25 Incredibly Well-Made Horror Films Directed By Women

12. Claire Denis - Trouble Every Day (2001)

From the first moments of Trouble Every Day, when the camera lingers on a couple (who never reappear in the film) making out in the backseat of a car, you recognise this as a film about love, albeit an unusual kind of love - anonymous, rapacious, and terrifyingly intimate. Claire Denis tackled the horror genre with this fascinating look at the thirst for blood. Not really a vampire movie, though it deals with the themes of lust and repression that are hallmarks for the genre. There isn't much plot or character development to speak of; narrative cohesion are subordinate to mood and texture, sight and sound. Trouble Every Day also boasts two of the most hard to watch murder scenes in movie history. They both begin as sexual encounters before turning into painful scenes of cannibalism. It€™s hard to forget the way one of the main characters affectionately nuzzles the cheek of a young man she€™s just half-devoured, or the way her husband tenderly sponges streaks of blood off her back, shoulders, chest, and lips. Never has cannibalism been so strangely beautiful.