10 Best Horror Movies Told In Real Time
8. Fish & Cat
A genuinely audacious cinematic experiment as well as an effective slice of slasher cinema, 2013's Fish and Cat is an Iranian horror which takes its sweet time setting up its creepy punchline.
Following a set of students engaged in a winter solstice kite flying competition, this meditatively-paced two hour horror moves between the likeable group setting up camp and a trio of taciturn older cooks who are camping nearby and searching for some fresh meat to snack on.
Note that said "moves between" and not "cuts between", since this entire movie is told in one fluid unbroken take.
A vaguely supernatural and deeply trippy threat appears to be at work beyond the cannibalistic cooks in this daring tale which passes the camera's perspective from one character to another like a baton, constantly maintaining a real time presentation for its slow-burn horror story's numerous reveals.
A triumphant technical experiment, this one is also just an effectively creepy and unsettling piece of horror cinema which is all the more impressive for sticking to its twin "one take" and "real time" gambits.