Sick of “The Exorcist?” This Halloween season, the number of new and noteworthy horror films will make your head spin. What’s especially refreshing is how many of these new stories are by women and people of color, two groups whose voices have been stifled in the horror genre for too long. Many of these movies are as funny as they are scary. ‘Possessor’In select theatersBrandon Cronenberg’s second feature is a sci-fi-horror hybrid about an assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who inhabits the bodies of other people to be incognito when she kills her targets. In his Times review, Glenn Kenny called the film “a shocking work that moves from disquieting to stressful with ruthless dispatch.”

Source: New York Times October 08, 2020 00:00 UTC