![]() ![]() The comedic offerings of film from across the ages to relax the wary mind burdened with the world’s problems. Director Jonathan Glazer hasn’t been the most prolific of movie directors ( Under the Skin was the first feature-length project he’d released in nearly a decade), but if time is as necessary a price for brilliance as they say, it seems like a fair trade.Even the most highbrow of highbrows needs to relax and, on certain days when a retreat to the solarium in a favorite alpaca sweater while sipping on a red from the Bordeaux region simply doesn’t cut it, there is another outlet. But it’s Mica Levi’s haunting score that makes Under the Skin genuine nightmare fuel. Her performance and the movie’s VFX would, similarly, be enough to scare you silly by themselves. The movie follows Scarlett Johansson's man-eating alien as she finds willing prey to seduce and lure back to her lair. But to do all of this with one of the biggest movie stars in the entire world (arguably of all time) as the lead character too, that’s something truly special. To have a science-fiction horror movie shot the way that Under the Skin was shot (with most actors being not only non-professionals but bystanders on the street who literally wander into the movie) would be enough to marvel at it. Our final movie is a frightening experience for a number of ground-breaking reasons. It’s about the fear of being truly known and having your inner ugliness publicly laid bare in art. You could call Nocturnal Animals a kind of social horror movie. Her interpretation of the novel as a scathing personal attack on her from her ex-husband creates another layer of psychological unease. The horror is derived not only from the conventional story of unsettling violence contained within the novel’s story but also from the overlying reactions of Amy Adams’ character. RELATED: 15 Amazing Movie Subplots You’ll Only Find In The Novelizations This means that Nocturnal Animals isn’t just a movie that contains a lot of subtext: most of the movie literally is subtext. The world of that novel is represented as another movie placed on top of the reality of the reader. The movie essentially revolves around Amy Adams’ character reading a book. The second directorial effort of famed fashion designer Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals takes an unusually literary approach to cinematic storytelling and it really pays off. You’ll have to work your brain to interpret the images, but you’ll have a lot of fun looking at them while you do it. The way that Cattet and Forzani shoot their movies gives a certain surrealist quality to their work (to the degree that it’s kind of pointless explaining the plot). If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a highly recognizable subgenre of pulp horror and detective stories. RELATED: 6 Horror Subgenre Mashups We Want to SeeĪs fans of the subgenre probably would have guessed from the title, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears is, like Amer, an ode to Italian giallo movies. It makes their movies not only very claustrophobic (which works darn well with horror) but genuinely idiosyncratic too. Cattet and Forzani are quite unique on the feature-length circuit for telling their stories almost entirely through extreme close-ups. The second feature-length movie from directing duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani is (while not quite as enjoyable as their 2009 debut Amer) a hoot for horror junkies. ![]()
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