10 Recent Non-Horror Movies That Are TERRIFYING
6. Warfare
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's war thriller Warfare kicks off with our central squad of soldiers bro-ing out while watching the infamously hyper-sexual music video for Eric Prydz's 2004 hit tune "Call on Me."
And while this opening might suggest a film that's mostly interested in the flag-waving, adrenaline-pumping aspect of war, all it really does is lure audiences into a false sense of security.
Because Warfare couldn't be further from a glorification of war - this is a deeply upsetting and unpleasant film about the human cost on all sides of a combat scenario.
Garland and co-director Mendoza, the latter a U.S. Navy SEAL on whose experiences the film is based, make every effort to strip the sexiness and "cool factor" out of the typical war movie, focusing almost explicitly on the anxiety of looming death, and the clinical means through which munitions can obliterate the human body.
Garland, who has spent a good chunk of his career working in the horror genre with films like 28 Days Later, Annihilation, and Men, transplants that visual language onto his war movie, which is evidently committed to ensuring that not a single person leaves the cinema feeling "pumped."