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Gummo (1997)
I.M.D.B. Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives. I expected it to go somewhere interesting but it never did. Some scenes were improvised, with 'actors' looking awkwardly towards camera for direction that never comes. And that sums up the movie, really. Everyone looking for direction that never comes. And while these strange people can be compelling, the story ultimately needs to go somewhere to be worthwhile. Extra points for some interesting work by Jean-Yves Escoffier as cinematographer. 5/10 https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...82,268_AL_.jpg |
Vampire Cleanup Department (2017)
I.M.D.B. Tim Cheung joins the Vampire Cleanup Department which is a secret task force for dealing Chinese vampire Goeng Si. He is instructed by his uncle Chau and he saves a female Goeng Si, Summer from her evil lord Goeng Si who buried alive her. Editing was all over the place. Comedy missed every mark. Story didn't go anywhere interesting (watch How to Train Your Dragon instead). Fun title, and nice to see a homage to Mr Vampire, but ultimately a shit show of a movie. 4/10 https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...82,268_AL_.jpg |
BODY MELT 1993
People are taking vitamin pills, unbeknownst to them, that are still in the experimental stage. Some of them hallucinate strange things but all of them end up exploding inside and out, |
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Ayla, 2017. 7/10
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The Night Eats the World, 2018. 7/10
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Inoperable, 2017. 7/10
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Revenge (2017)
I.M.D.B. Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. Very enjoyable. Definitely worth a watch. 8/10 https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...82,268_AL_.jpg |
Mirror,Mirror- 1990.
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The Hollow Child
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Saw a couple documentaries on youtube…
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) 8/10 Good documentary on the Oka Crisis that occurred 1990 in Quebec, Canada. Club de golf d'Oka, a golf course was going to add nine holes to the existing golf course, and luxury condos, further eliminating disputed lands of a Mohawk tribe community. Including background history, this is the story of their successful resistance. The lands awarded to the city of Oka included lands Mohawk cattle grazed and a Mohawk cemetery, but it's unclear if the new development intended to eliminate the cemetery. The film won 18 Canadian and international awards, including the Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association and the CITY TV Award for Best Canadian Feature Film from the Toronto Festival of Festivals. There's an excellently created history of the lands near the 26 minute mark of the film. And I'd highlight from 26:30 to 42:50, where there's some expert doc film making in directing and editing regarding the background shots, sounds, transitions, and story telling. Critiquing the film, I'd very humbly suggest the 2 hour runtime was unnecessary; as parts of the film, though chronological and oft vivid, were sometimes redundant in the story. I think there's a bit of viewer fatigue here, and a 90 minute film would have been more impactful. Also, I was left a little unclear in certain specifics. Why was a 1986 the Mohawk claim to the federal Office of Native Claims, "rejected on the basis that it failed to meet key legal criteria"? Was it known if the developers were going to eliminated the cemetery? The film was released January 1993, but the ending of the film makes no mention that the developer's plans for expansion were cancelled. According to thecanadianencyclopedia.ca, during the crisis the Federal Government agreed to purchase the land from the developers for 5.3 million; and that "After the crisis had ended, the government purchased a number of additional plots of land for Kanesatake. However, these Crown lands have not yet been transferred to the Kanesatake Mohawk." The War of 1812 (2011) 9/10 Excellent and entertaining documentary of the background and conduct of the War of 1812. It includes plenty of historical experts explaining the perspectives of the four main actors: United States, The Canadas, British Empire and Indian tribes; including war strategy, human impact and historical significance. I watched the 2hr 33min version on youtube, where the creator edited out the commercials. PBS.org has the doc available for free viewing with a runtime of 1hr 53 mins, available in HD (https://www.pbs.org/video/the-war-of...-full-program/). I'm not sure there's 40 mins of repetition in the youtube version; there's certainly recap at the TV break transitions, so maybe the PBS is truly a complete version. |
The Garlock Incident
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The Night Eats the World (2018)
I.M.D.B. The morning after a party, a young man wakes up to find Paris invaded by zombies. I enjoyed the movie, but the character kept having to create drama for himself by inexplicably doing dumb, dangerous things, which seemed out of character to his regular survival instincts. Those moments were frustrating and seemed needless when the danger could easily have been more external. But it was well made and the zombies were good. 7/10 https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...82,268_AL_.jpg |
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“Hereditary” 8-9/10
Not perfect, but I have a hard time believing a better horror movie will be coming out this year. |
Minutes To Midnight, 2018 {screener} 4/10
https://78.media.tumblr.com/0e4609d8...6426o1_500.jpg Poster looked alright and some of the stills.. Bill Moseley was in this....for 5 minutes and it has William Baldwin who I like and he did well for a psycho fuck. But the movie was not very good. |
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The Endless, 2018. 7,5/10
Excellent Sci~Fi film from Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson who directed and wrote Spring {2014} and Resolution{2012} https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/v....w710.h473.jpg |
A Horrible Way to Die
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Incident in a Ghostland, 2018. 9/10
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This was an open minded concept horror film..takes place in central MT....the villain is ancient...
One of the hooks in the plot was a shared dream. ::devil:: The Triangle (2016) |
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The Conjuring 2
7/10 IMDB: "Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising 4 children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit." The film had some problems, I think many due to construction, as I feel there was some viewer fatigue with it's 2hr-14min runtime. The film opens with a segment from the Amityville (Horror) case, but I really didn't get how it related in any way to the rest of the film... certainly didn't seem to mesh well. At least the demon hunter Warren's got some face time, because it seems like a long, long time without them once the segment in London begins, which I think was rather weak. Following along those lines, there's a demon nun that I was hard pressed to mesh with the London Enfield case, that is besides the fact the film just comes out and says it's following Mr Warren. The London segment is actually from a famous case, called the Enfield Poltergeist. I found watching the actual local news and the psychical documentary film, from psychical researcher Maurice Grosse, to be more entertaining than Conjuring 2's pre-Warrens segment. Once the Warren's arrive, it's a bit more interesting and entertaining. But it's still just not as sharp as the first 3/4ths of the original The Conjuring. I think the film would have benefitted by almost immediately featuring Maurice Grosse's research (based on the actual), who was played quite entertainingly by Simon McBurney. Then move the Warrens into town, and maybe even plot the two (Grosse and Warrens) against each other, and introduce a perceived fight for noteriety, which I think was the reality. Although we are to trust in the pure motives of the Warrens, I think it could have added an interesting conflict dimension. |
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Cure for Wellness -
I thought I posted about wanting to see A Cure for Wellness here after seeing the trailer. But I can't find that post. Anyway, after finishing the movie, I felt a bit disappointed. Perhaps even misled. I thought the movie would be a dark, psychological, lovecraft type horror movie. And at first it seemed like that. However, when a few other elements are introduced the movie became kind of jumbled for me. Like an odd horror fantasy movie mixed with old Universal Monsters type themes. But no where as good as it took far too long to get to the obvious twist if you could even call it that. This is a really beautiful movie to see though. I had to see if the locations were real as the early establishing location shots are incredible. The cast is pretty good too, it's just that the story lets them down. I thought from early on that this would be a movie I would own. But I don't even see myself watching this one again. |
Halloween 2 1981
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