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Fear and hunger in space

“They like the blues, but not the people who make them”

Wildly gut punching. Incredibly original and heartbreaking. So so so fucking good

Absolutely delicious atmospheric horror. Set design combined w/ the depth of field shots made me feel soooo vulnerable. Like something was happening in the background or foreground (particularly w/ the bridge in the background) or shots at night in Jun’s giant house.

I love a good haunting story with great music. Unexpected ending.

A little slow to get into but extremely worth it

This review may contain spoilers.

who tf let the notorious necrophile become a detective?!

I was so fucking stoked when I saw Shudder has this newly streaming.

Tesis is so captivating and salient to our current Online Is Reality times. And to the growing epidemic of femicide on a smaller (but still horrifying) scale.

I want to do a triple feature of Videodrome, Tesis and Red Rooms back to back to back to fully make myself lose hope in humanity when humanity can now digitize and broadcast death and suffering on a grander scale than ever imagined.

The isolated (dreadful) intimacy of finding an unmarked tape with something horrible on it is a relic of 90s kid nostalgic nightmares. A drop in the bucket compared to seeing viral videos of death and violence every day in the same place you keep up with your friends online. You scroll by it enough that it becomes normal. The act of showing the footage on the news at the end just further justifies Angela’s initial fears of this type of violence.

This pre-dates Ringu by 2 years—I appreciate how each has their own answer to the question “do you think a film can kill someone?” In most cases, the supernatural answer of a haunted tape is much more palatable than a real deal snuff film.

The only reason I didn’t give this 5 stars was because Angela made me pull my hair out! It is SO HARD to watch a horror movie where the lead has a freeze response! Like, girl… I get it but PLEASE stop hanging out w/ The Killer and then just STANDING THERE.

I also unfortunately think Chema is hot

A BEAUTIFUL cow GETS MILKED by a GAY MAN AND HIS BF

What made this so chilling is how it’s tapping into all of our current cultural anxieties: incels, bio-ID tech being used against us, subscription based services taking over and the question that all the hogs are asking “what is a woman?”

I was so particularly interested in the way Kat and Iris interacted. There is no feminist solidarity between a “real” woman and a “fake” woman. Iris is shafted to being an object, specifically a sex object that Kat abhors, all of this despite Iris’ lived experience of literally being alive.

This movie explores the normalization of casual cruelty—Iris feels pain, she is able to suffer but because she’s a “robot” her suffering isn’t seen as normative—don’t even get me started on how Patrick was treated….. The conversation between the Empathx guys (heyyy Jaboukie) about freak incels who just torture their bots and how Jaboukie’s character would “get used to it” is a testament to allll of the atrocities that we’re normalizing—particularly in the treatment of women for the benefit of men.

Really loved this. Sophie Thatcher also killed it, I love her so much

Can’t believe some men watch this and think “I wanna be like this Bateman guy”

This review may contain spoilers.

The “monster” is always a wronged lesbian who wants revenge

I love nudity and lustful kissing

Jacob Anderson is so hot

Guns? No thanks

This makes me appreciate the universe and the cycle of life. So beautiful and special

I think if they kissed this all could have been avoided

Always the best movie to watch while stoned to feel small in the face of nature’s beauty

“Who is this guy?!”

Real young Daniel Malloy vibes here

an absolutely stunning gay movie. The set designs, costumes, colors, all so gorgeous. Giving inspo from Gregg Araki but with an original spin. I particularly love the big corp glam coming in and buying things up. Deg all the packaging must have been wild.

There’s a great message—that trying to escape your past/the people who helped build you (good and bad) will come back to haunt your present relationships.

This makes me want to live with a bunch of messy stylish gays. So much trans inclusion. Being trans is normal! Being straight is not.

I love when gay people make movies.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

I love kid detective and her two terrible gay dads

All my homies hate Randall

I was SO FUCKING TENSE

Yum yum yum feed me more found footage 🥰

“I was driving when I first found out about Gary’s blog.”

Genuinely everything I want from a mockumentary AND found footage film combo. If you stick around for the beginning I promise it’s worth it. Last section had both me and Faye creeped the fuck out. Immediately watching the next one <3

Cuntiest outfits in the game, especially when everyone just went bush out

“Love itself is a curse in these parts” 

The sounds and the puppet?? It had to be a puppet…..

