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Prime Video has the perfect Halloween binge for fans of psychological survival horror, and it is quietly trending four years after its premiere. The movie follows a trauma survivor recovering from an abusive relationship, who joins a therapy group on a weekend retreat in the Rocky Mountains, only to be hunted by a terrifying, unseen presence in the wilderness.
Written and directed by Berkley Brady in her directorial debut, the sleeper hit premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2022 and then received a limited theatrical release across North America on May 19, 2023, followed by a VOD release four days later. Now, the horror film is gaining popularity on Prime Video as subscribers flock to stream ahead of Halloween, thereby contributing to it ranking among the ten most-watched titles overall this past week on the streamer. U.S. subscribers also appear to approve of the movie as it has consistently been the seventh most-watched show on Prime Video for more than five days and counting.
Aptly described as The Ritual meets The Invisible Man, Dark Nature is the Prime Video sleeper hit you need for Halloween. The Canadian film perfectly blends the isolated, monster-in-the-woods survival horror of The Ritual with the paranoia and domestic trauma of The Invisible Man. It holds a 72% critics’ rating from 18 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with some praising Brady’s direction and the strong female ensemble, featuring Hannah Emily Anderson, Helen Belay, Madison Walsh, Roseanne Supernault and Kyra Harper.
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever. - You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage. - These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired. - You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you. - You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too. - The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults. - By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party. - You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films. - The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention. - Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary. - Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds. - This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be. - Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
What Else Can You Watch on Prime Video for Halloween?
Prime Video offers a wide range of titles to choose from this Halloween, from classics to modern cult favorites, some of which found their way to the platform at the start of October. Currently trending is Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, which premiered on October 7 and will have you quickly binging through its eight captivating episodes. Also among the exciting horror titles are the 1992 supernatural film Candyman; Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest horror films of this century; the 2019 folk horror masterpiece Midsommar, starring Florence Pugh; the 2022 psychological slasher Pearl, starring Mia Goth; and the 1982 sci-fi horror cult classic The Thing.
Dark Nature streams on Prime Video. Stick with Collider for more streaming news.
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