10 Recent Non-Horror Movies That Are TERRIFYING
1. The Brutalist
Brady Corbet's mesmerisingly ambitious, Oscar-winning drama The Brutalist is one of the bleakest cinematic skewerings of the American Dream ever made.
This is a film that begins chillingly enough, with protagonist László Tóth (Adrien Brody) surviving the Holocaust and immigrating to the United States, where he hopes to build a better life for himself.
But ultimately Tóth only survives the concentration camps to find himself commodified and abused in another way, as he becomes the plaything of wealthy industrialist Harrison Van Buren (Guy Pearce).
This leads to Tóth becoming a heroin addict, which the film zeroes in on with torturous detail, before of course, the upsetting full extent of Harrison's abuses become clear much later in the story.
As an existential drama about how a single person can be dominated by those in power, used for everything they're deemed "worth," and then discarded, The Brutalist is uncommonly potent, even if it makes for one hell of a gruelling sit - especially with that 215-minute runtime.