Out of the flicks you mention, I've seen Let The Right One In (the original) and The Babadook and thought both were/are pretty overrated, The Babadook most especially (it makes me furious they couldn't decide which version of the story is the truth, the supernatural or the non-supernatural one - that they put their money on both at the end totally invalidates the preceding movie, in my view).yaxomoxay wrote:I guess I have to watch it now.Agent Earle wrote:AnotherBlueRoseCase wrote:
Not sure The Girl Next Door is one to look forward to, mind. It's well-written, and cleverly structured to maximise the sadness, but boy it's horrific. Reading it did at least reassure me that I hadn't become too jaded.
The same goes for the movie adaptation from 2007 - I have trouble recalling such profound sense of sadness and horror in connection to another motion picture like I experienced with that movie. Coming from someone who's seen more horror films than he can count in the preceding three decades, that's saying something. And it makes my hair stand on end when I think the underlying motive actually comes from a true story. Jesus wept!
As for craziness, A Serbian Film gets the cake... I strongly suggest people NOT to watch it.
As for sadness, or for melancholy, I often suggest Let The Right One In.
Honorable mentions for The Babadook (very ingenious), Don't Breathe (entertaining), It Follows (a good take on an older plot device), The Invitation (suspence building at its best), Hush (if you like the Mike Myers movies this is a nice twist on the concept).
And, of course, Tucker and Dale vs Evil
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Others I have not seen but are on my To Definitely Watch ASAP list for some time (though I quiver at what can be expected from A Serbian Film /made by my former compatriots, no less!/ after all the things I've heard about it)