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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Another dead-eyed perfume ad. If Eggers is your saviour, god help us. Goodbye Hollywood.

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  Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema 1976

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Fairly cursory as a primer but for the initiated this is a nice opportunity to hear a few words from Herzog, Fassbinder, Syberberg, Wim Wenders and Volker Schlöndorff during the mid 70s.

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  Bone 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2024

  Honestly incredible. I'd (wrongly) assumed that Larry Cohen's debut would be a little more... restrained than his later efforts but this is deranged in ways that still feel shocking today. Negative fucks given here as Cohen drives this deeper and deeper into seriously dark comic territory.

  Someone on here compared this with Pasolini's Theorem - an interesting comparison. Like Terence Stamp's mysterious visitor in Theorem, Bone's arrival sets off a Rube Goldberg machine of events that thrust its protagonists into…

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  The Blob 1988

  ★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Fairly bland SFX extravaganza in which a parade of unsympathetic nitwits are liquidised for your amusement. Lacks the wit of Larry Cohen's The Stuff or the dizzying extremity of John Carpenter’s The Thing. It does however have someone being squeezed headfirst down a plughole, and for that, three stars.

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