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DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo FEATURING: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long PLOT: A funeral director must convince an accident victim that she is really dead. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: I took a look at After.Life to determine its weird potential, but aside from the macabre story, I found it be a fairly . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: AFTER.LIFE (2009) DIRECTED BY: Michael Lander FEATURING: Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman PLOT: After a train accident destroys his privacy, a mentally ill bank employee leads a double life, playing himself and his own wife, as he navigates his relationship with a poor single mother and his own worsening psychological state. WHY IT . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PEACOCK (2010) DIRECTED BY: Darren Aronofsky FEATURING: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder PLOT: A shy up-and-coming ballet dancer lands the lead in a production of “Swan Lake.” Obsessed with perfection and paranoid that the dual role will be taken away from her, she struggles to become both the virginal White . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: BLACK SWAN (2010) DIRECTED BY: Marina de Van FEATURING: Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano PLOT: As she struggles to write an autobiographical novel, a writer with childhood amnesia finds that everything she sees—her apartment, her husband’s face, and even her own image in the mirror—is changing into something unfamiliar. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DON’T LOOK BACK [NE TE RETOURNE PAS] (2009) DIRECTED BY: Vince Vieluf FEATURING: Rhys Coiro, Milo Ventimiglia, Samantha Mathis, Mimi Rogers, Susan Ward, Chip Joslin PLOT: An honest attorney finishes last by following the rules until a sinister neighbor hires onto the firm and throws his life into a state of turmoil. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Order Of Chaos takes . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ORDER OF CHAOS (2010) DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan FEATURING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao PLOT: Cobb (DiCaprio), a mercenary with a unique skill—breaking into targets’ subconsciouses as they dream in order to steal business secrets—assembles a team to enter the mind of an heir to a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: INCEPTION (2010) DIRECTED BY: Brad Anderson FEATURING: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian PLOT: A troubled man tries to solve the riddle of his fragmented existence as he becomes increasingly tormented by strange visions and apparitions. WHY IT ‘S ON THE BORDERLINE: The events which unfold in The Machinist are hard to wrap one’s mind . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: THE MACHINIST (2004) DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan FEATURING: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano PLOT: A man suffering from an inability to form short term memories hunts for his wife’s murderer, relying on notes he leaves himself and important facts he tattoos on his body. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It isn’t weird. Other than . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MEMENTO (2000) DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Saya Hagiwara PLOT: A shocking mass suicide in a train station attracts the attention of the police and a curious hacker who may have found a link to the seemingly random act. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: This exercise in the Japanese new school of shock horror . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: SUICIDE CLUB (2002) DIRECTED BY: Christopher Smith FEATURING: Melissa George PLOT: The mother of an autistic son reluctantly goes on a pleasure cruise with five other young adults; the yacht capsizes in a freak electrical storm and the party is “rescued” by an abandoned ocean liner. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Triangle is weird, and . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TRIANGLE (2009) |
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