Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Incredible.
Magnificent interrogation of slasher troupes.
A lot of slashers predicate on existing fears of lower-class rural people, and their dehumanization. Tucker And Dale, in sophisticated fashion, exposes the fear-mongering nature of slashers and still manages to make a hilarious and thrilling movie with horror tropes.
Often the college kids in these thrillers aren't exactly perfect. There's the guy that takes charge with tons of hubris and latent misogyny, the sensible side character that is too meek to take decisive…
Longlegs is almost really cool. The sets feel authentic, the cinematography is eerie --often placing much empty space behind characters giving a "something lurking in the background" feeling -- the protagonist has a cool power, but it ultimately loses the thread in the second half.
The movie is split into three parts. However I explain it in terms of halves because the thrill of trying to find out why and how Longlegs kills the way he does, combined with the…