johnke.meThe Appointment
Two full minutes of this film’s run-time are just shots of Edward Woodward opening his seatbelt - this film plumbs new depths of slow horror. But the mundanity of English suburban family life are cut with an air of supernatural, almost cosmic menace and an implication of something deeply nasty beneath the surface (incest?). There were two things I really loved about this film. First was the disappearance effect at the beginning, which was stunning and instantly made me sit up and take notice. Second was how excellently the film builds on itself. The film revisits things from earlier but with additional context, we see new, more sinister meanings. This is the kind of thing David Lynch did so well in Twin Peaks. The Appointment did this constantly and I loved it every time.