Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cannibal! The Musical 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  3.5 shpadoinkles out of 4 (on a 4 shpadoinkle scale).

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  The Candy Snatchers 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Wow. They don't make them like this anymore. A dark Tarantinoesque crime film with some slapstick, some rapey behavior, child gunplay, a bleak ending, & major character that is a child who is IDD, is put in constantly abused and put danger, & is played by a child that is IDD.

  This is peak drive in fare - simultaneously artistic, tone deaf, fascinating, and inept.

Popular reviews

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  Smile 2 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2024

  The original SMILE was a huge surprise. A dark, nihilistic, gory horror film that felt like psychological horror mixed with a slasher with a dash of art film thrown in for good measure. If you would have told me that I would be laughing at this sequel almost as much as I would be jumping in terror I would have said you were crazy. But here we are. This movie is so scary, so funny, so beautifully filmed, and so…

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  Terrifier 3 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Oct 2024

  WOW. Art the Clown has hit the mainstream (projected to top the box office this weekend) but still managed to deliver one of the goriest things I have ever seen in my entire life. I honestly am shocked that something this transgressive is becoming this popular...it is a pretty exceptional moment for horror.

  So, here are the good and the bad.

  Do we get more backstory? Yes. Is it completely satisfying? Sort of. I like that it is a little…