The Netflix Horror Gem You Probably Missed Blends ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ With ‘Gossip Girl’

If there is one tried and true TV and film horror trope, it’s to be wary of the rich. Dracula didn’t live in a trailer park and cursed mummies are never buried in cardboard sarcophagi. Netflix’s underrated 2020 Dutch horror series, Ares, explores this premise in depth against the backdrop of a prestigious medical school which is home to an ultra-elite secret society that shares its name with the series title and bears all the elegant capes and trappings of Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

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