Psychedelic Noise: My Castle of Quiet

My Castle of Quiet Movie Night #2

Bug (2006) - William "Exorcist" Friedkin's last feature; a brilliant treatise on the horrors of the mind -- maybe drugs, maybe bugs. The tension builds perfectly, as the characters' reality slips away. Starring the excellent Michael Shannon with Ashley Judd.

Haute Tension (2003), dir. by Alexandre Aja. A brutal and merciless killer is roaming the French countryside -- or is he? One of the best horror films of the 2000s, a real seat-jumper; this is the original, subtitled French version, a much better watch than the dubbed version that ran in U.S. theatres.