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Horror movies from around the world:

girlies of indian horror pt.1 (part 2)

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An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

This one's fresh for me, and it's such a mesmerising experience. Very long shots, dull grey colours, frequently odd focusing - it conveys this sense of alienation and loneliness. It's cold, dry, and its setting is an industrial town in Northern China. It's also a very long film at nearly 4 hours, but once you let it take you by the hand, you won't want to let go. Very very unfortunately, the directors first and last film, and that still makes me passionately sad.

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)

Makoto Shinkai's most intriguing work is about student engineers building a plane to get to an impossibly tall tower during the Cold War when the Soviets took Hokkaido. And despite a concept like that, it's got this poetic, unrelenting melancholy and a wistful air that never lets up. I don't even think it's a great film, but it's so unique in how it feels. Definitely something you gotta watch on a lonely afternoon.

Aamis (2019)

When there is no legitimate way in this society for a college student to love a married woman, the only acceptable solution is cannibalism. I don't make the rules. Watching this at the Mumbai Film Festival was quite an experience with the audience's disbelieving laughter rising higher and higher after every story development.

Kairo (2001)