Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009)

With: Melissa George, imdb isn't working so I can't name any of the others

Plot: The harried mother of an autistic boy takes a great leap when she agrees to go on a date in a friend's yaught, but the boat ends up in the middle of a storm and George and friends must take refuge on a mysteriously abandoned cruise ship, which is playing host to the same horrific events on an endless loop.

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It seems fairly unassuming, if well handled at first, but this soon grows into a mind-blowing labyrinthe of horror, complicated and with constantly morphing meaning (first a slasher, then a ghost story, then a psychological punishment), but utterly satisfying. The importance of details is never overstated, letting us forget about many of the film's twists and loose ends until they are resolved and given shocking new contexts as the plot twists back on itself. I'm maybe overrating it a bit, for those not interested in marvelling at such a watertight cobweb of a plot and wondering at the psychological meaning of it all, this will come across as an efficiently scary but somewhat impenetrable standard horror ghost train. It had me thinking about it for a couple of days though.

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