Häxan (1922) aka Witchcraft Through the Ages. A brilliantly devious documentary that both has great fun depicting diabolic madness and never loses sight of the fact that witch trials were always idiotic, and persecuted innocents.
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The Swerve (2018) Azura Skye delivers a tragic performance for the ages as a broken woman who wrecks her life through one understandable action. There is no mercy, no redemption, no happiness here.
Trick'r'Treat. I was at the Fantastic Fest premiere and was furious that this glorious horror anthology was going straight to VOD. Now it's a genuine cultural phenomenon.
Demon (2015) Too few ghost stories are truly haunting, but Marcin Wrona's supernatural metaphor for how Poland literally and metaphorically buried its Jewish history will hover over you. Recently included in Severin's second box set of folk horror.
Blindspotting (2018) One of those films that I kinda shove into people's hands - and then they all thank me later. Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal take a wonderful, funny, insightful look at race, male friendship, and gentrification in modern America that lands every punch and yet leaves you smiling.
Oppenheimer (2023) The closest thing to a perfect movie in decades. An experiential work that weaves through the complexities of midcentury global politics and the philosophical and political quagmire of creating the ultimate weapon to end the ultimate war.
Pig (2021) "We don't get a lot of things to really care about." Nicolas Cage avoids all the pitfalls of stories about obsession and replaces them with steps to euphoria built of joy. A serene, saddening, inspiring, wondrous work.
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