Favorite films

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  The first half of Nosferatu was a masterful work of tension and atmosphere. The high contrast and the use of extreme shadow and glimpses made Orlok a deeply unsettling threat and the sound design was so oppressive, I really felt on edge through so much of it. For me, the movie loses a lot of that tension once Orlok is fully revealed on screen, combined with a lot of the wandering scenes of dialogue. There is an incredible interpretation of…

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  Alien Resurrection 1997

  ★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  Upon a rewatch, I once again discovered that I didn't dislike this one as much. Maybe I've mellowed over the years, maybe I'm less caught up in what the zeitgeist of feeling about these movies is, but either way I can appreciate the interesting things this movie did separately from it's downfalls.
  I still think a chunk of it is Joss Whedon backdoor piloting Firefly, and I still think that distracts me from the movie itself a little.
  But it's a ride.

Popular reviews

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  An absolutely flawless masterclass in sci-fi body horror and effects work. How I've managed to avoid it for this long I have no idea, but it's going to become an absolute long-standing favourite.
  Be afraid.
  Be very afraid.

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  The Night House 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2024

  The world's most deadly case of pareidolia.
  Tense and ambiguous, the small scale and intimacy of the Night House makes for a really engaging watch. So many movies are hyper focused on laying out a detailed explanation, to the point that you can almost chart the bullet points of information they decided to crow bar into the narrative. That's noticeably absent here, with so much left to our imagination. If Beth and Owen don't know it then neither do we,…