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Do you enjoy exceptionally atmospheric slow burn psychological horror where you absolutely know you should be afraid but you don’t know why or from whom? Then may I recommend The Blackcoat’s Daughter, which is masterfully directed to deliver a simple script that is focused and grips tighter than you’d expect with every even mundane scene with framing and tone that feels fresh and is effective....
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Do you enjoy bafflingly stupid action films? Then may I recommend Trigger Warning, which is inexplicable in its inanity from the first five minutes and it absolutely does not relent in its steadfast effort to insult the audience with its terrible script. But! Good fight choreography here and there.

Do you enjoy psychological thriller gaslighting movies where the main character is _not_ a woman for once? Then may I recommend Forgotten (2017) a South Korean (subtitled) film that has good suspense in the first half…but then that second half? It fucks around and finds out—golly!

Do you enjoy excellently written and directed modern-day Korean (subtitled) folk horror? Then may I recommend Exhuma, while not super scary, has a good menacing villain and the story is just captivating as its mythos is revealed over time—but it’s also creepy, interesting, and clever. Favorite: best ghost/demon interrogation method ever—brilliant, even. Second favorite: how in this world the supernatural is treated as perfectly normal,...
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Do you enjoy English/Xhosa/Afrikaans/Zulu/Sotho-language (subtitled) political action thrillers set in modern day South Africa that are mediocre? Then may I recommend Heart of the Hunter which drags a bit, suffers from stereotypic characters, and starts interesting then ho-hums it through expected cliches followed by more cliches. Also featuring a flawed climactic main boss fight where it’s raining during one punch but dry the next kick....
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Do you enjoy brutal movies set in 1825 Tasmania that exist to hurt your soul by showing the worst of colonial oppression—in tiers and tears? Then may I recommend The Nightingale, a revenge film that holds nothing back in showing the precipitating cascading events (*plural*) with a riveting plot. If you press play, know beforehand that it’s quite difficult to watch, horrific to experience, and...
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Do you enjoy horror made for a YA audience that’s rated R? Then may I recommend Cobweb, which has one genuinely horrifying gag, almost great creature design, almost quite interesting story, with almost fleshed out characters. Needed another half hour on the creature or to be a novel instead.

Wonderfully designed audio/characterization for the voice of the monster. Haunting. Could listen to it lots more...
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Do you enjoy thunderously dumb so-called thrillers? Then may I recommend The Seeding, a film whose only contribution is satisfied in the first minute by showing a (random) baby wandering a desert while eating a (random) human finger. After that, it’s paint-by-numbers using one color: vapid.

Do you enjoy creature features with budget? Then may I recommend Under Paris, a French film (dubbed) that isn’t campy but is more like a classic creature feature, where the characters take it seriously and it only gets weird(er) at the end. Anyway, it’s just what it says on the tin: sharks + Paris.

Do you enjoy fierce, intense, crazy-distinct visually amazing immersive post apocalyptic wasteland movies that scream hope, despair, violence and love so loud they’re so quietly intense that you can’t hear anything over the sound of Anya Taylor-Joy’s eyes? Then may I recommend Furiosa.