10 Recent Horror Films That Didn't Insult Your Intelligence
3. She Dies Tomorrow
To say that She Dies Tomorrow is weird film is not only an understatement but an oversimplification of this peculiar viewing experience. This is a movie that exists in the grey space somewhere in between horror and outright surrealism. It's in the playpen of film makers like David Lynch, Richard Kelly, Nicolas Winding Refn or even Jim Jarmusch, so if you're here for conventional horror, look elsewhere.
It begins when Jane visits her friend Amy one day, to find her more morose than normal. Amy is a recovering alcoholic who has had a relapse, now listening to Mozart's Requiem on repeat and drinking herself into a eerily calm stupor, convinced she is going to die tomorrow. Jane leaves impatiently and yet before long, she also becomes inexplicably convinced that she will die tomorrow. And that belief begins to spread from one person to the next, from friend to family, from mother to daughter.
This is a meditative yet decidedly creepy film that operates in the same space as an 'infection' movie, like the recent and brilliant It Follows, only on a much greater philosophical level.
What would you do if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? Make peace with a rebuked family member? Go swimming in your pyjamas? Each fatalistic realisation brings a different reaction and what death there is here is off screen and light on both gore and scares.
It's difficult to know what genre would be appropriate here, if not horror then what?