this is the best christmas movie i've ever seen where the male lead beats a man unconscious with a garbage can.
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Pieces 1982
experienced police detective reviewing a crime scene: (points to dismembered body) 'could that have been done with a chainsaw...' (points to bloody chainsaw by body) '...like that one over there?'
i love this movie.
honestly, i think if i watched that tennis scene high (if i still smoked pot) i might laugh myself into having a stroke.
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Bleeder 1999
mikkelsen playing a film obsessive is a typical letterboxd user's fantasy character, probably.
i was won over 15 minutes when we see them watching paul morrissey's frankenstein. it could have turned into a julia roberts romcom after that and it would still be a 3.
also had a cover of pere ubu's final solution on the s/t during the opening sequence. i would have preferred to hear the original, but still, that's pretty cool.
all of which is to say that refn had it together early on. i really liked it.
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A Record of Sweet Murder 2014
i gave this a nice rating & really enjoyed it when i caught this for the first time last year.
but i don't think i gave it its proper due. this is incredibly well done. perfectly paced, brutal, sleazy. and it really builds tension all the way through.
it's a 'single take' movie - i'm assuming there were edits, because it did appear there were a few points when the camera quickly panned or was focused on something slightly blurry or…
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Dressed to Kill 1980
next to happiness/welcome to the dollhouse, this & blow out make up my favourite back to back output from any director probably. i like blow out more, but they're both great.
nancy allen looks her best here. wish they had made her a little trashier though. that's something that i enjoy.
i like this more than i might otherwise cuz it probably bothers people now with its 'problematic' plot.
