Rob1977
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Grumpy movie/music/tv bore https://boxd.it/1JfEF
‘The horror stems from parental failings and anxieties about paternal, instinctive duty…’ #horror #filmsky #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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A ★★★★★ review of Wolf Man (2025)
A stern, regimental father takes his young son into the Oregon wilderness to hunt. The views are truly breathtaking…but danger and threat lurks menacingly amongst the beautiful flora and fauna. Natur...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
‘The horror stems from parental failings and anxieties about paternal, instinctive duty…’ #horror #filmsky #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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‘This is a bona fide time capsule of delights, particularly if you’re a fan of the music…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 💀🎃👻
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A ★★★★ review of Trick or Treat (1986)
During the early 1980s - with Western civilisation in horrible moral decline - righteous crusaders and church groups had found a new target for their pious ire; heavy metal Rather like video nasties i...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
‘This is a bona fide time capsule of delights, particularly if you’re a fan of the music…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 💀🎃👻
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‘despite that intriguing VHS cover from back in the day, this delivers on only a fraction of its potential…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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A ★★ review of Scarecrows (1988)
A decent B-Movie concept is clumsily executed in Scarecrows - a reasonably fun slice of slasher/horror fare if you keep your alcohol levels up and your expectations low. Really low. Shot in 1985 but s...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
‘despite that intriguing VHS cover from back in the day, this delivers on only a fraction of its potential…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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‘thick with lurking threat, there are heaps of scary moments and the logic is demented and cruel…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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A ★★★★★ review of The Evil Dead (1981)
A triumph of low budget, guerilla determination, with more invention, energy and genre ferocity than any of its peers, The Evil Dead is a gruelling, exhilarating original in every sense of the word. ...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
‘thick with lurking threat, there are heaps of scary moments and the logic is demented and cruel…’ #horror #horrormovies #Halloween 👻🎃💀
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‘the real horror here comes from the fragility of the family dynamic…’ #horror #horrormovies #halloween 👻🎃💀
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A ★★★★ review of The Devil's Candy (2015)
The Amityville Horror doesn’t just meet The Picture Of Dorian Grey, they hook up and rock out together at a Metallica concert. And that’s The Devil’s Candy; a gnarly tale of demonic possession that hi...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
‘the real horror here comes from the fragility of the family dynamic…’ #horror #horrormovies #halloween 👻🎃💀
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‘goes for simmering unease rather than jolts and jump scares…and it succeeds with grisly aplomb’ #halloween #horror #horrormovies 🎃👻💀 boxd.it/bem9mX
A ★★★★ review of Haunt (2019)
A tripwire tale of your childhood trauma dictating every move in adulthood, Haunt is a rollicking horror yarn in The Funhouse mould. Rather like Tobe Hooper’s under appreciated carnival of horrors, H...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
‘goes for simmering unease rather than jolts and jump scares…and it succeeds with grisly aplomb’ #halloween #horror #horrormovies 🎃👻💀 boxd.it/bem9mX
To the interest of precisely no one and to appease nothing but my own monstrous ego, I will be posting an absolute fuck tonne of my Letterboxd horror movie reviews this month - some new, some old, all incredibly long and helpful if you suffer from insomnia. Happy October 🧡🎃 👻
a silhouette of a person in a witch costume standing in front of a sunset
ALT: a silhouette of a person in a witch costume standing in front of a sunset
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October 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
To the interest of precisely no one and to appease nothing but my own monstrous ego, I will be posting an absolute fuck tonne of my Letterboxd horror movie reviews this month - some new, some old, all incredibly long and helpful if you suffer from insomnia. Happy October 🧡🎃 👻
‘A reasonably entertaining trawl through murky waters, this is serviceable survivalist hokum with an eye-catching turn from Jai Courtney as a salty, psycho sea dog…’ #filmsky
A ★★★ review of Dangerous Animals (2025)
A reasonably entertaining trawl through murky waters, Dangerous Animals is serviceable survivalist hokum with an eye-catching turn from Jai Courtney as a salty, psycho sea dog. Narratively speaking I ...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
‘A reasonably entertaining trawl through murky waters, this is serviceable survivalist hokum with an eye-catching turn from Jai Courtney as a salty, psycho sea dog…’ #filmsky
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Happy Publication Day to Me
Darkness Visible the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available from the publisher at the lowest price £16 in the UK or $18 US
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Darkness Visible the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available from the publisher at the lowest price £16 in the UK or $18 US
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Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer - Sticking Place Books
John Bleasdale Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin ...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
‘As a meditation on personal failure Night Moves sinks to quite unfathomable depths…’
A ★★★★★ review of Night Moves (1975)
A haunting, revisionist neo-noir that boldly asserts Hitchcock’s own ‘mystery as MacGuffin’ narrative, Night Moves was tailor made for the decade of disillusionment. Featuring a consummate performance...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
‘As a meditation on personal failure Night Moves sinks to quite unfathomable depths…’
‘a grotesque satire of the female aesthetic fused with some horribly visceral body horror…’
A ★★★★ review of The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
A great companion piece to The Substance, The Ugly Stepsister is a grotesque satire of the female aesthetic fused with some horribly visceral body horror. Themes of transformation, oppression and jeal...
