Letterboxd — Your life in film

God, please just let us celebrate while we're here. Let us dance and open up the world to one another. We want to live out our dreams and be the people who we always wanted to be. We'll reach for that safe place where we can exist and let everything else fall out of vision. This hyper awareness of appearance, actions and danger should rest long enough so we can move to song. An opening in a void where everything…

"I’m unsure if ghosts or spirits are real, but I do believe a place can become bad with context, memory and grief. What haunts us are the physical remnants of something that should be there, but isn’t any longer. It’s an entirely relatable feeling to experience something lingering in the strangeness of someone you always depended upon being ripped out of the world. Sometimes people never quite recover. Whenever we lose someone important it changes us, we adapt, but we’re…

A real "burn it all down" film, where everything that was utterly realist and startlingly blunt in the 1974 original is blown up into extravagance and garish excess, mirroring the corpse of a post-Vietnam War America reanimated through Reaganomics. An insane, fucked movie where even the casting of Dennis Hopper, whose cinematic image is "Easy Rider", is reincarnated as a vigilante cop. Everything that Tobe Hooper does here is deliberate, and every single person who tries to survive is rammed…