I had a dream involving people getting into Twitter discourse about whether Gus Van Sant’s character in this was the greatest director as actor performance in cinema which is very funny now that i watched this when he’s in it for like a minute tops. Every actor in this is horrible besides Lohan whose fractured hurt energy makes the film come to life when she’s on screen. Unfortunately the rest of the movie exists. The character of Ryan is so…
This film excels at creeping dread and a lingering sense of doom that pervades every second. An interesting remix on Night of the Living Dead imagery mixed with Exorcist style possession. Probably the Carpenter film I most wished had a sequel now because there’s so many places you can go in another film. Loved the VHS messages transmitted through dreams. Good to know that analog horror has always been a thing since the medium existed. Not sure why but there’s something weirdly off about VHS camcorder images. Great synth from Carpenter as usual as well. Alice Cooper is also here as a zombie hobo.
Queer beyond sexuality, Queer as a state of mind. A state of being. The alien feeling that you might be separate from those you long to connect with the most because of some intangible essence you cannot verbalize. I stand shaken. I saw this in the theater Burroughs watched movies in the last couple decades of his life. A place he liked enough he requested to have his funeral in. So I felt like I was sitting with his ghost…
One time when I was fifteen I asked my parents if I was dead because nothing felt real and I couldn’t put into words why. This movie is like that feeling for two hours. There’s many things I can say, but that feels about all I can put together right now. All I know is I no longer apologize for who I am or for existing.
