Film
Yasmine
- Horror
- Dark fantasy
- Very dark
A supernatural thriller where a young woman's spirit is trapped in a remote mansion after a violent act, forced to haunt the space and its perpetrators. Visually ambitious and deeply unsettling, it blends body horror with existential dread. For viewers who want their horror to be art-house strange rather than conventionally scary.
Should you watch it?
Watch it if you're drawn to haunted-house atmosphere and a ghost story told in fragments, where mood carries far more weight than tidy explanation.
Skip it if you want a clear plot with a steady build, since this is more a sequence of images and unease than a story you can follow step by step.
What it asks of you: A dim, moody watch asks you to hold onto fragments and sit with discomfort, since much of its meaning sits in the gaps rather than in plain explanation.
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Amer2009
A fractured, dreamlike meditation on violence and the female form told through fractured images and sensory assault. Gorgeously composed and genuinely disorienting in ways that linger long after.
But The narrative barely exists—it's pure mood and texture, which means you have to surrender to abstraction rather than follow a story.
The Wailing2016
A mystery that spirals into spiritual and moral uncertainty, where ghosts and curses become metaphors for doubt itself. Methodically unsettling and thematically rich in unexpected ways.
But Nearly three hours long and refuses easy answers, which some find profoundly rewarding and others find frustrating.
The Little Stranger2018
A haunting (possibly) story of a doctor's attachment to a decaying English mansion and its family. Ambiguous about what's supernatural and what's psychological, with real emotional weight beneath the unease.
But The horror is quiet and cumulative rather than shocking, which means it only works if you're patient and attuned to dread.
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The wildcard
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The Fountain2006
Both use supernatural elements not as plot mechanics but as metaphors for psychological states—ghosts are grief, curses are despair, hauntings are the soul's refusal to accept what happened to the body.
Darren Aronofsky's three-timeline meditation on love, death, and rebirth told through visual poetry and existential despair. It's as much visual art as narrative, and its ambition to capture the uncapturable is breathtaking.
But It's willfully cryptic and emotionally demanding, and its baroque style overwhelms some viewers entirely—patience is non-negotiable.
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Under the Skin2014
Scarlett Johansson as an alien predator moving through Scotland in a slow, hypnotic nightmare. Genuinely alien in its perspective—you're always off-balance, never quite sure what's happening or why.
But There's barely any dialogue, almost no plot momentum, and it demands you sit with discomfort rather than offering catharsis.
A Dark Song2016
A woman hires an occultist for a spiritual ritual in an isolated Irish manor. Quiet, meditative, and surprisingly moving—grief and faith intertwine in ways that feel genuinely earned rather than manufactured.
But It's a chamber piece about faith and loss disguised as a supernatural thriller, so if you're expecting scares or action, you'll be disappointed.
Hush2016
A deaf-mute writer alone in a remote house hunted by a killer. Visceral, inventive, and genuinely tense without relying on jump scares. The sound design (or absence of it) becomes a character itself.
But The home-invasion premise is familiar and the violence is brutal—if you've seen one siege film, you've seen the bones of this one.
It Comes at Night2017
A family isolates themselves in a house during a plague, and paranoia slowly poisons their refuge from within. Minimalist and suffocating, with horror that comes from proximity and suspicion rather than monsters.
But The threat remains abstract throughout, and some find that restraint brilliant while others find it unsatisfying or pretentious.
Mulholland Drive2001
Like Yasmine, it traps consciousness in a space where the rules of time and identity no longer apply, using surrealism to express emotional truths that realism cannot reach.
David Lynch's fractured Hollywood nightmare where reality dissolves and identity becomes unreliable. A masterpiece that rewards obsessive rewatching and reads differently each time you encounter it.
But The narrative deliberately disintegrates in the second half—if you need coherence or closure, this will feel like a con, not a revelation.
Goodnight Mommy2015
Both films use violation and entrapment as vehicles for exploring fractured selfhood—the body becomes a prison when something violates it, and the spirit becomes the only escape route.
An Austrian horror film about two boys whose mother returns from facial surgery altered and wrong. Visually stunning, deeply unsettling, with a final twist that forces you to reconsider the entire film's moral and psychological landscape.
But It's intensely violent and disturbing, with a transgressive ending that many find cruel rather than cathartic. This is not comfort-horror.
People
Cast
- Myriam CharabatyYasmine
- Chloe CoyleLa femme
- Harry SawchukL'homme
Directing
- Raghed CharabatyDirector
Writing
- Raghed CharabatyWriter