{"id":1012997,"date":"2026-01-11T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=470015"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:12:35","slug":"netflixs-horror-thriller-dont-move-is-the-modern-equivalent-of-a-roger-corman-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/netflixs-horror-thriller-dont-move-is-the-modern-equivalent-of-a-roger-corman-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s horror-thriller Don\u2019t Move is the modern equivalent of a Roger Corman movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the first names you see on screen at the start of Don\u2019t Move<\/em>, a nifty though rather basic murder-in-the-woods thriller now streaming on Netflix, is Sam Raimi, whose production company is one of the forces behind the movie. Raimi started out directing lo-fi horror like the original Evil Dead trilogy before working his way up to huge hits like the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films<\/a> and most recently, the MCU\u2019s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/em><\/a>. But rather than using his clout to attach executive producer credits to massive blockbusters, or even arthouse passion projects, Raimi is paying tribute to his roots, doing the honest work of producing lots of low-to-mid-budget genre movies, like Fede \u00c1lvarez\u2019s Don\u2019t Breathe<\/em>, the silly Adam Driver dino vehicle 65<\/em><\/a>, or in this case, a straight-to-Netflix small-scale horror movie.<\/p>\n

This kind of small-time film project is a time-honored, important, but not much discussed area of genre moviemaking, existing somewhere between no-budget bootstrapped indies and the boutique-brand identities of the likes of Blumhouse and A24. Producers like Raimi are making simple films on the cheap with young directors and small casts, selling to studios or streamers for a profit, then rolling on to the next one. It reminds me of the work of the legendary Roger Corman<\/a>, who left no corners uncut on his way to producing literally hundreds of genre movies in a career spanning 70 years.<\/p>\n

Corman treated films as product \u2014 cheap product, at that \u2014 and made few masterpieces, but his quickie budget movies launched the careers of everyone from Martin Scorsese to James Cameron to Jack Nicholson<\/a>. The history of cinema would not be the same without him.<\/p>\n

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