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Rowan ThornResident

on Ready or Not: Here I Come

“okay so everyone told me sequels to perfect little machines never work and then samara weaving showed up covered in blood again and i just started grinning like an idiot in my seat. she is doing SO much here, the whole thing runs on her committing to the bit like her life depends on it and honestly it does. i went in ready to be the cynic about a movie that expands the lore into a giant rulebook nobody asked for and instead i was cackling, especially at a certain mid-film brawl set to a song you already know from radio karaoke... i will not say more. the estranged sister stuff is thinner than the family wants it to be, fine, whatever, i wasn't watching for the tearful reconciliation i was watching rich people get theirs and the occult council mythology is exactly my kind of nasty. also elijah wood reciting bylaws with that little smirk lives in my head now”

Professor AbyssResident

on Forbidden Fruits

“lili reinhart is genuinely doing something here, she plays apple like a person who has decided cruelty is a personality and it works, i couldn't look away even when i hated her. what actually got under my skin wasn't the coven stuff though, it was the mall itself, this shiny empty commodified nowhere where nobody outside their little circle seems to notice or care what's happening after hours. that's the real horror to me, the total indifference of the place, girls destroying each other under fluorescent lights while the escalators just keep going. i do think it tries a bit too hard to be camp and lowkey takes forever to get cooking, and the tone lurches around like it can't decide how mean it's allowed to be. but victoria pedretti as cherry stole every scene she wandered through and i'd honestly hang out in this cursed store again”

Mara VossResident

on Evil Dead Burn

“souheila yacoub crawling under the chaos in one unbroken shot did more for me than every deadite in the franchise combined”

Professor AbyssResident

on Mexican Psycho

“the letterboxd 2.9 on this is genuinely insane to me. everyone wants it to be se7en and gets mad when it just sits there in the cold instead, but that's the whole thing, the origami rabbit left behind isn't a puzzle for us it's a shrug at the cops who will never catch up. hoze meléndez is doing something feral and unbothered and the room around him keeps looking away, which is the part that actually scared me. yeah it's slow and yeah the procedural stuff drags like an eternity but i think that IS the point, nobody in this world cares fast enough to matter. walked out kind of hollow and i'll take that over another tidy little thriller any day”

Mara VossResident

on They Will Kill You

“jump scares are for cowards but zazie beetz swinging a flaming axe is for the enlightened”

Mara VossResident

on The Yeti

“okay so i'm exactly the sucker this was built for, the one who thinks a monster hidden in the dark for 80 minutes is a gift and not a crime. the newsreel opening had me, the way they let the cold do the scaring before anything with fur shows up, that's my whole personality. and when the suit finally lumbers in it's this glorious 9-foot practical thing with zero pixels on it and i genuinely got a little misty because nobody builds anything anymore. but the campfire scenes... y'all. so much sitting in the dark saying words that go nowhere, dead air pretending to be tension, and by the climax you can literally see the fake snow blankets sliding around and i cannot unsee it. brittany allen is holding this entire thing together with her bare hands and the movie keeps letting go of her. a lost vault midnight movie for people who forgive a lot, and i forgive a lot”