Halden

Halden

-comic artist with a head full of TV static

Favorite films

  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Fly
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Alien

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  • The Black Hole

  • Black Bag

  • Rashomon

  • No Other Land

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  • The Black Hole

    The Black Hole

    Nothing THAT incredible but still there's something hypnotic about it to me. It has a cheesy old school doctor who/Roger Corman kind of charm but it manages to feel kind of menacing somehow. I think it's the kid-friendliness of it that doesn't let it be an outright horror show? It all kind of simmers just under the surface. On top of the acid trip colors, crazy score, and really cool production design, I ended up digging this a lot.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    God I just love watching people lie to each other! If it's a spy couple? Even better. I'm easy to please, any spy movie that does the lying well just hooks me. I wish being a spy was as fun and cool a career option as movies like this make it look!

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  • In the Mood for Love

    In the Mood for Love

    The words "Charlie Brown adult" leapt unbidden into my brain whenever they showed their spouses as vague unseen figures and made me laugh, I'm sorry. This movie feels like looking in on things I shouldn't be seeing, when nothing all that explicit actually happens. It kind of makes me feel a little guilty for watching! I could tell there were subtle things I wasn't catching that I'm going to need to rewatch and look for at some point.

  • Planet of the Vampires

    Planet of the Vampires

    Whenever I watch an old sci-fi B movie and it turns out terrible, I wonder why I even like these kind of things, until I watch something like Planet of the Vampires and I remember why I'm obsessed with this stuff. I thought this was going to be empty fun sci-fi schlock, and it still kind of was, but I was surprised how much I genuinely liked this. I knew about the influence this had on Alien, but didn't expect…