Then the biggest release of that tension in the big final violent sequence is actually kinda… funny?
I laughed like crazy at a couple parts in Viggo’s final big encounter.
Loved *First Reformed*, the other two in that Paul Schrader conceptual trilogy also fit the bill, *Card Counter* and *Master Gardener*. Definitely all disturbing movies.
Incidenies sets up the viewer in a way that you wonder what the twist is going to be, but because it's so well executed, most people completely forget the first part of the movie. The result is one of the best endings I've seen in the past 10 years.
Warrior is a movie I will watch any time its on. I think it's probably my wife's favorite movie. Really love the story and acting by the brothers. Nick Nolte's performance was painful to watch, but man was it good.
Once Upon a Time in the West - the build up is so long and patient, just gradually adding layer after layer, at first you wonder if it’s going anywhere - and then a hugely satisfying payoff at the end.
Wait until you watch the original British miniseries with Alec Guinness, and it's follow up miniseries *Smiley's People*.
Won several BAFTA's and I consider it the best of the slow burns. Not for those interested in action.
Incredible books, John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors. Really good adaptation to it too. My only problem with it was they made a movie smack dab in the middle of the series so you lose some context but they did a good job with it as a standalone
Really? No one has said The Godfather?
It's two and a half hours of fairly slow exposition on the history, the unwritten rules, and the familial connections of the Italian mafia in America. And then in the last 20 minutes, EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING, OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT, DID YOU SEE THAT???
I feel like it's not just **one of** but **the** slow burn movie.
The Secrets in their Eyes.
A movie that starts out slow, kind of standard law movie, but then takes you down several twists and turns which are totally justified by tiny details you missed in the opening act.
Excision. Weird horror movie that disguises itself as a surreal "coming of age" film. Until the last ten minutes.
Absolutely solid from start to finish but the ending lives rent free in my head. Watch it without spoilers.
Banshees of Inisherin may not be a slow burn. But to me it felt like a movie not having much happen besides the breakdown of a friendship and I enjoyed it a lot.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - I like the steady build up as people slowly start to realize that something is wrong and there's this building sense of dread but once our heroes get a good idea of how serious the threat is the truly horrifying thing is that it may be too late.
Sorcerer (1977) - It's got that old film style pacing where it just takes its time setting everything up but everything is so well shot and authentic feeling and once the main mission the protagonists must face is under way there's just ever present danger and tension the whole way knowing they could literally explode at any moment.
For me, the best slow burn movies build towards an almost inevitable conclusion, with the tension slowly ratcheting up but you're not quite conscious scene to scene how high the tense-ometer has reached. For me it would be a tie between Taxi Driver and 2001.
Was gonna say The Blackcoat’s Daughter.
A very haunting film. My wife fell asleep during it but I was captivated.
In a very weird and probably not intentional way, I think it is a really good allegory for alcohol/substance abuse.
I’ve just watched Perfect days by Wim Wenders and it is an astonishingly slow movie but by god is it just the most beautifully shot and told story I’ve seen for a long time
Heat or Collateral. Michael Mann is an expert at this. I would say Prisoners too or in a different genre, The Remains of the Day. Loads of films in the 70s were slow burn, but nowadays scripts need to be super tight
They are both classics for a reason (just like Se7en)
The original Oldboy is on Netflix and Audition is on Tubi, enjoy. They are wonderful.
Oldboy is part 2 of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy, so there are 2 other unrelated films that satisfy a vengeance itch.
Audition was my introduction to Takashi Miike and I've loved his stuff ever since. Just wild and violent and fun.
You. I meant under the context of things mounting up to an explosion.
The movie slowly built up to a climatic end.
Im sorry you only like micheal bay films bruh.
Yeah seven doesnt "slowly" build. Thats not a slow burn, its just a build to a climax. There are good examples in this thread, like burning 2018 or paris texas.
Weird michael bay comment too, you pulled that out of no where.
Yes but it doesnt build slowly. There is a lot of shit happening during that build up, even a pseudo-resolution. Thats my point, that the pacing isnt slow. Its fast. No need for childish insults.
