This makes for some queasy body horror sequences involving bloody intestines and giblets shoved into a chasm in the new witch’s chest, and suckling on the gushing wounds of carcasses and corpses. Stolevski has concocted a fantastically gory method to the witch’s madness, as, in order to take on the body of a new host, she must imbibe their organs into her own body.
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That’s high praise for a horror-adjacent movie that weds some of the genre’s most elemental tropes to a weird and poignant parable of a loveless witch terrorizing a 19th-century Macedonian community because of her own disappointments in love and motherhood. Goran Stolevski’s elliptical folk tale “You Won’t Be Alone” unfolds like a dream without a map, and so to try and parse it in certain terms is like recounting a dream to somebody who wasn’t in on it. Image Credit: Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection While many of the directors highlighted here made a personal brand out of pushing the limits of extreme storytelling, consider the below just a selection (or starter kit, if you will) to prime you for further viewing.Ĭhristian Blauvelt, Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Chris O’Falt, Christian Zilko, and Anne Thompson contributed to this story. While some of these films listed below are, in fact, outright horror films, others take a more psychic or spiritual approach to peeling back on society’s, and humankind’s, worst tendencies - or while querying war, faith, or sexuality. to render the worst possible horrors, psychological, physical, and otherwise, onscreen in unflinching detail. Below, IndieWire highlights a selection of foreign-language films likely to keep you up at night terrified, or thinking, or both.
World cinema has given us plenty of auteurs hell-bent on creating the most disturbing experience possible, from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, and Takashi Miike. Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in April 2021 and has since been updated.
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