Realized very quickly that I’m the exact same age as Didi (1994 kid). This hit on so many touchstones of my childhood: Paramore, Facebook, Touchdown Turnaround by HelloGoodbye ringtone, and smoking too much weed to try to impress guys who skate, as some examples.

I loved the complexity of the familial relationships—Chungsing needing to impress her mother in law and friend who had a “perfect” son—the cultural expectations versus Chris wanting to fit in and be accepted. It’s a unique difficulty in communication with the family throughout the movie. 

I was particularly touched by the poignant use of When You’re Around by Motion City Soundtrack to illustrate Chris’ feelings toward his mom not hearing him. 

Be warned. Just like 2008, the second-hand embarrassment factor is HUGE. It’s so funny to doing similar things and it all felt like the end of the world every time.

I immediately sent this movie to one of my best friends who I’ve been close to since those years :,)

Keeps getting better and better honestly. I wanted to give Wei a hug!!

Genuinely unexpected and original. It lets you think you know what’s going on until you realize you don’t actually at all.

Baby, you’re a haunted house

Creepy, feels like there’s some internal misogyny stuff to work out but I’m glad the real pervert died <3

Me and my wife at the end of the world

Exploitation allllllllll the way down. Every single company does it. Especially the ones who say they don’t

The true horror lies in the historical accuracy. 

Believing in the safety of your eternal soul is a great way to perpetuate terrible conditions for living your mortal life.

Extremely bleak and relatable. The depression part, not the other part.

You learn a lot about someone based on how they react to snuff films they show you from the dark web. Kelly-Anne freaks me OUT. I love this study of “true crime” and the ways in which people perpetuate the sensationalism or use it to fill in gaps in their own life. 

Saw someone compare the way this movie alludes to atrocities through showing rather then telling in a similar way to Zone of Interest and I can’t help but to agree. This movie also reminds me of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in the bleak loneliness depicted by the main characters.

When you have spaces in your life, be careful what you fill them with!

I’m still so ambivalent about how things ended, what was Kelly-Anne’s end goal? Her motivation? Psychosexual? Internet sleuths? Murderino (worst option)?

When the girlie who has a tumblr blog dedicated to the killer thinks you’re weird, you’ve got some big problems

Going to be thinking about how I consume true crime content even more now

Goopy! Lots of fun body horror!

Pls do your part and tell a child that this movie is real

I keep forgetting Toni Collette is in this. A classic

Really creative and tickled my found footage perversion

If this happened to me I’d literally never shut up about it. Lead looks like Hunter Schafer. Found out one if my best friends lost her virginity to this movie and it significantly improved the watch.

Do not get attached to that dog

Hell yeah

Absolutely incomprehensible but I sure did watch it and have a strangely good time

Can’t believe no one was told that Ellie is a lesbian

This review may contain spoilers.

I love movies about mommy issues 🥰

glad I can’t relate about the whole “doll maker living in her basement” thing

🥰🥰🥰

Under capitalism communicable illness is pretty fucking isolating and lonely! So much of this fear, of disease, of authoritarianism, of surveillance is obviously salient today when a pandemic was just hand waved away, when ‘tech innovations’ are being used to train AI to kill children and to people, when fascism is on the rise as history predicted! 

This type of absurdist, gory, fuck it all feels almost cathartic—the terrible ending to the terrible reality in which we live.

I love a final girl in a slutty party dress with a gun 🥰

Some of the tastiest shots I’ve seen in a while. Incredibly camp but earnest and gorgeous. Obsessed w the Griffith Helmet looking costume too :,)

So fucking funny. Susan Sarandon looks so hot smoking a cigarette. Shameik Moore and D’arcy Carden make the best “dumb bitches shouting ‘exactlyyyy’ at each other” combo. 

The bindle scene cannot be topped I fear.

Movies should be fun like this!

Holy fuck. Watched for that one scene where we get Matthew McConaughy balls ass naked and ended up with Gina Gershon bush too! A bisexual delight! 

