The ’90s goth aesthetic is unmatched!
(The blatant Buffy influence on nearly every aspect of this movie is kinda hilarious)
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Love when the plot of a movie can’t advance until a character goes to a library and checks out a very old book
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Glad I waited to watch this. Had I seen it anytime between its release and the 2024 U.S. election, I probably would’ve found it to be Too Much
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Once again, a film that nearly all my friends* think is “boring” “inert” “underdeveloped” “too slow” strikes a deep emotional chord in me and is probably going to have me fucked up for the rest of the week ✌🏼
*Dave innocent
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She would have a very lucrative OnlyFans
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The irony of apoliticism (or, the active attempt to at least appear apolitical) is that it is, in fact, political as fuck!
I hope the criticism never separates this film—and its faux-neutral treatment of the situation at hand—from the horrible, tone deaf timing of its release
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Stop reproducing
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Deborah Kerr not guilty
Jacqueline Bisset hung jury
Everyone else to the penitentiary
I simply was not prepared for so many of the things I just witnessed. Loved it
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I’m seldom a film score guy, but my god what lovely music, really ties the film together
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Julianne Nicholson, someday you’ll get everything you’re owed
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I went full on into Dad Mode
Honestly, this flew by for me
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Kinda fucked! Love a downer when I’m already down 🙃
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Judy Greer as the January Jones of Anne Heches
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Sick 🤘🏼🤘🏼
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The desert as Death, a barren place where the wandering damned cross paths and torment each other. If you told me Monte Hellman was reading Sartre when he directed it, I’d believe you. Hm, Hell-man…
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That’s my dream home tbqh
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Kinda rude what they did to those frogs
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Never working before 10:00 in the morning or after 4:30 in the afternoon?? Make Norma Desmond Secretary of Labor
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So many of my problems would cease to be if I had just 10% of Jonathan Bailey’s exuberance
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I was rooting for Denzel the whole time. Let him take it all
Also, big mistake to downplay/omit the queerness that’s clearly there
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It’s so unfair how gorgeous and brilliant Don Mancini has been at every stage of his life. Like seriously, every bit of footage they show of him throughout the years… We stan hot, macabre geniuses here!
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“My pain is unexceptionable, so I don’t feel the need to burden everyone” is too real
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The courthouse windows being completely blown out regardless of the weather, time of day, or the side of the building is my love language
So too is Clint dissecting the justice system, picking apart so much of what’s wrong with it—a lot of it being that people simply don’t really want to (or can’t) fully participate
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Once again, Bergman does not get enough credit for his influence on the horror genre. The real ones know!
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“Some things are hard to swallow, and I’m not talking about the fish” 👀
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Hugh Grant is great 10/10 no notes, but that is a Peter Capaldi role—one which he would’ve fuckin ATE
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“Oh, what interesting china! It looks like young men playing leap frog”
Someone should open a gay bar and name it Leapfrog
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The casting of Jennifer Aniston is so funny to me like girl what are you doing here get out of there
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Anyone who says this is the greatest movie ever made is correct
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Evil Ed is a gay icon. So is Amanda Bearse
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Dr. Loomis is a madman and a menace lmao
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Remember when dramas were allowed to look this good??
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I enjoyed this, but I wasn’t in the best state of mind for it. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s direction is on another level nonetheless
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Top-tier Carpenter. Top-tier King adaptation. Perfect encapsulation of 80s horror
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Now those are some close-ups!
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Contemporary horror filmmaker would do well by studying how these jump scares sound
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The AARP Movies for Grownups Awards nominated Liv Ullmann for Best Actress, and ya know what? I support it
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I really need to start reading Robert Bloch
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She must pee like all the time
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Too few of you appreciate the healing power of a meditative walk in the woods and it shows
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Art is such a stunt queen
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I get what it’s up to, but I struggled to get on its wavelength
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See, this is why I don’t skydive. You’ll never see footage of my ass in that situation!
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At best, a highlights reel for one of the greatest horror novels of all time. I hope, if anything, it encourages more people to seek out the book
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No shade to Cory Michael Smith, who’s very easy on the eyes, but it’s funny how characters keep talking about Chevy as if no one in comedy has ever been hotter when Dylan O’Brien and Lamorne Morris are literally also in this cast
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I’m probably overthinking Rob Zombie’s conscious choice to cast "Weird Al" Yankovic to play himself in this post-Scary Movie revisionist version of Halloween… Or am I?
