harold strong

harold strong Patron

fka harry f

i like too many movies.

ratings are in constant flux. top 4 rotate.

Favorite films

  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Morvern Callar
  • The House That Jack Built

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  • Eephus

    ★★★★

  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

    ★★★½

  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

    ★★★

  • The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    ★★½

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  • Terrifier 3

    Terrifier 3

    ★★★★½

    Gleefully depraved and viscerally horrific, this cleverly balances between grotesquerie and cartoon with raucous prowess. You already know if it’ll work for you or not. I was left shaken with the whiplash; a film so unimpeachable in its barbaric approach that if you’re not locked in by now nothing this could do would convince you of its intrinsic value. Overshoots a bit with the tired PTSD angle however it’s par the course for the landscape of the genre nowadays and…

  • Saw

    Saw

    ★★★★½

    "I wouldn't lie to you."

    The way so many of you fetishize and adore horror from the 70s-90s for their "dated" features but then crudely dismiss this... I see you. Put this shit in the Criterion Collection. A total and despairing exercise in lo-fi aesthetics and Wan's trademark sense of escalation. Feels almost glued together by packing tape; the seeping wounds of its birth visible to the naked eye. Top to bottom, horror is rarely this raw and earnestly symbolic…