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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Lots of good stuff here, but in the attempt to make Count Orlok too many different things, thematic focus gets lost. The idea that Orlok is a physical manifestation of Ellen’s shame could have been an interesting line to have developed more. Instead it gets muddied with themes of Nosferatu as pure appetite or as hopeless lover, etc.

  Hated to see the “let’s come together and figure out how to beat the monster” approach taken up so literally. I was kind of hoping Eggers would do something a bit more novel or abstract with the Prof. Eberhart character.

  Great movie, but my expectations were high.

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  Psychomania 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Sep 2024

  Ahh. . . the freedom of youth, the open road, and being dead! Perhaps the knowledge that we will die is the only thing that keeps us from being living terrors.

  Strong recommend.

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  Horror Express 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2023

  This one is jam packed with good stuff--a real romp! The train makes for a great setting in this part detective, part science fiction, part thriller, part horror movie. Horror-wise, it pulls themes from The Thing From Another World, Night of the Living Dead, and Blood on Satan's Claw among others. The story does a nice job of layering the supernatural atop an underlying naturalistic explanation. It has some great turns of plot that will keep you smiling.

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  The Autopsy 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Oct 2022

  A horrifying faithful adaption of Michael Shea's short story. While I missed some of the descriptive prose, the visual medium made up for some of that. In fact, the film managed to dispense with a few bits of distracting dialogue that were necessary in the fiction. I would argue that David Prior delivered a better and more convincing ending by exploiting a bit of technology that Shea didn't make use of. I have to say, this episode made me appreciate Michael Shea's incredibly creative and original story all the more.

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