myredguts

myredguts

Favorite films

  • Braindead
  • Ichi the Killer
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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  • Mary and Max

    ★★★★★

  • Naked

    ★★★★½

  • The Vourdalak

    ★★★★

  • Mechanical Violator Hakaider

    ★★★★

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  • Mary and Max

    Mary and Max

    ★★★★★

    No words.

  • Naked

    Naked

    ★★★★½

    MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, but for sexually frustrated existentialist assholes. NAKED is a real endurance test, a test delivered through the intellectual ramblings of vagabond Johnny as he drifts across desolate Dalston in search of anyone willing to listen to him.

    Johnny is the film's centrepiece, a man burdened by his own sardonic, bleak worldview which he constantly weaponises against his urban confinement. Despite his inhospitable and cruel demeanour, there's an underlying vulnerability that peaks its head through that all…

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★★

    I've just about chewed my fingertips off. Talk about living up to the hype. LONGLEGS managed to fill me with such a pervasive mix of curiosity and dread that I became acutely aware of the horrors lurking in the most minute of nooks and crannies in the set design, in the dimensions seen and unseen, in the liminal spaces barely obscuring the beckoning abyss. I thought the days of feeling anything other than bemusement during a horror flick were over. Am I ever so glad to be wrong.

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★½

    *Disclaimer: I have not read the Stephen King short story, nor do I plan to anytime soon*

    FINAL DESTINATION on Xanax.

    It's a good thing THE MONKEY isn't anyone's lover with its smattering of awkward humour and mild, unsatisfying climaxes. Coming off of LONGLEGS, which I loved, I must admit I was puzzled when "Directed by Osgood Perkins" flashed onscreen during the trailer. I thought there was no way his disquieting, perfectionistic ambience could fit the irony and humour a…

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