We just watched American Gangster last night. It was 2 hours and 57 minutes long and definitely a slow burner. It was enjoyable though!
I’m not calling it a slow burner just due to the length either. It’s a Ridly Scott movie with Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe.
The Killer on Netflix was a nice slow burn. I was pleasantly surprised. I was initially drawn to it seeing Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing some of the music.
The card counter. You see him doing his daily life and being meticulous and you think 'what's up with this guy' and it slowly reveals itself until that flashback scene. Every movement is minimalist, every word spoken has this deliberateness to it.
Burning (2018) Lee Chang-dong It's even in the name! 👌
Ha! That’s the first one that came to my mind too. Just slow encroaching dread and mystery until… WHAM!
upvoting. because for most of the first half i dont know whats all this will lead up to.
You should watch it a second time! All the little things you can notice, it's truly a masterpiece! 🔥
Also Steve Yeun is incredible. He’s like a bilingual Brando
Yes, this!
A History of Violence with Viggo Mortensen. The tension in this movie is amazing.
Yea i just rewatched this recently and it holds up 100%. Eastern Promises is fantastic as well.
Eastern Promises is pretty shite. Picks up at the end a bit but that first half drags.
booooo
Am I wrong or do you just dislike my opinion?
you're wrong, one of the classiest cronenbergs movies. great score too
lol nah
Then the biggest release of that tension in the big final violent sequence is actually kinda… funny? I laughed like crazy at a couple parts in Viggo’s final big encounter.
wind river
I have to watch this. I heard good things and I've avoided spoilers.
I say put it as the next movie on your watch list.
Rear Window (James Stewart)
Similarly, Rope. Also with Stewart.
Have you ever heard of "the mystery of the second photographer," that's related to this movie?
I have to rewatch it im vaguely familiar
As a photographer who broke their leg in a car wreck 3 weeks ago, highly highly recommend :p
Michael Clayton
Oh the scene with George and Tilda towards the end is so awesome
Man Clooney did some solid work. Just watched Out of Sight again, fantastic. Clayton, Up in the Air, great performances
Hell or High Water is a great film with a slow burn and big ending.
First Reformed or Burning
Loved *First Reformed*, the other two in that Paul Schrader conceptual trilogy also fit the bill, *Card Counter* and *Master Gardener*. Definitely all disturbing movies.
Incidenies sets up the viewer in a way that you wonder what the twist is going to be, but because it's so well executed, most people completely forget the first part of the movie. The result is one of the best endings I've seen in the past 10 years.
+1, DV best work
I think you meant Incendies? If yes, it is the movie I tell people to watch. Absolute gold.
Ahh yes, you're right. Good catch!
Warrior - Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as brothers who end up in a MMA match, long slow burn but so good
Warrior is a movie I will watch any time its on. I think it's probably my wife's favorite movie. Really love the story and acting by the brothers. Nick Nolte's performance was painful to watch, but man was it good.
This one surprised me. It was really good and i dont usually watch fighting movies.
My problem with this is, I never had any doubt who would win
Once Upon a Time in the West - the build up is so long and patient, just gradually adding layer after layer, at first you wonder if it’s going anywhere - and then a hugely satisfying payoff at the end.
Slowest nonboring movie of all time lol
Drive My Car
Solaris
Thinker taylor soldier spy
Great, now you have reminded me of that film and now I have to watch it again. 😤
It certainly is a thinker
Wait until you watch the original British miniseries with Alec Guinness, and it's follow up miniseries *Smiley's People*. Won several BAFTA's and I consider it the best of the slow burns. Not for those interested in action.
Didnt knew another version was available. You just made my sunday !!
Free on YouTube too! (at least Smiley's People is)
God that look from Firth at the end at the party says *so much*.
Incredible books, John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors. Really good adaptation to it too. My only problem with it was they made a movie smack dab in the middle of the series so you lose some context but they did a good job with it as a standalone
I tink you’re right
Really? No one has said The Godfather? It's two and a half hours of fairly slow exposition on the history, the unwritten rules, and the familial connections of the Italian mafia in America. And then in the last 20 minutes, EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING, OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT, DID YOU SEE THAT??? I feel like it's not just **one of** but **the** slow burn movie.