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June 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
‘a grotesque satire of the female aesthetic fused with some horribly visceral body horror…’
Look beyond the Hollywood uplift and 28 Weeks Later (2007) is an exciting sequel that improves thematically upon its forebear. The uncertainty of aftermath, military overreach and motifs of self-preservation see it mature like a fine wine. And that intro is one for the ages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Look beyond the Hollywood uplift and 28 Weeks Later (2007) is an exciting sequel that improves thematically upon its forebear. The uncertainty of aftermath, military overreach and motifs of self-preservation see it mature like a fine wine. And that intro is one for the ages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The most striking thing about 28 Days Later (2002) remains those stunning early scenes of a desolate London hellscape devoid of humanity. After that it descends into exciting, blood-pumping emptiness accompanied by music so damn good that you forget how daft it all is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The most striking thing about 28 Days Later (2002) remains those stunning early scenes of a desolate London hellscape devoid of humanity. After that it descends into exciting, blood-pumping emptiness accompanied by music so damn good that you forget how daft it all is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The first official retail VHS releases of the #JamesBond films in the UK celebrating the 25th anniversary in 1987. From Dr. No to A View To A Kill. Photo credit from X user TheRockAndRollGuy
June 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The first official retail VHS releases of the #JamesBond films in the UK celebrating the 25th anniversary in 1987. From Dr. No to A View To A Kill. Photo credit from X user TheRockAndRollGuy
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RIP Alan Yentob, whose interviews and documentaries, particularly in the BBC 'Arena' & 'Imagine' strands, now stand as vital and important works in the cataloguing - and understanding - of 20th and 21st culture. A short thread with examples, feel free to add your own...
May 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
RIP Alan Yentob, whose interviews and documentaries, particularly in the BBC 'Arena' & 'Imagine' strands, now stand as vital and important works in the cataloguing - and understanding - of 20th and 21st culture. A short thread with examples, feel free to add your own...
‘a rambunctious and obtuse mess that defies description…’ #FilmSky
A ★★★ review of Nothing but Trouble (1991)
A moving target may be difficult to hit, but even an arsenal of heat-seeking nuclear warheads would whizz helplessly past Nothing But Trouble - the first and (so far) only film directed by Dan Aykroyd...
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May 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
‘a rambunctious and obtuse mess that defies description…’ #FilmSky
‘A hilariously funny and endlessly quotable celebration of glib ‘don’t give a shit’ wise-assery that resonates more on every rewatch...’ #FilmSky
A ★★★★★ review of Fletch (1985)
When certain folk are discussing the potentially divisive pop culture of yesteryear, there’s an oft-used phrase that sums up their antiquated frustrations; ‘they couldn’t make that today’ Usually this...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘A hilariously funny and endlessly quotable celebration of glib ‘don’t give a shit’ wise-assery that resonates more on every rewatch...’ #FilmSky
Hello. I really need to put down a permanent residence here. X is an insufferable shithole that I can’t seem to let go…
May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hello. I really need to put down a permanent residence here. X is an insufferable shithole that I can’t seem to let go…
‘Companion is an attractive, outwardly fun experience with lots of complex, scary mechanics ticking away underneath…’
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A ★★★★ review of Companion (2025)
Like a doe-eyed Johnny Five from Short Circuit - except with a seductive smile and a twee alice band perched adorably atop her 50s faux bob-hairstyle - Iris wants to be alive. And despite the relentl...
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April 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
‘Companion is an attractive, outwardly fun experience with lots of complex, scary mechanics ticking away underneath…’
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Introduced a friend to this last night…and he didnt hate it! 👍🏼 boxd.it/290wwl
A ★★★★ review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was lightning in a bottle filmmaking; a zeitgeist-capturing horror milestone infamous for its shocking violence and intense atmosphere, it held up a shattered mirror to th...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Introduced a friend to this last night…and he didnt hate it! 👍🏼 boxd.it/290wwl
Back in the day I had this on a scratchy pirated VHS…and now look!
March 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Back in the day I had this on a scratchy pirated VHS…and now look!
‘Before The Substance drys up it really captures the tone deaf ugliness of persuing beauty at all costs…’ #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of The Substance (2024)
Early on during The Substance, a deflated, defeated Demi Moore sits slumped at an exclusive restaurant table watching a house fly slowly drown in a glass of liquor. As an act of foreshadowing it work...
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March 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
‘Before The Substance drys up it really captures the tone deaf ugliness of persuing beauty at all costs…’ #FilmSky
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‘The horror ultimately stems from parental failings. It sees our anxieties about impending danger and the maternal duty to protect our kids from it…’
A ★★★★★ review of Wolf Man (2025)
A stern, regimental father takes his young son into the Oregon wilderness to hunt. The views are truly breathtaking…but danger and threat lurks amongst the beautiful fauna. Naturally the young boy is...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
‘The horror ultimately stems from parental failings. It sees our anxieties about impending danger and the maternal duty to protect our kids from it…’