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Recent reviews

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  Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist 2005

  Rewatched 26 May 2023

  At times reminiscent of horror-mode Jacques Tourneur, with overt homages to John Ford's The Searchers and Schrader's own Mishima (specifically the St. Sebastian image). Fascinating, if deeply flawed.

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  The Woman on the Beach 1947

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2023

  All the studio intervention in the world couldn't destroy this film's complex, psychosexual darkness.

Popular reviews

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  Kaili Blues 2015

  Watched 10 Nov 2016 13

  As I was exiting the theater, I heard a man tell the woman beside him, "Y'know, this was directed by the guy who made Uncle Bowie."

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  Cursed 2005

  Rewatched 18 Aug 2020 5

  A tragically shattered movie. There are whispers of something I can imagine loving (the cast, the playful dealings with genre mythology, the settings), but the Weinsteins did untold damage to this thing.

  I want to just say #ReleaseTheCravenCut and be done with it, but as Kevin Williamson points out in his recent Shock Waves interview, this is an unusually egregious and complicated case of studio interference. Impositions made their way into Cursed from the very beginning.

  Williamson's original slasher-flavored script…