Nato And Remy’s Last Stand: “Serious” Directors Who Should Take A Stab At Horror

Nato – The Coen Brothers

These guys wouldn’t be great for straight horror, or any splatterific torture horror, but what they are great at is establishing downtrodden main characters and dragging them through the mud for what seems like utter pointlessness. Their most recent film, Inside Llewyn Davis, is essentially about a broken man, one who faces misfortune amidst his own challenges – but what happened if one of these characters snapped?

The Coen brothers should absolutely make a dark horror (comedic or not) about some type of lonely man going slowly insane, and then acting out against society. So many of their films end on an awkward note, or display victims of circumstance, and I want to see what happens after the credits roll. I want to see the Coens tackle a script about a man who starts to become haunted by his failures, turning into some type of maniacal monster. I’m dying for these brothers to get dirtier than they already have in their early crime thrillers, and I want to see a beast like Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men – except in proper horror form.

You look at films like Fargo and True Grit, and it’s hard to argue against their masterful atmospheric design. A major part of horror is maintaining terror, which I’d love to see the Coen brothers attempt at full steam. C’mon guys, can’t you try out pure horror just one time?