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1984

★★★★ Rewatched 23 May 2025

Hey, is it kind of crazy that this movie exists or is it even crazier that it became a multimedia juggernaut for a few years? I’ve been selling Heather Langenkamp short for a long time. She is carrying this movie whenever Freddy isn’t around.

1990

★★★★ Rewatched 23 May 2025

Umbrella Scratch and Sniff

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2025

★★★★★ 1

Alternative Title: Let the White Ones In

Sorry. Had to get that out of my system. 

What kind of voodoo do the blues do? Culture plays as big a part in Sinners as sin itself. Vampirism mostly acts as a metaphor for cultural appropriation here. It could have ended up a big mess, and for a moment, I thought it was headed for disaster. There’s a key sequence in the middle, and you’ll know it when you see it, where…

2024

★★★ 5

[full disclosure: I missed the first couple of minutes because I was late due to my dog eating her own poop so I was already greatly disturbed beforehand]

First of all, comparing this to Silence of the Lambs is shortsighted at best and lazy at worst. Yes, it has a young and female FBI agent going after a serial killer, but that’s about it. Whereas the Demme movie has stakes and tension, this has a warped reality marginally parsed out…

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