{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dark Parade","title":"The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2021","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":904,"description":"\nIt has been a hell of a year, huh? Just when we thought we were out of the throes of the pandemic, they pull us back in. Political unrest, social division… sounds like a great recipe for horror movies! If art is a reflection of its time, horror movies stand as a reflection of the dark id of that time, and boy did they ever. Stories of isolation, stories of madness, stories of the evils we visit upon one another, they’re all here. And so, without further ado, let’s count down the Top 10 Horror Movies of 2021!\n\n\n\nYou can find last year’s list right here. \n\n\n\n10. Censor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnchored by a terrific central performance from Niamh Algar, Censor tells the story of a woman working on the UK’s film board in charge of determining which movies will be labeled video nasties. These movies were deemed too extreme or so lacking in artistic merit, they should be kept from the gentile eyes of proper British citizens. Not only is our heroine, Enid, charged with such a moral responsibility, but she also lives in the wake of her missing sister, lost in the woods so many years ago. When she sees a potential video nasty featuring a girl who looks suspiciously like her missing sister, Enid is sent down a rabbit hole of paranoia and murder. It’s a dense and visually lush movie that pairs its gorgeous visuals with explosions of violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. The Medium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe director of Shutter, Banjong Pisantanakun, returns to the horror genre to reclaim his title as king of Thai horror cinema. A documentary crew is following a woman from a rural village who claims to be a shaman, enabled and inhabited by a spirit who aids her in healing and blessing the people of the town. As we follow our shaman, Nim, we learn of her family discord, of a sister who denied the spirit Nim now traffics with, and of a niece named Ming who may be next in line to be inhabited by this spirit. Only Ming’s behavior suggests that something darker is at work, and perhaps only Nim can save her. Employing a found...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-zhm0FKjraBuVeZokgLSJtZO9pkm0m_5WIanN1CHXvc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xY2M5/ZDQ2NTgwODg2OWIx/OTU1OWJhYTllYTEz/YmIxMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}