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Satan's Blood 1978
An isolated mansion, hooded cultists, softcore sleaze, murder, suicide, flares, big hair, a scary-as-shit doll, a downbeat ending. This one has everything you need from a 70s occult Euro-horror.
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The Electric State 2025
Plodding, generic, mindless entertainment aimed at the masses. Lacks depth or substance.
The visuals are good, though, and capture the aesthetic of the graphic novel - I just wish they'd also tried to replicate its sense of melancholy.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
Pale faces, clattering machines, broken buildings. Constant coughing, drab overalls, children spying on their parents. Party rule. Fear and repression. A deep yearning for green grass and blue sky.
A grim, grimy, pessimistic adaptation of Orwell's classic. Burton is chilling. It isn't entirely succesful but it's a worthy and admirably bleak attempt to film a difficult book that remains far too relevant in these troubling times.
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Heretic 2024
Tense, intelligent, compelling. Thematically, it reminded me of The Vanishing crossed with the philosophical aspects of Martyrs, with a bit of Barbarian thrown into the mix.
For the first hour, I thought this was going to be a masterpiece, but the second half of the film isn't quite as strong as the first - like Mr Reed's "iterations", each twist of the narrative slightly dilutes the message. It's still a very good film, though.
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