It seemed like a Hiroshi Teshigahara kind of mood when I shuffled my watchlist and saw Woman in the Dunes shuffle up to the top row, but then I decided to change tune and go with The Face of Another. The ultimate draw was the shorter runtime, by a comparative 20 minutes or so, but soon the draw became the premise of the film itself. It's no secret that we have all wished we were someone else, or that our…
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
Oscar Wilde once said: "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." There is no better way to attribute absolute, tyrannical abuse of power than that of fascism. Considering Pier Paolo Pasolini lived through the reign of Mussolini, and the types of filmmaking Pasolini utilized to challenge the cultural power structure of post-war Italy, everything was leading up to this moment, even upon his assassination on November 2nd of 1975, just weeks before the release…
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Rumours 2024
Rumours is an attempt at commentating on the contemporary politics of today, particularly within the liberal West, and while I can see what it is trying to do on paper, such as the geriatric US president and the repressed xenophobic German chancellor, it doesn't go far enough with its concept to be something exaggeratedly unusual, something all three directors are more than capable of accomplishing in the past in films such as The Green Fog and Seances. Rumours ultimately is…
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H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones 2024
A mishmash of a lot of Lovecraftian sensibilities and lore with tonal whiplash this side of a basilar skull fracture, Chad Ferrin's H. P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones is all over the place, which gives it some semblance of charm within its madness, but it lacks the presentation and budget to really pull off something truly uncanny and nightmarish, even if some of the cheap practical effects have some cool moments to them, such as the bathroom scene when Robert…
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