It's funny how I put this one off for a long time and now ends up being the latest addition to my top 100. An instant favorite that I didn't have very high hopes for beforehand. Part 2 wasn't bad, but not reaching the level of the first movie in the slightest (The Exorcist I rated 4/5, The Exorcist: the heretic 3/5), so why would that have been otherwise? You wouldn't guess, but guess what: The Exorcist III is better…
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The Handmaiden 2016
I know I already did a review for it yesterday, but as I watched the extended cut with about 25 of additional material, I felt like I needed to write more about it. I could write entire essays on my favorite movies if I wanted, really. My brain never stops thinking when it's about movies, and it's even worse when I just (re)watched one of my all time favorite films. As some might have noticed, the handmaiden is my 2nd…
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981
Expected a straightforward slasher but got something far more slow-burn instead and I'm hardly complaining. Dark night of the scarecrow proves a dark descend into endless ambiguity and mystery untill the remarkable finale at last offers clarity. It's not exactly thrilling, and not always well paced, but it most definitely is fascinating, often fairly intense and with some well built moments of shock and terror. And often pretty repelling in nature, especially because of the characters' immoral behaviour and actions. Good stuff. It's moody enough to call it fitting viewing material for this time of year, and in the end proves very rewarding, too.
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No One Will Save You 2023
First of all, it's very, very rare to get alien horror like this, and it's something we (or at least I) need a whole lot more from. When thinking about it I can only just think of a handful that truly are similar, of which Shyamalan's Signs is the first one that comes to mind. As a home invasion thriller, this is edge of your seat type of intense, as it's offering plenty of escapism and thrills that might be…
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Dune 2021
Not since a certain trilogy about a certain ring we've witnessed a vision as grand as Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Another story that was said to be unfilmable due to its massive scope and enormous worldbuilding. Now, the most ambitious director working in Hollywood today, pushed bounderies, reached to the sky and beyond to create a grand, in surreality drenched adventure that is, in the first place, overwhelming. Every single image, every single setpiece, every single costume and every single tune…
