Where to stream for free: Netflix, Paramount +, YouTube, Amazon Prime But it’s also a film about methodical research, and that saves the day, blood-pressure-wise. Ever.Ī favorite of CrimeReads Editor-in-Chief Dwyer Murphy, Zodiac emphasizes the crime-solving process enough to keep the film from tetering over into horror. And not only does she have to figure out what’s going on, while she can’t see, but she also has to survive.īong Joon-ho’s masterpiece about South Korea’s first serial killer case is often considered one of the best films ever made. But several men (Alan Arkin and my mother’s favorite character actor Richard Crenna) are after the drug shipment, and wind up entering her home to search for it. (Otherwise known as the David Fincher collection.)īased on the play by Frederick Knott, this dark and extremely suspenseful film stars Audrey Hepburn as Suzy Hendrix, a recently blinded woman whose husband Sam (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) winds up bringing a doll full of heroin into their apartment. Here are some very satisfying scary crime movies that are not really horror movies, probably.
Is T he Silence of the Lambs simply too scary? Is Diabolique not scary enough? Is American Psycho too bloody? Is Don’t Look Now too supernatural? Is Monster too traumatic? Does Fatal Attraction combine horror with romantic suspense rather than crime?Īnyway, we had a few ideas. There are a lot of films that come close. (Like the readers of this website need me to direct them to Psycho anyway.) Not even a single mild-mannered-motel-owner-leading-a-murderous-double-life-as-his-dead-mother. No vengeful ghosts, no knife-wielding masked trespassers, no nightmarish visions of any kind. Just some good, old-fashioned villains whose behavior does not tip the scales towards slashers or horror tropes.
But this is a crime website, so rather than tell you about a bunch of straight-up scary movies to stream this month, I’m going to suggest a bunch of scary movies that are NOT horror movies! Yes that’s right… no supernatural hoopla here, folks. It’s October! The season of woolen garments, fun-sized candy, and scary movies. Welcome to the CrimeReads Streaming Guide, where we spotlight a very specific category of crime movies we think you should be watching right now.
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