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Review of The Strangers (1980)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Sometimes evil happens without explanation. Rarely is it shown in such plain, quiet, horrifying fashion. Don't watch this alone…

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Review of Trouble Every Day (2001)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Spare and unwilling to overstate its point. Its style is European in all the ways that are often lazily deemed pretentious…

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Review of American Psycho (2000)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

I've always found Mary Harron's vision of Bret Easton Ellis's arch satire of '80s greed, excess, and grooming to be a lot funnier than its reputation…

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Review of The Strangers (1998)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Sometimes evil happens without explanation. Rarely is it shown in such plain, quiet, horrifying fashion. Don't watch this alone…

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Review of Descent (2005)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

An all-female cast, a claustrophobic cave setting draped in red light, and an anarchic, vicious fight to the death...need I say more about…

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Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

What makes the movie work is so simple and economical-you snooze, you die. I've always admired its simplicity…

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Review of Se7en (1995)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

The stormy, sooty, blackened unnamed city in David Fincher's murder mystery feels a little like hell-infested with cretins, sinners, and pretty…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

A quiet but tremulous vision of teenage physical discomfort and emotional distress…

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Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

The premise is old-fashioned-a gypsy curse haunts a young woman-but the execution is glorious, as funny and cockeyed as it is gasp-inducing…

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Review of You're Next (2013)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Adam Wingard's nasty, scrupulously violent home-invasion film is like if the killers from The Strangers went people-hunting after a screening…

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Review of Don't Breathe (2016)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Sometimes a low-rent, disgusting, irredeemable movie is just what the world needs…

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Review of Saw (2004)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Never terribly clever, but always intestinally challenging, this successful and discomfiting collection of films shows art in extremis-a real-time…

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Review of The Descent (2005)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

An all-female cast, a claustrophobic cave setting draped in red light, and an anarchic, vicious fight to the death...need I say more about…

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Review of The Strangers (2008)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Sometimes evil happens without explanation. Rarely is it shown in such plain, quiet, horrifying fashion. Don't watch this alone…

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Review of Descent (2007)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

An all-female cast, a claustrophobic cave setting draped in red light, and an anarchic, vicious fight to the death...need I say more about…

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Review of Poltergeist (1982)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

A slick, entertaining ghost story and a stomach-turning gore-fest in equal measure, the balance of Spielberg and Hooper's creative impulses…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Robert Eggers's queasy folktale of a banished clan of pious farmers questions both the virtue of a God-fearing life and insists upon the evil…

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Review of Saw (2003)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

Never terribly clever, but always intestinally challenging, this successful and discomfiting collection of films shows art in extremis-a real-time…

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Review of The Shining (1980)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

It is technically magnificent and eerily tense, like waiting for an ocean of blood to pour from an elevator shaft…

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Review of In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

By Sean Fennessey (47) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Sep 2018

[The] movie has a lot to say about the dangers of cultural obsession and what happens when you give yourself over to the creators you idolize…

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