a new cinematic vocabulary; you can judge his influence by the sheer number of imitators, the best of them nurtured by Peele himself through his Monkeypaw production company.
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An expert excavator of the most obscure pockets of the past, this director of The Witch, The Lighthouse and Nosferatu excels in finding the foreign facets of distant history and presenting them without modern-day revisionism. His unholy time machines open portals to madness, desire and transcendence.
