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Favorite films

  • Personal Shopper
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Candyman
  • My Twentieth Century

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  • Lost Highway

    ★★★

  • Red Rooms

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • The Black Tower

    ★★★★

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  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★

    Surprisingly Ellroyesque. Looks and sounds incredible, very effective unpleasant atmosphere, total bad dream. A few years ago I had a really disorienting and scary bout of flu coming home from Glasgow after reading A Thread of Violence and it felt not unlike this.

    Watched this on archive.org on a macbook and the way black like crawls and squirms on a retina display really added something to the first act.

    So many big names in tiny roles but still I was…

  • The Black Tower

    The Black Tower

    ★★★★

    Cute and intriguing little film, takes a coy, teasing delight in its own construction.

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  • End of Days

    End of Days

    ★★½

    Unintentionally watched the back 2/3rds of this on Christmas night in shitty quality on 5 Action TV and turned 30 years old at midnight just as Arnold reads Revelation 20:7.

    The perfect midpoint between Max Payne and the Constantine movie*, 90s Image Comics and 70s US studio horror. Some wonderful textures and lighting, though never quite as yucky Fincher-gothic as it probably should be. Great supporting cast kinda wasted tbh, although Gabriel Byrne's Satan peeing in the street and then…

  • Terrifier 3

    Terrifier 3

    ★★★★

    Felt rushed and a bit abrupt towards the end, which one imagines as a reaction to the reaction to Terrifier 2's runtime... kind of a shame! Not the most notable "we have heard your comments" bit of this film though... Art you scamp!

    I liked how vibes-based the supernatural stuff was in previous installments and this did stray dangerously close to "lore" on occasion, though it doesn't quite fall in.

    Nice lighting, nice textures. Some really nice production design/location/set work…

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