Favorite films

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  The Spiral 1998

  ★★½ Watched 03 Oct 2024

  Glad I read the book first. In this format, the story feels confusing, and plodding at times. Not great editing, but not a hard watch.

  Good attempt, dodgy execution.

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  Ring 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Oct 2024

  A classic. Great tension, basically zero jump scares, and really opened the door to J-Horror internationally.

  Some really haunting imagery.

Popular reviews

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  Crawl 2019

  ★★ Watched 06 Oct 2020 1

  I’m beginning to perhaps think I’m not much of a mark for “natural” horror.

  Crawl tells the story of a woman attempting to reach her father during a brutal hurricane, only to have matters complicated by advanced flooding and the arrival of a comically large number of very aggressive alligators.

  There’s an attempt at a complicated past between father and daughter, but this really isn’t that sort of film.  The entire wisp of subplot washes away in the flood waters…

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  Scare Me 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Oct 2020

  Charmed again!

  Scare Me popped up on Shudder recently (don't sleep on Shudder if you like horror, it's cheap and amazing!) and fit perfectly into a child nap shaped hole in my day.

  It's maybe not directly horror. It's about horror. It's about storytelling. It's about the industry. It's about tropes. It's funny, heartwarming, interesting and yes, a little scary here and there.

  There are 4 actors in the whole shebang and a bunch of characters. It'll make sense, I…

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