Horror movies are all the same these days. But finally, here's something new. Like early-career Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Violator is a deliberately-paced puzzle that keeps your skin creeping as it stays one step ahead of its audience, delivering unforgettably macabre images that hint at one of the darkest world views we've ever seen. The first half of his movie is a series of surreal vignettes as a hurricane approaches Manila: we meet an old cop haunted by a ghost and lung cancer, a young cop and his lover, two hipsters who set themselves on fire, a girl who jumps off a building, a church service that turns into a mass suicide. It's the end of the world and soon the cops have arrested a kid who claims to be possessed by the devil and locked him in the holding cells. But as the hurricane rips into Manila, their station is cut off from the outside world and they realize that what's inside with them is pure evil. Dark, despairing, and beautiful in its ugliness, Violator is one of the few horror movies in recent years to be as interested in emotions as jump scares.