Films that feel like 70s paranoia
Surveillance, conspiracy, distrust of every institution. Post-Watergate American cinema and its descendants — Pakula, Coppola, Polanski, and the modern films that inherited the dread.
The Godfather
bittersweetepicraw
Succubus
dreadneon soakedparanoid
The Godfather Part II
bittersweetcerebralepic
Twin Peaks
dreadslow burnsurreal
Psycho
dreadgut punchparanoid
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
bittersweetcerebralgut punch
High and Low
foreign gemcerebralparanoid
Rear Window
Perfect Blue
foreign gemmindfuckparanoid
Michael Jackson's Thriller
playfulunhinged
Le Trou
foreign gemslow burn
Apocalypse Now
dreadepicsurreal
Counterattack
foreign gemdreadraw
Star Wars
cozyepicplayful
Woman in the Dunes
The Handmaiden
foreign gemmindfuckparanoid
A Clockwork Orange
comfort cultcerebraldread
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
foreign gemdreadparanoid
Alien
body horrordreadparanoid
The Usual Suspects
cerebralmindfuckparanoid
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
epicuplifting
Vertigo
bittersweetcerebraldread
Bound by Honor
gut punchoutsiderraw
Taxi Driver
dreadparanoidraw
Double Indemnity
cerebraldreadparanoid
The Invisible Guest
foreign gemcerebralmindfuck
Yojimbo
foreign gemcerebraloutsider
M
foreign gemdreadparanoid
Memories of Murder
foreign gemdreadraw
1987: When the Day Comes
foreign gemdreadslow burn