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Presence 2024
The timid camera movement and wide lens give this light and airy feel which neatly places this as a ghost story but not a horror film which would usually try to close in and suffocate you. Even the supposed climax is restrained and the film continues at its gentle pace until a well-earned, final shivering moment closes things off.
I enjoyed this a lot. Rather than fear and tension it works to evoke a vague sadness.
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Phantom Lady 1944
Perhaps the book this is adapted from doesn't have this issue but the central conflict of the movie - that our main character has no alibi - isn't even true in this telling of the story! All the witnesses say they saw him, the presence of the lady (and her hat) is immaterial so why all the fuss, he was there so he couldn't have done the murder!
I liked the weird jazz drumming scene though.
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The Dark and the Wicked 2020
A confused mish-mash of horror tropes with no internal consistency.
The movie is pleading for comparisons with Hereditary with its plot involving an unseen malevolent force plaguing a family dealing with real world trauma, but it displays only surface level understanding of these things. The trauma has no bearing on the story with the comatose dad being little more than a prop who does spooky things sometimes (or was it a hallucination??), there's some talk about the evil force being…
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