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INFINITY POOL

January 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INFINITY POOL

    With INFINITY POOL Brandon Cronenberg continues his father’s great tradition of unsettling images and quasi-familiar realities. He diverges in that, for all the normalization of the disquieting, in that he fails to evince the same undertone impish glee at the macabre so evident in even the elder Mr. Cronenberg’s darkest works. Still, he… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, execution, exploitation, foreign country, orgy, strobe, tourism

HALLOWEEN ENDS

October 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HALLOWEEN ENDS

HALLOWEEN ENDS fulfills its promise to take the battle between Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (unknown shape played by James Jude Courtney) to its limits. Boasting four writers, including director and purveyor of the franchise reboot, David Gordon Green, this excursion takes us, alas, into muddled waters. Myers, on the loose since… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, callow and sensitive youth, finale, gurgling blood, James Dean-esque anguish, sequel

SMILE

September 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SMILE

Among the primates, expect for humans, widening the mouth and showing the teeth is a signal of aggression. In humans, it’s called a smile, and I’m sure that anthropologists have made much hay about that behavioral disconnect between us and our cousins. Parker Finn, in his feature film debut as writer and director, also makes… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, hallucinations, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, Trauma

HOCUS POCUS 2

September 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

HOCUS POCUS 2

If you were even mildly enchanted, amused, chilled, or any combination of those three, by the original HOCUS POCUS, I beg you to avoid the sequel at all costs. It is a travesty of a flick, and an insult to that darkly whimsical tale of 29 years ago. To remind you, it introduced us to… Read More »

Tagged With: black-flame candle, costume contest, Halloween, ritual, Salem, sequel, witches

DON’T WORRY DARLING

September 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DON’T WORRY DARLING

DON’T WORRY DARLING is not the most coherent of feminist manifestos, but it is an ambitious one, exploring as it does several variants of toxic masculinity, some unexpected, but no less pernicious for the surprise factor. Using a devoted couple, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) as the focal point of gender dynamics, the… Read More »

Tagged With: conformity, cult of personality, mid-century, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, unreality

MEDUSA

August 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEDUSA

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s MEDUSA is a savage satire of self-enforced female repression. Set in an unnamed country that could be the filmmaker’s native Brazil, or any country with a vocal and fervent minority currently vying to bring Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale to life, it is a lushly metaphorical take on the kind of right-wing… Read More »

Tagged With: Christian speed-dating, patriarchy, repression, selfies for the glory of god, toxic masculinity

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

August 13, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES answers the question “What if a group of friends, trapped in a house in the middle of nowhere, suddenly turned on each other?” Actually, the more salient question is what if a group of friends, with varying degrees of irritating personality disorders, found themselves in those circumstances, would anyone care who made… Read More »

Tagged With: hurricane, murder, nastiness, remote house, toxic personality, trust-funders, vapid

HE’S WATCHING

July 27, 2022 By 1 Comment

HE’S WATCHING

For the first 15 minutes or so of HE’S WATCHING, you might be forgiven if you think that this is just another semi-inspired entry into the found-footage sub-genre of horror. I’m not sure that isn’t exactly what filmmaker Jacob Estes intended. It certainly makes what follows all the more effective for it having lulled us… Read More »

Tagged With: demons, pandemic, siblings, strawberries

NOPE

July 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

NOPE

NOPE is what OJ Haywood says when he sees something that does not sit well with him, be it what appear to be tiny visitors from another world invading his stable, or the offer to sell the family spread after a freak accident kills his father (David Keith). As played by Daniel Kaluuya, he is… Read More »

Tagged With: disaffected techie, enigmatic, homicidal monkey, sky dancers, ufo

THE BLACK PHONE

June 24, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PHONE

The horror in THE BLACK PHONE, and very effective horror it is, comes not primarily from the serial child killer on the loose in a suburban enclave of Denver in 1978. Played with a geeky, creepy panache by Ethan Hawke, The Grabber, as he is dubbed by the police and the populace of this all-American… Read More »

Tagged With: Baphomet, based on a short story, bullying, child abuse, child killer, existential crisis, second sight, serial killer

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