I love to see a vampire who sucks from the chest and not from the neck. It took Robert Eggers and his obsession with historical accuracy to finally get vampyres in movies to feel like the ardent rapists and creeps they're meant to be, rather than sexy persistent men. Glad we’re finally out of the sexy vampire era.
Everything followed Egger’s typical penchant for accuracy down to the details including the german architecture, medical science of the time like bloodletting,…
Small scale sci-fi at it’s best. My personal favorite of the Cloverfield series because it asks the most interesting questions and leaves a lot of the horror to the imagination. I loved this when I first saw it in theater, and 9 years later it still hits the same. It’s classic HG wells inspired extraterrestrial invasion but scales it way down to its core ideas by placing really well-written characters in a tiny sandbox, like a good theater play would…
There’s two movies here, and though I know that’s the point I just wish the two diametrically opposed narratives worked together a bit more. To me the movie started very air tight, knowing which direction it was headed, but then after a certain event (no spoilers) it feels like it lost a great deal of that momentum as a story. I still enjoyed it a lot and I appreciate the boldness here. I think the filmmaker Jack Begert had an ambitious conceit…
A career defining type of movie for Spike Jonze. For the rest of us, it’s generation defining. HER is a low-sci-fi gift of a movie that explores the meaning of love and consciousness while it begs seriously topical questions about our relationships with and attraction to artifice.
