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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
This has the attention span of a fucking Smosh sketch; with all the sluggishness and misery as that implies. I wonder how many followers I will lose for that sentence alone?
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue 1974
HORRORx52: 2022 Edition - Made in Spain... ish (21/52)
Look, it's another Euro-horror covered by Mark Gatiss in Horror Europa! Although out of the films Gatiss talked about in that documentary, the awesomely named The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue interested me the least. Jorge Grau's cult slow-burner shouldn't, but when compared to Who Can Kill a Child?, I prefer murderous children over the undead rising yet again to cause havoc. However, Grau adds a scientific twist to the…
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Phantom 1922
Week #3 of Film School Drop Outs Challenge 2017 - German Expressionism (1920 - 1927)
F. W. Murnau was one of the most influential directors working in the realms of silent cinema. His adaptation of Dracula, simply entitled Nosferatu is one of the most beloved horror films of 1920's, Faust is an epic folklore tale that holds up upon multiple viewings, even when he moved over to Hollywood to make Sunrise, he was still cranking…
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Strange Days 1995
Part of my 52 Films by Women Challenge! (27/52)
My only gripe with Strange Days is that it's such a missed opportunity to not use the song 'Strange Days' by The Doors. Bad luck Bigelow, I give your cult classic an A-. Minus that cruel factor, Strange Days is an utterly spotless piece of science-fiction. From the very first shot, told from the point-of-view of a bank robber where his heist goes badly wrong, the level of skill needed to…
