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As summer winds down, Prime Video has what every horror fan needs as we pivot into the fall. While cinemas will have André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Meg 2: The Trench, Prime Video’s August slate looks to have the perfect stay-at-home offerings for the horror hound in us all. It’s not as much as month’s past, but there’s likely something here for everyone, especially Saw fans. It’s a great way to get caught up before the new entry. Here, we’ll be looking at five highlights from the month’s offerings with the full list available at the end.
Paranormal Activity 2
While the Paranormal Activity franchise would eventually jump the proverbial ghost shark, the first three entries especially are masterclasses in slow-burning tension and sensational, auditorium-rousing jump scares. As a prequel to the first, Paranormal Activity 2 ups the budget, the cast size, and the scares in a parallel timeline of the family targeted by the titular activity. While it loses the original’s haunting realism, it more than compensates with the scariest kitchen cabinets around.
Saw VI
The Saw franchise remains a point of contention for horror fans everywhere. Some love the deep lore and twisted machinations of Tobin Bell’s Jigsaw. Others (like me) think the franchise lost its way somewhere after the second. While Saw VI isn’t enough to save the series, it is the closest it’s come since the original to fully actualizing its twisted promise. Kevin Greutert’s entry has some of the best traps and moral quandaries around as insurance executive William Easton’s (Peter Outerbridge) theoretical role is literalized as he much actually choose who lives and dies. Grim, graphic, and with more to say than any of the preceding entries, Saw VI is the Saw series at its best.
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is as romantic as it is terrifying. This cannibalistic road trip isn’t what the marketing promised at all, though as an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ stirring young-adult novel, it’s as perfect as they come. With sensational performances, tender direction, and plenty of bloodshed, Bones and All will break you and put you back together again, hopefully better than you were before.
Cocaine Bear
It’s a bear with cocaine. What more could you ask for? Where Cocaine Bear supersedes its animals attack brethren is its sense of humor. Too often, high concept goof-fests like this live and die on their conceit alone. Surprisingly, Cocaine Bear is consistently funny, even without the titular mammal on-screen. Elizabeth Banks directs her cast with aplomb, and there isn’t a single weak link among the core cast. It’s uproarious, violent, and as good a time as you’re liable to have at the movies (or on Prime Video).
The Black Demon
The Black Demon, Adrian Grunberg’s toothy stab at the killer shark subgenre, didn’t work for me at all. Yet, a killer shark is hard to find, especially one with anything even remotely resembling a budget, so aquatic horror fans might find themselves pleasantly surprised. An oil executive and his family are trapped aboard a rig as a mythic, giant shark runs rampant around them. The social commentary falls flat, sure, but good or bad, a giant shark is a giant shark, and that can’t be all bad.
What do you think? What do you plan on watching this August on Prime Video? Are you going to stick to Saw, or perhaps trigger an early existential crisis by streaming Children of Men? Stealth has killer AI, so, prescience… Let me know over on Twitter @ChadisCollins, and don’t forget to check out the full list of new titles available below.
August 1
City of Men (2008)
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Saw (2004)
Saw II (2005)
Saw III (2006)
Saw IV (2007)
Saw V (2008)
Saw VI (2009)
Stealth (2005)
The Addams Family (2019)
August 8
Bones and All (2022)
August 15
Cocaine Bear (2023)
August 18
Unseen (2023)
August 22
The Black Demon (2023)
August 25
Snowpiercer (2014)
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