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Gutpunchers
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Drama and dark horror movies that stick with you for a while.


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Movie: Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 )
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Movie: The Nightingale ( 2019 )
THE NIGHTINGALE is a meditation on the horrors of Australian colonization, set at the turn of the 19th century. The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. Unfamiliar with the Tasmanian wilderness she enlists the help of an orphaned Aboriginal tracker Billy. Marked by their traumas, the two fight to overcome their distrust and prejudices against the backdrop of Australia's infamous 'Black War'.
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Movie: Session 9 ( 2001 )
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
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Movie: Infinity Pool ( 2023 )
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
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Movie: Detachment ( 2012 )
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
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Movie: Midsommar ( 2019 )
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
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Movie: The Machinist ( 2004 )
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
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Movie: Hereditary ( 2018 )
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
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Movie: Speak No Evil ( 2022 )
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
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Movie: The Piano Teacher ( 2001 )
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
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Movie: Saint Maud ( 2021 )
There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost. Making her feature-film debut, writer/director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark (also at the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere - but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.
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Movie: Caché ( 2005 )
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
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Movie: You Were Never Really Here ( 2017 )
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
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Movie: Ex Drummer ( 2007 )
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
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Movie: Drive ( 2011 )
A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.
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Movie: Lords of Chaos ( 2019 )
Oslo, 1987. 17-year-old Euronymous is determined to escape his traditional upbringing and becomes fixated on creating 'true Norwegian black metal' with his band Mayhem. He mounts shocking publicity stunts to put the band's name on the map, but the lines between show and reality start to blur. Arson, violence and a vicious murder shock the nation that is under siege by these Lords of Chaos.
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Movie: Mysterious Skin ( 2005 )
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Movie: Incendies ( 2011 )
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
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Movie: Irréversible ( 2002 )
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
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Movie: Eden Lake ( 2008 )
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.
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Movie: Hard Candy ( 2006 )
A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a pedophile.
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Movie: Red White & Blue ( 2010 )
Set in Austin, Texas, this "slacker revenge movie" follows the disaffected and promiscuous Erica as she sleeps with a series of nameless men, until she is befriended by Nate, an ex-Iraq war veteran with a sociopath's streak.
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Movie: The Passion of Darkly Noon ( 1996 )
After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. A truck driver, Jude, rescues the exhausted man, who has only a bible for comfort. He brings him to the house of Callie and Clay, two lovers who live in the forest. While Clay is away in the forest, beautiful Callie nurses Darkly back to health, and he develops an obsession with her that is totally contrary to his upbringing - a sexual obsession. When Clay returns home and Darkly sees the two lovers kiss, it is too much for him. Every night he hears them making love. Darkly's descent into madness has begun... An extremely dramatical and exciting ending!
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Movie: Downloading Nancy ( 2009 )
An unhappy wife orders a guy she meets over the Internet to kill her, but the two of them fall in love.
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Movie: Dead Man's Shoes ( 2004 )
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
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Movie: London to Brighton ( 2006 )
Desperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.
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Movie: King of the Ants ( 2003 )
The handyman Sean Crawler meets the electrician Duke Wayne while painting a house and they drink a couple of beers together and have a small talk. A couple of days later, Duke offers a job to Sean, and they meet the corrupt constructor Ray Matthews in a golf club. Ray proposes Sean to stalk the accountant from the City Hall Eric Gatley, who is investigating him, and report every movement of Eric to Ray. While chasing Eric, Sean sees his wife Susan and has a crush on her. When Ray offers US$ 13,000.00 to Sean to kill Eric, he accepts, but steals Ray's dossier before leaving the crime scene. However Sean is double-crossed by Ray and is brutally tortured by the real estate mobster and his men in a lonely ranch, but he does not tell where the file is. Sean succeeds in escaping, but severely wounded, he goes to the mission where Susan works and four weeks later he is healed. He tries to start a new life with Susan, but when she finds the documents and the truth about him, he plots a powerful revenge against Ray and his men.
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Movie: Stoic ( 2010 )
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
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Movie: Red ( 2008 )
A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
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Movie: A Serbian Film ( 2010 )
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
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Movie: The Killing Gene ( 2008 )
A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.
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Movie: May ( 2003 )
A lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood and unsuccessful attempts to connect with the people around her is sent into a murderous tailspin.
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Movie: Come and See ( 1985 )
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
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Movie: The Snowtown Murders ( 2011 )
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
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Movie: Bedevilled ( 2010 )
A woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
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Movie: Found ( 2017 )
A horror-obsessed boy discovers his older brother is a serial killer.
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Movie: This Is England ( 2007 )
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
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TV Show: This is England ( 2010 )
The first two series of the Channel 4 drama written and directed by Shane Meadows revisiting the characters from his 2007 film This is England. In This is England '86 Thomas Turgoose reprises his role as Shaun, a school-leaver with few prospects in mid-1980s England. Shaun and his friends must attempt to deal with the issues posed by the transition to adulthood in an unstable social climate where 3.4 million people are unemployed and there are strikes, race riots and anti-nuclear protests. The events of This is England '88 take place two years on from the initial spin-off series. Set in and around Christmas, there is a distinct absence of festive spirit as Lol (Vicky McClure) and Woody (Joe Gilgun) struggle to come to terms with events from the past. Shaun, meanwhile, learns first-hand the pain that love can bring.
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Movie: Tyrannosaur ( 2011 )
The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil, a chance at redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating consequences to both of their lives.
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Movie: A Horrible Way to Die ( 2011 )
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
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Movie: Oslo, August 31st ( 2011 )
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
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Movie: The Act of Killing ( 2012 )
A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
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Movie: Let the Right One In ( 2008 )
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.