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  The Blair Witch Project 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Oct 2024

  Hit me in a way I didn't expect in that it's ultimately about failing to make a movie and the guilt of letting down a lot of people you care about. Heather's apology into camera, her gaze occasionally diverting to fixate on something potentially horrific just off screen, destroyed me. She can't explain what went wrong, but she knows she was woefully unprepared for what they tried to accomplish. Obviously the standing in the corner moment is pointing to the…

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  Train to Busan 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2024

  Totally deserves its rep as part of the zombie movie classics canon. Tonally, it's much less forlorn or elegiac than Romero's foundational trilogy but still dedicated and fluent in the social politics and class critique that defines those movies' legacies, if not in a more obvious, inelegant kind of way. Instead, this substitutes the kind of slow, decaying, tragic fall-of-an-empire apocalypse of Romero, or the chaotic, rageful final bellows of normalcy of Garland/Boyle's 28 Days Later with a kind of…

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  Resident Evil 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jun 2020

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Apr 2020

  My immediate assessment was that, while sensually amazing (the POV shots are impossible to resist and this has some of the best sound design I've ever heard; incredible, selective use of synths and the slow-building drone towards huge sonic explosions which are used sparingly to increase the horror of the imagery give everything a totally dream-like quality, sound and image are in total synchronicity), this didn't share the same kind of cutting social critique that makes the Romero zombie trilogy…