This no doubt suffers from the weight of expectation. The original silent film is one of my favorites of all time, and this had such good buzz going in that I was ready to hand it my love … and it almost gets there! The colors in this are deep and contrasting, providing a gorgeous good/evil cycle that is full of metaphor. The acting is great, with standout performances from Hoult and Skarsgård. I am just on my knees pleading for…
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 2023
This might have been Doug Jones’ community service for the month. To be fair, there is a local theatre quality to this that is fun, and I enjoyed the attempt at Shakespeare that Fisher took — some more polish and this could have shone in iambic pentameter and true soliloquies. Also, Sarah Carter was quite striking as Ellen, and really played into the black and white photography well. Unfortunately the sum is not greater than the parts here and I’ll stick to Murnau.
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Knight of Fortune 2022
Sometimes you just have to have a random coffin-hopping stranger sing to you and your dead wife to realize everything will be okay.
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I love this team of creators and really love the work they do as a unit for independent horror, but they desperately need someone to be an editor and carve off a good 30-40 minutes from their movies. Between this and Terrifier 2, it seems to be a style choice to pad the runtimes.
The kills are decent, and I feel like the tic-tac-toe scene will be a fave amongst the David Howard Thornton-heads (maybe my biggest complaint of the movie…
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