fka harry f
i like too many movies.
ratings are in constant flux. top 4 rotate.
post-humanist masterpiece idk I find it very moving if existentially dubious.
would’ve had to have an immediate intervention over those baby names. unhinged.
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…
"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…