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Masters of Horror: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (2005)
Very good, indeed.
It's too much rare watching good films as this little "fellow".
Although the storyline isn't new. Reminds a lot "In the mouth of madness", from the same director, or "The Ninth Gate", from Roman Polanski.
The aesthetic "cigarette burns" all along the film can catch the audience attention. For people who may not know about "cigarette burns", also known as Cue Mark or a Changeover Cue (a black circle), are used to signal the projectionist that a particular reel of a movie is ending.
In "Fight Club" there's a scene where Tyler Durden, in one of the employment of him as a projectionist, replaces one of the frames with a male genital. Resulting in a subliminal image, an image that we can not see instantly however our brain gets the perception of that image.
Old times this trick was used on cinemas to appeal consuming. Here John Carpenter just want to give us a chills mixing up images of old memories of the main character.
It's a decent and a great horror/suspense movie and I think you'll enjoy watching this one.
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
A warning!
When I saw this movie I wasn't expecting a thing. Which was a good thing because it turned to be a great film.
I read some opinions here at IMDb and I find out some people didn't like it because there should be something, a film, a book, a cartoon, something as an argument between Pitch Black and Chronicles.
Actually there's a cartoon called "Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury" between those two movies and it explains all the lines in this movie.
For those who never heard of it check it out, maybe you'll change your mind, because it's rare these days a very consistent story has this chronicles.