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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Osgood Perkins
Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
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>If you like experimental movies and/or are you’re into filmmaking, go for >90% critic and 65-85% audience for gems. If you’re not, you will HATE these movies.
Just checked some random “weird arthouse” movies I liked, mostly horror genre. It holds up pretty well. And I wouldn't in a million years recommend these movies to anyone that I didn't already know liked "these types" of movies.
The Blackcoat's Daughter: Critic 77%, Audience 52%
Possessor: Critic 94%, Audience 59%
The Lighthouse: Critic 90%, Audience 72%
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Critic 79%, Audience 63%
A Ghost Story: Critic 91%, Audience 67%
Midsommar: Critic 83%, Audience 63%
I turned it off after 40 minutes. I appreciate movies that use slower-pacing to build tension (No Country for Old Men comes to mind) but every scene in The Blackcoat's Daughter is glacial to the point of being parody while still not accomplishing much in the way of characterization or plot development.
Maybe one day I'll revisit it, because I see it recommended all the time.
Both me and my significant other found absolutely nothing about it scary, and were very underwhelmed by it all (it had a lot of cool shots and such though).
Different strokes for different folks.
It's been a while but I do remember enjoying Oculus[1] and The Blackcoat's Daughter[2]. My gf got so scared watching Session 9[3] that we had to sit there with the lights on for a while afterwards, though I haven't seen it in over a decade so maybe my memories of it are a bit rose-tinted.
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388715/
[2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3286052/
[3]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/