Black Swan - 9/10
Finally saw it, these are the kind of "scary" movies I like, although it's obviously more psychological than horror. Has Aronofsky made a bad movie yet?
Portman was great, she definitely deserved an Oscar for that performance. I didn't really have much trouble keeping up with what was fake and what wasn't, but the one scene I'm still up in the air about is the one when Portman visits Ryder in the hospital to return her things.
Overall very good, even though Aronofsky used one of my most hated horror tricks, what I call the "Ooga Booga!", where basically you just try to get the audience to jump using loud noises/sudden movements/someone arriving on camera unexpectedly.
I think it's a cheap way to get a reaction out fo the audience, but he did a good job of drawing out the tension in the rest of the film.
My one major critique is that it felt more like a short story than a full on arc, the scale of the film itself was pretty small, but I'm sure that also resulted in a modest film budget.