The Nightmare seems frustratingly content with alarming us with shock cuts and surface-level boogie monsters.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2013, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Ascher’s film gets a sterling Blu-ray transfer and some illuminating extras from MPI Media Group.
In the realm of the old masters, there were at least two films in the festival that played as powerful elegies to the disappearing medium of 35mm.
Room 237 is more companion piece than standalone work.
With Ascher’s fantastic hoot of a movie, this year’s omnipresent Sundance tagline (“Look Again”) has finally lived up to its promise.
The film is a radical distillation of its source novel’s densely stuffed ghosts-and-gore imagery.
Come and play with us, Danny—in anamorphic widescreen-forever, and ever, and ever.