Low-budget horror done well — pacing, atmosphere, humanization of sex workers, all very solid. The only detractor was perhaps the ambiguous ending, which felt like a bit of a cop-out (as many “ambiguous” endings do).
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 2022
If I weren’t a Nic Cage apologist before seeing this film, it would have turned me into one. But I was totally a Nic Cage apologist before seeing this film. So. There’s that.
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I Saw the Devil 2010
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. In my view it explores the depths of human depravity and the spectrum of motivations behind it. Even the search scene at the beginning, in which journalists rush a crime scene to get a picture of a corpse, felt like a deliberate expression of this idea: humans giving into their most base and animalistic impulses for reasons that are all too common. The empathy that the audience likely feels with the main character, who himself…
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Ultraviolet 2006
Ultraviolet is so over-the-top that the incomprehensible nature of its narrative almost seems like a feature rather than a bug. It gets a lot of hate, but if you go in looking at it through a Lynchian lens of utter surreality, it’s actually a wild ride and quite a good time!
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