Bizarre, and even quite haunting, geriatric slasher from Australia that taps into strange aspects of sexual repression and British colonialism with it’s Victorian gothic house setting. Combined with the twisted melodramatic macabre and woozy-dream aesthetic of Giallo horror films from the era and a Straw Dogs like finale, it’s a wild mix that not often easy to follow but quite often effective, shocking and utterly unique.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994
Kenneth Branagh’s sexed up and shrilly adaptation of Frankenstein went pretty unloved when it first released, only really finding an audience now. It remains a mixed bag, attempting a multitude of elements to flesh out the story on screen into something more substantial than previous iterations.
The result is a massive cascade of operatics, with bombastic orchestras and frantic camera movements, like a period drama interrupted by a ketamine overdose. It’s pretty mad, and ultimately becomes very rushed in it’s…
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Metropolis 1927
Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.
A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...
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Taken 3 2014
It's lazy. It's incompetent. It's lazy and incompetent. It's lazily incompetent and it's incompetently lazy. It's lazy within it incompetency and incompetent in it's laziness.
這是懶惰的。這是不稱職的。這是懶惰和無能。這是懶洋洋地無能和它的無能懶惰。這是在它的無能和不稱職它的懶惰懶散。
Kjo është dembel . Është i paaftë . Kjo është dembel dhe i paaftë . Është lazily paaftë dhe kjo është incompetently dembel . Kjo është dembel brenda atë paaftësisë dhe të paaftë në atë të përtacisë .
انها كسول . انها غير كفء. انها كسول و غير كفء. انها غير كفء بتكاسل وانها…