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The Borderlands 2013
I've said it before, I'll say it again: found footage is an incredibly difficult subgenre to pull off. For one thing, it's held to a much higher standard of realism and afforded a much smaller modicum of plausible deniability.
Which is why The Borderlands/Final Prayer is such an impressive feat. Juggling the believabily of the (solid) premise of a Vatican investigation, the reasonable inclusion of high quality cameras/headsets, the pacing (too fast and it loses the realism of real life…
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Caligula 1979
Absolutely fascinating that the only available way to stream this was through an online archive of vintage pornography. Which, make no mistake, this is Porn. Perhaps the "porn with plot" to end all "porn with plot."
I was familiar with the film's general reputation (polarizing sex and violence) but not the extent of said sex and violence. That said, hardcore porn sequences aside, it's kinda tame? Like the violence itself is borderline campy, with dummy decapitated heads sailing through the…
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Lisa Frankenstein 2024
Like a lot of currently regarded cult classics (and surely to be regarded as one itself in the future), this is either something you're on the same wavelength with, or you're not. And that's fine! For me though, I was fully on this film's wavelength. There's a level of sincerity here that grounds the fantasticalness of the plot to a suspension of disbelief-level. It's not realistic, and I'm not expecting it to be. Like a romcom! But with more murder.…
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail 1971
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It's always 50/50 if George Hilton's gonna be the killer or not.
Also, from far away the J&B bottles look like soy sauce. To me.
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