Day 17: The Eyes of My Mother
Recommended to me by Scott Parsons, I went into this movie completely blind (ironically (eye-ronically)) and that's exactly how it should be seen.
That being said, this is almost exclusively for fans of horror and/or people who can stomach quite a bit.
This is the kind of horror film I love in terms of building an atmosphere and being unpredictable. It's shocking to me that more people aren't talking about this as much as they talk about It Follows or The Babadook in terms of great modern horror movies, because it easily surpasses both of those films in terms of sheer terror (Though The Witch is still my favorite horror film of this decade).
The only complaint I can think of is that the ending doesn't really fit the tone that the rest of the movie did such a strong job of setting up.
I'm not gonna say anything else in terms of story because it's best to not know anything going in, but overall this is an incredibly confident film debut by 27-year old Nicolas Pesce, and one of the strongest arguments against anyone who says they don't make good horror movies anymore.
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