10 Movies To Watch If You Love The Perfection

The movie The Perfection was released in 2018 and directed by Richard Shepard, the perfect LGBTQ thriller to horrify, disgust, and possibly even empower those who watch it. It doubles as horror and action as it leads the audiences down a strange and tricky narrative that takes great pleasure in tricking them into thinking what they’re seeing is the only reality they’re getting.

Following the viewing of this pulpy, entertaining movie, viewers will likely be hungry for more creatively off-kilter and graphic filmmaking that challenges society’s morals brings intensity to its thrills and presents powerful characters to inspire greatness in their own unconventional ways.

With several of these movies featuring sexual assault, please be advised before reading.

10 The Woman (2011)

Directed by Lucky McKee in 2011, The Woman is the sequel to cannibal-thriller-horror The Offspring, though its subject matter and its themes are quite different from its predecessor. The Woman is a commentary on what happens when one of the cannibals, the only surviving and tougher-than-nails mother, is held hostage by a patriarch-lead, all-American family through the excuse of “civilizing” her.

This horror-thriller presents and observes what happens when toxic masculinity is given too much power in society and how it takes tragic effect in family and relationships, much like in The Perfection.

9 What Keeps You Alive (2018)

Another LGBTQ thriller, What Keeps You Alive had a quiet release on Netflix in 2018, which, for the best viewing experience on behalf of the viewer, is wonderful. Like The Perfection, this survival-thriller subverts expectations to present a distressing situation in which the stakes are not only high, but the dangers are believable as well.

Some characters are relatable, while one other is hauntingly terrifying and may go down as one of the most formidable movie villains of the decade.

8 Ready or Not (2019)

In a film that more closely follows The Perfection’s tone and style, Samara Weaving stars as a bride on her wedding day in this 2019 comedy-horror about a killer family and their cursed tradition of playing deadly games.

Left to her own devices, the bride, named Grace, is forced to play Hide and Seek. If she is found, then the family is forced to kill her, or they themselves will suffer a fate bestowed upon them by a deadly deal.

7 Hard Candy (2005)

Sharing The Perfection’s theme of revenge and commenting on society and toxic masculinity, this iconic 2005 David Slade film is one of the greatest of its kind.

The psychological thriller follows a cat-and-mouse game as Elliot Page stars as a young teen who connects with their online boyfriend–a predator played by Patrick Wilson, looking to take advantage of young women. The film subverts any unknowing audience’s expectations to a sophisticated degree. It takes care to emphasize unfolding the character’s guilt and ego as he struggles to defend himself for unforgivable acts.

6 Mayhem (2017)

Similar to The Perfection’s biting sense of humor and scale of violence, Joe Lynch’s 2017 workplace action-comedy Mayhem. The movie stars Steven Yeun as Derek, a lawyer who’s fed up with working at his office place in the midst of the Red Eye pandemic–the virus takes over a host and makes them impulsive and act out of rage, disregarding morality.

When their office is quarantined upon coming down with the virus, Steven and Melanie, a woman who was denied an extension on a loan, fight their way through the hierarchy of the office to take it over as all rules and laws are disregarded for the infected seeing as they cannot control themselves.

5 Teeth (2007)

In a horror-comedy that follows a young woman named Dawn who is forced to face misogyny on all levels in her small town and church, the notable 2007’s subtext is undeniable. Both Teeth and The Perfection stand up to society’s misogyny in their own creative ways.

In Dawn’s case, it’s being able to defend herself through the discovery that she has sharp teeth in her vagina, or “vagina dentata.” Though the traumas she endures are difficult to watch, viewers may find satisfaction in seeing how she retaliates.

4 American Mary (2012)

Like The Perfection, American Mary’s characters and plot are motivated by an inciting incident in which the protagonists are abused, degraded, and mistreated, forcing their hands into an extreme reaction to take control of their mental wellness.

The slasher film follows Mary, a med student training to be a surgeon who is betrayed by her professors and community in a tragic incident after being bullied and gaslit by them. She ends up in the underground industry of extreme body modification, finding she’s growing emptier the longer her rage eats at her.

3 Cam (2018)

Released in 2018, Cam is a psychological-horror that studies the intensity and stigma of being a sex worker with some fantasy elements thrown in.

Like in The Perfection, the protagonist, a hard-working camgirl named Alice, is forced to face people whose ideas of respecting others, particularly women, have been negatively shaped by society and, as a result, has made it a much more difficult and dangerous world for her to be in.

2 Assassination Nation (2018)

Directed by Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, this overlooked LGBTQ+ 2018 coming-of-age thriller reveals many of the horrors women and youth have to face. Assassination Nation in many respects, is a horror movie, realizing the contradictory nature of how society portrays people and how it shapes their expectations to a tragic effect.

The film is shaped into a brutal revenge flick after the four main characters are demonized by the townspeople, following an anonymous leak revealing incrimination information about Salem’s residents.

1 Promising Young Woman (2020)

A perfect film to pair with The Perfection as a double-feature, this 2020 revenge dark-comedy stars Carey Mulligan as a 30-year-old ex-med-student who goes on the prowl to seek and punish men who are sexually abusive to try and prevent them from being so again.

This intelligent display of how society allows men to commit a range of atrocities from microaggressions, to sexual harassment, to rape, while their victims are left to suffer without any provision of actual justice and comfort. Promising Young Woman beautifully walks the line of right and wrong. Its protagonist bravely makes sacrifices to ensure whatever morality is left in people is defended and righteously punishes those who deserve it.

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