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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Angst, it stays disturbingly close to a murderer’s mundane routines, creating dread through an unvarnished, observational style rather than conventional thriller release.
02
Why this pick
A similarly confrontational descent into violent fixation, using fractured subjectivity, grimy realism and an oppressive intimacy that recalls Angst’s refusal to offer safe distance.
03
Why this pick
Its squalid period texture and cold attention to a killer’s repetitive predation echo Angst’s queasy immersion and deeply unglamorous presentation of violence.
04
Why this pick
This has Angst’s bleak, airless realism and escalating sense of entrapment, observing coercion and cruelty with a patient, profoundly unsettling lack of sensationalism.
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Why this pick
For Angst’s interest in a killer’s interior logic and controlled formal menace, this offers a more stylized but equally relentless study of self-justification and escalating horror.
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01 / THE STORY
An unnamed serial killer is eager to kill again following his release from prison, driven by a desire to see the fear in the eyes of his victims. He stops by a diner, where he is tempted to attack two girls sitting at the counter but is unable to act on this inclination in public. In a taxi afterwards, he prepares to kill the female driver but is forced to flee when the driver becomes suspicious and stops the car. The killer comes across an empty house during his escape and breaks in. Inside, he finds an intellectually disabled man who uses a wheelchair. He mistakes the killer for his own father. Soon, the man's mother and sister arrive at the house, and the killer hides before eventually attacking them, taping the daughter to a doorknob and strangling the mother. He ties up the mother before dragging the son to the upstairs bathroom and drowning him in the bathtub.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The Psychopath
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