Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Presence 2024

  Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Your typical Basement fan

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  Terrifier 3 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2024

  This is proper daft.

  Maybe it’s better than 2 or maybe the stars just aligned for a perfect screening but I had a lot of fun with this. I think it perfectly balances the campy clowniness with the savage gore. The practical effects are refreshingly rough around the edges, and you can feel the love for horror and the Art of SFX bleeding out of the screen. 

  It’s by no means perfect and it’s still overlong and bloated, but I’m way more on board with Art than I have been in the past…so thanks Santa.

Popular reviews

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  The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 25 May 2021

  I wouldn’t be surprised if we just got a romcom starring Ed and Lorraine Warren for the next film.

  You can feel the lack of Wan’s horror charm here but it does feel fresh with some great sequences, particularly the opening. Slightly better than I expected overall but the story still felt a little shaky in parts with a lot of back and forth between the various locations.

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  A Quiet Place Part II 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 May 2021

  A Pretty Noisy Place After All Part 2 

  This is an excellent follow-up to the first instalment with perfectly crafted sound design and heaps of tension in a film that really doesn’t overstay its welcome. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this one since I left the cinema.