My second year doing Hooptober Link to Cinemonster's list with the full rules: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-twelfth-of-hooptober-diary-of-a-madman/ "You've been talking about this all year" - M...

4/5: I liked the structure a lot, very classic horror like a Frankenstein. The nesting doll of stories makes it difficult to review. Good Stab’s story is great, and plays like a comic book horror st...

4/5: It’s extremely gripping. And its very accessible just from a language and density angle. Short chapters. I found myself continuously wanting read one more chapter like I would want to eat one more dorito. Which is good, because it does take a bit for it to transition from a story about the messiest people ever to a proper crime thriller. It’s not an easy recommendation thought since it does deal with some extremely troubling subject matter. And it does so I think a bit cavalierly and even absolves or at least minimizes some things that I personally think can not be absolved or minimized.

What if From Dusk Till Dawn didn’t have have the gross bits and was just much better? I’m so happy the irish vampire was textually racist. It felt like they were stating: We don’t need to do fantasy r...