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Wicked World 1991
An inept, funereal drone of cheap violence, crushing everyday banality, jump cuts, and the palpable dread of shitty video effects.
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Video Murders 1988
A soft focus sleaze fest thriller that feels somewhat light in its depravity, though it has its moments.
Yet another story about a man with mommy issues, who turns to killing some of the cities most vulnerable...hookers. That is until a pretty compelling nightclub scene where he meets a young lady that kicks off a cat & mouse chase, taking our killer to his limit. There are countless movies that this could be compared to, but it holds it's own and… -
Take Me Somewhere Nice 2019
Alma going to a club and spacing out while sitting on the toilet drunk is the most realistic thing I've seen in a film all damn year.
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Other Music 2019
It's amazing to me that a documentary about a music store that I have no direct affiliation with could bring me close to tears. I absolutely recommend this documentary to anyone interested in underground, independent music.
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Mother Schmuckers 2021
Absolute spontaneous evil. Pure mania. I'm completely on board for whatever these guys do next
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The Mob 1975
understated and brisk quebecois crime film which feels like a Canadian peer to the films that Peter Yates was making both in the UK and US in the late 60s and early 70s; great use of Montreal locations and plaid pants, strong bursts of violence and a general malaise about humanity should put this in the pantheon of quality crime films of its era
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Love & Saucers 2017
I love these goofy gooseflesh paintings! and this excels as a platform for panning around in them while listening to David Huggins relate encounters with lil bigfoot, sexy grey singles & that mantis-person getting their kicks posting up in the corner of the bedroom to watch. When it ran out of painted encounters to showcase, it really should have been better devoted to just kicking back in David's apartment, rooting through his tape collection & learning his favorite giant space bug scenes,…
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They Look Like People 2015
Writer/director Perry Blackshear’s portrait of apocalyptic paranoia is exhilaratingly bracing in its strangeness, working in an expressionistic style that uses erratic cutting patterns, visceral audio, and bizarre imagery to put us in its characters’ sketchy headspace. There are traditional elements at play here—romance, bromance, sci-fi, thriller—but it unfolds with the grim inevitability and willy-nilly logic of a nightmare, all the while refusing to take the sanity of anyone (the protagonist, the antagonist, or the audience) for granted.
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They Look Like People 2015
I loved this. A slow burning film about mental illness, pressures of modern masculinity, and vulnerability that overflows with tension and dread. So genuine! Cute and touching, and icky and horrifying all at once.
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You and the Night 2013
So much stagier than I had been expecting, mostly taking place in a single room except for a handful of gorgeously composed and stylistically varied fantasy flashbacks. Radiantly warm, even though much of the film's palette is cold -- and yes, I'm including Eric Cantona in that, too.
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Burglar from Hell 1993
Almost totally incompetent SOV splatter comedy that still manages some moments of genuine camcorder phantasmagoria, particularly in a late dream sequence that might very charitably be described as Coffin Joe-esque. Full of weird digressions (look out for the DO THE RIGHT THING ripoff scene), looking-into-camera closeups right out of Demme, shifting room tone, grocery store gore, barely legible nighttime videography, blatantly arrhythmic dual-VCR editing, and gratuitous tit shots. Undeniably awful, stupidly tantalizing.
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