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  Friday the 13th 1980

  ★★ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  A grade Z-movie hiding behind a grade B-movie facade, the film's only notable aspects are Betsy Palmer's unhinged mommy performance and that classic jump scare.

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  Re-Animator 1985

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  A quintessential American horror film of the 1980s, this Frankenstein-infused splatterfest degenerates into mayhem once the blood starts flowing.

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  La Dolce Vita 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jul 2013

  A film I never understood as a teen. A film I understand too well as an adult.

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  Peppermint Frappé 1967

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Sep 2015 3

  Carlos Saura’s “Peppermint Frappe” plays like the love child of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and every film Luis Buñuel ever made. This is a film about the fetishizing of women. There are moments in “Peppermint Frappe” that you look away in horror and disgust, but only because it is true.

  I do not know exactly what Carlos Saura wants us to come away with after watching “Peppermint Frappe”. It has the structure of a psychological thriller and unfolds like one, yet there is something deeper at work. This is a title I have to really think about. I want to unlock its secrets.

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