Zöe Kravitz's directorial debut is an on-your-face feminist Horror held together by a strong, fun cast and an exquisitely curated soundtrack. The most disturbing aspect of this is that it opens with a trigger warning which effectively spoils the third act. I don't think any Horror movie, no matter how sensitive the topic, should carry a warning that explicit - imagine putting that in front of 'The Exorcist' or 'Possession'. Yet another concession came with the movie's title, changed from…
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Saltburn 2023
One of the classiest, most elegant movies ever made is Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous novel 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'. It tells the story of Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a sociopathic social climber who develops an unhealthy obsession with Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), a rich heir he's been tasked with retrieving from Venice by his father. It's hard not to think of Ripley when watching 'Saltburn', which functions as a pop culture remake with the aforementioned elegance stripped…
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When Evil Lurks 2023
With Halloween season comes the usual batch of Horror films, some more prestigious than others, some funnier or gorier, all of them with the honorable intention to frighten or, at least, to provide a novel perspective on the well known tropes of the genre. 'When Evil Lurks' does both these things and also offers a masterclass in spare but intelligent storytelling. It comes from Demián Rugna, an Argentinian director who has been perfecting a particular brand of Horror filmmaking for…
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Dream Scenario 2023
In 2006, an Italian marketing expert named Andrea Natella did a social experiment and created a website where he collected testimonies surrounding a mysterious figure that appeared in the dreams of wildly different people around the world. While the first dreams were fabricated by him, the identikit-like drawing of the man, bald and heavily eyebrowed, soon started producing stories from those who sworn to have seen him too. It took four years for Natella to admit the ploy but the…
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