Curlers in her hair, she went into the booth and recorded the scorching guest track for the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” making music history. Late one night in 1969, the singer Merry Clayton was awakened from her slumber by a summons to a recording studio to record with a band she didn’t really know. (Don’t get too attached to anyone.) But it’s not all blood and bluster there’s a patient, deliberate setup before the orgy of gore and mayhem, leading to a surprising outpouring of emotion at the story’s conclusion. The set pieces are energetic, the makeup effects are convincing, and the storytelling is ruthless. Who’s in the mood to escape their troubles with a story of … quarantines, a deadly infectious virus and “violent riots” in major cities? Uncomfortable parallels aside, this white-knuckle zombie-apocalypse thriller from the South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho, set onboard train hurtling toward possible safety, is a fantastic entry in the “relentless action in a confined space” subgenre (recalling “The Raid,” “Dredd” and the granddaddy of them all, “Die Hard”). Eggers doesn’t go for cheap thrills or jump scares, instead building an atmosphere of slowly accumulating dread that culminates in a furious, harrowing climax. A newborn baby disappears, seemingly right under the nose of the daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy, in a bravura breakthrough performance) as her mother mourns and her father fumes, increasingly unnerving events invade their home and their souls. In New England in the 1630s, a family finds itself expelled from its Puritan community to face the forces of evil alone in this slow-boil horror chiller from the writer and director Robert Eggers. This sweet and funny 2015 documentary explains how that neighborhood project became a lifelong obsession and how its creators accidentally captured (on beautifully ugly VHS) the limitless joy of childhood camaraderie, fandom and play. It began in 1982, when three kids were so wild about “Raiders of the Lost Ark” that they decided to pool their time, resources and ingenuity to do the impossible: remake Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster, scene by scene and shot by shot, with home video recorders and homemade props and costumes.