Matthew Ellmore/Staff Writer
Netflix offers a wide array of content for its viewers to watch, and it can be daunting to skim through its large collection to try and find something that interests you. However, there are some documentaries, series, and movies that are available on Netflix and that stand out from the rest. Some of them may be well-known, others may not. Hopefully, you can find something that interests you.
“Apostle” (2018)
With Halloween coming up, “Apostle” will fulfill your craving for a scary movie that will make you lose sleep. The film follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) who returns home and learns that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. In order to get her back, Thomas has to travel to the island where the cult is based and invade their small community. “Apostle” gets most of it horror through its unnerving soundtrack and its frightening characters who only become more brutal as the movie progresses. With plenty of blood, mud and gore to show for itself, “Apostle” is a dirty reminder that sometimes man can be scarier than beast.
“The Haunting of Hill House” (2018)
It’s hard to do good horror, but it’s even harder to make a good horror series. “The Haunting of Hill House” follows the Crain family as they move into their new home during the summer of 1992. During their stay, they begin to experience strange events involving pain and loss, causing the family to move out. The show switches between their temporary stay at Hill House and the effects that it’s had on the family after 26 years. You may go into “The Haunting of Hill House” expecting to be scared, and believe me, you will be. The show is full of the paranormal and uses it beautifully. But something that makes it stand out from others is how it depicts the strain an event like this can have on the people involved. Horror movies focus on how characters feel during a small gap of time because they can’t show the audience a full timeline of its characters. “The Haunting of Hill House” shows its audience what happens to characters who have to deal with things like this and what it turns them into. It shows its audience how relationships are affected and how thin the line can be between real and imaginary. It’s terrifyingly tense at times while also serving as a heartbreaking character study.
“The Keepers” (2017)
“The Keepers” is a seven-episode documentary series that details the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a nun who taught at Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School. The documentary follows two of her former students as they investigate her case under the belief that there was a cover-up by authorities after Cesnik suspected a priest at the school was sexually abusing students. It also includes various accounts from other students, some of which had accusations themselves. The documentary is a startling look at how much someone of power can get away with and to what lengths groups will go to mask those abuses. Its subject matter and the implications behind that subject matter are frightening but enraging at times, forcing its audience to ask themselves, “how can anyone get away with something like this?” While some popular documentary series like “Making a Murderer” focus on the supposed perpetrator, “The Keepers” focuses on the victim at hand and makes sure no viewer will ever forget the injustices done to Cathy Cesnik.
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