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10 horror on political and social topics that you could miss in 2023 are the choice of Oleg Tundra

Horror and thrillers are a stable popular genre that neither beginner directors nor the Hollywood stars disdain. In the last decade, good films with Sassens are produced by dozens a year - from slasers with maniacs and persecution to intellectual thrillers about scams and global conspiracies. Film critic Oleg Tundra chose ten terrible films with horrors on the anger of the day: about toxic influencers, drug carters, manic shop -Gopogolism and post -traumatic syndrome.

Popular bloggers and threats of artificial intelligence

Island of Illusions (Influencer), dir. Curtis David Harder

Pompusal, but exciting thriller about what can happen if you flaunt your whole life. Influanssersha Madison comes to Thailand to sell her subscribers the next story about how she opens the world with interest and comprehends someone else's culture. But in fact, she is incredibly dreary, primarily due to the missing boyfriend, which at the last moment canceled the trip. A relaxed and ready for any adventures of Sivi, which offers an exciting boat for a uninhabited island, is nailed to Madison. In the Horror, in the light of day, there are several sudden twists and in detail described by how to put others into confusion using social networks, dipfaces and artificial intelligence algorithms. The future is already with us, and it looks much more dangerous than the analogue past.

Housing crisis and police corruption

Reptiles (reptile), dir. Grant Singer

A police detective with an investigation of a particularly brutal murder and shadow drug sale. In one of the houses put up for sale, the body of a young realtor with a dozen stab wounds is found. An incorruptible police volume (Benisio del Toro), who had not lost his unscrupulous partner on a mission, is appointed to business. The investigator's attention is attracted by the dubious economic transactions of the husband and the mother -in -law of the deceased who are engaged in the sale of real estate, and the marginal stalker with drug addiction, who has its own version of events - as it turns out, is absolutely not paranoid. An additional layer is a political comment on how the overheated housing market, economic speculations and label companies work.

Nation on a platoon in the middle of the apocalypse

Leave the world behind (Leave the World Behind), dir. Sam Esmale

A stinging thriller about a country that is completely unnecessary for crisis situations. A rich American couple with two children (Ethan Hawk and Julia Roberts) are rented on the weekend house in the suburbs of New York, but a series of non-vagial incidents interrupts the rest: a tanker that crashes into the coast, disconnecting communication signals and electricity. Suddenly, the owner of the house with his daughter appears on the threshold - and offers to wait out Blackout together. Similar to the mood of political horror about the racism of Jordan Pila (“Away”, “We”, “No”), this thriller concentrates on the disunity and mutual suspicion of the Americans: when something is going wrong, first of all, people remember the second correction to the constitution-the right to use weapons.

Professional growth training as a hopeless sect

Circle me (Spin Me Round), dir. Jeff Bane

The satirical triller Romkom (yes, it happens!) About an enthusiastic business trip to Italy, which is not according to plan. The young manager of the Italian network restaurant from Pasadena (Alison Bree) goes to a corporate for the Italian villa to get acquainted with other employees and owners of business. The program includes several beautiful girls and several mourners, employees get sick one after another, and the main character falls in love with the sexy founder of the franchise. A little time will pass before she reveals that trips to Italy are just a way to provide him with exciting leisure. For fans of “white lotus” and “hanging in Palm Springs”-a great movie that free cheese happens only in a mousetrap, and bonuses on corporate work are given an advance.

Nunemes in pursuit of big money

Scammers (Sharper), dir. Benjamin Caron

A detective with five main characters and plot lines-about how in New York there is a struggle for a place under the sun. The young owner of a small bookstore gets acquainted with a pretty customer and falls in love with her: they have a lot of common interests in literature and in life, and an accidental meeting is felt as a dream that has come true. But there is a nuance - a secular lioness (Julianna Moore) with a problematic son married his rich father, and this threatens the well -being of the whole family. A stupid, moderately exciting adventurous film about the rules of survival in a big city among sharks of business, where, in order to save an apartment near the central park, even the closest people are at risk.

The indestructible spirit of xenophobia after the end of the war

Brooklyn 45 (Brooklyn 45), dir. Ted Gaigan

A chamber political detective with the intervention of otherworldly forces - about the world immediately after the Second World War. In the late autumn of 1945, five veterans gathering in the Brooklyn house to console one of them after the wife’s suicide. The plan of the grieving husband is to arrange a spiritualistic session and call the deceased for the last conversation. Strange things begin to happen in the mansion: candles go out, the basement buzzes, the spirit of the departed breaks out of the other world to tell the secret of his death. But instead of the secret of death, there will be a lot of secrets from the life of guests during the war. Spoiler: Needles for nails, German and zombies will also be at a meeting of venerable veterans. To the question "When will this war end?" There are no answers.

Furious consumers receive merit

Perepobage Day, dir. Eli Roth

Black comedy horror about the thirst for possession and 15 minutes of fame. On the eve of the selling “Black Friday”, the precipitated crowd storms the opening mall, and everything ends with victims and a large -scale tragedy that remains on the recording of the cameras. A year after the incident, on the eve of thanks to several participants in the events, the hunt begins: the targets (owner of the Molla) and his family, several major teenagers and especially cruel buyers, who stomped during the riots of others. The witty and bold slasher with blood rivers and outstanding portraits of contemporaries who were choked in consumerism - and at the same time diagnosis of societies that made discounts by a national idea.

Immersion in the sexism of the 80s and the life of cruel teenagers

Specific killer (Totally Killer), dir. Nakhnatchka Khan

A peppy teenage slasher with the atmosphere of the film “Back to the Future” and the reliable world of high school students. In 1987, on the eve of Halloween (of course, Halloween!) An unknown maniac kills three 16-year-old popular high school students, and today he returns for their already adult classmate (Elizabeth Banks). Her only daughter decides to use her friend’s experimental time to get into her mother’s tender and calculate the criminal. The perky criticism of the misoginum and rude world of the 80s with abundant quotes from John Hughes (“Breakfast Club”, “Sixteen Candles”, “Ferris Buller’s Household”), cheerful chases and time travel. As they say, thank God, there were no smartphones and social networks when we went to school and created that.

Deconstruction of motherhood and reproductive pressure

Birth/rebirth (Birth/Rebirth), dir. Laura Moss

Demonic intellectual body chorror about mother in trouble and her random assistant. A nurse in a midwife, due to a complicated disease, loses its little daughter, but the body suddenly disappears in the hospital. One of the employees of the morgue is involved in the theft, executing experiments in the spirit of Frankenstein at home. A lot of blood, biology and female anatomy: Cinema in the spirit of David Kronenberg about a person who had encouraged to extend life. Under the inventive horror, questions about parental fault, female health, the nature of human and the future of biological experiments on the extension of life are hidden.

The culture of violence, darking, observations of other people's suffering

Red rooms (Red Rooms), dir. Pascal Platte

Blood Canadian Indie Horror about the search for evidence and the dark side of the network. The main character, a young fashion model and a master of virtual poker, begins to be interested in the work of a serial killer, over which there is an open trial in the city. The case does not have enough evidence of the maniac guilt, and the heroine is trying to illegally buy a one of the murders that exist on the network for an incredibly high price. The mixture of the detective and processed with an unbending main character analyzes the problems of open and closed data, fetishes around violence, which are not customary to talk aloud, snuffs and femininity, existing even in prosperous countries. One of the most alarming films about the virtuality of our time.