Joseph Wright

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Favorite films

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Persona
  • Carrie

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  • The Monkey

    ★★★

  • Evil Does Not Exist

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

  • Terrifier 3

    ★★★½

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★

    that monkey goes insano style

    i laughed

  • Evil Does Not Exist

    Evil Does Not Exist

    ★★★★½

    Incredible.

    I found myself challenged by the slowness of the opening 30 or so minutes, which came as a surprise to me considering I adore the work of Tarkovsky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. I even chatted with my wife during a brief pause to use the restroom about how I wondered if this would be a "show you the mundane so when the conflict/climax hits you wish you could could back to the peace of it" type of situation.

    HA! Wow.…

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  • The Outwaters

    The Outwaters

    ★★★½

    Watched this in the dark with headphones. The immersion is effective to the point where I felt tears coming up at times during the back half due to the real heavy anxiety it was conjuring in me, and the whole experience feels like losing complete control of your mind and body and just descending into depraved madness against your own will.

    Never seen anything like this before, regardless of you feel about the first half of the film, you can’t deny the visceral, punishing experience that it bestows on you once things start to go wrong.

    The sky opened up.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    My first time at the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn. Pretty awesome place - the food and drink were great, and overall I really dug the atmosphere.

    However, after eating mozzarella sticks and a cheeseburger - washed down with an IPA and a chocolate milkshake, I found myself struggling to stay awake during the second half of Nosferatu... a peril truly of my own making. The heating in the theater seemingly on full blast didn't help either.

    Alas, I will have…