Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Night House 2020

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Overall this is a perfectly serviceable movie. I do think Alvarez was at his best in the Evil Dead (2013) and has since become largely concerned with chasing the esoteric trappings of previous iterations. Rise was held back by it's embedded obsession with referential cinema & trying to reinvent the wheel within the same movie, and this one suffers the same fate.

  The world building is as all-encompassing and dreary as with all Weylan-Yutani films. The characters are down on their…

Popular reviews

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  Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jul 2024

  I enjoyed this. I felt it was a great homage to the 70s & 80s psychedelic Euro-films of the past. It was a classic Gothic "horror" story, told in a beautiful skeleton of Eurosleaze and complicated time.

  I do feel that the obviously low-budget & time constraint did hurt the effectiveness. Things had to happen at essentially break-neck speed to all occur; it didn't let the core moments breathe in the way I feel would've really pushed it to greatness.

  I think…

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  Arcadian 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Way too much shaky cam. A little too little Nic Cage. The most realistic post apocalypse outfits and haircuts. And incredibly cool monsters.

  It's a fun movie. The stories pretty thin but amongst the catalogue of monster post apocalypse films that are really about the dynamics and complications of family, it's definitely a good one.

  The creature design is really top notch though. Blows A Quiet Place or The Silence out of the water. These weird, intelligent, patient, planning, shape-shifting,…