Quinn Rau

Screenshot from the movie "Sweetheart" showing a woman on a sandy shore looking at something red lying in the sand. There are faint shadows of grass blurred out of focus in frame for a stylistic effect.

Screenshot from the movie "Sweetheart" showing a beached shark that has deep claw mark gashes down it's body.

Screenshot from the movie "Sweetheart" showing a very dark scene of the ocean with the only lighting being from a red flare in the distance which is showing the dark shadow of a humanoid creature looming in the ocean.

Screenshot from the movie "Sweetheart" showing a woman swimming in the ocean looking out at the sunset.

#Hooptober 12
Film 27/31: "Sweetheart (2019)"

Some frustrating decisions and distracting acting in the second half, but is still a fairly fun and tense monster survival movie on a tropical island with cat-and-mouse game energy.

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I only just recently started getting into older Hong Kong horror films, and they are unbelievably good. Feels like an endless well of wonderful insanity.

Me kneeled down in a yard concentrating while setting up the set with lighting rigs, a TV, and a laptop.

My wife just sent me a covertly taken behind the scenes picture of me putting this together, this is what it's all about, hell yeah.

SPLATTERHOUSE

SPLATTERHOUSE

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Magazine cover for Monthly Halloween February 1987 issue, featuring a young brunette woman in a red dress, caught in a giant spider web with a large tarantula.

Monthly Halloween magazine.
February, 1987

Hell yeah it is, and it kicks ass.

Oh man I completely forgot that was today, I gotta get mine ASAP.

Incredible sounding day, damn.

Just watched this a couple weeks ago and it kicks so much ass!

"Killer Klowns from Outer Space" for sure!

Thank you!!!

One of the best zombie movies easily.

And I don't care what anyone says, I adore the goofy skeleton with the clearly visible wiring and rods!

I was recently let go from my job of 10 years for reasons out of my control. I've been feeling down and aimless, but it means I can finally flex my creative muscles a bit when I never had the time or space to.

I'm filming horror vignettes while working on bigger projects, I hope people dig them!

Sounds cheap, easy, and morally sound.

Denied.

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To be clear, I like goofiness, I am a fan of toku and it's inherent to the genre. I was more commenting on the juxtaposing tones in a mildly hyperbolic way.

Honestly, my main issue with the movie is the choreography feeling really phoned in and the pacing. But it's a fun enough movie.

"The Guyver" is such a weird movie. For a majority of it you get some of the most subpar, half-assed tokusatsu action with goofy ass sound effects and bad jokes, and then Screaming Mad George decides to just go all-in on an insane body horror effect like this out of nowhere.

Hell yeah! I went earlier in the month and this year was great, all the houses were excellent!

The variety is great for sure, awesome job on all of them! Impressed at how they all feel so distinct too.

Love this one, has a really beautiful melancholic sound to it.

Photo of my Chainsaw Man collection with all English released manga volumes, the Blu-ray of the anime, figurines of the main characters, a poster, and a plush of Pochita.

You could say I'm excited for the Chainsaw Man movie in a few days. (And you'd be very right)

I still need to see Halloween, but the more I sit with it the more I think '94 is my favorite. 2 is extremely strong, but I think I mainly hold it so high for Safe Haven alone. '94 has Raatma and The Subject which I think ekes it out for me.

And now my timeline gave me one.

Counterpoint:

Photo of my physical media collection among several posters and figurines.

Another photo of my physical media collection among several posters and figurines.

A third photo of my physical media collection among several posters and figurines.

I'm an anime, action, and horror film collector! Far too many to name just one. (Technically they're mostly blu-rays and 4ks though)

Me and some friends screened "Mark of the Vampire" a couple days ago, and there is an -amazing- bat on a string in that movie that we just absolutely lost our minds to every time it popped up.

I'm such a bad critic sometimes, because all a movie needs to do is show me a goofy skeleton, a rubber suit monster, some fog, a crypt/graveyard, and harsh neon lights and I'll be hootin' and hollerin' like I've witnessed one of the great wonders of the world.