Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Taste of Cherry 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2023

  Criterion Challenge 2023:
  7. Films To Fall Asleep To

  This movie is for anyone that has seriously wanted to not see the morning. It is haunting and brilliantly scored. It doesn’t go in for platitudes. There is no judgement here. We do see a parade of people trying to talk our main character out of his decision, and there arguments are persuasive and beautiful. The director maintains our protagonist’s agency though. In the end it is always a personal choice.…

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  Prey 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2022 6

  Daily Horror Hunt #50 (August 2022)
  (23) Women working behind-the-scenes in cinema is always a treat to see. Watch a horror film edited/co-edited by a woman. 

  
  Wow! I’m almost speechless. This is an amazing film. No notes! (Ok…maybe some CGI bear qualms.)

  Seriously, I love the first and like the  second Predator, but this is so much more compelling.

  It takes the simple formula of The Predator and use it to craft a question about what strength means. It has…

Recent reviews

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  Moonchild 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Sep 2023

  Hooptober X:
  Film came out when you were 10

  Fall Dumpster Fire 2023:

  Again, this is micro- micro-budget, but damn is it good! Excellent masks, cool body paint and an inspired plot. Murphy certainly loved his writer characters!

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  Son of Dracula 1943

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2023

  Hooptober X: 
  1940, 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
  Fall Dumpster Fire 2023
  43. Watch a movie that horrormika needs to watch: boxd.it/atfFC

  I had always heard that this was terrible so I avoided it! I grant Lon Chaney Jr should have never donned the cape and stuck to his furry self, but I really liked this! It’s so 40s melodrama. I love the idea of a con game with Dracula!

Popular reviews

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  Stage Fright 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2021 4

  I want to live in the alternate universe where Stagefright became a huge franchise and each subsequent was known as Stagefright: Zodiac Sign.

  StageFright: Libra- An Owl-headed killer wreaks havoc on an opera company practicing for opening night.

  StageFright: Cancer- An Owl-headed killer wreaks havoc on a synchronized swimming team practicing for opening night.

  StageFright: Taurus An Owl-headed killer wreaks  havoc on a Rodeo team practicing for opening night.

  StageFright: Virgo An Owl-headed killer wreaks  havoc on a burlesque company…

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  Barbarian 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2022

  Hooptober 9.0: extra film 

  This is fantastic. Just watch it! It is a rollercoaster of awesome. Twisty and turned and fun!

  Don’t get spoiled!

  Bill Skarsgaard is great!