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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
I just saw Godzilla Minus One and it was good. Easily the best kaiju movie that I’ve seen in a long time; mostly the ones I’ve seen have been American takes on the genre. The one I grew up with was the 1998 Roland Emmerich disaster porno, Godzilla, which I mainly remember for all the…
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Black Christmas (1974)
Produced in 1974, four years before Halloween would provide a new zenith for the genre (and six before the decade began that would come to mark its nadir, preceding Scream’s much needed revitalisation in 1996), Black Christmas is a Canadian slasher directed by Bob Clark and featuring probably most famously Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in Superman ‘78) and John…
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Scarface (1983)
A classic of its genre, Scarface typifies ‘80s materialism in much the same way that the 1932 movie of the same name that it was based on symbolised the Prohibition era. Back then it was booze, now it’s cocaine. Then it was jazz and the Charleston, now it’s big hair and electro-pop. Like all great…
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The Uncanny (1977)
I just saw 1977’s The Uncanny, an anthology horror film starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance just prior to his role as Dr Loomis in Halloween, at my local art centre’s Classic Horror Nights and it was fantastic. Your mileage with it may vary, depending on your taste for camp and tolerance of cheese in…
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Thanksgiving (2023)
I just saw Thanksgiving, the new slasher film by Eli Roth, and it was fun. Featuring a great cold open wherein a Black Friday sale leads to a deadly rampage of greed in a small town, we cut to one year later as a slasher in a Pilgrim hat and mask starts insisting on the…
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The Marvels (2023)
I saw The Marvels and it was pretty bland. You know it’s bland when one of the recurring themes of positive criticism around it is that it’s blessedly short for a superhero film. It’s a remarkably clunky piece of storytelling, lurching from one set piece to the next with no real ebb and flow. In…
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Cat Person (2023)
I just saw Cat Person and it was good. Based on the short story of the same name by Kristen Roupenian, which went viral in 2017 for its exploration of gender dynamics as per modern dating, it’s a cleverly constructed black comedy and psychological thriller about an awkward flirtation that ends up going horribly wrong.…
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
I just saw Killers of the Flower Moon and it was really good. I was trepidatious about seeing it because it’s three and a half hours long, but having booked myself a seat with a lot of legroom and popped out for a comfort break midway through, I didn’t feel the length at all. (Sidenote:…
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Horror Classic Quickies: Friday the 13th (1980) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Arguably the true first of the slasher boom that would help to define ‘80s horror cinema, for better or worse, this is the film that codified and thereby effectively birthed the sub-genre without even meaning to. Director Sean S Cunningham had no intention to make any sort of inspirational piece, he was just ripping off…
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
What is it with David Gordon Green and vintage horror reboots? His first Halloween reboot (2018) was fine, probably the best of the Halloween sequels, but the others were trash and now we have this. Why has he gone from such worthy indie dramas as George Washington (2000) and All the Real Girls (2003) to…
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