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Cursed Films 2020
Surprised this is still here considering there are now two seasons. The second season was a big improvement.
Very good decision to move the emphasis from eye-roll-inducing discussions of actual βcursesβ to episodes about notoriously difficult/troubled/chaotic productions. The episodes on The Serpent and the Rainbow, Stalker, and Cannibal Holocaust were series bests for me.
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Our Father 2022
What a gross, gross story this is.
Some of the dramatic re-enactments are a tad tacky and by now the βNetflix true crime documentaryβ is a genre unto itself and one that is based on a very predictable formula, but I was interested and appalled throughout, which is the point I guess!
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The Fly 1986
It's been a Cronenberg family kind of day, what can I say?
How can a movie simultaneously be one of the most viscerally disturbing monster movies ever AND one of the most heartbreaking, tragic love stories of the 1980s? It's a rarity to find a movie that hits so squarely on all intended marks (scares, suspense, gross-out moments, special effects, emotional intensity...), but David Cronenberg's still-stunning remake of THE FLY (oh yeah, it's also one of the greatest remakes ofβ¦