Greg Warne
@grumpygrog.bsky.social
I'll hopefully post more on here. Films, music, TV, and maybe some video games.
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Can we push them all off?
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Can we push them all off?
Columbus is so good. Really need to give it another watch.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Columbus is so good. Really need to give it another watch.
It's bizarre that people don't get how reboots work, especially when Craig's Bond was such a clear reboot in itself.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's bizarre that people don't get how reboots work, especially when Craig's Bond was such a clear reboot in itself.
Finally got all my October horror films logged and I've ranked them into a list here boxd.it/P1zEC
Some good first time watches this year but nothing touching the old faithfuls at the top for me.
Some good first time watches this year but nothing touching the old faithfuls at the top for me.
Halloween 2025
A list of 42 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Thing (1982), The Wailing (2016), The Exorcist III (1990), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Candyman (1992).
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November 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finally got all my October horror films logged and I've ranked them into a list here boxd.it/P1zEC
Some good first time watches this year but nothing touching the old faithfuls at the top for me.
Some good first time watches this year but nothing touching the old faithfuls at the top for me.
My ★★★★½ review of Candyman (1992) boxd.it/bzWiyT
The way this combines a traditional kind of folklore horror premise and very real kind of exploration into systemic racism is so perfect. It all fits together into one sublimely unsettling story.
The way this combines a traditional kind of folklore horror premise and very real kind of exploration into systemic racism is so perfect. It all fits together into one sublimely unsettling story.
A ★★★★½ review of Candyman (1992)
The way this combines a traditional kind of folklore horror premise and very real kind of exploration into systemic racism is so perfect. It all fits together into one sublimely unsettling story. The ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My ★★★★½ review of Candyman (1992) boxd.it/bzWiyT
The way this combines a traditional kind of folklore horror premise and very real kind of exploration into systemic racism is so perfect. It all fits together into one sublimely unsettling story.
The way this combines a traditional kind of folklore horror premise and very real kind of exploration into systemic racism is so perfect. It all fits together into one sublimely unsettling story.
My ★★★★★ review of The Thing (1982) boxd.it/bzjJCv
The perfect combination of gruesomely cool body horror and genuine chills.
The perfect combination of gruesomely cool body horror and genuine chills.
A ★★★★★ review of The Thing (1982)
The perfect combination of gruesomely cool body horror and genuine chills. The atmosphere of distrust and paranoia. The claustrophobia and the cold. Those two ominous bass notes. This thing will proba...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My ★★★★★ review of The Thing (1982) boxd.it/bzjJCv
The perfect combination of gruesomely cool body horror and genuine chills.
The perfect combination of gruesomely cool body horror and genuine chills.
My ★★★★ review of Bring Her Back boxd.it/bxOFnv
Horror films - especially those in the English language - usually have lines they won't cross. Crossing lines is a big part of this.
Horror films - especially those in the English language - usually have lines they won't cross. Crossing lines is a big part of this.
A ★★★★ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
Horror films -- especially those in the English language -- usually have lines they won't cross. Crossing lines is a big part of this. I think the lines being crossed make up for a lot of things being...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My ★★★★ review of Bring Her Back boxd.it/bxOFnv
Horror films - especially those in the English language - usually have lines they won't cross. Crossing lines is a big part of this.
Horror films - especially those in the English language - usually have lines they won't cross. Crossing lines is a big part of this.
My ★★★½ review of The Long Walk boxd.it/bxiGjb
Plenty suspension of disbelief required for the premise but the fascist world behind it is effective and the writing is fantastic.
Emotional and evolving characters with actors knocking it out of the park are what makes this. David Jonsson is MVP.
Plenty suspension of disbelief required for the premise but the fascist world behind it is effective and the writing is fantastic.
Emotional and evolving characters with actors knocking it out of the park are what makes this. David Jonsson is MVP.
A ★★★½ review of The Long Walk (2025)
There's a lot of suspension of disbelief required for this. From the idea that most of America watches people walking for days straight live to people being able to walk for days straight without slow...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My ★★★½ review of The Long Walk boxd.it/bxiGjb
Plenty suspension of disbelief required for the premise but the fascist world behind it is effective and the writing is fantastic.
