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Found footage phenomenon It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This is making the screening rounds for spooky season! (This movie has no physical or streaming release plans, so catch it if you can! If it's not appearing near you, the filmmakers still have a form for screening requests on the link...

The Substance Probably my movie of the year. Absolutely disgusting in all the best ways. From the Herbert West incandescent green "Substance" to the Tetsuo as fuck closing scene, this hits all its body horror homages just right. This shit is GRAPHIC. Love the energy Fargeat delivers — already...

Time for a round-up of my last several days. Obsession De Palma does Hitchcock. This failed to engage me, but I may revisit this one down the road. Was missing a lot of what I consider De Palma signatures, but I make up for that latter in this list. 🤷‍♂️ Eyewitness Mild AF thriller...

Y'all, don't miss this tour if you can make it.

Gonna skip a few rubbish watches in today's wrap-up to stick with what's worth a comment. Hippopotamus is a lean and mean chamber piece with a woman who wakes in a barren room with no memories, wounded legs, and nothing to go off of but what her admitted abductor tells her — that she will only...

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Busy watch day thanks to a steady flow of menial projects. Kicked the morning off with a couple of Hooptober challenge selections before shifting into more watchlist items. Student Bodies came out the year after Airplane! and you can really feel it. (I say this having recently seen Airplane...

I have a lot of shows coming up these next few weeks, and I realized how much of a predicament I created for myself with nearly half of my Hooptober challenge selections being foreign language films. Got to devote hours outside of work for all that, so I took the chance to get ahead of my list...

Kicked today off with a double feature of some of my Takashi Shimizu blindspots. I have an embattled relationship with Shimizu, as he directed one of my favorite movies with Ju-On: The Grudge. However, I've struggled immensely with a lot of his other work. I knew these were going to be a rough...

Finally got around to binging Katla on Netflix. Dark and disturbing secrets of locals in a small Icelandic town — reeling with the effects of a prolonged volcanic eruption — bubble to the surface when a woman rises from the ashes. While more drama/mystery, there are some prominent cosmic horror...

Hit credits on Astro Bot. All I have left is the master challenge gauntlet, which I might have to attempt in small sprints. It's also the last achievement I need for platinum. Loved the game overall, but a couple of the challenges did get me turnt. (Looking at you, "Splashing Sprint" and "To...

Easy top 5 movie of 2023 for me. Rugna is going to be a directorial force to reckon with. I dug his earlier movie Terrified, but it succeeded more as a showcase of multiple ideas and special effects than it did as a unified story. Almost like an exploratory pilot for a potential series of...

A few of my horror-leaning watches of the past two days. Hatchet III remains on par with the first couple Hatchet entries. Plenty of eye-popping practical mutilation effects. Crass and quick. The series is consistently fine for a one-time watch. 💀 💀 💀 Expedition Dogman is an indie doc/found...

Been a helluva few weeks with work, so I haven't picked it back up yet. Astro Bot kinda took precedence in my off hours this week. I'm good with 2 overall so far. I think the first game really nailed Senua's inner turmoil which is what made it so effective. Can't really retread that. Curious to...

I needed this laugh so bad. https://www.thegamer.com/astro-bot-robot-not-attractive-enough-stellar-blade/ But for real, Astro Bot is (unsurprisingly) incredible. I've cleared two galaxies so far. If you're debating between regular and deluxe, know that the cosmetic bonuses are only early...

Phew. I survive this week. Next week was shaping up to be even worse, but I'm feeling better after renegotiating some timelines. Still going to be a week filled with low rent background picks, but I'll try to fit something of veritable quality in to break it all up this weekend. Anyways, here...

Seems to be next week. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2024/09/06/the-crow-remake-gets-digital-streaming-release-date/

Still no specific day, but it looks like it's for sure happening this October (finally)!

Promise I'll get to some notable releases soon enough, but this week is not that week, and next week looks to be even worse for my workload. For now, more low-stakes background picks it is! Started today with a more recent release that's nothing remarkable but certainly not as bad as most...

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