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"exhuma" (2024). if you are a horror fan, move this to the top of your list. it has been ages since a horror movie filled me with joy. this is the best movie I've seen in a while, and easily the best new horror film i've seen maybe in a couple of years.
it's part X-Files, part Ghostbusters, part heist film, part Indiana Jones, part south korean folk horror, but all original and all incredible.
the setup is amazing: there…
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"the mosquito coast" (1986). I don't think I've ever recommended a film specifically because of one performance, but I've never seen Harrison Ford this bananas, and it's worth watching for that alone.
I've definitely seen him act, and I've seen him be explosive, but the sort of sustained maniac energy in this one just kind of sweeps you away.
it's set in the mid '80s, but the setup feels very prescient for our exact moment. Ford plays a brilliant, but…
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"civil war" (2024). i had the feeling I was watching an americanized version of "28 days later" the whole time watching this. no coincidence, alex garland wrote both.
the scenario, of course is completely different. this film is more or less what I've been dreading since probably waco, and increasingly with every school shooting since columbine. this film is set either in an alternate present day or a very very near future, where the US is torn apart by violence.…
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"Breathing In" (2023). A hidden folk horror gem from South Africa. The Anglo-Boer War is dragging on in the early 20th century. A military functionary wanders into the hut of a woman and her daughter one night and he will not ever leave it alive.
Annie and her mother Anna live in this dingy, cold hut. A local general has been badly injured and routed from his home by British invaders. His troops bring him to the hut of this…
