bobhiker

bobhiker

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Lost Highway
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Shining

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  • Demons

    ★★★★

  • Amélie

    ★★★★

  • Three Colours: Red

    ★★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

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  • Three Colours: Red

    Three Colours: Red

    ★★★★

    Ah yes makes perfect sense

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

    How can I justify giving a movie I fell asleep during 4.5 stars? I can because it lingers and I was out for 3 minutes max.

    Nosferatu is really great. I stewed on this movie for the past couple days, and I keep finding myself getting progressively more creeped out by it. I would definitely categorize it as haunting, because nothing really hit for me while I was watching it. Nevertheless, my minds eye loves this movie and I can't wait to watch it again.

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  • The Shining

    The Shining

    ★★★★★

    Rewatched after reading the book. I love the movie slightly more. It's ridiculous in so many ways. It oozes out the subliminal and the suggestive with basically no character development. More of a dream than a ghost story. I love all the little evil hints throughout, whether it be a rack of knives stacked above Danny's head or a boiler/elevator that looks like a face. Even Danny's stuffed bear in the begining has its eyes cut to look like the…

  • Nightbreed

    Nightbreed

    ★★★

    Nightbreed was a movie that would have been better presented as a TV show or graphic novel. The plot was rushed and none of the story arcs felt fully developed. The character design of the Nightbreed was fantastic and covered a lot of ground as it relates to monster design (bizzare, grotesque, demonic, anthropomorphic). The antagonists were much more memorable than the hero, who was further overshadowed by his other Nightbreed companions. The movie is worth a watch purely to…

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