Grief

12 works in the index tagged GRIEF, across every medium we score — film, television, print, audio and objects.

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg · 1973 · Film

Grief edited like a premonition. The ending is a knife.

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · 1983 · Book

King's bleakest. He sat on it for years because it upset him.

Jacob's Ladder

Adrian Lyne · 1990 · Film

Grief refusing to resolve. Every corridor is the same corridor.

Lake Mungo

Joel Anderson · 2008 · Film

A mock-documentary about grief that hides its worst image in plain sight.

Les Revenants

Canal+ · 2012 · Television

The dead come home and want their lives back. Almost unbearably sad.

The Babadook

Jennifer Kent · 2014 · Film

Grief with a pop-up book. The monster is not subtle and doesn't need to be.

The Fisherman

John Langan · 2016 · Book

Two widowers, a black creek, and cosmic grief. Slow, and then enormous.

A Dark Song

Liam Gavin · 2016 · Film

Ritual magic as tedious, exhausting labour. That is what makes it work.

Hereditary (OST)

Colin Stetson · 2018 · Record

Saxophone multiphonics as a nervous system giving out.

Midsommar

Ari Aster · 2019 · Film

Broad daylight, no shadows, nowhere to look away.

Midnight Mass

Mike Flanagan · 2021 · Television

A vampire story that would rather deliver a sermon, and does.

Talk to Me

Danny & Michael Philippou · 2022 · Film

Possession as a party trick, then as a consequence.