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Strangely enough, I didn’t know what the premise for this movie was going into it (despite literally all the marketing). For that reason, I had some really awesome moments while watching Companion that I don’t think would have been the same had I known. Even if I had, though, I still think I would have Read more

Well, I’m not really sure how to approach this one. It’s definitely unlike any movie I’ve seen, and for that I have to give it a lot of credit. The choices the director and cinematographer made in how to shoot these scenes are very obvious and intentional, almost cartoon-y sometimes. This isn’t a criticism at Read more

I’m a fan of media that reveals information to the person consuming it by showing rather than telling. Putting the pieces of information together about what you’re being presented can be really fun and make an otherwise relatively simple plot way more interesting. Strange Darling accomplishes this very well. It cheats a little by giving Read more

Imagine mixing April Fool’s Day with a 2020 version of “MTV’s The Real World” and you’ll have Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. The film premise is so simple it’s almost not important; a group of rich kid friends (kind of) get together during a hurricane to hang out and drink and do drugs, but when a party Read more

Since I’ve only ever watched the first Final Destination movie, I figured that this “soft reboot” would be a good one to include this year. I didn’t going in with much experience with the conventions that these movies usually use to present the gruesome Rube Goldberg death scenes, but I really liked how they did Read more

Originally supposed to be part of a twofer about Bigfoot, I ended up not having time for two, so I went with this one. It’s NOT related to the video game at all, unless they were planning a “Primal Rage-verse”, but prob not.Anyway, a man and a woman get stranded in the wood and there’s Read more

The latest entry in the annual Shudder produced anthology series of films, this time it’s mostly about aliens. It’s 5 short stories (and a framing device story that’s really the weakest of them all) that vary quite a bit in their quality. They’re all “Found footage” style films, so if you don’t like the shakey Read more

I originally had this one later down my list but I ended up bumping it up because I didn’t feel like renting anything and the St. Louis Public Library blocks my favorite pirate sites. I heard very little about this one, other than people liked it, so I was really looking forward to it, and Read more

A throwback today, and I have to admit that I thought I was going into a Stephen King movie. I hadn’t seen this before and when it was listed as an “erotic horror” movie, I wasn’t super excited. I soldiered on though, in the spirit of Halloween. (It was not all that erotic) Malcom McDowell Read more

This is a slasher movie, fairly standard “undead guy in the woods kills teenagers at a cabin”, but the camera mostly follows the killer instead of the victims. There’s no soundtrack or creepy music at all, and there are long shots of the killer, almost always from behind, walking through the woods. The result is Read more