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Pruning this blog before it goes to seed.

Favorite films

  • Systems Research
  • Where Is the Friend's House?
  • After Last Season
  • Tender Mercies

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  • Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House

  • Urban Legend

    ★★★½

  • The Wax Mask

    ★★½

  • Edgar Allan Poe's Madhouse

    ★★★★

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  • The Black Cat

    The Black Cat

    ★★★★★

    You should always trust the dreams you have during a psychic bubble witch movie set apocalypse. These colors don't run, except they do. Green scuzzfuck witch slime from mouth to mouth, open wide and eat my witch puke. Levana's murder set pieces in rainbow black darklight. Let me tell you about baby. Baby is perfectly sedate. baby knows it's fate. My baby is a witch boy. Actress, Model, Dancer - these are the desired occupations of a sleeping witch, of a third mother. And with more glowy maternal confusion, a trilogy is closed. Fuck the Mother of Tears. Cozzi got it a right.

  • Messiah of Evil

    Messiah of Evil

    ★★★★½

    Velvet Vampire goes Pop Shopping. Too drunk on red vodka cocktails to know it's a zombie movie. What's a zombie movie? figures in the landscape, where the beach is one endless oil painting and Dad's paint cool murals all over the beach house walls. This movie is made out of cinnabar and jade women who shop at supermarkets during the Anti-Christ apocalypse. Dawn of the Dead walking along the beach at night, holding hands with Jean Rollin.

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  • Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House

    Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House

    He may be a monster but I also hate to be reminded that this is a thing we like to do to ourselves. Forget this guy, have you been to a "normal" haunted house in the past 10-15 years? Do you remember what they were like before our species reached maximum dysfunction? Why do we literally ask to be put in a Saw movie? This year we went to a local community haunted house - ended up in a pitch…

  • Rot

    Rot

    ★★½

    Succeeds at completely grossing me out. Great scenester style SOV time capsule and also weirdly accurate and denigrating toward crust punks. Like it FEELS disgusting to watch, the couple in the film are so grimy, the world within the film is in fact rotting but unfortunately it's shot like dog shit and runs 20 minutes past it's prime. No light, camera kind of drifts off of the person speaking, backlighting, audio problems. What's good gets swallowed by technical difficulties and…

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  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

    I Know What You Did Last Summer

    ★★★★

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

    I've seen this movie many times but not until this most recent viewing did I realize that Sarah Michelle Gellar is a beam of light, like a sunflower, an angel, a Precious Moment. A perfume counter girl with high-waisted denim shorts and cigarette affixed silver fingernails. Her chase scene is poetry in motion. The death of a beauty queen, tragic like an Opera. She runs and she runs. She breaks glass, she crawls out of a car window belly down,…

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    ★★★★★

    This was my introduction to Almodovar and is my forever favorite.

    When I first saw this film I would soon be entering the last echelon of my marriage. I didn't know it at the time but soon he would cheat, and I would catch him. I would have what I later realized was a nervous breakdown, and I would quit my job, digging us even deeper into poverty. I would lose forty pounds because I couldn't afford drugs or alcohol…