What’s a lot rarer, however, is a Hollywood picture that is truly, hopelessly grim.
There Will Be Bloodisn’t dark or disturbing in any traditional sense.
It’s not preoccupied with sensationalist moments of violence or cheap thrills.
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Instead, its slow pace andDaniel Day Lewis’s legendary performance allowthe film’s nihilistic atmosphereto slowly start boiling.
Whatever the opposite of a feel-good movie is, this is it.
Exquisitely stylish and with a phenomenal story byQuentin Tarantino, it’s among the ’90s' biggest cult classics.
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It’s an incredibly gritty, often hard-to-watch film, but that’s pretty much the whole point.
So traumatizingly dark that it’s genuinely astonishing that it came out of a big Hollywood studio.
It’s about an ultraviolent group of youngsters in futuristic Britain.
A Clockwork Orangeisnot quite horror, but is so disturbing and grim that it comes remarkably close.
This is one dark thriller if there ever has been one.
Mainstream Hollywood has never gone darker than this.
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