Effective enough supernatural ghost story that overcomes its hiccups to make for a satisfying experience.
Too many dead spots and incongruous tonal shifts keep this from being great.
You can predict most of the otherworldly stuff if you've ever seen a movie before.
But if you haven't you'll still be able to figure it out.
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The Housemaid 2016
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Nina Forever 2015
A love triangle involving an ex girlfriend that's an ex because she's dead and keeps coming back to life every time her ex boyfriend has sex with his new girlfriend.
It's a story as old as time.
In the mid 20-teens there was a handful of movies about exes coming back to life (Burying the Ex, Life After Beth). This one plays it a straight as possible without leaning into the comedy as much.
It's also the one you remember…
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Fear(s) of the Dark 2008
Animated horror anthology with 6 stories.
3 of them are good.
3 of them are not.
There are wildly different types of animation so if you're into that, then go wild.
The bad ones seem pointless as just an exercise as to what one could do with the format as as opposed to telling a good story. Or any story.
Possibly gateway horror for kids? Yeah, unless they get bored easily.
Mixed bag, but there are monsters in said bag.
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Natural Born Killers 1994
Works better for me on the rewatch.
The fact that all the actors are pretty much playing one-note characters makes sense for the movie. Juliette Lewis was the poster white girl for crazy in the early 90s.
Stone's "blame everyone" policy adds to the cartoonish nature of the proceeding. On a technical level, Stone's best since JFK. The hyperkinetic editing assaults you on the first watch but you appreciate more on the second.
Still one of Woody Harrelson's best performances and I think I laugh every time I see the OJ Simpson footage because that seems so quaint now.
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The Woman in Black 2012
Free from expectation, I enjoyed this movie a little more on the rewatch.
I like the way the movie looks more than anything else as it does more to suggest dread than any of the semi-attempts at scares.
Daniel Radcliffe still feels miscast as a doctor of anything because I saw him once try to deliver a baby at the Harry Potter And His One Black Friend Premiere back in 2007 and he completely botched it and the infant ended…
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The Town 2010
Solid crime thriller featuring bullets and Baw-stun accents.
Ben "Matt Damon" Affleck directs well executed action scenes and provides more for Jeremy Renner to do in one movie than he's ever done as useless Hawkeye.
Blake Lively is not as lively as a strung out rock ho.
Only falters near the end as it settles into crime clichés.
Good, but could have been great.
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You're Next 2011
Sharni Vinson is the Final Girl for the 20teens.
A gut wrenching home invasion horror movies that ruined my animal mask business in 2013.
This movie is why I don't like getting together with family or people not family.
Makes you think twice when rich white people invite you to their isolated family home even though there will be mayonnaise by the gallon.
Some twists you'll get. Some you won't.
That ending...is an ending that ends the movie.
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Strangers with Candy 2006
If you've seen the cult tv show on which the movie is based, you'll love it.
If you haven't you'll wonder why this was made into a movie in the first place.
Relentlessly weird but sometimes effective humor that you know you'll like within the first 15 minutes. There are genuine laughs, but you spend most of the movie chuckling that the filmmakers would even attempt some of the jokes even if they don't land.
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