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more horror film stuff 

I wonder if there are enough films out there to compose a "transcendent horror" subgenre? Stuff like Beyond the Black Rainbow, Phase IV, Martyrs, and Jissatsu Sākuru-- psych horror where the protagonists are put through absolute hell, but it all turns out to be in the service of their enlightenment. Films with cosmic "horrors" that are terrifyingly alien but not necessarily *evil*-- just totally corrosive to normal humanity.

Honestly, I'm a fucked-up enough individual that if I had to pick a "native genre" to live in for the rest of my life... that might be the one. I've always kinda wanted to be a space monster at heart.

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