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Watched 2014's Honeymoon tonight with FS. It combines two of my favorite frameworks - relationship-centric horror and horror where something, but what??, happens to people alone in the woods. The relationship-centricity I thought was a very refreshing way to reposition the alien abduction narrative, though I would be happy with just about any trope ( Read more... )

Of the past couple years, Stoker is the other big new entry into my personal film "canon." I watched it twice in December: once with FS, and once with C. I think about watching it again with problematic frequency.

Relevant viewing/reading: Shadow of a Doubt, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And:

"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg ( Read more... )

Sooooooo: A Field in England is now one of my canon films. MtLW and I went to see it on Wednesday night (apparently Sean and A. went to see it the night before; so we just missed one another), after quick burgers and fries (him) and onion rings (me) at Flat Patties across the street. Miserable cold night, and I was exhausted to the point of feeling ( Read more... )

- This is kind of an experiment, I guess, to see what comes out when I'm too tired to convolute my sentences as much as I normally do.

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Wake Wood was pretty okay. Pet Sematary meets The Wicker Man. The eventual gorefest was nonsensical and unconvincing; mostly I liked the Quaint Creepy Faintly Derelict Village scene-setting and Yorkshire ( Read more... )

The newest Bond movie has fired my imagination! For the last hour or so especially, I was doltishly wide-eyed and breathless ( Read more... )

On a scale of 1 to 5, I would rate it "incoherent." Also, "it's true because Freud ( Read more... )

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Saw Inception on Thursday night, and was disappointed that it wasn't as cerebral as I had been hoping. I would describe as being about as visually spectacular as Avatar (and to me, way more visually interesting), and far more intellectually ambitious, but not really all that much more intelligent. Oh, damn, that's really ungenerous; I think I'm ( Read more... )

Trailer for the American remake of Let the Right One In (limply retitled as just Let Me In) is out... my heart is asplodin' with a fulminating brew of excitement and trepidation.

( fannish maundering; spoiler for the original )