Coralie in Sombre (1998)

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From France comes Sombre (1998), a stark, artful spelunk into the inner workings of a serial murderer that routinely horrifies audiences--some of whom love the film exactly for that reason. Sombre opens with its anti-hero, Jean (Marc Barbé), careening around French neighborhoods with a video camera, randomly strangling women. The first twenty-five minutes, in fact, consist solely of the killer's handheld footage. Eventually he picks up a pair of sisters (Géraldine Voillat and Elina Löwensohn) and lures them down into his cracked, terrifying existence. Along the way, naked female body parts abound, so, as Jean jokes with his victims, don't be shocked if you find yourself choking on your own chicken.