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Noroi: The Curse 2005
In the taxonomy of storytelling, cosmic horror and folk horror are close cousins; like centipedes and lobsters, their similarity may be lost on the casual observer, but the body of chitinous segments betrays a common ancestor. Likewise, the ancestor of Shiraishi's demons, their names transmitted through ritual and rotting tomes, is the same as Lovecraft's gaping horizons of madness.
Look up at the sky, look to the darkness between the stars, and imagine what may be lurking there, in an…
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On the Silver Globe 1988
As of the writing of this review, there is an extensive lacuna in tablet seven of The Epic of Gilgamesh. As Enkidu has been cursed by the gods and condemned to die, the final moments of his death are instead lost to oblivion; the clay tablets that recorded the character's passing have long ago been eroded by time, as a tide erodes the shore.
There are many such lacunae in Gilgamesh, and over the decades some passages have been restored,…
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Screamers 1995
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Unsure if I find this film predictable because because it was written with a certain degree of carelessness, or because I have an entire shelf of Phillip K. Dick novels on my bookshelf.
PKD's particular neurosis, inspired by his lifelong struggles with mental health, is easy to identify: What happens when you can't tell the difference between the real and the unreal? And, even worse, what happens when the line between real and unreal begins to break down? If an…
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The Trouble with Being Born 2020
Jesus can you imagine being an actual pedophile and watching this movie. You read a bunch on furious news articles about how there's a naked cgi 10 year old, so you get all hype for it. Then it turns out it's just 40 seconds of a deeply unsettling uncanny valley gynoid, and now you're sitting through a 90 minute long psychologically torturous nightmare about how we're all haunted by the ghosts of our pasts, and how when faced with alienation…
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