Alex Winter's criminally underrated gem is like if UHF and The Thing got mixed up in Dr. Seth Brundle's teleporter and then that monstrosity (Brundlefilm?) had an 80 minute slimy stinky baby with pre LOTR Peter Jackson. Oh, and Lloyd Kaufman was the stinky baby's godfather.
If you have any love for pre-digital special effects, Sir Randy Quaid or the Butthole Surfers, go watch this immediately. It has everything you need.
Five bags of popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
And five funny freaks 👃🏼🐶🪱🐸👫🧟♂️
Fear comes in many flavors. Terror, anxiety, paranoia....they are slight variations on a perceived threat and they all feel different. NOSFERATU is pure dread. The fear faced by these characters and the viewer is slow, creeping, relentless. It doesn't make you ask "what if?"...it makes you ask "when?" and "how bad will it hurt?". This 100 year old story is about surrendering to the inevitable, and in some ways, finding peace in that surrender. There's a reason why it keeps…
There has been a trend in all things spooky lately to create liminal spaces...to produce the feeling of being unsure, unsettled, the feeling of returning to your childhood home but finding someone else has made it their own. LONGLEGS is a liminal space. While the draw for most will be, of course, to see what Mr. Cage has cooked up this time, the true star of this film is the fish eye lens and the slow drip of dread that…
Had fun revisiting this, I can't even remember when I watched it last. I'm surprised that such a slow burn was so popular back then.
A couple observations:
1. Every movie in the 2000s was green.
2. All those scenes of Naomi Watts researching would be way more boring if set in the present day. She did so much printing and made so many copies and had a nice librarian bring her books about lighthouses and went to a big…
