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74 – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)

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Director: John S. Robertson Starring: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst Running time: 67 mins Read the rest of this entry

14 – Antichrist (2009)

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This chaos of sex, violence and madness is, literally, very dark. The shaky camera picks up on white faces and naked limbs flying about in unlit rooms. As in last year’s Melancholia, von Trier gifts us with a beautiful, slow-motion opening that foregrounds all that is to come with one tragic event. The rest is a retreat back to nature with Charlotte Gainsbourg elevating this controversial work into the realms of incendiary genius.

Like: We Need to Talk About Grief, Pain and Despair. And let’s have The Shining for dessert

Core truth: “Nature is Satan’s church”