10 Horror Movies Actors Wanted You To Hate

The perfect companion piece to Men, Andrew Semans' horror-thriller Resurrection deals with themes of male control, victimisation and manipulation in a big city, whose drama is all the more terrifying for being situated in a busy world full of people where nobody can really help.

Rebecca Hall stars as businesswoman and single mother Margaret, whose life enters a sharp downwards spiral when a man from her past, David (Tim Roth), shows up in her city, looking to reclaim the control he had over her in a previous life. He follows her, she follows him, he threatens her, she threatens him, and the bombshell is dropped that not only did he do kill her baby two decades ago, but he is now positioning himself as the arbiter of its resurrection.

Teeth-grindingly tense from a few scenes in until its conclusion, Resurrection rarely lets up, framing a tale of gaslighting and insanity against primal predator/prey dynamics. Hall threw all of her weight behind the film and her performance, from getting the picture greenlit to delivering a long-shot monologue in two takes. Believing in the power of the film from the get, she wanted audiences to feel the isolation of her character, to recognise and despise the actions of Roth's abuser, and to really hate what it was doing to them, with a strong desire to see them reel and squirm.