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Films like Arrebato.

Arrebato (1979) reads as Heavy, measured, extreme horror / experimental, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Blue Velvet (1986) poster
1. Blue Velvet1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Shout (1978) poster
2. The Shout1978

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Performance (1970) (1970) poster
3. Performance1970

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Inferno (1980) (1980) poster
4. Inferno1980

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Tenant (1976) (1976) poster
5. The Tenant1976

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Images (1972) poster
6. Images1972

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

El Topo (1970) poster
7. El Topo1970

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) (1969) poster
8. Horrors of Malformed Men1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Brood (1979) poster
9. The Brood1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Double Suicide (1969) poster
10. Double Suicide1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Videodrome (1983) poster
11. Videodrome1983

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

3 Women (1977) poster
12. 3 Women1977

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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