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Hang-out, an obscure 2019 horror film, has shot to the highest of Netflix’s UK movie chart – and viewers are declaring it “terrifying”.
The film is at the moment sitting on the high of the chart, beating Netflix originals together with the animated movie Orion and the Darkish and the Kevin Hart thriller Elevate. It’s additionally beating the far starrier motion film Ambulance, with Jake Gyllenhaal, which arrived on the platform on Friday (2 February).
Hang-out’s recognition is especially stunning because it obtained an extremely restricted US cinema launch again in 2019, and didn’t play in cinemas within the UK.
Hang-out revolves round six youngsters who attend a haunted home attraction on Halloween, one which guarantees to make their nightmares a actuality. As soon as they enter, nevertheless, they uncover the promise isn’t bogus, they usually start to be stalked and murdered by a trio of masked killers.
Viewers have expressed their shock over the film’s scare quotient.
“Nicely Hang-out on Netflix is fairly terrifying isn’t it,” one individual wrote on Twitter/X.
One other consumer praised the movie, tweeting: “Presently sat watching Hang-out on Netflix, it’s giving me nervousness on the very best scale. Unlocked a brand new concern of horror homes and chainsaws.”
One different individual described the movie as a “should watch”.
However we shouldn’t be too shocked by the movie’s thrills, as Hang-out is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who additionally co-wrote the 2018 horror smash A Quiet Place. That film, starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, was one of many largest hits of 2018. It grossed $341m (£269m) on a price range of simply $17m (£13m). A sequel was launched in 2021, and a prequel is due for launch this yr.
In 2023, the pair wrote – to barely much less in style impact – the Adam Driver dinosaur film 65.
Final week, Netflix viewers heaped reward on the “underrated” Sandra Bullock comedy The Misplaced Metropolis, which arrived on the platform and immediately rose to first place on the service’s UK movie chart.
The most well-liked sequence on Netflix proper now’s the restricted sequence Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara because the real-life Colombian druglord Griselda Blanco.
