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  Companion 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Glossy and timely. Solidly made and not overly challenging. Modern dude perspective is fueling a lot of horrific concepts these days.

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  Jacob's Ladder 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  I saw this once before, back in the 99s. I remembered it being an indecipherable film, Lovecraftian and unsettling, with a twist ending.

  Now I find it to be an interesting horror movie setup that eases out of scares and into existential drama. Where I once thought the ending was unearned and contrived, now I see it as obvious and candidly less interesting than I remembered.

  I also think the final text card undermines the core theme of the movie, existing almost as a nod to an earlier intended version of the script.

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  Repulsion 1965

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Don't leave your mentally ill sibling alone for days.

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  Return to the 36th Chamber 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Jul 2024

  Expected a weak retread and sequel to the first, but got something a bit different. Still a similar story of a man heading to Shaolin to train in kung fu before coming back home to right the wrongs of oppression but... Where the first movie felt like the retelling of a true story, this one was more of a comedy. At first it felt silly and inferior to the first, but with time, it was just fun with an endearing sense of humor--all credit for that going to Gordon Liu's performance--that's even more surprising compared to the earnestness of the first movie.

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