10 Horror Movies You MUST Watch On The Big Screen
6. mother! (2017)
Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing surprised everyone this year when it threw us into a Soderbergh-esque romp, no mania, no hysteria, no drugs and prostitution, no floor vagina and snapped baby. He has, after all, spent the bulk of his career making deeply uncomfortable films - and no film is as uncomfortable as mother!
Jennifer Lawrence is the film's matriarch, trying to survive in a beautiful home beset by hordes of unwelcome guests, whom her poet husband adores but cannot control. Yes, it is a fairly overt metaphor for Mother Nature, humanity, and God - and, no, that doesn't diminish its craft.
Like many of his pictures, Aronofsky designed mother! as a rising panic; unlike many of his other films, it uses silence and deafening noise as two of its primary storytelling and genre elements, and seeing it at home surrounded by minor distractions just isn't the same. This movie demands from you the ability to experience the absolute sound of silence and the explosions of violence, chaos, and, well, literal bombs. Nothing less than full immersion in this troubling world can provide the intended stress, nor a full appreciation of the work.