Not only Schrader's best film but has the honor of being the only film to feature a dildo fight between Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor.
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Dead Silence 2007
I’ve always found it odd that this garnered an R-rating when it was released as it is not only tame but feels like earnest YA horror (not an insult), preying on adolescent fears of the dark and a concerted interest in things that can’t be explained — that is to say that it’s never really scary, functioning similarly to a well worn dark ride where atmosphere is its biggest asset and the cynical ending functions more as another jump scare than the bummer it could be in a other filmmaker’s hands
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Saw 2004
It’s never not been weird that “elevated horror” became a thing in recent years as the genre has always contained the many hallmarks of that purported movement, even (if not especially) when being generally dismissed, like in the mid-2000s when this film (as well as Hostel and its superior sequel) where being lambasted for being “torture porn” despite having more to say, and doing more to challenge genre conventions, than most other films in the marketplace — two decades removed,…
