Recent reviews

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  Blood Diner 1987

  ★ Watched 28 Dec 2021

  Is there anything worse than inept comedy?
  No.

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  Nightmare Alley 1947

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2021

  There's a scene in Nightmare Alley where an old-time fortune teller is pretending to see into Stanton, our main character's past. After telling him he sees him as a boy with his old dog, Stanton begs him to go on. The old fortune teller laughs at him for believing. Every boy, he tells Stanton, had a dog.
  People wanting to believe others is a constant throughout this movie. It's the story of a man who believes every step he takes…

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  Audition 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2021

  Ever had a great movie recommended by the wrong person?
  A movie fan talked this one up to me, all the way back in the year 2000. Their main review was around the lines of: "It's so fucked up man, aw man you're not gonna believe how twisted it is!"
  Seeing it years later, yes, there is a culmination of shock and spectacle, but for 90% of its runtime the movie plays like a modernized Hitchcock. A slow burn of a genuinely understated, funny and sad satire on the behavior of men, and their commodification and expectation of women.
  A must-see for anyone curious about J-Horror.

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  Daughters of Darkness 1971

  ★★ Watched 29 Dec 2021

  Great costumes, atmosphere and a surprisingly tender lesbian romance (considering the era it was made) can't elevate this too far over a largely uneventful and predictable plot.
  Two newly-married dopes check into an abandoned hotel, as well as two beautiful women who are MORE THEN THEY SEEM! You can likely guess the rest.