We need to talk. If you take my recommendation and check out the movie I’m about to suggest here, you’re going to have a really hard week. It’s going to haunt you. Stick with you in a way few films do. You’re liable to feel sick to your stomach. Honestly, you’re probably going to look at the world in an entirely different way, and it may not be a change that’s for the better. In my own words on the film’s anniversary, the film is “terrifying, thoroughly disturbing, and ten years later, unmatched in its austere psychological honesty.”

Horror means a lot of things, and while this film isn’t necessarily a horror movie, it is among the most upsetting, disturbing, distressing, and just exhausting cinematic experiences you’re ever going to experience. I was haunted and scared in a way few explicit horror films manage,...