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Hit Man 🤙🏻

Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Need I say more? Maybe it's because of the antici-

Mr Harrigans Phone. Pretty good. But slow. 9/10

Jurassic World Dominion. Decent. 8/10

The Vourdalak/Le Vourdalak (2023)

French drama-horror film. It's about a courtier and envoy of the King of France in 18th-century Eastern Europe who, having lost his horse and companions through being robbed, finds himself in the home of a very strange family. It's based on Tolstoy's 1839 novella The Family of the Vourdalak, which probably has earlier film adaptations, but this is the first one I've heard of. A vourdalak (or wurdulac, or wurdalak, or verdilak, or vurdulak) is a kind of vampire in the Slavic folklore mythology. So this is kind of a vampire movie but unlike anyone you've ever seen. Very weird and eerie atmosphere, not least because the title character, the vourdalak, is portrayed by a marionette, but also because this is a French horror movie and those can often be a bit unusual. This one definitely is. It's a tight 90 minutes long and definitely worth experiencing, at least once. So overall I can recommend it.

Cronos (1993)

Mexican horror drama film. It's about an elderly antique dealer who finds a mechanism that can give eternal life. This was Guillermo del Toro's first movie, and coincidentally, the last GDT movie I hadn't seen yet, which makes me kinda sad, but also more excited for his upcoming Frankenstein adaptation. But yeah, if I would've been able to see this movie on release I could've told you that this young director would have a great future ahead of him. Because you really do see greatness in this. Sure, it's not GDT's best work (a debut rarely is) but it has that spark, that little thing you can't really put your finger on that elevates it from some random indie horror to a genuine classic that also shows that this young, unknown director knows horror. And we all know how that turned out. And yes, you already recognize del Toro's style in this one. So yeah, overall I can highly recommend it.

Advancing on the Roger Corman's Poe Cycle. So far, still pretty good.

• House of Usher (1960) - 4/5 stars - Very atmospheric and intriguing.
• The Pit and The Pendulum (1961) - 4/5 stars - The mystery is the best part.
• Tales of Terror (1962) - 5/5 stars - Great anthology film. The black cat segment is superb.
• Premature Burial (1962) - 3/5 stars - Good atmosphere and nice twist on the original story by Poe. Maybe a little bland.
• The Raven (1963) - 3/5 stars - Nice to see all this behemoths of Hollywood having a good time together. Perhaps a little too silly for my taste.
  The Haunted Palace (1963) - coming soon.
  The Masque of the Red Death (1964) - coming soon.
  Tomb of Ligeia (1964) - coming soon.

Take Cover 👎🏻

Session 9 (2001)

American psychological horror film. It's about an asbestos abatement crew who take a clean-up job at an abandoned mental asylum amid an intense work schedule, growing tensions, and mysterious events occurring around them. It's kind of a modest little slow-burning horror that definitely escalates towards the end. Very much deserves a rewatch at some point. Can recommend.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 👎🏻

Just saw yesterday The Shawshank Redemption for the first time. I always wanted to watch it as I've heard so much about it. Glad I did, after 30 years.

It's been a strange week and I needed a little schmaltz so i gave The Wild Robot a try.
I don't regret it. It's schmaltzy to be sure but in the best of ways. And it's also gorgeous and entertaining.
My niece didn't get why my eyes were leaking but she sure enjoyed the laughs in the movie so all is well.

I just saw JOKER 2 after not seeing it in the theatres after the trailers looked bland, and not rushing to see it on streaming cause the reviews were bad. I read a lot of comments and reviews talking about how maybe this movie was a giant middle finger to audiences to liked the first one. I really didn't catch that vibe, but i did catch the vibe that JOKER 2 kinda wants to roll back almost everything narratively that happened in the first one. I mean it would be like if somebody made a movie entirely about a courtroom case where they try john wick for the hundreds of guys he killed in parts 1-4. You might say they were missing the point. Besides all that JOKER 2 commits the only flaw worth mentioning. It's pretty boring. I mean seriously, not a lot happens from start to finish you couldn't sum up in a couple sentences. It does have an ending, though. I'll give it that.

