Chris Ess

Chris Ess

Favorite films

  • Hellzapoppin'
  • Outrage
  • Magic Spot
  • Hud

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  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

  • The Burning

  • The Hole

  • Meet Me in St. Louis

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  • Local Legends

    Local Legends

    ★★★★★

    My beautiful, loving 16 year old cat passed away yesterday and I feel disconnected. It's so quiet around here, I needed to hang out with pals and have a good time, so Local Legends it was. Listened to the GNV commentary. Peter Kuplowsky ponders if he'd think Evil Dead looked cheap if it was submitted to TIFF, an interesting question. Genevieve coming through and attending the show is the optimism I needed to see.

  • Local Legends

    Local Legends

    ★★★★★

    Rewatched with the After Movie Diner commentary, a great hang with Matt and Jon.

    I've recommended Matt Farley to numerous friends (one actually became a fan!), but I finally recommended him (and this movie) to a group of relative strangers, meaning the members of a horror movie podcast group I belong to on Facebook. Will my benevolent act of kindness be what finally breaks Farley into the mainstream? Yes, it will. I apologize for not doing it earlier.

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  • Metal Detector Maniac

    Metal Detector Maniac

    ★★★★★

    There's an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer reveals his coffee table book about coffee tables has been optioned as a screenplay. Having read Matt Farley's Motern Method, I wondered if Metal Detector Maniac could be this scenario brought to life, as so much of the book's creative guidelines are explained and enacted by Farley and Tom Scalzo in the early moments of the film.

    But as expected with Motern Cinema, that's only the launching point of the story, as the…

  • Druids Druids Everywhere

    Druids Druids Everywhere

    ★★★★

    Motern Media is a secret society with easy entry. Many get in through listening to a song with their name and poop in the title, while I got in from watching Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You. Once in their mysterious but welcoming lair, you notice a doorway you are not permitted to walk through because the hooded creature guarding it says, "you are not ready."

    To be so, you will have to accomplish a few tasks first. These include…

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