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Favorite films

  • The Shining
  • Adaptation.
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Empire Strikes Back

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  • The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

  • Polytechnique

  • Enemy

  • One Piece Film: Z

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  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

    Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

    ★★½

    This is the film I found most disappointing during this year's Season of Spoops. Although Lon Chaney Jr. delivers what I'd call a stellar and sympathetic performance as Lawrence Talbot, there're far too many elements working against the movie. One such element is, unfortunately, Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Frankenstein's monster.

    Watching Lugosi aimlessly amble about in the creature's makeup made me think that either director Roy William Neill didn't coach him well enough for the role, or he just didn't…

  • Lake Mungo

    Lake Mungo

    ★★★★½

    Out of all the films on my Halloween Spooptacular watchlist, this little Australian feature was the one that caught me most off guard. According to its single-sentence synopsis on IMDb, in this movie "[s]trange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake." Based solely on that brief description, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Lake Mungo would be nothing more than a generic, straightforward ghost story. Luckily, it's anything but generic or straightforward.

    What makes Lake…