Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hell Fest 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jul 2021

  This was everything I could want in a low-budget Netflix slasher. Plus a cameo from Candyman himself? Can’t go wrong.

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  The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It 2021

  ★½ Watched 04 Jun 2021

  It took about 25 minutes for me to realize the series had made the critical error of going from James Wan to Not James Wan. At least we’ll always have the first two Conjuring films.

Popular reviews

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2020

  Few films that I’ve seen have had the impact that TCM had on me. From the first brutally simple kill onwards, this film is a practice in sheer, unrelenting terror achieved through chilling simplicity in set and sound design, minimal characterization, and quick-hitting disturbing imagery.

  One of my favorite aspects of this film is the pervasive metaphor comparing the protagonists to cattle in a slaughterhouse. It’s done so disturbingly well, and every time I watch I notice more details correlating to…

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  Samurai Cop 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Aug 2020

  Rife with hilariously awkward dialogue, atrocious acting, terribly choreographed fight and action sequences, recycled dubbed lines of audio, remarkably incompetent editing (some scenes cut between different times of day, locations, character outfits, etc), an insane narrative, and shameless early 90s sexism. Is this one of the best worst movies of all time?
  
  *puts mouth to stethoscope* 

  Bingo.

  If The Room gets 5 stars, Samurai Cop gets 5 stars. I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.