Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Sleepless 2001

  ★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2021

  Did you ever buy a "Greatest Hits Live" album by a musical artist 10 or so years past their prime, but you still kinda liked it? That's this movie. Argento takes a lot of "inspiration" here from his earlier work and packages it into a pretty low budget hommage to himself. I'm frankly all in for that, but a meandering plot and a weirdly miscast Max Von Sydow lead to a generally distracted film.

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  After Death 1989

  ★★½ Added

  In this really strange mash-up of Demons and Evil Dead, you will see people do things you don't understand, in ways that make no sense, to music that is repetitive and horrible. There's not a plot as such but there are plot-like things people say, and the saying of these things are occasionally administered throughout the film. But it's still sort of fun.

Recent reviews

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  Night on Earth 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  I wasn't sure about this, but then Roberto Begnini happenned.

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 28 Jul 2024

  I'm just happy that indie horror still makes its way into mainstream theaters: especially satan-forward ones that make the creepiness of Tiny Tim explicit.

  And holy shit, how many more outstanding horror performances does Nicholas Cage have left in the tank?

Popular reviews

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  Barbarian 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2022 2

  I'm not a geneticist, but I don't think two generations of inbreeding is sufficient to produce a giant perpetually lactating wraith troll.

  Don't get me wrong, this is mostly solid horror. The interplay between Bill Skarsgard (who's GREAT here) and Georgina Campbell is amazing as we watch Tess ignore all warning signs while inching toward apparent oblivion.

  I love what this movie is trying to say and how it works to get there. Given how it tries to ground itself, though, I thought it needed a more cogent story with fewer holes.

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  Hellraiser 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2022 10

  Seeing this on a big outdoor screen last night (at the best Drive ln on earth, with the best drive-in people on earth, The Mahoning), after countless previous viewings, provided an amazing contrast to the crampedness of the house sequences, which make up most of the movie. Then, in the final minutes, BOOM, hell opens up and sheds light on everything.

  Claire Higgins IS this movie, and she's an amazing contrast to Ashley Laurence's feisty innocence. And yes, the closing…