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Recent reviews

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  Belladonna of Sadness 1973

  Watched 23 Apr 2023

  Criticizing highly surreal art can sometimes be like criticizing a mirror pointed straight at you, what you see (or don’t want to see) is exactly what’ll be staring you in the face whether you like it or not. And with a film whose subject matter involves the rape of a woman, it’ll be even harder for me to describe how I feel about this movie. So I’m gonna state some admittedly contradicting thoughts and you can make of it what…

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  Saw 2004

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2022 1

  I always thought Saw was just torture porn for the sake of some grisly body horror, and maybe that’s true for the sequels, but damn this film was TENSE. While there’s still a lot of fucked up situations involving pain, most of it isn’t shown at all, leaving your mind to fill in the gaps. I know this is a low budget movie so it was done out of necessity, but it still works wonders at providing shock and horror.…

Popular reviews

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  This Film Is Not Yet Rated 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2020

  Who would’ve thought a documentary about movie ratings would be 1) so rebellious and 2) so damn funny??

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  Rosemary's Baby 1968

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2019 2

  While I enjoy this film, I think it’s biggest weakness is knowing that it’s supposed to be psychological horror, cause this film doesn’t pace itself that way. The first 1/3 is a normal drama film, the second is a suspense film, and the third is when the horror truly arrives. So if you know it’s genre, you’ll be waiting for scares to arrive the whole time. It works much better when you don’t know anything about it going in.

  That…