mitchellcorner

I mostly watch movies. Mostly.

Favorite films

  • The Red Shoes
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

All
  • Devil Fetus

    ★★★★

  • Escape from the 21st Century

    ★★★½

  • The Shrouds

    ★★★★½

  • Marco: The Invented Truth

    ★★½

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Devil Fetus

1983

★★★★ Watched

STEFON: Oh Seth... you need to check out Devil Fetus. This movie has everything. A delirious, Category III fever dream... ambitious practical effects... wild supernatural imagery... and pure Hong Kong exploitation mayhem...Dan Cortese. It opens with demon sex... and somehow keeps getting wilder from there.

The effects are genuinely impressive for their budget: stop-motion monsters, melting faces, maggot-filled skin peeling, hands bursting from the ground and stretching across the screen to throttle victims, and even death by kitchen appliance. It’s…

Escape from the 21st Century

2024

★★★½ Watched

One of the most visually inventive and pulse-pounding films in recent memory — a shot of pure cinematic adrenaline. It’s bold, hyper-stylized, and constantly in motion, blending live action with bursts of animation to create something electric. Few films feel this alive and one of the best uses of Holding Out for a Hero since Shrek 2. But while the anime-inspired martial arts and video game nods are a blast, the story doesn’t always hold together. The whole “teens sneeze…

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George A. Romero's Resident Evil

2025

★★★ Watched

Because this turned into such a loving tribute to Romero, I bumped it up half a star. Almost no other filmmaker do I feel such a kinship than George, but as a doc this is...fine? It's very much here-say with no one involved in the process or making of this Resident Evil movie actually a talking head.

Friendship

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

Caught this near the end of its Toronto run in a tiny theater that was still almost packed. The laughter was nonstop — huge belly laughs, gasps, and the kind of collective “oh no”s you only get when a room full of people is cringing in sync. A reminder that comedies need theaters. We want to laugh (and suffer) together.

This isn’t quip factory comedy or awkward Gen Z pandering. It’s pure Tim Robinson: escalating humiliation, absurd punchlines, setups that…

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