Vinyan

Vinyan (2008) is Fabrice Du Welz's bleak psychological horror, and you can watch online on iFILM. It stars Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell in a Belgian-French-British production shot deep in the Thai jungle.

Jeanne and Paul lost their young son in the 2005 tsunami. No body was ever recovered, and Jeanne refuses to accept that he died. In grainy footage about orphaned children living in the jungle, she swears she sees his face. The couple head back into Southeast Asia, hiring guides to reach the remote islands near the Burmese border. The deeper they push into the green, the thinner the line grows between hope and obsession. In local belief, vinyan are the restless spirits of those who died badly.

Du Welz works through dread rather than jump scares: black water, mud, rotting mangroves, children's faces flickering in the dark. Béart plays grief as a slow unraveling, and it is genuinely hard to sit with. This one is not for everyone, meditative, cruel, and offering no comfort at the end. A good match if you like festival horror in the vein of Gaspar Noé. Stream Vinyan (2008) online on iFILM.