I’ve been really lucky with Strange Darling since it was announced for this years Frightfest (which I couldn’t attend) and it started receiving good buzz, that despite that and due to some quick muting of keywords on social media that I’ve managed to avoid basically any mention of it!
This was obviously by design, as soon as I heard ‘serial killer film you should know nothing about—‘ zip it, that’s enough pal.
And away it went, until it was released…
So the first part of this review is spoiler free and I’ll very clearly mark where the spoilers start.
I’ve been looking forward to Longlegs since news of its impending production came out, I guess…the end of 2022 or thereabouts?
I included it on my initial ‘2023 Most Anticipated Horror Films’ on a justincase basis but removed it once it was obviously not going to be out last year.
Then the superb ad campaign started, a master stroke in marketing…
Pretty mad how much your own sensibilities can change over the years. Loved this as a pre-teen and loved the series as a young teenager, before becoming indifferent to it in my late teens and twenties, before being frankly appalled at how rubbish it was upon finally rewatching it in my early thirties.
Now, nearing the big 4-0 it’s equal parts nostalgic treat and also much sweeter than I remember it being.
Sure, the boys are misogynistic jerks for much…
Celebrity cameos include: Vanilla Ice, Gene Simmons, Jerry O’Connell, Tony Hawk, Tommy Lee, David Hasselhoff and Henry Rollins. Outdated cultural references for a 2002 teen comedy include jazz, James Brown and Braveheart. The film itself is bottom of the barrel stuff. I really enjoyed it.
Bong Joon Ho aims for Starship Troopers for the Trump era but falls well short.
Mickey (Robert Pattinson) signs up to join a space colony to avoid being chainsawed up by a gangster he owns money to. But the only role he qualifies for is as an ‘expendable’, a human who will be used as a guinea pig to test all the ways the new planet can kill them (as well as the ruling classes many new bioweapons) before being…
