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Witness Underground 2024
pretty interesting but could have been a lot better in more skilled hands I feel like. it feels very amateurish, more like a YouTube video. no offense to the filmmakers
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Body Double 1984
not sure how to feel about this one. I went in specifically looking for more neo-hitchickian stuff a la the amazing Blow Out, but this is just too much. it’s basically a remake of vertigo with a heavy dose of rear window splashed in for good measure. I enjoyed it, but maybe being a very big fan of those aforementioned influences and having seen them a bunch makes this one feel a little too on the nose
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Maniac Cop 1988
Part slasher, part mystery, part 80s action movie (there’s a 10 minute car chase scene for instance), this movie was kinda all over the place but was still highly entertaining. The titular maniac cop is someone who was a Dirty Harry type who is now just indiscriminately murdering people. in that way it can kind of be read as a fairly subversive statement. People admire the “rouge” cop who doesn’t play by the rules in movies, but rarely consider how…
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Don't Go in the House 1979
pretty straightforward Psycho rip-off, with the only twist to the formula being that this guy has a full-on flame retardant suit and flamethrower. but otherwise just your standard "behind every violent man is a woman to blame" bullshit. and most of the time it doesn't make sense that these women would go in his house and they don't even try to explain it. they just show him pick a woman up with the intention of, say, giving her a ride…
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