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Heretic 2024
Hugh Grant really carries this film and I think it's stellar how the latter part of his career really seems to have stretched him and/or shown parts of him he didn't get attention for while being typecast as an attractive Brit doing romcoms thirty years ago.
It would be easy to chalk this up as the anti- "God is Not Dead" film, but IMO the last ten minutes of Heretic moves past the assertions of its central character to settle…
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Butterfly Kisses 2018
This is really a film in a film in a film, a found-footage vehicle for another "local eerie legend" tale -- and one that is very local to me, enough that I recognized many of the locations appearing in the footage including the tunnel (although the legend itself is fabricated for the film). Jump scares don't win me over, but this film does have a very effective one that I even knew was coming, yet I couldn't help but react to.
Just as a side note, the world record for going without blinking is about 91 minutes or so.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
Whether the reverberations of Lucas' first trilogy here are viewed as a homage and bridge between the old and new or as a lack of imagination will depend on one's personal tastes and the long-term intentions of the creative staff.
There is a LOT of "The Force Awakens" that echoed things we've seen before. Some of the settings seem awfully familiar even if given other names, and from a high-concept level there's not much of a plot (First Order AKA…
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A Christmas Carol 1969
Bland rendition of the old Dickens favorite, but certain moments were still terrifying to me as a child. The only scene of interest to me now was Marley's ghost, which still manages a creepy appearance with its fluttering hair and bulky chains.
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