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Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.<\/a><\/p>\n Have you ever said to someone: \u201cI would kill to spend more time with you\u201d? The characters in Daniel Montgomery\u2019s gay horror comedy<\/a> say it a lot, with macabre but unexpectedly tender and very funny consequences for the living and the dead.<\/p>\n The film opens as a gay couple (Chase Williamson and Will Tranfo) check in at a secluded rental property of the title. There, a pair of ghost best friends \u2014 Jackson (Montgomery) and Taylor (Riley Rose Critchlow) \u2014 watch their new visitors eat, sleep and have sex. But the fun quickly takes a sinister turn, poignantly lifting the curtain on how Jackson and Taylor came to haunt the house and offering a reminder that trauma doesn\u2019t always leave a room when people do.<\/p>\n Montgomery, who wrote and directed this low-budget charmer, smartly balances the creepy and the nutty in a queer story that\u2019s as much about ghosts being catty as it is about loneliness in the here and agency in the afterlife. The cast is across-the-board good at conveying dark humor, especially in scenes that feel entirely improvised. There\u2019s nothing gory or truly scary here; you\u2019re more likely to cry than scream watching these big-hearted mortals and spirits maneuver their bizarre liminal world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Like many cater-waiters, Kay (Khosi Ngema) and her gay bestie Riley (Matthew Vey) are eager to have a good time on a rich guy\u2019s dime. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve hidden away one night in the mountaintop mansion of a smug billionaire, Pierce (Francis Chouler), after their party shift there ends. Riley leaves for a booty call, leaving Kay alone in the fortresslike home when Pierce, and later his girlfriend (Alex McGregor), unexpectedly return, kicking off a vicious cat-and-mouse game that the writer-director Jem Garrard lines with gruesome twists to bloody the way before a blowout finale.<\/p>\n Garrard follows up their previous Tubi original, the unfunny vampires-vs.-drag queen horror comedy \u201cSlay,\u201d<\/a> with a far more thrilling battle of wits, here between the have-a-lots and the have-nots. What could have been a heavy-handed 96-minute metaphor is instead a tight \u201cParasite\u201d-aspiring thriller that\u2019s buoyed by terrific performances from Chouler (charming and sinister) and Ngema (fearless and calculating). For fans of home invasion films, this one comes with a nifty twist: The intruders are the good guys.<\/p>\n Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The young reporter Na-young (Kim Bo-ra) is feeling pressure from the Korean newspaper where she works to \u201cwrite a provocative story with a clickbait headline,\u201d as an editor tells her. She hits gold when she starts to cover mysterious goings-on inside an old section of a train station where people have been killed and where a child has been spotted among the darkness of the tracks. As Na-young probes the station\u2019s accident-prone history, her investigation leads her into battle against supernatural curses and undead hauntings (and greedy editors).<\/p>\n Hiroshi Takahashi, who co-wrote the film and who wrote the original \u201cRingu,\u201d here throws in a roster of J-horror best hits: demonic little kids, long-held grudges and even an evil well. But what Jeong Yong-ki\u2019s film lacks in originality it makes up for overall with an effectively creepy ghost story that, in a swift 80 minutes, doubles as a cautionary tale about the perils of shoddy journalism.<\/p>\n Stream it on Netflix.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThere are old people everywhere!\u201d: That\u2019s the warning, and the political message, that drives this slick dystopian thriller from the German writer-director Andy Fetscher.<\/p>\n The film revolves around a mother (Melika Foroutan) and her kids (Bianca Nawrath and Otto Emil Koch) who head to the country for a wedding. There they meet up with the kids\u2019 grandfather (Paul Fassnacht), who lives in a decrepit, understaffed nursing home where the unsmiling, stooped-over residents look like a circle of maniacs. It\u2019s not a good time to be a German senior: The country has been rocked by a series of grisly murders inexplicably committed by older people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Although Fetscher\u2019s script takes some harebrained turns, this is a raw killer zombie movie, of sorts, that\u2019s also a cutting and universal indictment of modern eldercare. It\u2019s not that high-minded, though: There are buckets of blood and guts, an extra-fiery finale and, best of all, revenge served senior style.<\/p>\n\u2018The Ghost Station\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Old People\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever\u2019<\/h2>\n