Amazon Prime Video hosts some of the best mainstream movies, like Naked Gun, The Minecraft Movie again Knives came out.
But the streamer also has many hidden gems buried in its library, and sometimes they need an extra push to get in front of the right eyes.
This March, Watch Us thinks you should dedicate a few hours of your time to streaming good, rated flicks.
Our top pick Blackcoat’s daughter, the first characteristic of Long Legs director Oz Perkins.
Read on to learn about all three of our options.
‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ (2017)
Distinguish between three timelines, Blackjacket’s Daughter tells the story of three young women: Rose (Lucy Boynton), Joan (Emma Roberts) and Kat (Kiernan Shipka). When the students at the prestigious boarding school go home for winter break, Rose is left with her classmate Kat. While Rose secretly believes she is pregnant – having lied to her parents about the days off to buy herself time – Kat begins to exhibit strange, disturbing behaviour. Meanwhile, a newly-survived psychiatric patient named Joan hitches a ride with an unsuspecting couple.
Before Oz Perkins startled the audience with long legs, proved himself a master in the art of slow-burning, atmospheric horror with Blackjacket’s Daughter. A film that feels like drifting into a waking fever dream, Blackjacket’s Daughter it’s best enjoyed with as little information as possible about the building when you first walk in – but repeated viewings become even richer as you see little details you might have missed before.
‘Pulse’ (2001)
Technical concerns become the fuel for nightmares in the best J-horror Pulse, which developed a subsequent religion in the years following its release. After the suicide of a college student is discovered, several young people living in Tokyo start hearing strange things connected to their computers. Many people are disappearing as it becomes clear that the Internet is spreading evil power. Michi’s three separate stories (Kumiko Asô), Ryosuke (Haruhiko Katô) and Harue (Koyuki) come together as they try to find the source of the evil power and stop it before it consumes the world.
Gore, carnage and excessive special effects, The Pulse instead it draws its power from a simple premise, creating an atmosphere of intense fear and dread as our characters clash with an elusive villain. The Pulse creates its own horror at the limitless evils of the World Wide Web, when movies like it The Matrix again Hackers he captured the Y2K scare. But unlike a Hollywood blockbuster, The Pulse is adjusted at an alarming rate – the simple act of looking at your computer in the dark can start to silence you.
‘The Neon Demon’ (2016)
After the mysterious death of his parents, aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles following his 16th birthday to pursue his dreams. Despite being told by the head of his new company that he has what it takes to be a star, he finds himself in the news from the older women on his team, who are jealous of Jesse’s youth and beauty. At the same time you protect the creepy boss (Keanu Reeves) of the motel where he lives, Jesse climbs the ladder. But his personality starts to change in a way he didn’t expect.
Nicolas Winding Refn does not tend to make crowd pleasers, and surprisingly, The Neon Demon it faced mixed reactions back in 2016. But the movie deserves its fans, who praise the film for its indulgence in guilty pleasures, for its dirty and sensual imagery and for its transcendent aesthetic sensibility. Finally, The Neon Demon it is a bold and amazing journey into the culture of a civilization that destroys beauty.
