Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Night of the Dark Full Moon 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Sep 2024

  I was very surprised by this one. It has a fever dream quality to it that I am always looking for in horror films. Goes at a slow pace but is very effective in building up to an absolute nightmare of a conclusion. Also has a flashback sequence that feels utterly cursed. I absolutely loved this and will be adding it to my rotation of yearly Christmas rewatches.

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  Garden State 2004

  ★★★½ Rewatched 30 Aug 2024

  I loved this film so much as a teenager. As someone who also spent their entire childhood and early adulthood heavily medicated, I did find Andrew's portrayal here very relatable and compelling in a way I haven't felt from any other film. I get some of the criticisms of this but I don't think they all have merit. I could have done without some of the sub plots with the side characters but ultimately this one still held up for me on rewatch.

Popular reviews

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  Dance of the Dead 2005

  ½ Watched 02 Jan 2021

  Absolutely fucking abysmal. By far the worst and most offensive Masters of Horror episode I’ve seen so far, and that’s saying a lot after watching Takashi Miike’s Imprint. 
  
  The characters were unbearable, the plot progression was nonsensical, and the camera editing was headache inducing. I can’t believe Tobe Hooper went from making The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to doing something like this. 

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  In a Violent Nature 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Jun 2024

  Arthouse torture porn. An inevitable but unfortunate direction for the horror genre to go in. I don't have much to say about this that hasn't already been said in other reviews, but I found this quite tedious to get through. Not necessarily because it had slow parts, but more so because of how mediocre a large portion of this was. Truly painful acting and dialogue, on par with a lot of straight to video schlock. Bizzare editing choices and one of the most grating ending monologues I've ever sat through.