Genuinely twisted and evil. Sleazy and charismatic. Truly fucking incredible ending.

The fried chicken scene was inspired 🥰

Holy shit. Genuinely one of the most fun movies I’ve ever seen

Strangely enjoyed this way more than dazed and confused as far as stoner McConaughey movies go. Don’t let other people’s reviews tell you how you’ll feel about a movie before you see it I guess!

This movie mostly made me think about cycles of abuse but Matthew McConaughey was still strangely hot no matter how many creepy things he said about young girls.

I rlly thought this would be good but i was bamboozled. And this is after 2 edibles and a t.

Year 5 🫡

• The Devil's Bath
• Curtains
• The Others
• Humane
• Grafted
• The Vourdalak
• Horror in the High Desert
• Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva
• Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch
• Tomie

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For when times are tough

• Ocean's Thirteen
• The Addams Family
• Skyfall
• Fast X
• As Above, So Below

I’m a simp for found footage. Good or bad. Here it is in no particular order.

• [REC]
• As Above, So Below
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
• The Blair Witch Project
• Creep
• Creep 2
• Dashcam

  Didn’t like but still found footage ish

• Dashcam
• Grave Encounters
• Hell House LLC

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Excision
• Grafted
• American Mary
• Raw
• Audition

Year 4 baby

• Black Sunday
• Prince of Darkness
• Re-Animator
• Slaxx
• Sunshine
• Stalked by My Doctor: Patient's Revenge
• Antichrist
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Abigail
• Midsommar

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that require some uh emotional prep to watch

• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• Stalker
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Aw shit here we go again

• Rings
• Bones
• M3GAN
• Skinamarink
• Nocebo
• She Dies Tomorrow
• Mister Organ
• Missing
• The Babadook
• Huesera: The Bone Woman

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• The Long Goodbye
• House

To Watch During Pride 2023

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Paragraph 175
• Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too
• Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story
• Call Her Ganda
• A Trans with a Movie Camera
• Shakedown

Entering into year three

• The Devils
• Deep Red
• Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
• Inside
• Martyrs
• Bit
• Superdeep
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• Dashcam
• X

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Martyrs
• Superdeep

Let’s see if anything is scarier than 2020

• Swallow
• Zero Days
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• Possibly in Michigan
• One Missed Call
• Satan's Slaves
• The Host
• Terrified
• Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
• Creep

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

they rlly love going into tunnels, huh

• The Descent
• Us
• The Tunnel
• As Above, So Below
• The Pyramid
• The Descent: Part 2

Coming-of-age teen girl horror

• Excision

  🥀🩸🥵

• Jennifer's Body

  🔪🔥👅👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

• Raw

  👩🏼‍⚕️💉👄

• Ginger Snaps

  🐺👯‍♀️

• It Follows

  👩‍❤️‍👨💔🆘

• Veronica

  👻👩‍👧‍👦⚰️

• The Blackcoat's Daughter

  📚🌨✝️

• Cam

  💻👯‍♀️🤳🏼

• All Cheerleaders Die

All of the horror movies I’ve watched in 2020 in order of viewing.

• The Blackcoat's Daughter

  Likes:
  -Emma Roberts 
  -Demonic possession
  -Christian iconography
  -Bleak, empty all girls catholic school
  -Eerie and Bloody
  -Room for speculation and examination of story

  Dislikes:
  -Slow
  -Not many Big Scares 
  -Didn’t keep my attention
  -Overall sort of boring 

  Rating: 2.5/5

• Siren

  Cool concept, horrible execution 

  
  Likes:
  -Sexy nude demon lady Lilith who opens up her whole face to devour men
  -Based off of VHS short that scared the shit out of me in high school
  -She fucks a guy with her tail
  -Weird horny occultist sex bar
  -Drinks that implant false memories of murder

  
  Dislikes:
  -Sexy nude demon lady Lilith somehow doesn’t devour all the men
  -Looks like it was filmed in 2002
  -occultist Guy Fierri
  -All the men suck and they should have died
  -Can’t stop thinking about the awful transphobic line 
  -Did I mention Lilith should have eaten them all?
  -Poorly written, could have been WAY better

