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Favorite films

  • Lisa, Lisa
  • Lurkers
  • Woman in a Box 2
  • I'm Dangerous Tonight

All
  • The Woods

    ★★★

  • Hell of a Summer

  • May

    ★★★★★

  • COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing

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Stalked by My Mother

2016

★★★★★ Liked 11

Annnnnnnnnd, I'm officially a Doug Campbell head.

All my Tubi trash-loving freaks need to check this one out ASAP - no Dr. Beck, but an equally insane premise that more than makes up for it. Lots of genuine parental fear as the undercurrent pushing this thing forward (that I unfortunately related to as the child of a helicopter parent that had c-PTSD).

Megan Gallagher channeling Gale Weathers BIG TIME.

Halloween II

2009

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Needed a palette cleanser after The Monkey, so I decided to watch one of my favourites - not to drag Perkins, because I still love Blackcoat's Daughter - but there's an artistry here that feels a lot more authentic - this is a film that could have *only* ever been made by Rob Zombie.

And also, IMO, better balances poor taste kitsch (that rockabilly scene...), corny shit (the Sherri Moon performance in this still feels so ~off~ to me as…

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The Woods

2006

★★★ Liked Rewatched

Lucky McKee's films are populated by overbearing, but ultimately absent, mothers. They're populated with young girls struggling to come to with their own sexuality, which is often intrinsically linked to some kind of primal/feral rage viewed as untamable or grotesque by either men or women that seek to reinforce patriarchal norms (here it's 'witchy' in origin, in The Woman it's barbaric, and in May it's sadomasochistic). These are films directed by a straight man that are... borderline fetishistic—recurring motifs/imagery…

Hell of a Summer

2023

2

Painful. Only watched this out of morbid curiosity since I know a handful of art dept. people that worked on it and quit halfway through the shoot because of how poorly they were treated on set 🙃

Asinine B-grade podcast humour mixed in with tepid pseudo-slasher that has a character named Jason because... this is a summer camp slasher from the post COVID era, where everyone now has irreparable brain damage.

"Bryk and Wolfhard first met in Toronto's Kensington Market, having a brief conversation about their shared love of the comedy web series Jake and Amir."

Ugh. No thank you.

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COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing

2025

3

Emerging from the theater after ~2 hours of watching this felt like being hit in the head with a brick.

Motherfuckers CLAPPED for this? There are about ~40 different characters introduced within the first 30 minutes of this that you barely spend any time with. One scene cuts to the next with no functional purpose. The non-VOCALOID songs are truly the worst things I've ever heard. The 'narrative' thread of depressed Miku wanting to "reach more people" by imbuing more…

The Tower

1985

★★★★★ Liked 7

You are fuel and refuse, easily discarded and subsumed by your bureaucratic leaders and technologic g*d. "Productivity." Look at the fucking monolitic structure on the VHS cover - enjoy your "future."👋 The office spaces you live and die in. Hits eject on the subserviant AI "woman's" voice in 1985. Long live LOLA. Canadian SOV greatness. Proud owner of this on tape! 👍

"Over the years, text-to-speech systems have been predominantly trained on female voices. Because we have such rich data for female voices, companies are more likely to opt for them when creating voice automated software as it’s the most time and cost-efficient solution."