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'80s pop culture and a little demonic possession.

A scene from 'Lou' (Netflix) One of the unexpected pleasures of reviewing streaming content is coming across shows that aren’t marketed in a big way, yet deliver in their own way. Here are two recent drops that qualify as little gems. My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Amazon Prime) - Based on a n

Although Hong Kong cinema has often used shocks to attract audiences, proper Cantonese-language ghost films didn't start being produced until the 1980s, when the genre was combined with kung fu and comedy in hit films like Sammo Hung Kam-bo's Encounter of the Spooky Kind. As for horror, cheap copies of American movies were produced in the early 1970s to ride...

Watch Emily Watson and Paul Mescal in 'God's Creatures,' Ana Lily Amirpour’s 'Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon' and Showtime's Sinéad O'Connor documentary at home.

I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, “Mean Girls” meets “The Exorcist.” Not. “My Best Friend’s Exorcism” is a lot of coulda woulda shoulda.