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Lets start with a pair of ideas: One, This is a fairly cheap (not monetarily, but lazy) adaptation of a Junji Ito comic; it goes out of its way to "make the panel on screen" in a very similar and equally ostentatious way that a couple of the
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This was a pivot — Takashi Miike's Visitor Q was a bit much. Wikipedia for synopsis After the slog that has been the stretch since Evil Bong to here, this was a breath of fresh air. I went in blind on what this movie was, beyond "Bill Paxton
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare. This week we are watching 2019's The King. Let me start by saying a pair of things that I would usually find mutually exclusive: One: I did not like this movie. Two: I think this movie was well made. I think
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I'm pretty sure the only reason I have a copy of this is Lukas Haas is in it. This is easily the most bog-standard scary movie on the list; here's a synopsis, stop me if you've heard this one before: A group a
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Hey, another Dark Castle. Like many horror movies of this era, it starts strong and then wants to explain every damn detail. Whether this is because it does not trust you, the viewer; or because the studio stepped in to make them do that; or because these were made cheap
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Synopsis; spoilers follow I did not intend to include any "so bad it's good" films beyond Evil Bong in my Hallowatch. 11-11-11, I expected to be novel in its own bizarre way; I was unaware of the James Wan connection on The Nun; and
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Wikipedia • Can there even be spoilers on a movie like this? Surely you don't go in expecting no-one will die, right? I remember when this came out; my friends who were far more into Horror than I was were talking a lot of trash about it due
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I went in with such high hopes for Evil Bong, that it'd be the dumbest possible variation of a slasher movie and filled with dumb stoner humor. Instead it felt like a twenty-years-late sequel to 1982's Zapped!, complete with racist stereotypes (done by the
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Spiral is a movie about how it's not worth it to try to talk to your quiet coworkers. It is somehow worse than the other Joel David Moore movie I've written about here. I think this is the only movie I've ever looked at
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Wikipedia; discussion of spoilers/plot follows This movie could've been a stage play. Hell, this movie could've been a podcast. I loved it. Pontypool was an exercise in restraint that I think does more to reinvent the zombie genre than Train to Busan did. A breezy
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Welcome back to My Year of Shakespeare, a new years resolution that has been a journey. This week we watched the conclusion of series two of The Hollow Crown, the 2016 BBC production of Richard III. I'm omitting a summary for this one — you can read through the
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Wikipedia • Spoilers to follow I don't know if this was a horror movie. It was, ostensibly, a slasher, after a fashion, but it felt like it skewed closer to a time loop movie like Primer, Looper, or The Endless (which I guess is a horror movie) than it