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  • Parasite
  • Mother
  • Barking Dogs Never Bite
  • Memories of Murder
  • The Host

ranked || bong joon-ho

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Totally subjective ranking of all his feature films (not including his segment in Tokyo). Seeing any of these below the…

  • The Big Lebowski
  • HyperNormalisation
  • Wormwood
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • The Long Goodbye

could be thomas pynchon

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Films that seems to embody some aspect of Pynchon's style.

NOT films actually based on his books.

  • Tokyo Drifter
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • House
  • (500) Days of Summer

technically not a musical but basically a musical

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WARNING: The qualifications for this one are gonna be contradictory, slightly nonsensical, and based mostly on an intangible feeling...

...aka…

  • The Shooting
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • No Country for Old Men

dread & the west

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Films that use the western milieu as a place of dread. "Traditional" westerns as well as modern or different takes…

  • Dead Man
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Bacurau
  • Slow West
  • First Cow

slow westerns

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yes slow west is on this list...

  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Charisma
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Tokyo Story
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

// TOP FILMMAKERS //

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QUALIFICATIONS: ~ I've rated at least one of their films 5-stars (and at least one more of their films at…

  • Longlegs
  • The Monkey
  • Gretel & Hansel
  • I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
  • The Blackcoat's Daughter
  • Berberian Sound Studio
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Truman Show
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • A Serious Man

could be franz kafka

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(A SELECTION of examples I like, NOT an extensive list)

  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Midsommar
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Evil Dead

"folklore" = "horror"

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i've always been a big fan of folklore/myths/legends but hadn't really gotten into horror until a few years ago when…

  • Barbarian
  • Uncut Gems
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Nope
  • The Souvenir

✨ MODERN CINEMA ✨

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Recent films and filmmakers that have really swung for the fences and WENT FOR IT... aka my version of the…

  • Pulse
  • The Happening
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Us
  • Leave the World Behind
  • It Follows
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Sin City
  • Strawberry Mansion

anachronism is such a vibe

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*with some "ambiguous time period" "our world but not our world" & "analogue scifi & alternate worlds " technically I guess...

**MY…