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  The Blob 1988

  Rewatched by Jake Isgar 17 May 2022

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

  It’s a great bitter joke that the chemical agent meant to ice the Russians can’t pass stand being in the cold.

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  The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1995

  Watched by Jake Isgar 16 May 2022

  A film that dares to ask, “what’s more horrifying? backwoods texas nightmare families, or the deep state?”

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  A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge 1985

  Watched by Jake Isgar 02 Sep 2014 3

  "...For there is a man inside me, and only when he's finally out, I can walk free of pain."
  — Dr. Tobias Fünke

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  Manhunter 1986

  Rewatched by Jake Isgar 12 Jan 2015 10

  Calling media "dated" as strictly a pejorative needs to stop. It implies that only contemporary works matter because they're about The Way We Live Now, ignoring the archival value of a cultural statement. Sure, there's a spectrum through which one can have this conversation, but it very often winds up as a dead-end. If there is a common complaint with Mann's work, it's that his attempts at staying in the vanguard of taste fossilize portions of his works in amber…