holy shit I’m so beyond obsessed with this i’m going to lose my mind
we start off in the time of the crusades, with a bunch of teutonic knights slaughtering a group of “witches.” but you can’t have teutonic knights without it feeling very Dark Souls—so i’m immediately hyped as hell. there’s a horse that just keeps kicking around a decapitated head, it’s chaos, but i’m giddy.
and when we fast forward to the present day, it doesn’t disappoint…
“I still don't understand the play.”
“Doesn’t matter. Just keep telling the story.”
guys. guys. you don’t understand how much i fucking love this.
a film about the making of a play but most of the film is actually the play itself; a story within a story. with the most gorgeous color palette i’ve ever seen, it’s aesthetically everything i’ve ever wanted. and it’s set in the 50’s but there’s also an alien and sci-if elements so it’s got this retro-futuristic chic.…
just as fun and ridiculous on a rewatch and i’m so happy my partner liked it too ❤️
(and they made me feel particularly attacked during the Trash scenes—but you know what i’m not denying anything)
could never compare to the simplistic insanity of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it’s still fun in its own right. i mean i could give this five stars for having a kill scene with Oingo Boingo playing in the background; that’s enough for me to love this.
Stretch is a great final girl, Leatherface is horrifically and wonderfully horny, i love the obvious implication that the cook is making everyone cannibals, and i think it’s quite a bit gorier overall.…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
haven’t been feeling particularly festive—dealing with a lot irl currently. but a christmas movie as bleak as this seemed like a pretty fitting choice for what will probably be my only holiday-themed watch this year.
a very solid slasher, especially for one of the first of the genre. the calls are so fucking ominous, but the abortion sub-plot with Paul and Jess might be equally as chilling. hearing that man whine, complain, and get so aggressively angry about what Jess was…
one of my new favorite zombie flicks for sure. i can’t really explain what makes this stand out so much, but i just love it.
the score is beautiful and i think that’s a huge part of it. and the zombies feel so wonderfully nasty and rotten—bloody and crawling with worms, slow and stifled movements. they actually feel like decaying corpses. the gore is also insane—chunks of flesh being bitten off to the bone and that bright red blood i…
