CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@limebar this thread is my jam. I’m going to nominate Robert Wise’s 1963 The Haunting - Wise understood way before anyone else that horror in the viewer’s imagination is always going to be scarier than anything you can put on screen. This idea was later perfected by Michael Hanneke with Funny Games - a truly horrific movie with absolutely no on-screen violence, originally released on video in the UK with a PG rating because it didn’t cross any of the BBFC’s guidelines.

@jrp back in the 90s I used to put Solaris on as nightclub visuals, your point about visual storytelling is bang on, you could actually still follow the plot despite the soundtrack being Carl Cox having the time of his life.