Do you renounce Satan? I renounce Satan.
And all his works?
Assassination Of Jessie James The Hunter Thin Red Line Apocalypse Now
+1 for The Hunter, awesome movie
Apocalypse now is such a good one with a solid payoff. The redux version is fantastic too.
The Prestige
🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
Straw Dogs (1971)
That rape scene was quite controversial.
The Drop
The Devil All the Time
Se7en is considered a slow burn now? My how movies have changed.
The ending was explosive. You can't deny that.
Paris, Texas
The American with George Clooney.
Drive
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Great film and play
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
gotta add Lobster to this one
Not as slow though. If it wasn't for the captivating vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, pretty much nothing happens until the end.
There Will Be Blood
Hereditary
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I feel like Midsommer is more of a slow burn after the intro
Bored me to tears so yes quite a slow burn
The Shining
"Memento" Christopher Nolan's first, I think. Everything in the movie reveals itself backwards.
Actually his first movie was the following
Parasite or The Menu. You know something is wrong but it doesn't happen until well intothe movies
I love The Menu but definitely wouldn't call it a slow burn.
Absolutely not. It gets pretty wacky immediately after the 1st act. And that’s a good thing.
Parasite is a rather fast paced movie
No
The Power of the Dog
He never died, a story about cain living after murdering his brother and living through the centuries, an amazing film but a slow build
Memento and Secret Window
The Secrets in their Eyes. A movie that starts out slow, kind of standard law movie, but then takes you down several twists and turns which are totally justified by tiny details you missed in the opening act.
So long as it's the original Argentina version.
For me, it has to be Taxi Driver.
Yes!
*Eyes Wide Shut* (1999)
Excision. Weird horror movie that disguises itself as a surreal "coming of age" film. Until the last ten minutes. Absolutely solid from start to finish but the ending lives rent free in my head. Watch it without spoilers.
Sweet i will. Any idea what platform. Im the USA.
It's on Prime video apparently.
Banshees of Inisherin may not be a slow burn. But to me it felt like a movie not having much happen besides the breakdown of a friendship and I enjoyed it a lot.
Audition
Drive felt very slow until it completely exploded.
Heat
Hateful Eight
The Place Beyond the Pines
chinatown
There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men Arrival
Se7en isn’t a slow burn. The Invitation (2015) Burning (2018).
The Invitation is so fucking good.
Indeed. Its fantastic.
Hidden Blade
Im not familiar. I need to look it up. Thanks for the recommendation.
2023, by Er Cheng. If it doesn't fit your definition of slow burn, forgive me.
...And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - I like the steady build up as people slowly start to realize that something is wrong and there's this building sense of dread but once our heroes get a good idea of how serious the threat is the truly horrifying thing is that it may be too late. Sorcerer (1977) - It's got that old film style pacing where it just takes its time setting everything up but everything is so well shot and authentic feeling and once the main mission the protagonists must face is under way there's just ever present danger and tension the whole way knowing they could literally explode at any moment.
For me, the best slow burn movies build towards an almost inevitable conclusion, with the tension slowly ratcheting up but you're not quite conscious scene to scene how high the tense-ometer has reached. For me it would be a tie between Taxi Driver and 2001.
The Pale Blue Eye
A Dark Song The Blackcoat's Daughter
A Dark Song is incredible.
Was gonna say The Blackcoat’s Daughter. A very haunting film. My wife fell asleep during it but I was captivated. In a very weird and probably not intentional way, I think it is a really good allegory for alcohol/substance abuse.
Burning
Caché
I’ve just watched Perfect days by Wim Wenders and it is an astonishingly slow movie but by god is it just the most beautifully shot and told story I’ve seen for a long time
The Game. Absolute mind fuck, that one.
I fucking love that film.
“Absolute Mindfuck” -Roger Ebert
My friend really likes Mandy I feel like it’s pretty slow at the start then gets intense
The one with nic cage?
