Dogtooth -2009- ^new^
If you are looking for a conventional horror movie, skip Dogtooth . If you are looking for a psychological horror film about the very structure of consciousness, family, and language—a film that will lodge in your brain like a loose tooth you cannot stop wiggling—then Dogtooth -2009- is essential viewing.
Film history has no shortage of movies that make us uncomfortable, but few do it with the pristine, sterile, and deeply hilarious absurdity of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2009 Greek masterpiece, Kynodontas Long before he was making star-studded Hollywood hits like The Favourite Poor Things dogtooth -2009-
The film centers on an unnamed upper-middle-class family living in a secluded country estate. The parents have raised their three adult children in total isolation, never allowing them to leave the property. To maintain this control, the father has constructed a fabricated reality: If you are looking for a conventional horror