Claggart Patron

Conjurer of cheap tricks

Top 4 are most recent 5 star ratings

What is Claggartcore?

Favorite films

  • Hours for Jerome
  • The Browning Version
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • Opera

All
  • Evil Aliens

    ★★★

  • After Last Season

    ★★★★

  • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

    ★★★★

  • Secret Mall Apartment

    ★★★★½

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Evil Aliens

2005

★★★ Watched

Can a movie really be all that bad if a member of its cast has been in a Derek Jarman film? Well, yes, the answer is yes, it's pretty irredeemable, but there are some decent low budget practical effects and Emily Booth is having a blast so what the hell.

After Last Season

2009

★★★★ Liked Watched

I'm not sold on the notion of this as being some sort of misunderstood avant-garde masterpiece, or the director's enigmatic anonymity as being indicative of some greater conceptual/performative intent; I am willing to take his one interview at face value that his inspirations are movies like The Sixth Sense and not, say, Wavelength. Which isn't to say I don't find it to be a pretty unique and compelling piece of outsider art, at its absolute best invoking a vibe best described as "demoscene murderdrone".

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Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection

2023

★★★★★ Liked 4

The camera is the scalpel.

Sinners

2025

★★★★ Watched

The first half of this cultivates some truly impeccable Southern gothic vibes, imbuing its pulp sensibility with a genuine vitality and resonance. Soulful and meandering, with a killer blues and folk soundtrack and a subtle supernatural shadow lurking beneath the meticulously constructed social "realism" (realism in the way it is evoked by contemporary Hollywood overcoding, at least, with its reliance on shallow focus and desaturated color palettes and strictly funtional compositions, very HBOcore). Even the extraneous voiceover clumsily literalizing the…