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Recent reviews

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  The Psychic 1977

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  A woman with psychic abilities marries a wealthy man who inherits his families run down old country house. She then decides it would be a fun project for her to restore this house back to its full character and thus lives out my dream. then some other stuff happens I guess… 

  Errrm what else, oh I seem to remember the opening sequence being pretty sick. 

  At one point my partner turned to me and asked why all these Italian directors seem to be obsessed with that one gaudy shade of pink/red. Style, my love. Style. That’s why.

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  Taste of Fear 1961

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  I love these old timey psychological horror movies, are they all kinda the same? Sure. But the quality of dialogue and characterisation makes all the difference. This is most likely the best hammer horror film I’ve seen, it’s much more serious and there’s a gentler pacing. 

  I don’t know how they landed on the name Taste of Fear, which seems to overshadow all the good work done to create a clear vision of atmosphere on this project. 

  One of my…

Popular reviews

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  Strait-Jacket 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  4 years after Psycho and following similar themes to the slasher predecessor, this campy b-movie deserves far more critical acclaim. An incredible (gory) opening set up, title cards featuring art work of stylised decapitation, followed almost immediately by the most well paced tender embrace between mother and daughter - laced with tension and haunted by trauma. It got me! My own layered feelings of what I previously knew of mummy dearest, Joan Crawford, initially distracted me from her portrayal of…

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  The Final Conflict 1981

  ★ Watched 15 Aug 2023

  If I could give minus stars I would. This movie is utter dogshit and feels completely alien in comparison to the first two films. Beyond lacking any basic meaningful plot and storytelling the dialogue is so horrific it could have been written by ai or by someone who has never had an actual conversation with another human being. Every conversation lacks realism as the characters wear their intentions on their sleeve, and every moment feels riddled with exposition. 

  Beyond some decent moodily lit shots and sub par monologues, this movie butchers all its potential.

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