Near Dark is a perfect watch in the middle of the night movie. It has this great, quiet ominous atmosphere that fits best at 2am. The nighttime scenes seem lit from within, which gives them this palpable sense of illumination--like nighttime is the real day, and the sunny brightness of day is the new burning poison. It's crazy how this creative cinematography plays with the audience, making us feel like we're vampires too. The moonlit vistas are so cool, comfortable…
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Dead of Night 1974
Bob Clark's Deathdream is an anti-war film in the guise of a horror movie. It's all about denial by the country and the self of what we've become by accepting war as a thing. Plus, it's super creepy, all because of Andy. Andy the soldier returned from war time death in Vietnam by the insistent prayers of his sad mom. Andy is not happy to return. You can see it behind his false undead smile. He is very bitter about…
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Last Summer 2023
At first I didn’t think, Catherine Brelliat's Last Summer was as good, Queen of Hearts, which this film is based on. But then I realized the female character is more benign than in the original film. No longer an older woman preying on her teen stepson, power trip style, but the one preyed upon, to a point, in that she’s swimming in insecurities about her age and her spent youth, which she projects onto her teenage stepson, using him as…
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Flow 2024
A message of coexistence starring a cute little black cat and a myriad of animals surviving on an ever-changing, flooding Earth. There's something in this film that reaches deep into the heart and shakes your soul, inducing tears from somewhere or other. Like some kind of magic spell sent from the source of all things to help heal our miserable, current fear based reality. Animals really do know more than us humans that insist on clinging to our prisons of self defeating intellect.
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A World Without Women 2011
This felt like a way more empathetic, less philosophical version of what Eric Rohmer does with the exploration of dynamics between men and women. Everyone are types of experiences, but they're also realized people at the same time. The characters create themselves in your mind as you watch, offering insight into the human experience you didn't even know you had until it's played out before you on film. How do filmmaker's do this? It's a mystery to behold when you…
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Men Behind the Sun 1988
Could Men Behind the Sun, be called history-sploitation? It has the trappings of an exploitation film, with lots of shocking of content swimming in a sea of questionable dubbing and weirdness. But then what we're watching is the human experimentation and atrocities that took place at the Japanese military encampment called Unit 731 at the end of World War II. Unlike the Nazisploitation subgenre, this film does not revel in cruelty of the past-- using it as an excuse to…
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