Behold the ravages of age! New Zealand has always been good at Horror comedy but director James Ashcroft seems hell bent on proving we can do incredibly tense psychological thriller down here too and I'm absolutely here for it. John Lithgow plays such a good psychopath when it's required of him and he actually did a pretty passable New Zealand accent too. It actually reminded me of Bubba Hotep but instead of Retired Elvis and a dude who thinks he's…
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The Electric State 2025
The Online /Letterboxd pile on for Electric State is absolutely fascinating to watch. The Russo Bros went from the excellent paintball episodes of Community to Avengers infinity war / Endgame to this weird 320 million dollar Netflix movie. I'm sure millions of people will have fun with it. It's cool looking but ultimately pretty hollow... maybe they should've got back together with Dan Harmon.
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The Monkey 2025
Longlegs turned out to be a polarizing one, possibly due to overzealous yet undeniably effective marketing but I absolutely loved it anyway.... I've already seen it 5 times. Making his follow up to that movie a dry witty, horror comedy was actually kind of the best move Osgood Perkins could make. A quick pivot to show what else he can do but still not entirely pivoting away from horror. Your more meat & potatoes "keep comedy out of horror " types…
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Talk to Me 2022
Talk To Me (2023)
From some aussies who worked on Babadook and Bluey (no really) comes the best horror movie I've seen in a while!?... and that's really saying something because I've really enjoyed a bunch of movies in the horror genre lately. This movie is stylish, pushes boundaries, fun but still has depth and drama to it, intense and has really good practical effects throughout. Horror fans Talk of their favorite decades for horror but the good filmmakers coming…Translated from by
