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  The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears 2013

  ★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2015

  What is this I don't even

  Had some wonderfully charged and bold cinematography, but like

  What?

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  The Guest 2014

  ★★ Watched 15 Jan 2015

  These throwbacks always feel like desperate imitations to me. Something like this would be a cult classic if it was actually made in 1982, but all the charm in those films come from being a product of the time.

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  The Canal 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2014

  Fans of horror, this one is not to be missed. Intensely unsettling and expertly constructed.

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  Child of God 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Aug 2014

  Crude, rough, and borderline vile at times. Franco paints in broad strokes, relying heavily, and rightly, on the brilliance of McCarthy's prose. What begins to emerge through layer after layer of mud, snot, and filth, is a grisly visage of a man so apart from the world, understood in his own mind but nowhere else.

  Scott Haze deserves Oscar consideration, but will very likely be overlooked considering the tone and content of the film.

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