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  Heretic 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024

  (SPOILER FREE REVIEW)

  Theologically stimulating, chock full of tense and nuanced performances, and surprisingly intellectual for a movie written by the screenwriters of the first “Quiet Place”, A24’s HERETIC was an effective and memorable thriller. Anchored by 3 excellent performances and led by a masterful villainous turn by Hugh Grant, HERETIC is a classy, almost stage-play conversational piece that poses some really interesting questions inside the framework of a simple horror movie. 

  Some of the plot logic and reveals are…

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 May 2023

  🩸EVIL DEAD RISE 🔪

  Non-Spoiler Review

  Boiling over with stylish and arresting visuals, EVIL DEAD RISE is a fairly lavish and gory effort, while feeling vaguely inconsequential to the franchise at large. In a horror landscape where simple, effective gore-fests like SMILE dominate the box office with small budgets and easy returns, Raimi and Co. return to the world of the Deadites to make a lean, disgusting, and effective horror show.

  The shame of the situation is that like the…

Popular reviews

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2023

  The self destruction of a human life is put on morbid display as Brendon Fraser hauntingly inhabits a 600 plus-pound man trapped in his own rotting house and heavy, sweaty skin in THE WHALE. Director Darren Aronofsky has once again led his audience down a sinkhole of human misery, addiction, bodily decay and the acceptance of death itself—all themes explored throughout his filmography to devastating results. 

  As Charlie, Fraser gives a mammoth performance worthy of all accolades, buried underneath an…

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  Titane 2021

  ½ Watched 14 Feb 2022

  Perverse beyond recognition and exotically disgusting, TITANE is a movie that would seem utterly random in it’s ugliness if it weren’t so damned French. Maybe the grossest pregnancy horror film since “L’Interieur” from 2007, TITANE is a body horror nightmare that begins with a woman being impregnated by a car, in what is a shockingly tame setup to the bevy of horrors to come.

  If you can withstand levels of grime and gore this severe, you’ll find an absolutely disturbing…