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Rating: 10/10 (14 May 2001)

Requiem For A Dream is the scariest movie of all time. At least it's the most disturbing. It's very scary to see what happens to the characters. Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connely, and even Marlon Wayans give chilling performances. Once you see the movie, you are chilled about the three different stories that you have nightmares for two weeks. Three stories in a drug movie seems to be a trend now, seeming as Traffic does the same thing. While Traffic weaves their stories a bit more well, Requiem's is by far alot more harrowing. This is far more scary then Ellen Burstyn's big hit The Excorcist, which in my opinion, I thought was a hilarious movie. Ellen Burstyn deserves her nomination here, she was better than Roberts, who won. In fact, this movie deserved nominations for sound, score, editing, cinematography, adapted screenplay, supporting actress(Connely), director(for Aronofsky's brilliant direction) and best picture. I thought this was by far the second best film of the year, just losing to Traffic. Even though I am child, I wouldn't recommend showing this one to your fifteen year old. I'm sorry if that's hypocritical.