The murder of the taxi driver is utterly excruciating and the hanging at the end equally so. Both are shown in full, in close up and in real time. The condemned man’s last cigarette is smoked in full.
The unease (to put it mildly) of the audience was palpable. Wiscot Not horror but horribly tense. I was convinced when he went into the sea at night that he wasn’t going to come out.
A personal response from me, but I found it almost unbearable to watch. annarachel The brain washing sequence scared the living daylights out of me: never could watch Angela Lansbury in any thing after that without a shiver going down my spine! JobsworthWilkins Lilya 4-Ever for me, a harrowing journey through a young girl’s experience of being seduced and then sex-trafficked. It’s excellent, but grim – oh, so grim – and it left me feeling hollowed out afterwards and disgusted with the human race.
AdamK The existential dread of an extinction level event – so lyrically and beautifully evoked. It embodies the desolate inevitability of the end of all things. RishiSambora Its portrayal of mountain village clan feuds, superstition and the mass delusion that might enable a charismatic individual to dehumanise others, with mass-murderous consequences, was very scary.
Even more frightening was that the film was roughly inspired by a real-life massacre, in Bilge in 2009. appealforsanity It’s one of the best horror-non-horrors ever made. The premise is pure terror. Your friends, family, job are all lies.
Every moment of your life, every lesson you thought you learnt in private is seen, recorded, witnessed forever. Your deepest paranoia is real. Yes, even the sky is fake.
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