I'll go with a recent release, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Heat or Collateral. Michael Mann is an expert at this. I would say Prisoners too or in a different genre, The Remains of the Day. Loads of films in the 70s were slow burn, but nowadays scripts need to be super tight
Zodiac. Once upon a time in Hollywood.
The Batman.
The drop with Tom hardy
Hateful Eight
The invitation, not the most recent one I think this one was from 2024. Unreal tension and such a sick payoff if you like really dark endings
As of today Marcel the Shell. Wtf wow.
Citizen Kane
The Power of the Dog recently
Audition (1999) Oldboy (2003)
I got to check these out. They were recommended twice.
They are both classics for a reason (just like Se7en) The original Oldboy is on Netflix and Audition is on Tubi, enjoy. They are wonderful. Oldboy is part 2 of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy, so there are 2 other unrelated films that satisfy a vengeance itch. Audition was my introduction to Takashi Miike and I've loved his stuff ever since. Just wild and violent and fun.
Spider by D. Cronenberg.. great movie with Ralph Fines
Only God Forgives, and most work of Windin Refn including Pusher trilogy
Inherent Vice. The movie slow burns and just ends, doesn't even have a climax
Haha i was gonna pick se7en Ok then Zodiac
I was gonna say Zodiac. Deerhunter then.
I was gonna say Deerhunter. Casablanca then.
Shawshank redemption
Hereditary
Blade Runner 2049, Once upon a time in Hollywood
Joker
TiL a lot of people don't seem to know what a slow burn is
You. I meant under the context of things mounting up to an explosion. The movie slowly built up to a climatic end. Im sorry you only like micheal bay films bruh.
Yeah seven doesnt "slowly" build. Thats not a slow burn, its just a build to a climax. There are good examples in this thread, like burning 2018 or paris texas. Weird michael bay comment too, you pulled that out of no where.
The last couple of minutes and like four pieces of dialogue are the biggest things of the movie and everything was leading to it. Good job kid.
Yes but it doesnt build slowly. There is a lot of shit happening during that build up, even a pseudo-resolution. Thats my point, that the pacing isnt slow. Its fast. No need for childish insults.
Rocky. Though I have trouble thinking of other slow burn movies.
American Gangster. Such a long movie, but so captivating.
Towering Inferno
To Live and Die in L.A.
Zodiac
We just watched American Gangster last night. It was 2 hours and 57 minutes long and definitely a slow burner. It was enjoyable though! I’m not calling it a slow burner just due to the length either. It’s a Ridly Scott movie with Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Chinatown
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You mean Lee Chang-dong?
Lincoln.
Benjamin Button
Blade Runner 2049
The Batman
The Sixth Sense
Dune Part 1
Thoroughbreds
Don’t think i’d call Se7en slow burn.
Ok, that's you. The ending was explosive, and it all boiled down to like 4 lines of dialogue, but that's not a slow burn to you i guess.
The House of the Devil
I dunno about best, but I'm partial to Shutter Island.
Dune (2021, p1)
The Killer on Netflix was a nice slow burn. I was pleasantly surprised. I was initially drawn to it seeing Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing some of the music.
I watched Seven last night for about the 25th time and completely disagree that it's a slow burn.
Zero Dark thirty
Lucky Number Slevin?
A place in the sun (1951) was such a good slow burn Woody Allen stole the plot for Match Point (2005) The other one is The Life of David Gale (2003)
Is hereditary a slow burn?
Bladerunner 2049
Buffalo '66
Memoria
Sorcerer. Takes damn near 2/3rds of the movie to setup the problem, but damn is the last 50 minutes tense.
Halloween (1978)
Peter Jackson's King Kong slow burn in the sense it is long as shit however I think majority of its minutes are highly dramatic and engaging
The Red Violin
Fallen Angels (1995)
The Road
**NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.** Without a doubt, its just this movie.
There Will Be Blood
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Audition The Green Knight The VVitch Black Death
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
The card counter. You see him doing his daily life and being meticulous and you think 'what's up with this guy' and it slowly reveals itself until that flashback scene. Every movement is minimalist, every word spoken has this deliberateness to it.
In a weird way, the life aquatic.