“time wasn’t right. it was moving too fast. and then i was 19. and then i was 20. i felt like one of those dolls. asleep in the supermarket. stuffed. and then i was 21. like chapters skipped over in a dvd. i told myself ‘this isn’t normal. this isn’t normal. this isn’t how life is supposed to feel.’” and “what if i really was someone else? very far away on the other side of a television screen.”
when i…
“it feels like water. it feels like electricity. it sounds like the humming of a fridge.”
sometimes, you find a movie just when you need to watch it the most.
i’m about to turn 29. with every year that goes by, i can’t help but feel like everything is changing, and yet somehow staying the same. people come and go, places around me shift and alter, and at the end of the night i have no greater clue as to…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“all i ever did was try and show him love and affection.”
sorry, i loved it!
if i had to do a ranking of my favorite genres of horror, i don’t know that i can say with confidence that folk horror wouldn’t be at the very top.
i mean, i love psychological horror, and i love body horror, but i feel like for whatever reason folk horror always hits a different note for me. i almost always rate it more…
“get out.”
such a stacked cast only to be done in by a pretty underwhelming script
i think this film is essential viewing for any lover of horror movies because it is a staple of the haunted house genre, and probably the film that started it as well. it’s also a film that was a commercial success despite being critically reviewed poorly. while those criticisms have their merits, i’m never going to take away a film’s flowers when it’s rooted…
“we’re happy to be here.”
a deeply somber experience in storytelling.
movies that accuse the viewer of their own passivity against the ugliness of the world always work well for me. i think it’s because we’re entering this cultural shift (i hope) where we realize we can’t be idle passerby. change has to come from us, ugly truths need to confronted, and we as the human race have to answer for the things we do to one another, even if…
“he who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.”
i think we should just give denis villeneuve a billion dollar budget for the next dune movie(s) and just let him go wild, just really let the guy cook some more because this was a feast for the senses and perhaps some of the most faithful adaptation a book series could ever hope to have.
it’s not just that the acting in this is phenomenal from all of…
