Elijah Gladwyn

Elijah Gladwyn

Favorite films

  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  • Adult Life Skills
  • Melancholia
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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  • UFOLOGISTS

    ★★★

  • Detective Downs

    ★★★½

  • World War Z

    ★★★

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    ★★★★★

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  • UFOLOGISTS

    UFOLOGISTS

    ★★★

    A great local BBC network style mockumentary about ufology, albeit a bit obvious in humour at points.

    6.5/10

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    This film is basically like a BBC early evening documentary about a local group, in terms of format, but follows a group of Cornish ufologists about.

    I thought the acting was quite good in the broadness of characters. It certainly hits the main points of archetypes of alien truthers in how it is…

  • Detective Downs

    Detective Downs

    ★★★½

    Surprisingly wholesome noir about emotion.

    7.5/10

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    Detective Downs is a noir style film about a wannabe detective (Svein André Hofsø Myhre) who has downs syndrome and has been put into a home by his cop dad.

    The plot is one of self-proving and centres around the themes of authenticity and the need for respect and love.

    The music is very cool and appropriate to the style they were going for.

    It's got…

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  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★★★★

    A bonafide classic sci-fi horror about a disgusting alien capable of perfect biological imitation.

    9.5/10

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    This really is a classic film. It has the long shot attention of many other John Carpenter films and brilliant cinematography by Dean Cundey which really works to extend the horror and tension of the film. After all, this is a film that is based in the constant tension of paranoid suspicion - that this creature could…

  • The Hills Have Eyes

    The Hills Have Eyes

    ★★★★½

    Visceral, tense, and creepy. The combination of disgusting visual effects and giant desert shots makes this a scary gore fest.

    8.7/10

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    I really enjoyed this film. The combination of cannibalism, mutant miners, and good old fashioned pet/family slaughter really come together well within the setting of this empty stretch of dead end road outside some old Mojave Desert nuke craters.

    The acting is pretty bob on. Aaron Stanford and Dan Byrd get…