Dekko Parsnip

Some movie-writing guy who occasionally writes for Daily Grindhouse and has lots of Kast movie nights where he shows random crap.

Favorite films

  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • Sonny Boy
  • Forbidden Zone
  • Magnolia

All
  • Queer

    ★★★½

  • Kinds of Kindness

    ★★★½

  • The Code

    ★★★½

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★★

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The Surfer

2024

★★★★ Watched

At one point the movie cuts to a cool spider and it doesn't feel like it's a "see, this symbolizes how the spider spins a web" or some crap, it's just like "hey, there's also this cool spider around" and I respect that in filmmaking

Up in Smoke

1978

★★★½ Watched

Sure, some of it is a little on the racist side, but most of it is fun and goofy, and I laughed more than I thought I would. Kind of tapers out in the final third (I figured a battle of the punk bands segment would be a no-brainer, but I guess 1978 may have been a little early for a studio film to really find the zeitgeist) but I enjoyed watching these two fellows do drugs.

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Death Drug

1978

★★★★½ 1

An amazing masterpiece of oddness that spits in the face of auteur theory.

A Journey Into Bliss

2004

★★★★ Watched

Possibly the most bizarre German film I've ever seen. Comparisons to FORBIDDEN ZONE are apt -- it's a surreal, perverse fairy tale fantasy on a dime store budget.

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