"It's like the song 'Amazing Grace'. The footage was lost but now it's found."
- David Lynch
Review re-published from 01/17/25 as Letterboxd s have added this listing per my request.
It's a sad day following the death of beloved film auteur, David Lynch, so I figured I'd celebrate his life with the few films I have yet to see from his expansive filmography. Shortest of the batch is The Lost Footage, a 53-minute pseudo-sidequel comprised entirely of deleted scenes…
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Well, it didn't take long to turn The Substance into a body horror of epic proportions. Lingering on skin over soul and our sick self-destruction between the two. Coralie Fargeat's film is equal parts scary and sexy, with an entrancing take on the way we birth new identities into this world when the old one gets tough. But it keeps on spinning, out of our control, in and around the issues we hope to solve by injection…or…
LG OLED's Perfect Black display strikes again, as Shutter looks like it were fresh out of the theater, with a home video presentation now clearer than ever and properly drenched in deep, dark hues. Despite its origins as a landmark Thai horror film, Masayuki Ochiai's 2008 remake is shot like a noir thriller. With an atmosphere of instability growing moodier by the minute, its PG-13 rating never actively disrupts the supernatural edge. Led by established primetime performers such as Joshua…
Metafictional horror-thrillers have been all the rage since the mid-90s, so it comes as no surprise that the following decade would see the trend in Italy. Do You Like Hitchcock? is a genuinely sleek, modern tribute to the foundational films of Alfred Hitchcock, courtesy of Dario Argento, which, in this case, means a made-for-TV murder mystery centered on a group of video rental patrons. Without the deconstruction of the media in front of you, nor the stylized gore that giallos…
