Tagged: mood: psycho

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Passion (2012)

De Palma throws in a couple of edgy elements to this remake of a French film. Instead, of course, Passion can’t even excel in what the other did right.

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Hannibal – Season 1

Hannibal overturns expectations of crime procedurals and Lecter incarnations by focusing on the first-hand and secondhand effects of murder on the mind.

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Maniac (2012)

Franck Khalfoun mixes the sleekness of modern French cinema with the good old-fashioned low budget horror of the eighties.

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Sightseers (UK Film)

Ben Wheatley exceeds the expectations with his new indecorous comedy, skillfully mixing distinctive British humor, lurid crime, and an inviting weirdness, to depict an overwhelming love story stained by blood.

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Helter Skelter (Japanese Film)

Helter Skelter follows a top idol star who undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries on different parts of her body to maintain the image she’s built herself as an icon of beauty, until the result of such processes begins taking a toll on her.

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Stoker

Those familiar with director Park Chan-wook’s style will immediately be engaged by the lush nature of his English-language debut Stoker, a coming-of-age story of a very different kind.