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400 DAYS (Matt Osterman, 2015)
400 Days is a true classic of the eerie, it makes it easily into my top 10 of the last years. I consider that it carries and brings to fruition the unspoken space program preparation doom of such Cold War era classics as Outer Limits or Twilight Zone. The weird is palpable – oozing, leaking…
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Ida (2013)
wiki: Ida (pronounced [ˈida]) is a 2013 Polish drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Set in Poland in 1962, it is about a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, she must…
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Love Eternal (2013)
one day, a cloistered young man decides that he doesn’t want to live anymore and he starts researching various suicide methods. tens, hundreds of them. but funnily enough, it’s precisely his obsession with death that keeps him alive. accessing a particular side of “love” that most people are willing to sweep right under the rug,…
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Sound of My Voice (2011)
Sound of My Voice is a 2011 American psychological thriller directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius and Brit Marling. The plot focuses on two documentary filmmakers who attempt to expose a cult led by a charismatic leader (Marling) who claims to be from the future.
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Post Tenebras Lux
A few years ago I wanted to watch “Stellet Licht” by Carlos Reygadas, but while browsing through it and seeing the still and long scenes with little to almost no dialogue, made me postponed it, being afraid I would fall asleep. It’s been collecting “dust” on my hardisk ever since. History almost repeated with Post…
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Kiss Of The Damned (2013)
The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
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Tabu (2012)
Tabu is a 2012 Portuguese drama film directed by Miguel Gomes, the title of which references F. W. Murnau‘s homonymous silent film Tabu. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2153963/
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My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002)
My Beautiful Girl, Mari (마리 이야기, Mari Iyagi literally Story of Mari) is a 2002 South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.