Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Touch of Death 1988

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Most people would likely be put off by its grimy, low-budget aesthetic—like something shot in a basement with no additional lighting. But beneath that rough exterior lie some of the best practical gore effects of its era, paired with effective black humor. That is, until you realize that one of the film's most over-the-top death scenes is disturbingly based on the real-life suicide of Fulci’s wife, who took her own life by placing her head in an oven…

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  Stormy Waters 1941

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  I think this is the most unexpected romance I've seen a film character go through. The "fall" of Zizek's "falling in love". A solid melodrama blockbuster.

Popular reviews

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  Anna 1975

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2023

  "I haven't seen fair revolutionairy violence yet."

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  Macumba Sexual 1983

  ★★★ Watched 12 Nov 2021

  Lucid, free form, hallucinatory cinema. Like a less profound and artsy, but more horny Robbe-Grillet. Sexual confusion filmed with great cinematography and locations.
  PS: the poster art depicts a transexual with a male and a female on a leech. Take that, diversity!