10 Most Anticipated Original Horror Films 2019

1. Brightburn

Us Movie 2019
Sony

Suspend all your ideas on what Superman is for a moment. That lovely bloke in the red pants with a wonderfully chiselled chin, known for repeatedly saving humanity's collective butts from evil, who embodies all that's wholesome and good in the world and has moralistically hit the peak of goodness? Scratch that and make him bad. Like, really bad. That whole super strength and flying deal seems a lot scarier now...

Brightburn imagines a what would be a Superman origin story by any other name with one key element shifted. After a boy crash lands to earth, seemingly answering a couple's wishes for a child they couldn't conceive, he grows up as part of our society slowly uncovering his alien heritage and superpower abilities. Instead of using them for good as his parents wish though, Brandon has a taste for all things sinister, unleashing a force of destruction like earth has never seen.

It's literally a Superman horror story. I don't know how much more perfectly to sell that to you than that.

 
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