Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mandy 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Panos Cosmatos, choose my wardrobe, decorate my home, get me high on eyedrops and wasps, and file me away in the Satanic Trapper Keeper of your mind! 

  Both Mandy and Beyond the Black Rainbow evoke this murky, cosmic fear that I haven’t felt since childhood—fear that isn’t bound by physics or limited by adult imagination, where The Bad Thing can be conjured by leaving a closet door ajar, but conquered by hiding under the comforter—comforting, quaint fear, from the battered…

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  Demons 1985

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  The road to hell is slick with secretions and bathed in neon—and breathtakingly stylish. I’m taking the ride! Shoutout supervising hairdresser Teodora Bruno, who deserves an Oscar.

Popular reviews

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  Black Christmas 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  First rewatch since my teenage babysitters subjected me to this at six years old (man, did that plastic-wrapped scream unlock some memories)! My preferred recipe for horror is some combination of scares, style, social commentary, and silliness—and Black Christmas is a near-perfect blend. Honestly, my only complaint is that we didn’t get another thirty minutes of Margot Kidder flagrantly disrespecting cops. So much fun!

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  Angel Face 1952

  ★★★ Added

  Robert Mitchum can buy me dinner first and hit me later any day.