Note: I’ve noticed that Netflix has a really shitty way of showing new movies that pop up on their instant viewing service. So I’ve decided to do a new segment that will spotlight and bring awareness to the horror movies that I find. People love this Netflix service so there’s no reason people shouldn’t know about cool films that are featured on it.

As we were running through some Top 10 lists from various websites on the latest Splattercast, one movie that popped up on a few was Surveillance, the new film by Jennifer Lynch. I just happened to notice that it is available on Netflix Instant and I checked it out last night.

I really liked it. The story centers around a couple of FBI agents that come to a small town to figure out the mystery of a bunch of deaths on a local highway. The movie interweaves stories from three different characters (a little girl, a drug addict, and a local police officer) as they replay the events that led up to some brutal murders. Bill Pullman plays this really out there authority figure. It’s a kooky performance but a memorable one. The movie is very Lynchian (as you’d expect) with weird characters that perform strange actions. The casting adds to the weird surreal quality of the film (Cheri Oteri and French Stewart?!). I was fully engaged in the weird shit this movie was throwing at me and really loved the bizarre freakshow of an ending. It’s like Jennifer Lynch took her daddy’s weirdness and streamlined it into an actual story that you could follow (well, fairly well, anyway). Good stuff all around and if I had seen it before yesterday, it definitely would have made my top 10 list.

Check it out on Netflix Instant today.

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