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could be jeff vandermeer

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Another one of those lists of movies that remind me of one of my favorite authors in some intangible way.…

  • It Follows
  • The Lobster
  • The Babadook
  • The Creatures
  • Charisma

cinematic fables

211 films Edit list

NOTE: NOT—I repeat—NOT an actual list of “fable/folklore/fairy-tale/fantastical” movies (though, most of them will be).

The title “cinematic fables” was…

  • Good Time
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Uncut Gems
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Luz

symphonic cinema

138 films Edit list

Movies where the score... ~ carries a lot of the weight...in a good way. ~ is forefront and obtrusive--makes its…

  • Pulp Fiction
  • House
  • Mandy
  • Eraserhead
  • Poor Things

hyperreality in film

109 films Edit list

films that feel like heightened "copy" of reality--or--a "copy of a copy"--or--a "copy" of a reality that never existed in…

  • House
  • The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Poor Things
  • The Twentieth Century

fabricated reality (matte painting, miniatures, stagecraft, greenscreen)

110 films Edit list

Live-action films that blend reality and matte painting/backdrops/greenscreen or feel like they're in an elevated stage-play environment. The kind of…

  • Tokyo Drifter
  • House
  • Barbie
  • The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
  • Mon Oncle

formalism is fun!

162 films Edit list

*leslie knope voice* Formalism! More like fun-malism!

  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Donnie Darko
  • Greener Grass
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • Phantasm

weird fiction

230 films Edit list

kinda but not exactly horror but kinda but not exactly sci-fi but kinda but not exactly fantasy but kinda but…

  • Kill List
  • Rabbits
  • Charisma
  • House
  • The Creatures
  • Swiss Army Man
  • Lamb
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Koko-di Koko-da
  • The Endless

keep it weird

126 films Edit list

just a bunch of film being weird for the sake of it and I love it...

(generally with the inherent…

  • Poltergeist
  • Strawberry Mansion
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Beetlejuice
  • The Endless