Horror revels in using metaphor to dissect the many fears of our daily lives. Vampires, ghosts, demons, and their varied paranormal brethren exist as prisms to refract our various concerns and find the painfully human inner truth. Sometimes, it’s just easier to deal with the dark forces of reality through the lens of the unreal. Few films prove the necessity of that thesis more than Don’t Look Now, an agonizingly real horror film that almost strips itself entirely of magic and mysticism to reveal there is nothing scarier than that which we all must face.
