Repulsion (Polanski)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes)
Castle of Purity (Ripstein)
The Hand in the Trap (Torre Nilsson)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Utopia (Saless)
Bashing (Kobayashi)
2/Duo (Suwa)
Deadly Maria (Tykwer)
Nothing much beats The Hour of the Wolf by Bergman and Mulholland Drive by Lynch.
Don’t Look Now (Roeg)
What with The Pressed Duck (aka. The Black Swan) getting so much ink it was no effort to compare it to Repulsion. However Polanski goes himself one better here — particularly in the climax where he defenestrates himsefl TWICE!
Derailed 2005
DIR:Mikael Håfström
SCR: Stuart Beattie (screenplay), James Siegel (novel)
112 min
dont look now
repulsion
3 women
mulholland drive
black swan
clean shaven
3 Women just reminded me of the more obvious Bergman – Persona!
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kairo and Cure
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson)
The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
The Changeling (Peter Medak)
Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
The Eye (Pang Brothers)
Euridice BA 2037 (Nikos Nikolaidis)
Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Garden of Delights (Silvano Agosti)
Maybe Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson) ?
“Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kairo and Cure
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson)
The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
The Changeling (Peter Medak)
Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
The Eye (Pang Brothers)”
Was just about to suggest 4 of those films myself. Great list!
Also, Kurosawa’s remake of Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Seance.
Spider Forest (Il-gong Song)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
Gemini and Marebito (Tsukamoto)
Have you seen Polanski’s “Cul de Sac”?
I saw it when it came out. Quite wonderful. Soirt of a film noir directed by Samuel Beckett with an assist from Georges Bataille.
Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) Brutally violent and misogynistic, Argento’s best film still does the business over 30 years later. The set pieces are incredibly imagined, if rather dated.
Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963) lay the template for many of the psychological horror films of the 1970s and 80s, albeit without the any of the gory special effects. Still has an undeniable spookiness about it, and some great acting. Wise suggests it is more a film about a woman’s descent into madness than a haunted house movie.
Heather-Victoria
I absolutely love psychological thriller horror films. Polanski’s The Tenant is my all-time favorite, and Zulawski’s Possession is a close second. If there are any films you can think of off the top of your head, please let me know!
Thanks!
P.S.
And I’m not counting Hitchcock