Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Sometime in the far future, when all the current context of our meme history is lost to future generations, this film will be venerated as a symbol of a specific, complex and niche internet culture. Or maybe just rust away in someone's Telegram video folder.
Most filmmakers making a thriller try to have their audience glued to the very edge of their seats. Nithilan Saminathan's Maharaja, however, is scary because, perhaps ironically or by design, it wants you to look away.
There are enough limbs and heads flying around on-screen to make the average viewer gag. But beyond the body horror, the true tragedy at the centre of the film is the horror of realisation.
Without revealing too much, if you can ingest the redness…
Connor McGregor and the study of how to dominate screen presence like a mindnumbingly cool unhinged nature God.