Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★ Watched 15 Jul 2024

  Cage's character hams its way straight out of a Key and Peele horror parody (think 'Hall of Mirrors' or 'Make-a-Wish'). The ending scene, especially, is astonishingly cheesy. Disappointing, considering how singularly atmospheric Perkins' previous offerings were.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2024

  I think it's high time Barry Keoghan started playing characters his own age 😅

Popular reviews

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  A Dark Song 2016

  ★★★★★ Added

  'A Dark Song' is my favourite Horror film of all time. As with the best entries in the genre, the “horror” aspect is less indicative of an intent to “scare” or “disturb” than it is of a particular mood – usually subtle, sometimes more urgent – of metaphysical unrest. Two strangers are sequestered in a foreboding mansion somewhere in the Welsh countryside. Conceptually, this hardly sounds original, but director Liam Gavin has succeeded in transmuting a classic horror motif into…

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  Kill List 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2023

  A perfect fusion of The Wicker Man, Hidden/Caché, and In Bruges. Miles better than most of the current wave of critically-accclaimed horror films.