10 Recent Non-Horror Movies That Are TERRIFYING
7. Hard Truths
Of all the filmmakers we could associate with horror, the great Mike Leigh would probably be right at the bottom of the list.
And yet, his most recent film Hard Truths is more difficult to sit through than most gore-soaked slasher flicks, because it's such a discomforting depiction of an individual whose unhappiness has turned them into an insufferable, hateful person.
Few films have better depicted depression as a swirling black hole hell-bent on dragging in everything within its midst.
The film focuses on Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a middle-aged woman whose short fuse causes her to get into arguments with just about everyone she meets, usually about wholly mundane matters.
Hard Truths is a wince-inducing 97-minute exercise in watching someone who is very clearly their own worst enemy make their life even worse at just about every turn.
The result is so skin-crawlingly real that it's tough to imagine many going back for a second viewing, Oscar-worthy though Marianne Jean-Baptiste's central performance absolutely was.