| What if the filmmakers were not Hollywood veterans but two small-time producers in Sweden? And yet, there are few things as enjoyable as sitting in a dark room or movie theater and watching our nightmares played out for us | Alice, Sweet Alice 1976 Alice, Sweet Alice is mostly known for being the debut feature of Brooke Shields, but that is almost a disservice to the film because it really is great |
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| Only two films that can conceivably be called horror had seen the light of day in Sweden at that time | The Exorcist 1973 There will never be a film more terrifying than this |
This is the origin story of Terror in the Midnight Sun , likely one of the first European sci-fi movies ever to be produced and most definitely the first one from Sweden.
| This is a film of lurking shadows and creeping gloom, unfashionably cosy in its dedication to the Victorian tradition of ghostly goings-on | Repulsion 1965 Catherine Deneuve plays a psychologically damaged beautician who distrusts men and is left alone in her sister's London flat with nothing but a rotting rabbit corpse it was supposed to be dinner to keep her company |
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| Along with the long-awaited , paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | Ravens and rottweilers are unaccountably drawn to angel-faced Damien, and anyone who starts asking questions — an innocent nanny, a crusading priest, a sceptical journalist — is knocked off in spectacular fashion |
Unger kept sending telegrams back home to Jernberg, bragging about important meetings with distributors, eventually claiming Paramount had made an offer.
2| That aesthetic is seen throughout the film and actually works to its advantage by giving the film a rawer feel | If you need a reference point, you should check out this list of the |
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| It goes to show that sometimes you need to know when to take the reigns and do something when no one else steps up to the plate | Sinister 2012 A father played by Ethan Hawke is trying to write a book about a brutal family murder, so he moves his own family into the house where the kids were killed |
It just goes to show sometimes you need some distance to truly appreciate a work of art, and the descent of Jack Torrance certainly needed some time to grow on the zeitgeist and become a horror touchstone.
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