Hooptober XI! Number 31/31.
…And 1 Tobe Hooper Film
A psychotic redneck hotel owne, killing his guests for fun and feeding them to his pet killer croc. A trippy soundtrack with a mix of country songs and psychedelic keyboard sounds. Gratuitous nudity.
All this should make for one hell of an ending to Hooptober XI, but it somehow manages to be kind of boring. One or two of the kills are pretty entertaining, but it's too repetitive, and much of…
Hooptober XI! Number 30/31.
1 film from 2011
Ben Wheatley is quite an interesting filmmaker, and I particularly enjoy his horror stuff. Okay, A Field in England was a bit too strange even for me (at least at the time I watched it), but I loved 2021's In the Earth more than most people did.
Kill List starts out as a dysfunctional family drama, but quickly turns into a hitman thriller, before suddenly turning into something entirely different towards the…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
At the end of the tenth and final part of Band of Brothers, right when they cut from Damian Lewis' voiceover as Maj. Richard D. Winters to the real Dick Winters himself, I got goosebumps, and suddenly I felt two or three tears falling down my cheeks. Having spent 11 hours with the men of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division, and then watching these men, Winters, Lipton, Malarkey, Guarnere, Heffron, Powers and Martin talk about the…
This Danish dark comedy really surprised me, mostly because of how well it managed to balance the lighthearted nonsense and the utter darkness in the whacky story. The characters are way out there, but somehow feel real, I suppose because of the great acting, Mads Mikkelsen most notably.
Adam's Apples is a very entertaining film, with a great plot and hilarious dialogue. Sometimes very surreal, it has a good message despite the main characters being a neo-nazi, a delusional religious…
