It certainly has elements of it and IMDB and Wikipedia list it as Psychological Horror. I mean it is no Silence of the Lambs, but it can get to you.
Plus Darren Aronofsky can do some really creepy shit (see "Requiem for a Dream").
There is no "last girl" here and certainly no one is murdered (except for a hallucination) and we can never really be sure of Nina's (Natalie Portman) ultimate fate (though to stick with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake theme she certainly died).
Portman gave a fantastic, Oscar worthy, performance, as to be expected, and Mila Kunis was also really good as Lily.
This movie was a happenstance for this challenge. I do not have it on tape but it was on one of the movie channels.
A good movie makes you think afterwards. Though not all movies that make you think are necessarily good. This is both. Sometimes Aronofsky can get on my nerves, but this was a good one.
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