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I’m surprised by how many of my mutuals on here seem to really dig this one. I thought it was… fine?
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Honestly, let him cook!
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“A-A-tron” is a great niche joke
]]>In 1981, Stephen King published Danse Macabre, a work of non-fiction wherein the author acts as a tour guide through the history of horror. He addresses the social issues and political conflicts that have influenced creators over the years, and the ways creators have influenced each other.
King closes out the volume by recommending 96 films (Appendix I) and 113 books (Appendix II) released during the 1950-1980 period that he feels have significantly contributed to modern genre fiction. With my Fearsome Queer column, I’ll be making my way through those titles in no particular order.
Here are the films arranged by release year:
- The Thing from Another World
- It Came from Outer Space
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Them!
- Diabolique
- The Night of the Hunter
- The Quatermass Xperiment
- The Bad Seed
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- X the Unknown
...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Fargo
- The Big Lebowski
- No Country for Old Men
- Blood Simple
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- Burn After Reading
- Miller's Crossing
- True Grit
- A Serious Man
- Barton Fink
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
- Friday the 13th
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- Friday the 13th Part 2
- Freddy vs. Jason
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- Jason X
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Most favorite to least favorite. Updating as I journey though the Criterion box set
- Scenes from a Marriage
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- Summer with Monika
- Wild Strawberries
- Summer Interlude
- Dreams
- To Joy
- Saraband
- Crisis
- A Ship to India
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
- New Nightmare
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
- Freddy vs. Jason
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
Most favorite to least favorite
- Jane B. for Agnès V.
- One Sings, the Other Doesn't
- Daguerréotypes
- Cléo from 5 to 7
- The Gleaners and I
- Vagabond
- Faces Places
- Documenteur
- Le Bonheur
- The Beaches of Agnès
...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Suspiria
- Deep Red
- Tenebre
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- Opera
- Inferno
- Phenomena
- The Cat o' Nine Tails
- Pelts
- The Stendhal Syndrome
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Halloween
- The Thing
- Christine
- Prince of Darkness
- The Fog
- Big Trouble in Little China
- They Live
- Escape from New York
- Body Bags
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
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]]>My most favorite to least favorite — I like them all!
]]>Most favorite to least favorite
]]>- Jaws
- The Color Purple
- Schindler's List
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Saving Private Ryan
- Munich
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Minority Report
- The Post
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Mulholland Drive
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Twin Peaks: The Return
- Eraserhead
- Inland Empire
- Lost Highway
- Blue Velvet
- The Elephant Man
- Wild at Heart
- The Straight Story
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Fly
- Dead Ringers
- Videodrome
- Naked Lunch
- Crash
- The Dead Zone
- The Brood
- Eastern Promises
- A History of Violence
- Scanners
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Poltergeist
- Salem's Lot
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
- The Mangler
- Lifeforce
- Body Bags
- Mortuary
- Toolbox Murders
- Dance of the Dead
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Scream
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Scream 2
- New Nightmare
- Scream 4
- The People Under the Stairs
- Scream 3
- The Serpent and the Rainbow
- Red Eye
- The Last House on the Left
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Lost Boys
- Falling Down
- Phone Booth
- The Client
- Batman Forever
- Batman & Robin
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Blood Creek
- Veronica Guerin
- Flatliners
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Zodiac
- The Social Network
- Se7en
- Gone Girl
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Game
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Alien³
- Fight Club
- Panic Room
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Rosemary's Baby
- Chinatown
- Repulsion
- The Pianist
- Knife in the Water
- Macbeth
- Cul-de-sac
- The Tenant
- The Ghost Writer
- Death and the Maiden
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Note: Only counting films directed by Welles
]]>Note: Only counting films directed by Ivory
]]>I used to work in the motion picture business. In that time, I contributed to each of these:
- I See You
- The Last Summer
- Native Son
- The Bleeding Edge
- White Boy Rick
- The Assassin's Code
- Acts of Violence
- Little Evil
- Abundant Acreage Available
- My Friend Dahmer
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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