Emotional and evolving characters with actors knocking it out of the park are what makes this. David Jonsson is MVP.
Plenty suspension of disbelief required for the premise but the fascist world behind it is effective and the writing is fantastic.
Emotional and evolving characters with actors knocking it out of the park are what makes this. David Jonsson is MVP.
My ★★½ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) boxd.it/bxhWER
Fails to match what the original did right but corrects some of its mistakes.
But this is a film that makes some wild choices. Some simply bizarre, some outright offensive if you actually care about the franchise.
Fails to match what the original did right but corrects some of its mistakes.
But this is a film that makes some wild choices. Some simply bizarre, some outright offensive if you actually care about the franchise.
A ★★½ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
This is the kind of corny teen shit I expected the original to be. But the original wasn't that. Not like this, at least. Where the original started really well, this one starts with awkward dialogue ...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My ★★½ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) boxd.it/bxhWER
Fails to match what the original did right but corrects some of its mistakes.
But this is a film that makes some wild choices. Some simply bizarre, some outright offensive if you actually care about the franchise.
Fails to match what the original did right but corrects some of its mistakes.
But this is a film that makes some wild choices. Some simply bizarre, some outright offensive if you actually care about the franchise.
My ★★★★ review of The Addiction boxd.it/bx6J7j
The kind of film I'll need to watch again.
Abel Ferrara's guerrilla approach to vampirism in New York comes across as disturbingly real. It's clearly an allegory for drug addiction but it's also so much more.
The kind of film I'll need to watch again.
Abel Ferrara's guerrilla approach to vampirism in New York comes across as disturbingly real. It's clearly an allegory for drug addiction but it's also so much more.
A ★★★★ review of The Addiction (1995)
The kind of film I'll need to watch again. The low budget, black and white look works really well here. Combined with Abel Ferrara's guerrilla approach to vampirism in New York, it comes across as dis...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My ★★★★ review of The Addiction boxd.it/bx6J7j
The kind of film I'll need to watch again.
Abel Ferrara's guerrilla approach to vampirism in New York comes across as disturbingly real. It's clearly an allegory for drug addiction but it's also so much more.
The kind of film I'll need to watch again.
Abel Ferrara's guerrilla approach to vampirism in New York comes across as disturbingly real. It's clearly an allegory for drug addiction but it's also so much more.
My ★★★★ review of The Mist boxd.it/bv6jH3
This is horror primarily through anthropology. How does a group of people react to an apocalypse? Not great.
This is horror primarily through anthropology. How does a group of people react to an apocalypse? Not great.
A ★★★★ review of The Mist (2007)
There's all the same DNA that Darabont would transfuse into his time on The Walking Dead, and more than a few of the actors, too. This is horror primarily through anthropology. How does a group of peo...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My ★★★★ review of The Mist boxd.it/bv6jH3
This is horror primarily through anthropology. How does a group of people react to an apocalypse? Not great.
This is horror primarily through anthropology. How does a group of people react to an apocalypse? Not great.
My ★★★★½ review of I Saw The Devil boxd.it/bup8Wv
Kim Jee-woon forces you to sit with the depravity. Long, uncomfortable scenes have you begging for intervention. The only intervention is a change of depravity.
Kim Jee-woon forces you to sit with the depravity. Long, uncomfortable scenes have you begging for intervention. The only intervention is a change of depravity.
A ★★★★½ review of I Saw the Devil (2010)
Endlessly nihilistic. Evil is a disease slowly infecting the whole world. It's airborne. Even good men are one encounter away from it. You can get the guy who preys on women at the side of the road bu...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My ★★★★½ review of I Saw The Devil boxd.it/bup8Wv
Kim Jee-woon forces you to sit with the depravity. Long, uncomfortable scenes have you begging for intervention. The only intervention is a change of depravity.
Kim Jee-woon forces you to sit with the depravity. Long, uncomfortable scenes have you begging for intervention. The only intervention is a change of depravity.
