Slow-burn indie horror films are all the rage right now, thanks to the success of movies like It Follows and Hereditary. Filmmaker Natalie Erika James is throwing her hat into the ring with her debut feature Relic, and the trailer looks pretty interesting, although the pull quotes from critics seem to spoil the film somewhat. The movie follows Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) as they travel to the creaky old country house where her elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin) lives alone. Edna has mysteriously vanished, but reappears several days later just as mysteriously, covered in …

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From Donnie Darko to A Quiet Place, here are 10 slow-burn films whose endings make viewing them worthwhile.

Misery, the film based on Stephen King's novel, is a perfect slow-burn horror movie. We've got some great suggestions from the same genre.

From atmospheric tension-builders like The VVitch to classic homages like The House of the Devil, we've got the slow-burn horrors you're craving.

Blood on Her Name starts with a murder. Maybe manslaughter. Or perhaps, something in between. All we know for sure is, when this thriller starts, Leigh Tiller (Bethany Anne Lind) has a dead body to dispose of, a son to protect, and secrets to keep. And she's completely out of her league, lacking the forensic skills and, worse, moral ambivalence to get the job done clean. A lowkey thrill ride that builds steady, quiet tension, Blood on Her Name thrives when it focuses on how utterly unprepared the average human is to do dirty deeds. Over the course of …

The 1947 novelty tune “I’m My Own Grandpa” has become shorthand for Jerry Springer-style family intrigue, but I mean to evoke the exact opposite when I say that Ruth Wilson is her own grandmother in the fascinating Mrs. Wilson. The 3-part series, airing in the U.S. on PBS, is a lightly fictionalized account of a scandal within Wilson’s own family that only became known after her grandfather’s death in the mid-1960s. It was then that his wife, Alison (portrayed by Ruth Wilson) began to unexpectedly unravel her husband’s mysteries when another woman …