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Asylum 1972
Kind of a silly premise for a horror anthology, but it's mainly consistent as all the parts were written by Robert Bloch, famous for being the writer of Psycho. He was a pulp novelist with an extensive bibliography and I imagine most of the material in this film was based on short stories he wrote twenty to thirty years before.
Side note: Prior to seeing this I swear I remember listening to old radio show adaptations of a couple of…
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I Met a Girl 2020
When the movie began and the lead was all smiles while singing in a band at a wedding, I was hesitant as far as what I was getting myself into. To my surprise, it's established quickly that Devon is a schizophrenic with suicidal tendencies. An unconventional romantic comedy, for sure, as on one of his paranoid, ready to kill himself nights, he's saved by a too good to be true type dream girl. The next day she disappears and he's…
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Black Panther 2018
Are a lot of people just overly amused by anything Disney/Marvel makes? I really don’t get the hype for this movie. It’s just a very generic movie and story glossed over with a lot of fancy costumes and expensive CGI that makes itself obvious.
T’Challa as the lead character doesn’t resonate with me. He seems so bland. Maybe just above Thor level bland. Luckily there’s enough supporting cast to elevate such a weak character. The “my daddy died” angle doesn’t…
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The Horseman 2008
A throwback to old school Ozploitation, the violence is dense and unrelenting in this one. All one needs to know is there’s a dead daughter, a pissed off father, and a bunch of thugs that need to get got. From the very beginning to the end it’s non-stop scenes of fist fights, bludgeoning, stabbing, choking, and torture in a manner that’s purely primal.
The movie does take occasional time outs to establish some back story and give a little character…