Does for belts, sand castles, staircases, pianos, pencils, pencil sharpeners, ice cream, freezers, phone booths, shoes, duck hunts, dinner, garden shears, shovels, metronomes, and showers what Psycho did for showers.

“Goth lives matter!!! GOTH! Emo cuties!!!!!!! - Lil B” - park chan-wook

"I've often wondered why it is we have children..."

the rare film that's grossly UNDERappreciated at Sundance. Nature vs. nurture as a woozy gothic battle royale. Ecstatically good. also features one of the most clever instances of single-shot misdirection i can remember (it involves curtains).

Park Chan-wook is the filmmaker that Lee Daniels so desperately wants to be.

things Stoker invented:
- the word "hello"
- freezers
- blood splatter
- slow fades
- piano duets
- garden shears
- visual ingenuity
- saddle shoes

(this film only gets better and better when you rewatch it)

Tonight, India joins the hunt.

Gothic, surreal, unsettling, and of course, tremendously gorgeous. Not surprising since I expect nothing less from the master Park Chan Wook. A frame is always connected to the next, transition between scenes are so smooth they're almost invisible. Every shot seems to have a life of its own. Instead of being a medium to carry the plot, they gracefully became the story itself. Mia Wasikowska gave her best and so does everyone else. Without a single doubt, I say Stoker is as good as an English debut gets.

“just as the skirt needs the wind to billow... i'm not formed by things that are of myself alone”

my favorite coming of age film and a most important entry into the cinematic goth girl hall of fame

i am still fascinated about how playing piano can get a girl WET.

India, actual daughter of Amy from Gone Girl, and an icon for people everywhere.

there was a point in this where the editing made me literally sit back from my laptop and look up at the ceiling, tiredly astounded, and throw my hands in the air, because i was just dumbfounded by how brilliantly crafted this film is. if you haven't seen this, watch it. i'm overwhelmed in the best way.

reasons why this movie invented cinema: 

1. the shower scene 
2. the piano duet scene

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

the way it is filmed and edited......... oscar worthy. the casting matches so well the story and the latter is very interesting, well thought and built. the ending with the music...... yep yep chief kiss movie

no, thank you

india stoker said acab

hmm, pretty interesting, a lil weird but i’m into it

These pretend horrors are NOT IT for me.

Aside some killing, how is this a horror? This didn’t have any scary moments at all.

Nicole Kidman stole every scene she’s in. She’s the real star here.

The plot is pretty interesting but paper thin at the same time. 

Two well acted psychos.

#girlboss

the cinematography was as sexy as the cast.... the cast was as sexy as the score.... the score was as sexy as that house omfg

this film has me in a chokehold from the transitions to the visuals to the camerawork to the intense sound to the piano duet scene to india stoker herself

all I'm going to say is... the piano scene.

exquisitamente inquietante, enigmática, brillante y astuta.

su trama derrama delicadamente elegancia sobre nuestras retinas atónitas, bien hilada con una narrativa pausada, hasta llegar a un punto de inflexión que nos mantiene embelesados de la mano de una implacable tríada interpretativa y una sobria fotografía que te insta a perderte entre sus planos tan bien ejecutados que resultan sublimes hasta decir basta.

acoto por aquí la obviedad más absoluta: no puede no gustarme una pieza orquestada por nuestro maestro de la venganza. 🕯🎞 ♥️