TheBloodening

TheBloodening

Favorite films

  • Faust
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • The Lighthouse
  • Suspiria

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  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    ★★★★

  • Silent Wedding

    ★★★★

  • Suspiria

    ★★★½

  • Troll 2

    ★★★★

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  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    ★★★★

    Almost every shot in this film was an absolute delight...the moments of poetic delirium and graceful folk ritual are kaleidoscopic. The soundtrack was majestic, especially in the cacophonies that the mastering distorts into almost sounding like contemporary electronica.

    So many of the visuals could easily be retrofitted into the folk horror cannon: the threadbare masks, the naked sorcery in a circle of trees, the branches made into a skeletal horse shillouete...

    A lot of the customs and rites displayed were…

  • Silent Wedding

    Silent Wedding

    ★★★★

    I was only watching this to practice my Romanian, but this is an utter pleasure.
    There is a chaos and joy that reminds me of Black Cat White Cat. There is a colourful eccentricity that reminds me of Santa Sagre.
    There is a grim pathos that creeps in occasionally so things are never too saccharine.
    I've seen some comments about the directing but, excuse me, all films should have tableau vivant and moments of suddenly going B&W and full 3 Stooges.

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  • The Well

    The Well

    ½

    You know what's fun? Using mental and physical disabilities as a stand-in for making someone monstrous. Retch.

    I know this was reaching for the sort of Gothic excess and gallons splatter but it was so ham-fisted and clichéd and badly acted that it should have just been dropped, itself, down the well.

  • The Invisible Raptor

    The Invisible Raptor

    ½

    Am incredibly lame and crude comedy similar to Movie43 that somehow gets a pass from people just because of its cameos and references to other films.

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