Sinister
2012 · Horror · Scott Derrickson · 1h 45m
A true-crime writer moves his family into the house where the murders happened, and finds a box of home movies in the attic. Dark rooms and a projector.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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2001 · Horror
A boy is left at an orphanage in the last year of the Spanish Civil War, with an unexploded bomb in the yard and something in the cellar. More sad than frightening.
- Clearly heavy
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2016 · Horror
A mother and daughter stay in their Tehran block during the Iran-Iraq war while the other tenants leave, and something arrives with a missile. Small, tense and political.
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly character-driven
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