This is well-made and deliciously gruesome and unhinged at times, but I think I’ve aged out of teen slashers. It just didn’t thrill me as it might have in the ‘90s. But it’s definitely a good modern example of what it’s trying to be. It would be fun if Eli Roth got to make a Scream sequel, although those are probably too tame in terms of the violence and kills for him.
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Bottoms 2023
Unsurprisingly, a 44-year-old man like myself wasn't particularly keen on a teen comedy focused on young women, as Bottoms mostly flew over my head.
It's time to admit this genre is perhaps only going to work for me as nostalgia, and the cut-off happened around the time of American Pie for fellow Xennials.
Every generation deserves a fun sex/teen comedy, so I'm happy if this one spoke to you. I just find this type of US comedy increasingly irritating, as…
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Toni Erdmann 2016
Sorry, but this doesn't deserve the acclaim festooned upon it. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, I see. Amazing.
Toni Erdmann is a German drama miss-sold as a comedy (the lead actress even agrees), about an eccentric father with a love of disguises, who pays his estranged career-minded daughter a surprise visit and proceeds to cause her great embarrassment.
Good idea. Funny idea. They're going to remake this with Kristen Wiig and Jack Nicholson. So someone clearly thinks it's a comedy in…
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The Stylist 2020
I love the concept of a lonely female hairstylist who scalps women to wear their hair, as she can't fit in and wants to be someone else. It's a distaff Sweeney Todd with a bit Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs' identity issues, sort of.
It's unusual to see a female serial killer, so I had a lot of goodwill towards The Stylist going in. The opening scene grabbed my attention, too, and I mostly enjoyed the performance of Najarra…