Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina dancing the roles of both the White Swan and the Black Swan, in Darren Aronofsky's
psychological horror film Black Swan.
Not exact matches
The
film is equal parts
psychological thriller, nightmarish arthouse
horror and
black comedy; it's the pulsing dread of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby meets Haneke's gallows humour and Kubrickian clinical formalism.
His
film is a suspenseful,
black and white
psychological horror in the vein of M.R. James» ghost stories and their atmospheric BBC adaptations.
Now, The Wrap has been tipped off about the tone of the new
film, revealing that the
Black Swan director is dipping back into the world of
psychological horror.
And some may argue that
Black Swan deserves inclusion in this select Best Picture group — although this 2010 dance - dance - scarevolution is probably more accurately described as a
psychological horror film.