In the two decades that he’s been making movies, Christopher Nolan has touched upon many different genres in film.
He routinely breaks new ground in science fiction with films like Inception and Interstellar and he delivered a mind-bending thriller with The Prestige.
He rose to prominence with the Dark Knight trilogy and helped change the landscape for the superhero movie in the process.
One of the genres that Nolan hasn’t fully upon is horror.
While there’s an argument to be made that his latest film Oppenheimer veers into the horrific with its depiction of the destruction the atomic bomb would wreak and the subsequent psychological impact on the movie’s protagonist, Nolan actually delivered a stealth pseudo-horror film in the form of his 2017 war epic, Dunkirk.
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