  
  Rating: 1.5/5

• The Ritual

  Dummies Go To Sweden & Cut Through Scary Forest as a “Shortcut”

  
  Likes:
  -Incredible imagery (mixes of lush scary green forest and the fluorescents of the convenience store from the beginning; eerie & bloody creatures and bodies in the woods)
  -Has an emotional and traumatic pull + reason for their ill-advised hike into the Swedish wilds
  -Scares based in real life trauma for the main characters
  -Solid tragic back story
  -Blurry monster chasing them throughout whole film 
  -Good appetizer to Midsommar

  
  Dislikes:
  -Interesting turn at the end but not enough exposition or exploration given to third act elements
  -Monster had tiny hands on face that freaked me out

  
  Didn’t stick out as particularly “Scary” but still worth a watch.

  Rating: 3.5/5

• Knife+Heart

  Gay as fuck

  
  Loves:
  -Overall an extremely breathtakingly beautiful and dreamy Fîlm
  -Gay Porn in The 1970s Directed By A Hot Lesbian Suffering From L O N G I N G for Equally Lesbian Film Editor (who frequently wears PLUNGING necklines)
  -French as fuck
  -Found Family vibes
  -Heartbreaking Slasher 
  -FASHION
  -SET DESIGN
  -EMOTION

  
  Dislikes:

  
  This movie is perfect
  5/5

• Candyman

  Candyman’s Hook Hand Bleeds For All Eternity

  
  Likes:
  -Deconstruction of myth/lore in a more modern age
  -Very good dichotomy between community/academia and folklore
  -Class/race/gender struggles fueling the horror—grounded in reality making the scares hit harder
  -BEES and BODY HORROR
  -Decrepit spots in old buildings
  -Fuck men in academia 

  
  Rating: 4.5/5

• House

  !!!!!

  
  Loves:
  -Absolutely beautiful film with detailed set pieces
  -Psychedelic as fuck
  -Campy horror!
  -disembodied head biting someone’s butt!
  -A mansion filling with blood!
  -What good is youth if you can’t Eat It?!
  -Incredible effects, more heart and soul than CGI
  -Kung Fu tried to fight everything and I love her so much
  -witch cat
  -my girlfriend picked out this film to watch on her birthday and I love her 

  
  Dislikes:
  -I was not h*gh while watching this movie

  
  Perfect all around 

  
  Rating: 5/5

• [REC]

  This is why I love found footage horror movies, too bad for the absolutely god awful English dub

  Likes:
  -Jarring and suffocating atmosphere—cast quarantined in an apartment building with no explanation
  -Scary bloody old lady
  -“My Daughter Has Tonsillitis!!!!!”
  -Scary bloody child
  -interesting takes on found footage in the form of rewinding a clip to watch it again; v cool thing I haven’t seen before
  -Horrifying monster in horrifying apartment at the end—I want more of her!!!!

  Dislikes:
  -THE ENGLISH DUB IS TERRIBLE! Took me out of the whole atmosphere of the movie. The voice acting was awful
  - The English dub rlly made me hate characters I might have liked if I was watching it in Spanish

  Subtitles aren’t hard to read ya’ll!!!
  Rating: 3.5/5

• The Night of the Virgin

  Best Bloody Anus Birth Scene 

  Likes:
  -Hilariously gore-y while also being wildly eerie & unsettling
  -Lots of body fluids—one could say ALL of the body fluids make a special appearance
  -Lots of twists and turns which is extremely impressive for a film that almost fully takes place in one dirty dirty apartment 
  -NEVER mix ur cum w/ a scary witch lady’s carefully collected period blood!!!
  -Still thinking about the scene where The Virgin gets dragged across the floor by the umbilical cord still sticking out of his butt

  Dislikes:
  -Couldn't find the directors cut :,(

  Rating: 3.5/5

• The Taking of Deborah Logan

  Sad and horrifying and Snakes

  Likes:
  1. Found footage
  2. Mommy issues 
  3. Demons
  4. Wonderful lesbian character!!!
  5. (Spoilers) attempts for swallow a child whole snake-style

  Dislikes
  1. V V HEAVY
  2. Sad as well as scary

• Noroi: The Curse

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.