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Recent reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Christ.

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  Blackout 2023

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  As someone that absolutely loves Larry Fessenden, this was a total bummer. It's just... not very good.

  Larry has always wanted to make a werewolf movie. In fact, in one of my earliest interviews with him, he said he'd do anything to make Marvel's WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. And I'm glad he got to scratch that itch, I just wish he had better resources to fully realize his vision, because there's some really good stuff here!

  I rather like the opening…

Popular reviews

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  Novocaine 2025

  Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Way back in 2004, I had seen and fallen in love with a horror movie called MALEVOLENCE, which was made by a Long Island filmmaker named Stevan Mena. The film asks, what if a group of amateur bank robbers stumbled into the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE house and Michael Myers was living there? It felt like a modernized version of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN. A few years later, Mena followed it up with a prequel, BEREAVEMENT, where we learn that Martin, the…

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 06 Aug 2024

  I know that David Cronenberg has kids, and that they're both making genre movies these days. But let's face it. Coralie Fargeat is his true heir!

  Demi Moore gives one of the bravest performances of her career as an aging actress / host of a fitness show. When her sleazy producer, Dennis Quaid, boots her in search of a much younger, "hotter" replacement, she learns about this experimental drug called "the substance." Which can pretty much clone you into a…