Soundtrack wonderful, visuals & catholic imagery & costume AMAZING, Keanu Reeves middle part... Winona Ryder my love, Gary Oldman GOD. Worth the watch? It is a gothic classic and Coppola employed venerable techniques, but I quickly became quite annoyed. Female sexuality is expressed as an evil entity: there is only pleasure in succumbing to men via male consumption and corruption (marriage, subservience, seduction, sanguinivory, and becoming a vampire). Female suffering is sensual, nudity is exploitative, sexual hunger is threatening, pain is beastly…
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Would You Rather 2012
Watched til the end out of spite, but hated every second. Horrible acting, weak plot, pure cheap shock value (incessant gore, sexual assault as a plot device), it goes on and on... thanks Shema for taking away 93 minutes of my life that I can't get back.
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The People Under the Stairs 1991
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I cried, I laughed, I screamed. The perfect blend of horror, comedy, and tragedy. Wes Craven does an excellent job at making a horror flick out of a lived experience—corrupt landlords, inherited intergenerational colonialism, displacement of Black communities, the idealized white American nuclear family, a father receiving sexual gratification from punishing women (his daughter), the evilness that festers within a traditional misogynistic home, and the effervescence of a house built on rage. The film centers around a 13 year old…
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Challengers 2024
So titillating. So homoerotic. So inconclusive. Really just a film about hitting a ball with a racquet.
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