Writer/director Guillermo Del Toro is back with another exquisite genre piece that casts an undeniable spell! Surprisingly supernatural free, Nightmare Alley finds del Toro taking on the seedy Noir with natural aplomb. Full of signature flourishes, excellent performances, and sublime sets/costumes, del Toro delivers his best effort since Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Five long years after the last Charlie Kaufman film (and 12 even longer years since his last live-action effort), the celebrated screenwriter-turned-director is finally back with another cerebrally twisted tale of existential dread. Adapted from the Iain Reid novel of the same name, I’m Thinking of Ending Things takes viewers on a strange and squirmy journey full of psychological thrills that entangle time, memory, and experience into one bleak and nightmarish reality.
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Hereditary is the auspicious feature-film debut from writer/director Ari Aster, who cultivates a moody sense of foreboding that ebbs throughout the film like a seasoned veteran. The film is extremely well crafted and thoroughly unnerving, filled with great moments of tension and nightmarish imagery, and depending on your individual sensitivity, its persistent creep and unrelenting squeeze has the potential to leave you completely disturbed.
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