Ok, when I say not for the faint of heart I could not be more serious, so if extreme violence ain’t your bag avoid!! But, the rest of you fellow filthy animals, this is a MUST SEE! This film is so perfectly made it’s painful. But it’s brutal, nasty, horrible. A serial killer film with a twist, thematically it reminded me of French extreme classic Irreversible in its reflection of the evil that men do, and that’ll be if a…
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Bacurau 2019
This was way more fun than it should have been. A Brazilian magic realist film that shows a blow by blow of the mechanics of the forced invasion of a small town by mercenaries, that stands as a metaphor of invasion all over the world, with hilarious characters, over the top soundtrack that wouldn’t be out of place in a superhero film and impressive overly splatter kills. Talk about mixing tones!!! But it does this with such skill. It looks…
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Dagr 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So, you will remember when I reviewed The Can, I had a rant about people who clearly have enough money to fund their own film, but not necessarily the talent…. It’s a tell when an independently made film has one production company involved. It’s a massive red flag. Now, I don’t want to seem like I’m invertedly snobby. My many years in Oxford, where I knew many who not only had recourse to money, but actual talent too. That’s a…
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The Devil's Backbone 2001
So. Last film I watched before Halloween was this absolute classic from del Toro. I think it’s a bit overlooked often as his next film, Pans Labyrinth was such a monumental film. But it’s so very very good. The way he films and spends time with the children of the orphanage makes you feel it even more when they are attacked and mistreated. The central story, where the ghost pushes the new boy into finding out how he died reminded…
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