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  Carnival of Souls 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  I was expecting this to be more flat but boy was I wrong!! She’s a real character with pathos and shit! The photography looks so good and the characters have texture. And best of all, they don’t over explain it!!!!

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  The Mansion of Madness 1973

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Santa sangre vibes! Surreal and cartoonish with a good bit of nastiness. 

  The main thing holding it back for me was the lack of heart. Hard to invest when the protag is a heroic piece of cardboard.

  Claudio Brook’s charisma does so much for this film!!

Popular reviews

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  The Warriors 1979

  ★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2024

  The city photography has no right looking this good!! Every moment of the Riffs on screen looks so good, too. 

  There’s something so childlike about the world, it’s like a pre-teen’s idea of gangs. I also like how little explanatory dialogue there is! 

  I think the musical album is such a wildly successful modernization of this story. It gives a much more sympathetic and grounded emotional hook, but is just as quirked up as the movie. 

  The comic book transitions on the directors cut are so distracting 😭

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  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2024

  Hooptober 11

  I want to eat this movie!! I love the fucked up chairs!! 

  The performances, especially Caligari, remind me of clowning/mime, which I love so much. The trailer for the 2005 version looks really bad but I do want to see Doug Jones’ Cesare.

  Watching it this time, I was thinking about how it feels like a natural adaptation to opera? Or even a ballet? The expressive sets feel particularly opera, but Cesare’s design?? The leggings?? I need a…