My ★★★★½ review of Onibaba boxd.it/btwFxN
A timeless folktale of grief, loneliness and jealousy. It evolves from a slow and simple character drama to the horror story you'll remember it as.
It also shows how much you can do with a few actors, a couple huts, a wheat field and a hole in the ground.
A timeless folktale of grief, loneliness and jealousy. It evolves from a slow and simple character drama to the horror story you'll remember it as.
It also shows how much you can do with a few actors, a couple huts, a wheat field and a hole in the ground.
A ★★★★½ review of Onibaba (1964)
A timeless folktale of grief, loneliness and jealousy. It evolves from a slow and simple character drama on the fringes of a war we only witness through talk, to the horror story you'll remember it as...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My ★★★★½ review of Onibaba boxd.it/btwFxN
A timeless folktale of grief, loneliness and jealousy. It evolves from a slow and simple character drama to the horror story you'll remember it as.
It also shows how much you can do with a few actors, a couple huts, a wheat field and a hole in the ground.
A timeless folktale of grief, loneliness and jealousy. It evolves from a slow and simple character drama to the horror story you'll remember it as.
It also shows how much you can do with a few actors, a couple huts, a wheat field and a hole in the ground.
My ★★★½ review of Ghoulies boxd.it/btqy2V
Cute B-movie with a guy who's a bit too serious at parties and a cast of "yes, that's them" (Mariska Hargitay and Jack Nance) and "no, it's not them" (not Dana Carvey).
Cute B-movie with a guy who's a bit too serious at parties and a cast of "yes, that's them" (Mariska Hargitay and Jack Nance) and "no, it's not them" (not Dana Carvey).
A ★★★½ review of Ghoulies (1985)
Cute B-movie with a guy who's a bit too serious at parties and a cast of "yes, that's them" (Mariska Hargitay and Jack Nance) and "no, it's not them" (not Dana Carvey). All so wonderfully cheap and th...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My ★★★½ review of Ghoulies boxd.it/btqy2V
Cute B-movie with a guy who's a bit too serious at parties and a cast of "yes, that's them" (Mariska Hargitay and Jack Nance) and "no, it's not them" (not Dana Carvey).
Cute B-movie with a guy who's a bit too serious at parties and a cast of "yes, that's them" (Mariska Hargitay and Jack Nance) and "no, it's not them" (not Dana Carvey).
My ★★ review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer boxd.it/btf0uT
All of the problems the first film had are back and worse.
Freddie Prinze Jr is sidelined once again, despite somehow rising to top billed. Jack Black with dreadlocks is in this more than him.
All of the problems the first film had are back and worse.
Freddie Prinze Jr is sidelined once again, despite somehow rising to top billed. Jack Black with dreadlocks is in this more than him.
A ★★ review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
I love it when the first film ends with a sequel tease that's totally ignored by the sequel. And I mean that with a straight face. It's cute, cheesy and nostalgic. You'd have to have a lot of nostalgi...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My ★★ review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer boxd.it/btf0uT
All of the problems the first film had are back and worse.
Freddie Prinze Jr is sidelined once again, despite somehow rising to top billed. Jack Black with dreadlocks is in this more than him.
All of the problems the first film had are back and worse.
Freddie Prinze Jr is sidelined once again, despite somehow rising to top billed. Jack Black with dreadlocks is in this more than him.
My ★★★★★ review of The Wailing boxd.it/btdSXV
It's police procedural, viral contagion, zombie, occult, possession movie and everything in between.
It feels perfectly tuned to my tastes in horror. It's genuinely creepy and it's able to become a huge, sustained explosion for the entire second half.
It's police procedural, viral contagion, zombie, occult, possession movie and everything in between.
It feels perfectly tuned to my tastes in horror. It's genuinely creepy and it's able to become a huge, sustained explosion for the entire second half.
A ★★★★★ review of The Wailing (2016)
I don't think I could ever love a horror film more. This two and a half hour epic manages to be everything. It's police procedural, viral contagion, zombie, occult, witch, possession, satanic, and eve...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My ★★★★★ review of The Wailing boxd.it/btdSXV
It's police procedural, viral contagion, zombie, occult, possession movie and everything in between.
