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  Exorcist II: The Heretic 1977

  ★★★ Rewatched 30 Oct 2023

  Honestly if this hadn't been tied to The Exorcist, I could easily imagine this being one of the better New Age-y genre movies of the late 70s/early 80s with a modest cult following. Aside from the awkward returns to scenes in the original, it's a pleasantly weird movie that is whole-heartedly devoted to its ideas. They're reasonably interesting ideas too (at least for its runtime)!

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  Hellraiser 2022

  Watched 07 Oct 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★★ Rewatched 04 Sep 2020

  Alright kids, whip out your notepads and get ready to keep track of...everything. Then put them away and go watch Cassavete's A Woman Under the Influence first (and a performance of Oklahoma! for extra credit).

  I had read the novel this was based on several months earlier and really enjoyed it. It's a fairly short novel so the length of the film was a little surprising. Unsurprisingly, it ended up feeling kind of bloated.

  While the core of the story…

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  She Dies Tomorrow 2020

  ★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2020

  This ended up being a little more grounded than I would have liked! Regardless, existential dread as a sort of memetic infohazard is definitely my kind of thing.

  Apart from being a reasonably effective mood piece, She Dies Tomorrow largely explores how a small circle of people respond to the thought, "What if I died tomorrow?" Most of these perspectives aren't really covered in satisfactory depth but at least cover a somewhat diverse range of reactions.

  I wish the central…

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