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I could spend pages analysing how beautifully Yin and Yang are woven throughout the themes of Shadow, but I am too in awe of the choice to have a slight constant breeze in the palace to allow the actors hair to continuously, yet faintly, whisp about while they monologue.

This is a Shakespearian palace intrigue paired with romantically tragic martial arts all painted in inky black and white with only the hint of color. And, If you would have told me the coolest thing I had ever seen in a wuxia epic would be a weaponized umbrella, I would have told you to go fly a kite. But, in fact, the coolest thing I have ever seen in a wuxia epic is a weaponized umbrella. 

But please, don't allow the beauty of the aesthetic to outway the message: that an umbrella can be just as strong as a sword. I mean this in all sincerity.

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Where The Fly interrogates the flesh, The Shroud goes about 6 feet deeper, and literally zooms in on the body and its decay. But unlike the former title, there are no operatics. This is cold and deliberate Cronenberg. And, fairly so, that might be unentertaining to most.

This is about a man dealing with the death of his wife after seeing her body slowly deteriorate, and taken away from him in pieces. I believe The Shroud intentionally frustrates and keeps its viewer at a distance. Because, in grief, nobody knows that pain but you. There is no reasoning with it, no exorcising the sorrow, and, like The Shroud, there are no answers to it. You can only walk through grief as it decays and hope you don't rot along with it.

"Grief is rotting your teeth"

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Somewhere among the gun smoke, the blood splatter and the slapstick martial arts stands Sukiyaki Western Django and Takashi Miike with his foot firmly planted on the line between genius and insanity.

Even If you are familiar with Miike or the more wacky outings of Italian westerns, you are ill-prepared. This is a spaghetti western by way of Japan. It takes place in Japan in a the town of "Yuta" in a territory called "Nevata", the Japanese actors are speaking phonetic English, and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the crazy wonderful things happening here.

Like it or love it, you will leave trying to sing the Japanese version of "Django"

It's safe to say, the latter half of Tim Burton's career has been divisive. It's also safe to say, I like all his movies, if not love. Even when he misses a bit, I am extremely grateful we have someone this bonkers still making movies.

1. Ed Wood
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. Sleepy Hollow
5. Batman Returns
6. Batman
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8. Corpse Bride
9. Frankenweenie
10. Dark Shadows

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranking of 2024 Horror so far

1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Nosferatu
3. All You Need Is Death
4. Stopmotion
5. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
6. Azrael
7. The Substance
8. Cuckoo
9. Oddity
10. Arcadian

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Elephant Man
2. Lost Highway
3. Inland Empire
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Eraserhead
7. The Straight Story
8. Blue Velvet
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

• Labyrinth
• Big Trouble in Little China
• The Fly
• Aliens
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Hitcher
• Blue Velvet
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Night of the Creeps
• Mona Lisa

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Recommendations by my best friend MindMeld

So far:
Blood Of Satan's Claw ⭐️3.5
Eyes of Fire (theatrical) ⭐️4 (maybe a 5)
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times ⭐️3.5
Lisa Frankenstien ⭐️3.5-4
I Saw the TV Glow ⭐️ 5!
Scapel ⭐️4

1. The Killer Is Still Among Us
2. Luz
3. Birth/Rebirth
4. MadS
5. Lost River

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• Images
• Link
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Bandidos
• Footprints on the Moon
• The Damned
• Island of Lost Souls

1. Four of the Apocalypse
2. Don't Torture a Duckling
3. City of the Living Dead
4. The Beyond
5. The New York Ripper
6. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
7. The Psychic
8. Zombie Flesh Eaters
9. The Devil's Honey
10. The House by the Cemetery

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. When Evil Lurks
2. Evil Dead Rise
3. Sister Death
4. Infinity Pool
5. Huesera: The Bone Woman
6. Cobweb
7. The enger
8. El Conde
9. Talk to Me
10. The Pope's Exorcist

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Don't Torture a Duckling
2. Opera
3. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
4. The House with Laughing Windows
5. The New York Ripper
6. Footprints on the Moon
7. Tenebre
8. The Psychic
9. Blood and Black Lace
10. All the Colors of the Dark

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Lifeforce
3. The Funhouse
4. Eaten Alive
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
6. Poltergeist
7. Spontaneous Combustion
8. Toolbox Murders
9. Salem's Lot
10. The Mangler

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• Vampires
• Toolbox Murders
• Spontaneous Combustion
• Drag Me to Hell
• New Nightmare

1. Big Trouble in Little China
2. In the Mouth of Madness
3. The Thing
4. Prince of Darkness
5. Assault on Precinct 13
6. Christine
7. Starman
8. Halloween
9. Escape from New York
10. They Live

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Hateful Eight
2. Jackie Brown
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Death Proof
8. Django Unchained
9. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
10. Pulp Fiction

I rewatch Tobe Hooper films on a regular bases. This list is to force me to watch an unseen title as a double feature with one of my most watched Hoopers. Preferably a movie that came out before the chosen Hooper title.

• Lifeforce

  Watched with "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)

• The Day the Earth Stood Still

  Watched with "Lifeforce

• The Funhouse

  Watched with "Freaks" (1932)

• Freaks

  Watched with "The Funhouse

• Poltergeist
• Kuroneko

  Maybe for "Poltergeist

• Invaders from Mars
• Eaten Alive
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It's time to rewatch my least watched films in both franchises.

• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Jason X
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

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• Sanshiro Sugata
• The Most Beautiful
• Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
• Those Who Make Tomorrow
• No Regrets for Our Youth
• One Wonderful Sunday
• Drunken Angel
• The Quiet Duel
• Stray Dog
• Scandal

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.