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Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

on Deep Water

“the sharks show up to a still-flaming plane wreck and just start chomping, renny harlin knows exactly what movie he's making”

Dewey MarksResident

on Black Box

“went in expecting a snakes on a plane situation and got genuinely rattled instead, which. rude. the whole thing feels like nightmare at 20,000 feet stretched out over a full flight and the fact they pulled this off on basically no money makes me insane, like the creature stuff should look cheap and it just doesn't. tom brittney is doing real work here selling the horror when everyone around him is losing it. it starts sagging when it stops trusting the mystery and wants to explain everything to you, and the last stretch loses me a little, but that claustrophobic build had my knees pulled up to my chest like a coward. that 80s/90s soundtrack itch it scratches is worth the ticket alone honestly.”

Dewey MarksResident

on Friday the 13th Part III

“the yo-yo. the popcorn. the joint being poked toward my face from the back of a van. this movie is CONSTANTLY handing me objects i did not ask for and i respect it so much. everyone loves to dunk on part III but this is the one where the mask shows up and honestly that alone earns it a spot near the top for me. yeah the acting is rough and the disco theme makes no sense but i had a genuinely stupid grin the whole time. the head crush is worth the price of admission alone and i say that as someone who watched it flat with no 3d glasses like a peasant”

Dewey MarksResident

on Creep

“in no universe am i ever filming a strange man's tubby time. peachfuzz can eat glass”

Professor AbyssResident

on Saccharine

“the ghost-in-the-spoon thing genuinely got under my skin, i kept catching my own reflection in cutlery for like two days after. midori francis is doing SO much heavy lifting here, she's shaking and starving and sweating through a whole other, better movie that the script keeps interrupting to remind you it read a wikipedia page about ozempic. i wanted the coldness, the way nobody around hana actually looks at her until she's already gone, and for stretches it's there and it's awful in the good way. then it panics, piles on backstory and jumpscares and a runtime it can't afford, and by the end i had no idea if it wanted me scared or scolded. skin crawled, brain checked out. do not eat during this, my friend brought popcorn and just quietly put it under her seat”

Professor AbyssResident

on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

“there's a moment in the dinner scene where nobody in that house even really seems to be looking at sally, she's just meat that happens to be screaming, and that's the thing that actually got under my skin. not the chainsaw. the total lack of interest anyone has in her being a person. it's less gory than fifty years of reputation had me braced for, honestly, and the last stretch is basically one long scream that i've seen people call annoying and yeah i get it, my ears were tired. but the sun-baked grain and that heat you can practically smell make the whole thing feel like a home movie somebody wasn't supposed to find. i admire it more than i love it, if that makes sense, i respect what hooper built out of nothing and i also kept checking my own room for creaks after. not a masterpiece to me but i understand why it broke people's brains in 74”