The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · Horror · Yorgos Lanthimos · 1h 49m
A heart surgeon has taken a teenage boy under his wing, and the boy starts turning up wherever the surgeon's family happens to be. Everyone speaks flatly on purpose, and it builds slowly.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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2015 · Horror
A family thrown out of their New England settlement in the 1630s try to farm a patch of land at the edge of a wood, and things go wrong from the first week. Slow, spoken in old English, and grim throughout.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly slow
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2015 · Horror
Two students are left behind at a Catholic boarding school over the winter break, while a young woman hitches a ride through the snow toward them. Very slow, very quiet, and told out of order.
- Strongly slow
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly heavy
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2007 · Horror
A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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