Paramount Plus has some decent stuff and some newish horror. I tried a few flicks out...
Organ Trail:
Organ Trail is another in the long line of "the frontier sucked" movies, with a dose of revenge. If you liked the Nightingale, this is along those lines. A girl's family is murdered and she gets taken, which leads to a lot of murder and mayhem. This nailed down the gritty, ugly, and realistic horrors of the frontier until the very end. At the end it slipped into a lot less realism but granted us some great prosthetics and a really nice payoff on the last kill of the film.
Still, the ending kinda frustrated me and it had a strange feeling that nothing was accomplished...and I mean that for character growth, situations evolving or any of it. One character has a genuine arc and the rest felt like they all stayed in place and just moved the plot. So it was pretty good, but Nightingale would be my pick before this.
Significant Other:
This is a really cool twist on "something's changed about my lover while we're in the woods together" horrors that drop every now and then. If Organ Trail felt methodic and plodding, this one felt like it couldn't stick to any one beat for long. Once the action starts, things happen fast and the story progresses quickly. That keeps it from overstaying its welcome.
Throw in the creativity of the premise and I liked this the most of the trio I have listed.
Disquiet:
This one's the weakest link. I swear I talked about this already, but I can't find the post. It's got a mostly abandoned hospital setting with a "is this real" vibe that should be can't miss. But it fails to land the scares and kinda cheats...which is to say, characters appear and disappear...die and come back to life...they personality change when it's suited. So nothing feels coherent or earned, and none of the deaths work.
It's still not completely awful, but it is incredibly mid and I wouldn't rush to recommend it. Watch if you've got nothing else to throw on, but otherwise, you can probably feel safe passing.
. There are some WILD scenes to close, definitely the most memorable parts. But I co-sign the need for some cleaning up to the fullest! I think the writer's POV is great, she also directed and the cinematography is really strong IMO...but the editing room needed to make it fit together better, or maybe there some scenes they didn't have budget to shoot or something. There are just some gaps that if they filled in, could have made this movie a home run.
