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Fall Horrorfest 2018 (40 movies items)" Watched October 24th Rating: Streamed on Shudder In the vast pool of media that uses mental illness as a trope in the horror genre, Take Shelter is probably one of the best quality and least offensive. It was somewhat anxiety-inducing to watch- it really just felt like a movie about a guy having a nervous, psychological breakdown for the vast majority of it. I liked that he was aware of his genetic predisposition for mental illness, his attempts to go get professional help, wrapped up in this"
My Movie Diary 2017 (217 movies items)" 11 January. Curtis suffers from a certain schizophrenia--he sees elaborate storms in daylight and have unexplained nightmares, and his mental disorder is destroying his family and welfare. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain give extraordinary performances in this intelligent, bewildering story written and directed by Jeff Nichols who, along with 2016's sci-fi Midnight Special seem to be saying, "move over M.Night Shyamalan." If only it wasn't a bit slow, it could've"
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Watched in 2017 (203 movies items)"Watched 01/04/2017 Rating 7.5/10 Format: Blu Ray Take Shelter might not be a well-known movie but with its great acting especially by Michael Shannon and good directing by Jeff Nichols more people should really check it out. "
Seen in 2016 (310 movies items)"The Gunman kinda ruined the beginning of this for me because I was just really bored and tired after that. Fortunately this film was good and interesting enough to reel me back in. "
