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False Positive is the first A24 movie I’ve seen that I thought was just straight up bad. There are others I didn’t love but could at least see the merit in. False Positive was just dumb.
I watched Hulu's new A24 film last night, False Positive, which I missed at Tribeca, being both huge fans of A24 and Justin Theroux and I am confident in saying that was one of the worst films I have ever seen. It sucks because I was looking so forward to it!
When I first saw False Positive wasn’t going to have a theatrical run, I was disappointed. Then I saw it on Hulu. I’m now mad it had any run at all, anywhere.
- 27 False Positive
- 26 Tusk
- 25 Slice
- 24 The Blackcoat’s Daughter
- 23 Life After Beth
- 22 The Hole in The Ground
- 21 Enemy
Directed By John Lee
It's rare to see A24 horror movies called flat but one of its most widely derided outings came in the form of 2021's False Positive. The movie is by no means bad or unwatchable, it's just not up to the usual standard for A24's horror. Released directly on Hulu, False Positive at first seems like it might be a modern riff on Rosemary's Baby, and while elements of that are certainly present, the real truth behind Lucy (co-writer and star Ilana Glazer's) engineered pregnancy is arguably even mor...
Directed By Kevin Smith
Written and directed by renowned filmmaker Kevin Smith,Tusk follows an American comedy podcaster as he travels to Canada for an interview. He quickly becomes the victim of a mad scientist desperately trying to recreate his walrus friend by mutilating people and stuffing them into a walrus suit made of human skin. Kevin Smith’s mind-boggling offering to the horror genre has such a mismatched tone that the comedy and horror aspects could be from two different films. The movie almost could have...
Directed By Austin Vesely
A horror comedy set in a small town where humans and supernatural beasts like ghosts, witches, and werewolves live together in semi-harmony, the A24 horror movie Slice follows a series of murders that take place at the local pizza shop as their delivery drivers are killed off one by one. The blend of comedy and horror in Slice is expertly established, delivering a silly and thoroughly enjoyable experience as Zazie Beets and Chance the Rapper try to track down the killer and bring them to just...
Directed By Osgood Perkins
A girls' boarding school closing down during winter break sees two young women left behind, while another girl leaves the hospital on her way back to the same boarding school in The Blackcoat’s Daughter. This supernatural psychological horror film is certainly an underrated pick from A24, but the twist leads to a confusing ending that kept the movie's critical acceptance to remain average. The positive reviews called the movie slow-building and atmospheric, while negative reviews said it reli...
Directed By Jeff Baena
A horror romantic comedy, Life After Beth usurps classic zombie lore when a young man whose girlfriend has just passed away discovers that his deceased lover has come back from the dead, with no memory of her death. Unfortunately, though she seems just fine at first, she soon begins to undergo a terrifying transformation. While Life After Beth has its campy, comedic moments, a lesser film dealing with the same story material might have veered too far into the ridiculous. This A24 horror movie...
Directed By Lee Cronin
The Hole in the Groundfollows a young mother, Sarah, and her son, Chris, as they move to a new town. But, when Chris goes missing in the forest one night, he returns only to start acting strangely, leading Sarah to believe he isn’t her son at all. This suspenseful Irish horror film has some great set pieces in the underground cave and serves as one of the few decent horror films about an actual mythical changeling. However, some have criticized The Hole in the Ground as a bit bland and one-no...
Directed By Denis Villeneuve
The first of A24’s horror movies, Enemy is a surrealist thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve that stars Jake Gyllenhaal as both Adam Bell and Anthony Claire. It follows a schlubby history teacher, Adam Bell, as he discovers a minor actor who looks exactly like him. An adaption of Jose Saramago’s award-winning novella The Double, Enemy is an exercise in audience manipulation, and some feel one of the more underrated movies of the 2010s. The movie evokes a palpable sense of anxiety and keeps t...
Mar 17, 2021 · 'False Positive' pairs Broad City's Ilana Glazer with A24 for a horror film that plays off the fears surrounding fertility and birth.
The title couldn’t be more apt; a false positive refers to a positive test result for pregnancy when the tester isn’t pregnant. False Positive positions itself as a pregnancy horror movie when ...
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False Positive is a 2021 American psychological horror film directed by John Lee from a screenplay he co-write with Ilana Glazer. The film stars Glazer, Justin Theroux, and Pierce Brosnan . False Positive had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 18, 2021 and was released in the United States by Hulu on June 25, 2021.
