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  • Blood and Black Lace
  • The Hitcher
  • The Innocents
  • Day of the Dead

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  • Don't Look Now

    ★★★★★

  • The Others

    ★★★

  • I Walked with a Zombie

    ★★★★★

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

    ★★★★★

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  • Don't Look Now

    Don't Look Now

    ★★★★★

    Roeg adapts a haunting, grief-stricken gothic-horror short story by Daphne Du Maurier about coming to terms with the seemingly random, chaotic, and inexplicable nature of death, and—in the process of loosely borrowing grammar from Hitchcock (who also adapted Du Maurier into Rebecca and The Birds), Resnais, and the Giallo in order to conjure this idea cinematically—ends up with one of the most surreal, impressionistic psychological horror experiences maybe ever assembled.

    The first time I watched this I think I was…

  • The Others

    The Others

    ★★★

    This is good but something about it has just never quite gotten under my skin in the way The Innocents or The Sixth Sense do. Just seems to be doing the former with less sexual perversity and more modern technical immediacy to its suspense sequencing—complete with the overdetermined march to its disturbingly overprotective mother ending, which is admittedly still pretty good if not quite as thorny and shocking as Clayton/Capote's vision of James' same material. That being said, the new…

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★

    Is it possible to frame an entire feature film and hang it on your wall? Have we discovered how to do this? Asking for a friend.

  • Wonder Woman 1984

    Wonder Woman 1984

    When they said "Wonder Woman 1984" I thought they meant like neon colors and synths but they meant all the horrifying, Reagan-era geopolitics and Middle Eastern stereotypes. Doesn't help that it also looks like shit and has no sense of character or pace. It can't even successfully recreate the clean action or lead chemistry that the first film had let alone attach them to some sort of story. The whole thing just bizarrely lumbers to its 5 minutes of weightless…