It feels perfectly tuned to my tastes in horror. It's genuinely creepy and it's able to become a huge, sustained explosion for the entire second half.
It's police procedural, viral contagion, zombie, occult, possession movie and everything in between.
It feels perfectly tuned to my tastes in horror. It's genuinely creepy and it's able to become a huge, sustained explosion for the entire second half.
My ★★★ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) boxd.it/bsJCol
The premise is great but it falls apart when it gets to the slasher part and it struggles to find focus in the killer's motive.
In the end, the reveal of the killer is very underwhelming.
The premise is great but it falls apart when it gets to the slasher part and it struggles to find focus in the killer's motive.
In the end, the reveal of the killer is very underwhelming.
A ★★★ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
"Angela Lansbury always has a plan." 😂 Kevin Williamson's expansion on the slasher via whodunit subgenre he nailed with Scream a year earlier. This wisely avoids going meta again, although it's got it...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My ★★★ review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) boxd.it/bsJCol
The premise is great but it falls apart when it gets to the slasher part and it struggles to find focus in the killer's motive.
In the end, the reveal of the killer is very underwhelming.
The premise is great but it falls apart when it gets to the slasher part and it struggles to find focus in the killer's motive.
In the end, the reveal of the killer is very underwhelming.
My ★★★½ review of The First Omen boxd.it/bsE6v5
Genuinely impressive but imperfect debut from Arkasha Stevenson.
While the horror goes places I genuinely didn't expect in a studio film, some of the references are a touch on the nose.
It's also very predictable, even beyond the prequel of it all.
Genuinely impressive but imperfect debut from Arkasha Stevenson.
While the horror goes places I genuinely didn't expect in a studio film, some of the references are a touch on the nose.
It's also very predictable, even beyond the prequel of it all.
A ★★★½ review of The First Omen (2024)
Genuinely impressive feature debut from Arkasha Stevenson, even if it's imperfect in its execution. The atmosphere this creates is seriously strong and the visual imagery is terrific. This is a horror...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My ★★★½ review of The First Omen boxd.it/bsE6v5
Genuinely impressive but imperfect debut from Arkasha Stevenson.
While the horror goes places I genuinely didn't expect in a studio film, some of the references are a touch on the nose.
It's also very predictable, even beyond the prequel of it all.
Genuinely impressive but imperfect debut from Arkasha Stevenson.
While the horror goes places I genuinely didn't expect in a studio film, some of the references are a touch on the nose.
It's also very predictable, even beyond the prequel of it all.
My ★★★★★ review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) boxd.it/bsDPXr
Instantly inducted into annual viewing club since I saw it last year. Breathtakingly creepy and intensely fast moving.
Such perfectly crafted characters, right down to each detail, given life through perfectly cast actors.
Instantly inducted into annual viewing club since I saw it last year. Breathtakingly creepy and intensely fast moving.
Such perfectly crafted characters, right down to each detail, given life through perfectly cast actors.
A ★★★★★ review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Instantly inducted into the October annual viewing club since I saw it last year and it hasn't lost its touch on me. Breathtakingly creepy and intensely fast moving. This is exactly my kind of horror ...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My ★★★★★ review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) boxd.it/bsDPXr
Instantly inducted into annual viewing club since I saw it last year. Breathtakingly creepy and intensely fast moving.
Such perfectly crafted characters, right down to each detail, given life through perfectly cast actors.
Instantly inducted into annual viewing club since I saw it last year. Breathtakingly creepy and intensely fast moving.
Such perfectly crafted characters, right down to each detail, given life through perfectly cast actors.
My ★★★½ review of [REC]² boxd.it/bs9ik7
A little weaker than the first but it doesn't sacrifice its intensity. I wasn't expecting it to make such big swings with the lore.
The little problems are far from enough to stop a film that still does what the first one did so right, though.
