This 2011 Oscar-winner marks Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s foray into the international stage. Despite the action and explosions, the mystery at the core of the movie is internal: why is a man like James addicted to such life-threatening danger? The viewing experience is suspenseful, since a misstep could kill them all, but the momentum really comes from the weight of that reality on the three men: Owen fears the war and the man he’s becoming, JT grapples with his commitment to the service and his will to survive, and James, the ring leader and a true bomb genius, takes outsized risks, dancing with near-suicide and endangering the lives of them all. We’re probably all due for a rewatching of Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece, a psychological thriller dressed up as a war movie, which follows three American soldiers responsible for disarming bombs in Iraq. It’s worth it for the surreal atmosphere and morbid touches alone, from the children’s trinkets to the looping lullaby that haunts each killing. Before the “Chucky” movies, Argento was doing some pretty weird stuff, and amidst the blood and gore, a satisfying whodunnit unfolds. The father of slasher movies, Italy’s Dario Argento, makes some of those film school horror movies you may have skipped, but this 1975 giallo, filmed in Turin, is worth revisiting. The 70s come to life in all their glory (hands-off parenting, unchecked bullying, Dahmer-sized cracks made for the slipping), and we see Jeffrey’s dysfunctional family, extreme adolescent unease, and escalating red flags, including but not limited to smuggling chemicals in order to preserve bones and dissolve roadkill in little jars of acid. The eerie journey through Jeffrey’s senior year of high school is a glimpse into the Milwaukee Cannibal before he embarked on the killing spree that left 17 men and boys dead over nearly 15 years. It’s tough to look away from this strange movie, which attempts to tell an origin story of the infamous serial killer, necrophiliac, and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer.

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