It has been a while since I last watched Eyes Wide Shut. And I've never logged it here on Letterboxd. I imagine I will have a lot to say. So let's get started.
The hype around Eyes Wide Shut was inescapable at the end of the millennium. The production famously dragged on for 400 days. Every week there was some blurb about it in Entertainment Weekly. Stanley Kubrick died before the film was released (but a few days after the…
I’m not sure where to begin. And I don’t know if I should say anything at all if I can even conjure up some words.
A highly complex film about the intersection of beauty, intelligence, misery, pain, gaze, and obsession.
I had heard good things about this film but I was not prepared for just how good it is. So much is not shown. So much is not said. And I was captivated throughout, immediately starting the film over while…
Man overboard!
Ever wonder what Robin Hardy did as a follow up to the horror classic The Wicker Man? Me neither apparently!
Typically when I watch a movie or think about movies, I end up going down the LB rabbit hole, researching other films from directors and actors. I guess I never looked into Hardy. Of course, I don’t think that I’ve watched The Wicker Man since I joined Letterboxd (definitely overdue for a rewatch).
Thirteen years later, Hardy gave…
Is it possible that this film did not go far enough into the absurd for me?
If you compare it to other horror films of 1986, I guess it falls in line. A bit of a transitional year in horror. You still have plenty of slashers, but you are starting to see some body horror come into play with The Fly and From Beyond. Gothic fits in with those films, but I just don’t think it pushed the fever…
Watched via Popcorn Frights Film Festival's virtual platform. I couldn't really commit to an entire film festival right now, but I really wanted to check out this film after reviewing their lineup (and this teaser trailer).
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes begins as a ghost story. A couple (well, really it seems, the woman within the couple) inherit a castle and have arrived to inspect it. They begin to feel a presence within the…
I'm very late to the discussion of this one. These days, I'm either very early from seeing it at a film festival, or very late by the time I get around to it once it shows up on whatever streaming option on which it lands.
I see two potential discussion paths for this film:
1. The film is about exploitation. There is plenty to go around, from the latest Haywood generation exploiting their great-great-great grandfather's notoriety, to the exploitation of…
