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  Lamb 2021

  ★★½ Watched 01 Nov 2021

  [whispering to date] That's Lamb

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  Blood Vessel 2019

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2021

  It's fine; never as clever as the title and never as good-looking as the title screen, but I'm in favor of any movie where vampires are 100% monsters.

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  The Hourglass Sanatorium 1973

  ★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2019

  Starts off very promising, with that ominous train scene (amazing use of rear projection) and the arrival at the sanatorium (the greatest decrepit set in movie history?). Then I got worried because the doctor seemed too eager to overexplain things in a setting where a bit of mystery could go a long way. Little did I know this almost immediately becomes Non Sequitur: The Movie. (Sample dialogue: "Negroes at this time of the year? The barometer must be at its…

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  Desolation Center 2018

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2019

  Final bid for depth by contrasting the commercialization of Burning Man, Lollapalooza etc and the "purity" of the punk scene is a bit of a stretch -- there might've been a little inspiration, sure, but these festivals would probably end up happening in some shape or form, and even the desert location isn't enough of a parallel (Coachella is hardly an isolated location, and one of the Desolation Center shows was on a boat anyway). That angle is offered as…

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