Like Midsommar, but more psychological
The folk dread and unravelling of Midsommar — but horror that lives entirely in the mind, not the meadow.
Hereditary
2018Grief as possession — Ari Aster's other masterpiece, more claustrophobic
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The Witch
2015Puritan paranoia in a New England wood — faith and hysteria intertwined
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Rosemary's Baby
1968The original — a woman gaslit by everyone around her in real time
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017Lanthimos at his coldest — inexplicable dread, perfectly controlled
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Black Swan
2010Perfection as disintegration — psychological horror in a ballet studio
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