Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A great spin on the possession storyline using new age spirituality as the vehicle. Fantastic use of physical location, graphics/social media and a mighty cast. Honestly, terrifying and great.
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We love an artistic rendition by a man who has such a precise vision as Mr. Bob Eggys. 😍 I would write all day in my deadjournal about this 20 years ago. Lily Rose (Depp), Nicholas Hault, and Willem Dafoe as the nosferatu version of Van Helsing! It’s so naughty, naughty 😈 all around a perfect 10/10 Gothic Horror, the new standard tyvm.
Watched this on Halloween night, I was nervous about the potential abuse depictions but this movie was so scary otherwise, and the story so harrowing! The triggering parts are not as bad as I thought (dtill sad, but not gratuitous and serves a purpose), there’s no SA (yay!) if that holds anyone back. I love a movie that hasn’t been touched by the American model of network-laden notes and this one went beyond delivering. Great story with 2 female protagonists, performances and sfx are top notch too.
Within the first five minutes you learn exactly what the Hitcher is here for, and it doesn't make the situation any easier. A young Rutger Hauer informs his driver about the last hapless protagonist. "I killed him. I cut off his legs. Then I cut off his head."
Jennifer Jason Leigh as the clever girl at the diner in the middle of nowhere and a truly inescapable predicament. Stunning cinematography and desert landscape, practical effects and impressive stunt police car…