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  • Don't Look Now
  • The Piano
  • Audition
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  • Frisk

    ★½

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

    ★★★½

  • Tusk

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  • Frisk

    Frisk

    ★½

    "There was one part where Todd had shot something and there's a line, a really important line in the book, where one of the characters says, "skin is stingy". And Todd Verow had shot it as "sking is stingy", like a bee sting. Marcus had said to me, "It's stingy, right, like a miser?". And I'm like, Yeah. "Well, Todd won't shoot it as 'stingy' because he doesn't think that makes any sense. He doesn't understand what that means. Would…

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    ★★★½

    This is an incredibly hard film to talk about, specifically because of how much it inspired a series of far worse films. As such, this review is of Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), in the alternate universe where it mysteriously never got any sequels and imitators.

    Primarily (and perhaps exclusively), the film has an astoundingly beautiful visual style. I almost found myself getting choked up by how visually pleasing some of the scenes were - particularly the attempted murder in…