The Gorgon (1964)

British horror film. It's about a small German village in the early twentieth century that's being terrorized by a gorgon that turns its citizens to stone. This movie is your typical 60s Hammer horror. Great cast (Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Troughton and more), cool effects (even if they look a bit goofy by modern standards) and just all around a fun time. Can recommend.

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The Ritual (2017)

British supernatural folk horror film. It's about four friends on a hiking trip through a Swedish old-growth forest, where they encounter an ancient evil presence. Rewatched this yesterday and it's still really good.

i saw Hotel Transylvania 4 on the the tv last weekend

Idź przodem, bracie / Go Ahead, Brother (S01) 👍🏻

The Swarm (1978) 🤙🏻

The Missing, western starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones. Rated 10/10, super good

Bug (2006)

American-German psychological horror film. It's about a woman who, as she spends time with a newly acquainted man in her motel room, starts sharing more and more of his paranoias. Fantastic performances by Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon. To say this is a very intense movie might be an understatement. It starts off kinda normal, but it very much escalates the further it goes on. One of those "descent into insanity" stories. It's also pretty much a single-location movie, taking place mostly in a single motel room. It's based on a play (by Tracy Letts, who I only know as an actor but apparently he's also a playwright). And this movie is directed by William Friedkin, just to throw in a name that might convince some of you to give it a watch. But yeah, it's definitely not for the faint of heart. I can recommend it.

Fireman, Save My Child! (1932)

American sports comedy film. It's about a small-town inventor, firefighter and baseball player who gets an offer to play for a big team (the St. Louis Cardinals) but he hopes to get more money for his inventions. Starring Joe E. Brown (who most people might know from 1959's Some Like It Hot ("Well, nobody's perfect.")), this tight hour-long baseball comedy is good and entertaining, even if you don't care about baseball (I certainly don't). Can recommend.

Dragonslayer (1981)

Elmer, the Great (1933)

American sports comedy film. It's about a small-town rookie baseball player who gets an offer to play for a big team (the Chicago Cubs) but through a series of practical jokes being pulled on him by his teammates, he finds himself with enormous gambling debt, which the casino's owner is willing to forget if he will only throw the deciding World Series game. Starring Joe E. Brown (who most people might know from 1959's Some Like It Hot ("Well, nobody's perfect.")), this tight 70 minute-long baseball comedy is good and entertaining, even if you don't care about baseball (I certainly don't). Yes, this one's similar to the one yesterday, but it's a bit more directly about baseball, if you care about that. Can recommend.

The Substance (2024)

Alibi Ike (1935)

American sports comedy film. It's about a rookie baseball player, newly signed to the Chicago Cubs, who, in the course of his first season with them, falls in love with the team manager's sister-in-law. If you're interested in baseball history you might recognize some of the players who had cameos in this, including Guy Cantrell, Dick Cox, Cedric Durst, Mike Gazella, Wally Hood, Don Hurst, Smead Jolley, Lou Koupal, Bob Meusel, Wally Rehg, and Jim Thorpe and while, yes, that list is taken straight from Wikipedia even I know who Jim Thorpe was. I think this is the best of Joe E. Brown's "baseball trilogy" of movies, which of course includes the other two movies I've watched this week. This one has the most interesting story and it was also first feature film released starring Olivia de Havilland (and not to play down the performances of the main character's love interest in each of the two previous movies (Evalyn Knapp in Fireman, Save My Child (1932) and Patricia Ellis in Elmer, the Great (1933)), but de Havilland was much better). So overall I can definitely recommend this one (moreso than the other two), no matter if you're already a baseball fan or not at all.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

American comedy-horror mystery film. It's about a police officer who, after a series of grisly murders happens in his small mountain town, is struggling to remind himself that there's no such thing as werewolves. This movie is nothing you haven't seen before. A small town, gruesome murders, lots of suspects and the Sheriff as our main character. It's really nothing special, but the performances are good and so is the pacing. And it's less than 90 minutes long, so it doesn't overstay its welcome. It's also one of Robert Forster's last movies, released posthumously. So if you're not expecting a masterpiece that will change your life forever after watching it, it's quite decent. Can recommend.