Favorite films

Pinned reviews

• 

  O Fantasma 2000

  Watched 11 Aug 2023

  eroticism as the brink of the abyss. the abyss as the foundation of the possible. uncontrollable ecstasy as a questioning of everything possible. demolishing urge of rupture and letting go looking forward to death. desire reduces us to pulp. extreme seductiveness is at the bound of horror — take beauty, leave it rendered lifeless and perverted.

• 

  In the Mood for Love 2000

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2023

  eros as ephemerality, incandescence, an ever out of reach satisfaction entrained to repetition compulsion, simulation, performance, cloning, replicability — cinema is erotics and erotics is technology!

Recent reviews

• 

  Nosferatu 1922

  Rewatched 03 Jan 2025

  desire as an inhuman force intimately entangled with death itself. i feel you, queen.

• 

  The Blackout 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Dec 2024

  we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed: self-revelation is annihilation of self.

  –taylor, l. (as conklin, k.), the addiction (ferrara, a. 1995).

Popular reviews

• 

  From Beyond 1986

  Watched 21 Mar 2024

  stop fluoridation! i want cosmic horniness and metaphysical bdsm now!

• 

  The Substance 2024

  Watched 16 Oct 2024

  yes, i though a lot about cronenberg while watching this (and all of the latest "fresh new take on body horror").

  _
  that dialogue in crimes of the future:

  cope — i heard it was a good show. very disturbing. multiple ears.
  saul — it was ok, if you like escapist propaganda.

  _
  but mostly that one in videodrome:

  masha — videodrome. what you see on that show, it's for real. it's not acting. it's snuff tv.
  max — i…