Kays Vanderest

Kays Vanderest

Heiltsuk Nation
VFX Production Manager 
Filmmaker
Husband & Dog Dad

Favorite films

  • Gummo
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Phenomena
  • Clearcut

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  • Heretic

    ★★★½

  • Strange Darling

    ★★

  • We Live in Time

    ★★★

  • Last Straw

    ★★

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★★½

    Dug this a lot! 

    I was a big fan of HAUNT. it’s always great to see directors continue to level up in meaningful ways. Loved the cinematography and production design and there were a few queasy moments that felt extremely inspired.

  • Last Straw

    Last Straw

    ★★

    One moment midway through that is genuinely disturbing/distressing. It’s a total record scratch moment that makes you feel like this movie is going to suddenly become a bizarre mashup of a Harmony Korine and Rob Zombie movie but then it just goes back to the cliche’d tone of before. 

    Cool score but it doesn’t really fit all that well. Just a cool synth score for the sake of a cool synth score.

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  • Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill

    ★½

    Racist, misogynistic, transphobic. Deeply so and unjustifiably so. 

    It’s an interesting film beneath these odious attributes and De Palma remains a master but yeah, this movie reeks. 

    Watch Tenebrae instead.

  • The Godfather

    The Godfather

    ★★★★★

    “Do you know how naive you sound? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed”

    “Who’s being naive, Kay”