A24 is an American independent entertainment company creating film and television. While they generally produce critically acclaimed films of other Genres as well, their Horror selection is extremely popular due to the unique and nuanced storytelling of the directors they work with.
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The atmosphere of this film is gripping and uncomfortable, it feels like we as the viewers are slowly going insane ourselves. I also love the amazing monologue of Willam Dafoe's character, it stuck with me for a long time.
Dani and Christian are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn.
It is incredibly daring to create a horror film in constant daylight. The themes that are touched on are very close to my heart and this was an amazing, horrifying and somehow satisfying watch.
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
This one really confronted some of my own fears related to the internal struggle of being queer and standing at the cross-roads of acceptance and denial. The style of this film is also incredible.