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Basket Case 1982
holy shit i loved this. yes it's low-budget exploitation crap, but there's an actual horror direction vision here. it's a consciously stupid premise (formerly conjoined twins, one a regular human & the other a monster who lives in a basket, seek gory revenge on their previous doctors) but its never played in the film as a joke. duane's awkwardness is genuine, and characters like sharon and casey appear as fully real and uncaracatured. and this makes the wicker-sprung murders that much…
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
this might be the worst thing i’ve ever seen. more so than evil, it immediately strikes me as just bad. sorkin can write smart things in a sentence but he’s never been a particularly smart writer. normally he’s a snappy writer, his words are spoken with a carefully fast rhythm; it covers up for the fact that he writes blank character cutouts that he can fill with his right-wing liberal talking points of respectability and reform and meritocracy as well…
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