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Patient Zero
Goofy fun. I could watch stupid hot Natalie Dormer read the phone book.
Zombie films are beyond played out at this point but I had a good time watching
this.

Stan Against Evil - Season 1
If you're bummed about Ash Vs Evil Dead being cancelled this fills the void quite nicely.
Very fun and fast paced. John C McGinley does his usual lovable asshole to perfection and his
daughter is a real hoot. Binged it in two days. Can't wait to watch season 2.

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Hostiles (2018): damn good modern western.

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Just had my annual Christmas viewing of Night Train Murders. I have to say, I think this is a better film than Last House: the violence is more shocking, the acting's better (I wish that Laura D'Angelo had made more films before her untimely death), the Macha Méril character is far more complex than the villains in Last House, Morricone's minimalist score is great, and all this wonderful sleaze is set at Christmas! Just right for reminding me of how random and brutish the world is when I've had an overdose of Christmas spirit.

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Sounds like I need to re-watch Night Train Murders. I remember thinking it was tamer than I liked.

Last night was Fall Break aka The Mutilator. Second viewing since I've owned the Arrow rel. & I like it. It's gory & has some really good electronic sounds going on during all that gore.

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Unforgettable
Forgettable (hehe) thriller. John Dahl's second collaboration
with Linda Fiorentino. Here she's more of a damsel in distress than
a scheming evil man eating thundercunt like in The Last Seduction.
This is Ray Liotta's show through and through. It's nice for a watch
on a lazy day but very predictable. Figured out who the killer was
super early on.

Johnny English Strikes Again
Sooo lazy and sooo stupid. You know exactly what's gonna happen,
when it's gonna happen and just exactly how much they'll milk it. It's bad
but has some chuckles despite its utter predictability. These obviously make
money so they keep making them. I can't hate on this. I'll revisit it sometime,
when I feel like unwinding and disengaging my brain.

Stan Against Evil - Season 2
Worse than season 1 but still fun. I doubt they'll be able to sustain this past
three seasons though. I'mma plow through the third one shortly.

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Stan Against Evil - Season 3
After a somewhat lackluster second season this went balls out with the weirdness in a great way.
Loved every second. Now I'm actually looking forward to a fourth season.

Malcolm In The Middle - Seasons 1-7
Maybe the most consistently great show of all time. Amazingly funny and warm. There isn't really a
truly weak episode in the whole run. Fantastic television.

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This week, I have watched TALES FROM THE CRYPT starring Peter Cushing & Joan Collins on Xmas Eve; BLACK CHRISTMAS and SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Xmas night; RE-ANIMATOR & FROM BEYOND the night after Xmas, & director's cut of CATHY'S CURSE last night.

Also, a bunch of episodes of Mythbusters on The Science Channel.

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Vilsen - Jakten Pí¥ En Mí¶rdare (a.k.a. Ave Mater)
Written by a good friend of mine, whom I've sadly lost touch with over
the years. I got to read some of it during the script phase almost ten years ago.
I didn't think much of it at the time (was too mentally pre-occupied with every single piece
of my life falling apart) except naturally hoping it'd get made, wanting my friend to succeed.
Lo and behold it did get made even though it took a bunch of years to arrive. It's a tad too
long at almost two hours, but otherwise well made. Good photography, competent score and
very decent effects. Surprisingly nasty (good looking) gore, too. Storywise, it's a little confusing but sorta
holds together. It's certainly on par with or even better than the rest of the glut of swe-crime
out there. For a scrappy indie project it's borderline amazing what they pulled off. Definitely worth
a watch.

Red Nights
French/Belgian/Chinese co-production with an excellent Carrie Ng on wicked form. People fighting/killing each other
over a legendary ancient antique artifact. Gorgeously shot with decent actors and some insane gore violence. Bought
this in a video store (yes, they do still exist but they are down to hawking 85% candy and 15% movies, sadly) outlet bin
and for paying next to nothing for it it was very decent. It's a cool film but I doubt I'll revisit it a lot.

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Red Nights
French/Belgian/Chinese co-production with an excellent Carrie Ng on wicked form. People fighting/killing each other
over a legendary ancient antique artifact. Gorgeously shot with decent actors and some insane gore violence. Bought
this in a video store (yes, they do still exist but they are down to hawking 85% candy and 15% movies, sadly) outlet bin
and for paying next to nothing for it it was very decent. It's a cool film but I doubt I'll revisit it a lot.

I've been wondering about this one, think I'll give it a spin.

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The Favourite
Incredibly overrated (must be botfarmed like a motherfucker on Imdb), incredibly
tedious, overlong (could shave off 30 minutes without a problem) pointless garbage.
Heavily misandrist too and not even trying to be subtle about it. But that's the current
thing sadly, and was evident already in the promotional clips they put out. The acting ain't
even all that in it. Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult kill it though but are not in it enough.
Instead we get to stare at Emma Stone's plastic surgery face alot and Olivia Coleman's
strained camp performance. The much touted script is not as witty as the shills try to make
it out to be. Worst movie I've seen in forever. It's gonna win a boat load of Oscars and what
have you though. It shouldn't. There is a rip out in certain sites. Don't support this trash. Oh,
the photography blows too and the soundtrack is hella annoying throughout. Fuck this movie!

The Barbarians
Goddamn this was a fun movie. Deodato just nails it, treating the material exactly for what it is
and just let's those barbarian dudes goof off for 80 minutes while their sidekick (super cute Eva
LaRue) bemusingly chuckles at them. Richard Lynch is a solid villain and Michael Berryman chews
scenery like never before. Glorious cheese. Bonus points for a cool George Eastman appearance.
The actress who plays the sorceress wrote a review on imdb of it and claims it was a tax write off
and never meant to be anything serious. She also writes she had fun and that the Barbarian brothers
were funny and nice peeps.

No, The Case Is Happily Resolved
Very neat little film. Some average schmoe goes fishing and witnesses a murder of a prostitute. The killer
gets a good look at him and decides to circumvent proceedings so he fingers the witness as the culprit
and his world falls apart with every stupid, fear based decision. Great acting, cool music and some very
palpable dread and expertly created tension. Underrated stuff.

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I tried to watch Return of the Blind Dead on Shudder but I quickly realized that it was the cut version and skipped it.

I then finally decided to watch Madman. Fun slasher. Worth having in the collection even if the gore and exploitative elements were a bit underwhelming. Great ending though.

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I watched the Shout! Factory BD of WILD AT HEART and I wanted to mention how goddamned amazing the deleted/extended scenes are. I'd never seen them before and some of the material is essential. Crispin Glover's character, Cousin Dell, was originally a much more important character and there's lots of additional stuff involving him; what's left in the movie almost seems pointless now, though still amusing. My favourite additional material involves the trio of freaks hired to kill Johnnie Farragut: not only is there an extended version of his death scene, but also two deeply unsettling and cruel scenes beforehand where the killers befriend Johnnie in the hotel lounge just to toy with him. I found it really disturbing how they fucked with him, even though it's only a contract and they don't even know him.

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Bird Box-Starts off crappy. Improves about 30 minutes in. The craps out 20 minutes before the end.

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Bird Box-Starts off crappy. Improves about 30 minutes in. The craps out 20 minutes before the end.

In other words, it's fairly decent for all the material in which John Malkovich appears ;)

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Bird Box-Starts off crappy. Improves about 30 minutes in. The craps out 20 minutes before the end.

Typical Netflix genre film, then.