Ducournau's greatest strength lies in her ability to build unbearable tension in scenes involving physical pain, making similar sequences in almost every other high profile genre film seem embarrassingly dull by comparison. There is also lots of fun body horror in general with wonderful effects throughout the movie. Remarkably, none of that can be said about the actual car scenes. It's natural for a concept as ambitious as this to eclipse all other elements of the film in the discourse,…
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Something in the Dirt 2022
Ultimately goes a bit too far down the rabbit hole for me (other fans of Benson & Moorhead may like it most for this reason), but it was nice to see that their acting and comedic chops have developed - not something I had an issue with before given the creativity of their writing and film making, but suggests broader possibilities so I am no less excited about their future output.
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Hunted 2020
Movies like 'Hunted' are the reason why us fans of the genre slog through so many mediocre films - for gems like this that come out of nowhere and breathe new life into tropes that, much like our villains, refuse to stay dead. What a beautifully shot, thrilling, and darkly hilarious movie. Best of Fantasia so far.
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