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Silent Hill 2006
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So, for James Sunderland, Pyramidhead represents the overwhelming burden of his wife's deteriorating state and the guilt from his mercy killing (mercy killing?) of her.
For Rose, Pyramidhead represents a scary guy with a big knife.
I don't know what else to say.
This movie has the single longest expository slideshow I've ever seen and it still manages to bungle all the details.
But it's the only movie ever shot in my hometown and it does cinematographic send-ups to its videogame source material a lot better than the Doom movie, so points for that I guess.
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
A rare film that has the long-deepening effect of the unstructured and absurd while retaining a great imminence on first viewing. An essential look at what it means to cast roles for the self and for others. A dream of a movie-as-treatise-as-movie.
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The Witch 2015
Behold, the best horror movie of the year.
And last year, for that matter.
Great use (or lack) of colour, dedication to period accents, complex interplay with religious themes, and a gatdamn astounding use of sound make the atmosphere thicker than pea soup. I haven't felt that kind of complete dread in my chest for a very, very long time.
If you buy into the idea that modern horror isn't true horror because of its reliance on jump scares and etcetera, then you'll certainly think this is a return to form.
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