Celebrate Earth Day early with a special screening of THE LAST WINTER followed by a Q&A with Larry Fessenden, moderated by climate reporter Jordan Gass-Pooré.
Every streaming service has the movies they champion that they know will excite people, along with originals they place at the front of the service when you log on. Certainly, a large majority of these flicks get the deserved hype, but this also tends to bury some great titles in the bowels of their available selection. It can certainly be fun to dig a bit deeper and look for some gems, and Prime Video is no exception when it comes to great content that you won’t see unless you actively seek it out.
Here are 10 titles that get overlooked but are very much worth adding to your queue. Check out each one below. We tried to piece together a list that spans multiple genres and decades to highlight the diversity of content you can find on Prime.
#6 CRUMB CATCHER
Newlyweds Shane (Rigo Garay) and Leah (Ella Rae Peck) are constantly at odds, and their honeymoon is filled with constant arguing. Yet, their stay at a remote cabin becomes tenser when a waiter from their service, John (John Speredakos), and his wife, Rose (Lorraine Farris), show up with a deal they can’t refuse. Using blackmail against Shane, the two begin to sell the couple a new product known as the Crumb Catcher. As the night goes on, the negotiations to invest in the product turn violent.
Unwanted Company Leads To A Night of Awkwardness and Violence
To be clear, Crumb Catcher will not be a comedy for everyone. The movie thrives on awkward social interactions, lacks likable characters, and has an absurd basic premise. This admission is not to sell the film short but to prepare a potential audience. Comedy fans of Tim and Eric, Quinten Dupieux, and Richard Bates Jr. will find a wonderful mix of absurdity, awkwardness, and disturbing elements to delight them. Additionally,John Speredakos’s role as a desperate and vindictive huckster is unforgettable for those who like disturbing characters.
Honorable Mention for Scariest Feature Good Boy Director: Ben Leonberg Cast: Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Hunter Goetz, Max United States, 2024
Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeksquiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense. Shot entirely from Indy’s perspective, Ben Leonberg’s first feature balances bark with bite.
How quaint when politics came down to honor vs greed.
I don’t have the bandwidth to edit the next logical sequence of this video that would feature a billionaire with a chainsaw and a narcissist with a fake tan maybe to the tune YMCA. But you get the idea. My heart bleeds for this deranged country… So instead of worrying, we’re gonna make a monster movie. In case we aren’t posting much, that’s why! — Larry
April marks the official halfway point between the last Halloween and the next Halloween, and while horror fans have never needed an excuse to watch more horror movies, “Halfway to Halloween” has become a sort of unofficial holiday for binge-watching scary movies. And Peacock has you covered.
The NBCUniversal streaming service is packed with horror options, from all-out classics to new features to strange stuff you’ve never heard of before. There are tons of films worth checking out, but if you want the scariest of the scariest on the service right now, take a look at these 10 terrifying horror movies.
Two grieving parents move to a secluded New England farmhouse in an attempt to start over, and find spirits unwilling to move on are lurking in the home’s old foundations. That’s the setup for Ted Geoghegan’s We Are Still Here, a blisteringly powerful indie horror gem that remains one of the best releases in the genre over the last decade. Featuring great performances from Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, and others, it’s a haunting story that’ll stay in your brain for hours.
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