A little weaker than the first but it doesn't sacrifice its intensity. I wasn't expecting it to make such big swings with the lore.
The little problems are far from enough to stop a film that still does what the first one did so right, though.
A ★★★½ review of [REC]² (2009)
A little weaker than the first but it doesn't sacrifice its intensity. I wasn't expecting it to make such big swings with the lore. I kinda dug the priest but that stuff just clashed with the science ...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My ★★★½ review of [REC]² boxd.it/bs9ik7
A little weaker than the first but it doesn't sacrifice its intensity. I wasn't expecting it to make such big swings with the lore.
The little problems are far from enough to stop a film that still does what the first one did so right, though.
A little weaker than the first but it doesn't sacrifice its intensity. I wasn't expecting it to make such big swings with the lore.
The little problems are far from enough to stop a film that still does what the first one did so right, though.
My ★½ review of Shell boxd.it/brGmez
It's not just that it's a The Substance ripoff but that it's awful. The script is shocking.
The budget can't back it up, either. All of it looks so cheap, and that film grain filter ain't fooling anyone.
The ending is so funny it's almost worth it, though.
It's not just that it's a The Substance ripoff but that it's awful. The script is shocking.
The budget can't back it up, either. All of it looks so cheap, and that film grain filter ain't fooling anyone.
The ending is so funny it's almost worth it, though.
A ★½ review of Shell (2024)
Sure, I can see Kate Hudson doing a crappy The Substance ripoff but Elisabeth Moss is waaaaay above this trash. It's not just that it's a blatent copy but it's that it's simply awful. The script is sh...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My ★½ review of Shell boxd.it/brGmez
It's not just that it's a The Substance ripoff but that it's awful. The script is shocking.
The budget can't back it up, either. All of it looks so cheap, and that film grain filter ain't fooling anyone.
The ending is so funny it's almost worth it, though.
It's not just that it's a The Substance ripoff but that it's awful. The script is shocking.
The budget can't back it up, either. All of it looks so cheap, and that film grain filter ain't fooling anyone.
The ending is so funny it's almost worth it, though.
My ★★★★ review of MadS boxd.it/brx1P7
There is a genuine horror premise to it but the method is really what does it. It's unrelenting and surreal. You either strap in or you don't. Even as the story evolves, the main event is how your senses are being assaulted.
There is a genuine horror premise to it but the method is really what does it. It's unrelenting and surreal. You either strap in or you don't. Even as the story evolves, the main event is how your senses are being assaulted.
A ★★★★ review of MadS (2024)
Insane film! A one-shot psychedelic trip into sensory overload. Saddled with a character who's had a bad reaction to a line of coke, you can't really trust or understand most of what's going on as he ...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My ★★★★ review of MadS boxd.it/brx1P7
There is a genuine horror premise to it but the method is really what does it. It's unrelenting and surreal. You either strap in or you don't. Even as the story evolves, the main event is how your senses are being assaulted.
There is a genuine horror premise to it but the method is really what does it. It's unrelenting and surreal. You either strap in or you don't. Even as the story evolves, the main event is how your senses are being assaulted.
I'm looking forward to getting to it!
October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I'm looking forward to getting to it!
My ★★★★ review of [REC] boxd.it/bqPDJt
I'm always trepidatious about found footage films but I can't complain about this one.
Once this gets going, it escalates with a stunning intensity that will work on even the biggest sceptics.
I'm always trepidatious about found footage films but I can't complain about this one.
Once this gets going, it escalates with a stunning intensity that will work on even the biggest sceptics.
A ★★★★ review of [REC] (2007)
I'm always trepidatious about found footage films but I can't complain about this one. A single location, claustrophobic zombie horror. While it's clearly made on the cheap, they nail what's important...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My ★★★★ review of [REC] boxd.it/bqPDJt
I'm always trepidatious about found footage films but I can't complain about this one.
Once this gets going, it escalates with a stunning intensity that will work on even the biggest sceptics.
I'm always trepidatious about found footage films but I can't complain about this one.
Once this gets going, it escalates with a stunning intensity that will work on even the biggest sceptics.