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Lake Mungo 2009

Grief documentary first, ghost story second, devastating in either order. The final photograph is the scariest frame of the century so far.

by finalgirl77 . Aug 5

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Possession 1981

Nothing in this picture behaves. The camera circles the rooms as though hunting for an exit, and the marriage at its centre is more frightening than the creature in the Kreuzberg flat.

by gravemistake . Aug 5

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The Thing 1982

Kurt Russell spends two hours failing to trust anybody and being right every single time. The practical effects have aged into something better than realism. Nothing since has earned its paranoia so honestly.

by Vincent Crane . Aug 1

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The Mist 2007

The ending is the whole film. Everything before it is a competent monster picture; the last four minutes turn it into something people argue about twenty years later.

by Vincent Crane . Jul 3

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Hereditary 2018

I watched this alone, which was a mistake I intend to repeat. Toni Collette does a thing at a dinner table that I have not recovered from. The last twenty minutes lose me a little, but the first hundred are close to perfect.

by Vincent Crane . Jun 30

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