Films and TV shows that feel like My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones
A sultry, simmering dread that erupts into raw catharsis, like heat-shimmer desire curdling into violence and a need to break free.
- Donnie Darko (2001): Suburban unease and dreamlike menace simmer beneath a sunlit surface.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Hazy, sensual suburban summer heat tinged with longing and doom.
- Fight Club (1999): Repressed rage boils over into chaotic catharsis, very late-90s.
- Southland Tales (2007): Sun-baked California strangeness and apocalyptic, woozy dread.
- mid90s (2018): Restless, bruised youth finding release in raw, reckless energy.
- Euphoria (2019): Hypnotic, sensual spirals of desire, numbness and outbursts in a hazy modern suburb.
- Twin Peaks (1990): Seductive, eerie atmosphere where quiet menace erupts without warning.
- Spun (2003): Feverish, grimy, nerve-frayed energy in a sweaty California underbelly.