Dare I say it... I think I like this more than goodfellas - and I ain't just being funny!
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Rabid 1977
I appreciate the larger scale the film has compared to Shivers, but I feel it gets lost in all the ground it gives itself. With Shivers, its compactness was its strength; with Rabid, the story is all over the place - both in location and characters - and eventually traps itself into a repetitive cycle with its "person gets infected then infects someone else" formula. The disconnection between scenes takes away from the suspense and leaves the horror to inevitably…
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Wolf's Hole 1987
The amount of patience and restraint Věra Chytilová demostrates as a filmmaker in Wolf's Hole is so inspiring. Her commitment to the slow-burn style, which goes beyond slowness and develops into a subversive deconstruction of genre/narrative conventions, has such a smart and thematically-concious payoff. The story cleverly plays with the audience's expectation for violence and, through this, plays with the horror genre itself. Rarely do I see a film achieve such a sense of horror by not being overtly horrific…
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