Horror movies directed by Jim Mickle

How We Are What We Are scares: We Are What We Are moves like a slow, waterlogged nightmare, soaking in family dread and religious guilt long before anything violent happens. The horror comes from watching tradition and obligation quietly poison a household, more unsettling than jumpy, with rain and mud giving everything a heavy, damp, suffocating mood. When the violence does arrive, it's blunt and grim rather than flashy, and it lands hard. This is for people who like their horror slow, sad, and dread-soaked rather than fast or fun.

How Stake Land scares: Stake Land moves like a quiet, dusty road trip through a broken country, with long stretches of tension and grief before the violence hits. The scares come less from jumps and more from the constant threat of danger around every corner, both from monstrous creatures and from desperate, cruel people. It's more sad and heavy than thrilling, with a real sense of loss hanging over everything. This one is for viewers who like their horror mixed with drama and a bleak, hopeless mood rather than pure scares.

How Mulberry Street scares: There's a gritty, grimy feeling to this one, like watching found news footage of a city falling apart rather than a polished monster movie. It spends a long stretch just living with its tenement characters before the outbreak really takes hold, so the dread builds slowly through unease and cramped, crumbling spaces rather than jump scares. Once things break loose it turns into a scrappy siege movie, with some gnarly transformation gore and creature attacks mixed into the tension. It's more of a scrappy, down-and-dirty indie horror film than a slick scare machine, and it leaves you a little unsettled about crowded cities and infection rather than truly haunted.