The Devil in the Details

Here's the thing, dear readers: Titane is a watershed moment for me and this little journal of mine, as well as for horror filmmaking in the New '20s. When you're done with it, you will either love or loathe the film's attempts to make the audience feel uncomfortable and unmoored from genre expectation, no question about that. It's a film that flies in the face of traditional Hollywood screenwriting wisdom, and not because it dares to kill off characters arbitrarily, wink and nod at the viewer, or even because common character archetypes and cliches are turned on their head: it manages to create something unlike anything ever seen in film by taking several extreme story elements that seem to come straight out of the exploitation and body horror genres, and twisting them in tasteful, fascinating ways to create something new and utterly gripping from beginning to end that is always pushing boundaries and not just with simple shock tactics either (looking at you Vigo M...