A Rundown of the 13 Best Horror Movies I've Seen in the Past Year
[8 of 13]
PROXY
(September 2013)
Within the first seven minutes of Proxy, something
horrendous happens to pregnant Esther Woodhouse (Alexia Rasmussen), triggering
the sequence of horrible events that serves as the twisted spine for this
unsettling narrative.
After
giving us Scalene, with the always excellent Margo Martindale, producer/director Zack Parker (from a
script co-written by Parker with Kevin Donner) serves up this sordid tale about
the terrible, f*cked up things fundamentally damaged people do to each other.
Fair
warning, there is nothing remotely “entertaining” about this kind of intensely
disquieting psychological horror, the kind you’d never really see from
Hollywood.
This
is some tough stuff, and I’m not talking about guts and gore or your standard
lunatic serial killer from Central Casting. Fake blood and rubber intestines
and bug-eyed, drooling Looney Tunes are easy.
Getting
under the skin by showing just how crazy apparently “regular” folk can be, now that takes some skill…
(Proxy OS courtesy of impawards.com.)
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