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Nosferatu 2024
As a melancholy genre period piece, Nosferatu is… adequate? Thematically, there’s enough interest to keep audiences in their seats—but it’s about 40 minutes longer than it needs to be. It’s a bit campy—but not campy enough to be actually campy. It’s a bit spooky—but not scary enough to be horror, not small enough to be gothic. It’s shot interestingly—but the over-reliance on CG for establishing shots is a big step backwards from The Witch and The Lighthouse. Taylor-Johnson works as the overbearing…
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Shrek 2001
Shrek is the perfect movie. Here is a brief checklist to support this claim:
- Solid, well-selected cast? Check.
- Based on a stellar children’s book? Check.
- Tragic production backstory now the stuff of legends? Check.
- Satire simultaneously so obvious and so much fun that we almost immediately, like ten minutes in, forget that we’re watching a send-up of fairy tales and not just a new funny fairy tale, but then when we ask someone “So the other…Translated from by -
Black Christmas 1974
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, probably around this time next year:
Black Christmas (1974) isn’t just a wildly entertaining Christmas-time movie, it’s one of the most beautifully shot, well acted, tightly scripted, cleverly choreographed horror films I’ve ever seen.
Every aspect of this film deserves merit, but here are a few to consider:
- the eerie, all-encompassing sound design: minimal score (mostly tortured piano strings and diegetic caroling), wild J-cuts (my favorite is the scream-into-phone-ringing), the design of…
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