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A ★★★★ review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) Sam Rockwell shows up at a busy diner wearing a worn out version of Bruce Willis’ outfit from 12 Monkeys (1995) claiming to be a time traveler who’s arrived 117 times before looking for the perfect co...

12 Monkeys - pandemic + A.I.

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This was one of those “somebody please help me find this movie I saw when I was a child” movies for me. Roaches that catch fire? Even to me it sounded like a fever dream.

I’m here for the cutoff jorts, the hairspray bouffants and the cable knit sweaters. It’s a little snapshot of 1980 before we get down to business.

A ★★★★½ review of Friday the 13th (1980) Early American slasher that is so famous it’s synonymous with the date in the title. The plot and premise was stolen almost wholesale from Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood (1971) but Italy has a long histo...

This rip-off of a Mario Bava picture is better than you remember.

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A ★★½ review of The Uninvited (2009) Weak, glossy DreamWorks PG-13 horror that is really proud of it's unreliable narrator plot twist which is reasonably well-executed. But then it isn't satisfied and throws in yet another rug-pull that ...

I’m kinda mean to a movie that just wants to entertain.

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A ★★★★ review of The Kindred (1987) 1980s gross-out body horror/practical puppet effect movie about a man and a team of grad students investigating his recently passed mother's genetic gene-splicing experiments. What we get is a lot of ...

Slimy puppets!

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Oh yes! That quick little peak was something else!

Screenshot from my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which were Attack of the Crab Monsters, Saint Maud, The Banishing and Shelby Oaks.

Four very different kinds of horror films, all with a single woman on the cover.

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A ★★★ review of Shelby Oaks (2024) Shelby Oaks opens with an introduction that is so reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project (1999) that it's practically a remake. Young adult filmmakers disappear and all we have is the footage they lef...

Seriously, what was with the dog?

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A ★★★ review of The Banishing (2020) Typical young family in a haunted mansion movie set in what I believe was 1937. Nothing here The Devil’s Backbone (2001), The Others (2002) or The Orphanage (2007) didn’t do first and better. A woman ...

Standard family in a haunted mansion movie until the end hints at a very interesting sequel that I kinda want to happen.

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A ★★★★½ review of Saint Maud (2019) Maud is a nurse who went through a mysterious tragic event that made her quit her hospital, become a devout Christian and hire on as a private duty nurse. Her patient is a former famous dancer, now de...

Slow burn horror.

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A ★★★½ review of Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) As famous as Roger Corman was for launching careers of Hollywood elite like Jack Nicholson, Frances Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and James Cameron, he did direct over 100 movies himse...

Crabs got eyestalks, man, and they look scary. Why would you put human eyes on your crab monsters?

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A ★★★★ review of 4D Man (1959) Until relatively recently, sci-fi was considered kid stuff. Generally, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is when the genre got some real clout. 4D Man (1959) is a rare exception of pre-2001 hard ...

A man learns to move through the 4th dimension and what does he do with it? Rob’s a bank. No imagination.

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A ★★★½ review of Muppets from Space (1999) Jim Henson was the whole package. He was the heart and soul of any Muppets project but he was also the creativity, the technical knowhow and the captain who course-corrected when necessary. He was Ker...

They genuinely tried, which is the most Jim Henson thing you can say about Muppets from Space.

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A screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are Send Help, Full Metal Jacket, Galaxy of Terror and Kill List.

The newest Sam Raimi, a classic Kubrick, a rapey Corman and British hitmen retained by a cult.

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A ★★★½ review of Kill List (2011) A man with horrendous rage issues who makes a living as a contract hitman is hired by a satanic cult to take out a few people. At first it seems he’s just slaying people who are enemies of Satan, but ...

Always read through the entire scope of work when performing contract work for Beelzebub. The clause regarding Force Majeure is ironclad.

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It was inevitable.

Galaxy of Terror (1981) As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest night...

Ray Walston, Erin Moran, Sid Haig and Robert Englund were in a movie where a giant worm puppet rapes a woman.

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Full Metal Jacket (1987) A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Three films about three different sides of the evils of war combined into one brilliant and ugly picture.

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#HeSaidTheTitle
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A ★★★★ review of Send Help (2026) I’m a longtime Sam Raimi fan. Ever since the 80s when I rented a VHS of the original Evil Dead because of the cover with a hand coming out of the ground to choke a woman and the Stephen King pull quot...

A new Raimi film is a guaranteed appointment.

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#POV
#Splatter
#TheClassic
#Antihero
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A ★★★★★ review of The Boy and the Heron (2023) Studio Ghibli movies are practically their own subgenre. Even among other Anime they stand out visually. They all bring to life the magic of a child’s fantasy worldview. The character designs are simi...

Finally got around to seeing the new Studio Ghibli.

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For anyone else this would have been an exemplary performance. For better or Bette Davis it’s just good.

This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are D.O.A, My Favorite Wife, The Bride Cam C.O.D and Deception.

Nothin’ but Classic Hollywood all the way down.

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A ★★★★½ review of Deception (1946) Bette Davis discovers childhood love Paul Henreid returned from the war alive and sets out to marry him immediately. What he doesn’t know is that Claude Rains had taken a special interest in her in hi...

Better Davis is good and Claude Rains is amazing.

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#FastenYourSeatbelts
#It’sGoingToBeABumpyNight
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A ★★★★½ review of The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) The Bride Came C.O.D. is a comedy starring Bette Davis and James Cagney. Davis is an oil heiress socialite and Cagney is a charter pilot on the verge of bankruptcy and losing his plane. When Cagney is...

Bette Davis and James Cagney is an odd combination to me.

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#YouDirtyRat
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A ★★★★★ review of My Favorite Wife (1940) Seven years before My Favorite Wife starts, Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott are shipwrecked and presumed dead. Dunn’s husband Cary Grant finally has her declared legally dead at the justice of the peace...

No one does screwball comedy like Cary Grant.

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“trying solving”

Embarrassing.

A ★★★★★ review of D.O.A. (1949) Edmond O’Brien is a womanizer who unknowingly notarized proof that a man who sold stolen iridium bought it from the actual thief and wasn’t in on the crime. The real criminal poisons him with a fictio...

A man trying solving his own murder!

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A ★★★ review of Dream Eater (2024) Dream Eater is a found footage-adjacent horror picture filmed by a small crew starring the writers and directors in half the roles (I say “adjacent” for reasons that are mildly spoilery). I find that ...

Standard found footage with the stock scares included.

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This is a much better film than the remake.