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Ghostland
Why this pick
Laugier again builds trauma-driven horror around two women, unstable perception, and punishing emotional stakes, though with a more Gothic, confined setting.
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MOVIE2008 1h 39m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Irreversible
Why this pick
Not supernatural horror, but its fractured structure and relentlessly confrontational depiction of trauma create the same devastating, endurance-test intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1971, a young girl, Lucie Jurin, escapes from a disused Slaughterhouse where she has been imprisoned and physically abused for more than a year. The perpetrators and their motivations remain a mystery. Lucie is placed in an orphanage, where she is befriended by a young girl named Anna Assaoui, who quickly discovers that Lucie believes that she is constantly being terrorized by a ghoulish creature - a disfigured, emaciated woman. Even so, Anna comforts Lucie every time she has a nightmare.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Morjana Alaoui
Anna Assaoui
Mylène Jampanoï
Lucie Jurin
Catherine Bégin
Mademoiselle
Juliette Gosselin
Marie
Anie Pascale
La Femme
Robert Toupin
Le Père
Xavier Dolan
Antoine
Jean-Marie Moncelet
Etienne