Biggest Horror Season 2 brings more genre love to Shudder

It’s baaaack! Afterwards makes its debut in August, The greatest of horrors is back for more clips and chats about horror’s most beloved subgenres. The first season dug into Stephen King adaptations, giant monsters, Japanese horror, horror comedies, and tropes and clichés (with an emphasis on slasher films) – leaving plenty of room for more. This time, it is animal attacks, film scoreshidden gems, space horror and killer dates.

Many of the talking heads repeat; it is quite clear The greatest of horrors filmed the two (or who knows how many) seasons back to back, and the list of interviewees also includes David Dastmalchian, Kate Siegel, Joe Hill, Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Alex Winter, Tananarive Due, and the Boulet Brothers, among others. It is a group of people who participate in the actual creation of horror films and media, with scholars, authors, critics and programmers sprinkled in.

As before, the editing is quick and the clips well-curated, with stop-motion interludes and episodic parts that break up the discussion in fun ways. An example is the dueling list of the best and worst horror movie animals in the episode “Animal Attacks”; you can guess where Who falls on that classification. Although there is some overlap between episodes –Males comes a lot, for example, there is enough to cover this The greatest of horrors it doesn’t feel repetitive or stretched too thin.

Since the first season focused on slightly more obvious categories, the second season is able to get even weirder, allowing The greatest of horrors to cross some less familiar turf. This is a bonus for the viewer who has the opportunity to learn more offbeat films, and also a bonus for the talking heads, who – especially in the episode “Hidden Gems”, which is a fun inclusion, get excited about the neglected favourites, which include many vintage and international selections, as well as cult classics.

The strongest episodes are probably “Animal Attacks”, which delves into how Males launched a wave of copycats, but also inspired a taste for movies that mixed serious-minded environmental concerns and “nature strikes” themes with, like, alligators jumping out of sewers and PCP-crazed zoo animals; and “Hidden Gems,” though that might just be my excitement at seeing accolades heaped on the relatively obscure tastes of We’re scaring Jessica to death and The Psyche. That episode in particular feels like I’m getting viewing advice from a friend who’s seen every movie, except that friend is Shudder (and indeed, many titles are available to stream here after you’ve finished). The greatest of horrors).

“Killer Dates” might be the least successful, simply because it has the darkest through the line. It flows from Carriethe nightmare of the ball Get outThe nightmare of meeting parents to the fact that they like movies Train of terror and Jennifer’s body having… connections and relationships and romantic elements existing alongside their body. It just doesn’t feel as cohesive as the other episodes, which works against it.

Along these lines, broadening his focus a bit, The greatest of horrors The second season tends to go beyond what many fans might consider strictly “horror.” There’s a lot more sci-fi included, even outside of the “Space Horror” episode, and the show makes some claims that might be controversial to some. You may be able to expand your definition of horror to include, like The greatest of horrors you’d like it, Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film After Oreabout one man’s hellish night in New York City. Or you might not, especially when there are so many “I’m horror, and proud of it” movie types left out of the conversation.

Maybe that’s why we have our fingers crossed for a third season? The second season of five episodes The greatest of horrors starts today, December 31st, on Shudder, with weekly launches from Tuesday to January 28th.

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