Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Wanted an unsettling movie late at night and this really didn’t disappoint. Juliette Garièpy was excellent in this. I was hooked when I suddenly realized 5 minutes in that everything I had seen so far was being done in a single camera shot, and still going. Most movies on red rooms are vapid and uninteresting, relying on gore porn and shock value to get you to go see the sequel for more gore porn. Not the case here. Manages to…
Ken Russell pulled no punches in the creation of this masterpiece. You know you’re doing something right when the Vatican themselves vehemently condemns something you make. The fact that this is a true story boggles the mind, but paints the absurdity of religious piety and political power wrapped into sexual controversy in an all too familiar current light that isn’t so far fetched to imagine seeing in real time.
Every year around Halloween I’m reminded this movie exists and I get so excited, because it’s just such a good time. Equal parts nightmarish, hilarious and intense, this is the film that earned Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell their careers.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
First of all, kinda hilarious that the shrimp and initial injection were the two things that made me cringe hardest- personal issue I suppose 😂
I really enjoyed this movie, and the final half hour or so was truly something to behold. I really enjoyed how it wore its message on its sleeve, full of camp and wit, and you’d often think to yourself “This is absurd but I love it.” And then Sue would, quite literally, look you in…