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Tori has written 189 reviews for films rated ★★★★ .

House 1977

★★★★ Rewatched 13 Nov, 2020

Bananas!!!!!!!!!!!!
tw/cw: Epilepsy warning
blood
His House 2020

★★★★ Watched 06 Nov, 2020

Girl on the Third Floor wanted what this film had.
tw/cw: blood/body horror
child death
racism
The Curse of Kazuo Umezu 1990

★★★★ Watched 28 Oct, 2020

Short and sweet with killer body horror, and both stories focused on girls?? You love to see it.
tw/cw: blood/gore/body horror
May the Devil Take You 2018

★★★★ Watched 27 Oct, 2020

Everything about this was well done, from the acting, to the soundtrack. The characters were interesting, especially Alfie, and had so many great unnerving moments. Indonesian horror is really killing it, and I'm really interested to see the sequel soon!
tw/cw: suffocation
blood/gore/body horror
Abusive type parent
emetophobia
Over the Moon 2020

★★★★ Watched 24 Oct, 2020

Absolutely stunning animation, and just overall beautiful all the way around. I really hope that we keep getting animated films, and films in general, that highlight a certain culture so lovingly.
tw/cw: Nothing except maybe flashing so epilepsy warning
Folklore: A Mother's Love 2018

★★★★ Watched 21 Oct, 2020

Joko Anwar continues to love spooky kids in horror, and I love it too. This does a killer job setting things up dropping breadcrumbs to make you think you've got it, and then pulling the rug out from under you. I loved the being focused on in this, and all of it was good and both heartwrenching and warming all at once.
tw/cw: child death discussed
unsanitary type stuff
Impetigore 2019

★★★★ Watched 14 Oct, 2020

It was really delightful watching this with my best friend who is Indonesian, and rarely gets to see themselves and their family represented in film in general, but especially horror. The way they'd recognize certain words, and that the scenery reminded them of the pictures they'd seen, was all really cool.
And on top of that, the film itself was excellently done, which is yet another reason it's so vital to have diverse films, especially with horror, because it brings…
Vampires vs. the Bronx 2020

★★★★ Watched 04 Oct, 2020

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Finally the 'group of young boys on an adventure vs monsters' but for Black/PoC kids, and so much diversity therein. The kids are all great and endearing, as are all the characters, and I laughed out loud repeatedly. Using (white) vampires as a vehicle to talk about gentrification works really well, particularly having a white woman who seems like an ally winding up being the biggest antagonist of them all.
tw/cw: Blood maybe??? Honestly there's not anything really much
La Llorona 2019

★★★★ Watched 11 Aug, 2020

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I've called films haunting in the past, but this one may truly take the cake when it comes to using that descriptor. Everything about it from beginning to end, and even past that with the beautiful song used for the credits, is deeply affecting in that way.
Jayro Bustamante did a phenomenal job using the folklore of la llorona as a frame to examine real life atrocities that occurred in Guatemala. In fact, between the grounded nature of people demanding…
In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic '80s Horror 2019

★★★★ Watched 04 Aug, 2020

I'd had a bout of horror films that I just did not enjoy for various reasons before starting this, and as such it could not have come at a better time for me. I adore horror for all it's greatness and faults, but my mood was low between the stint of ones that frustrated me more than thrilled me, as well as simply everything else happening at this point in time.
This documentary reminded me, gleefully, of why I do…
Host 2020

★★★★ Watched 02 Aug, 2020

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The whole cast and crew of this truly deserve so much kudos for making this work SO well with all the limitations it surely had to deal with. There was never a moment where I felt like it was lacking because of said limitations that were undoubtedly there, instead they made the utmost use of what they had to create something genuinely creepy and unnerving.
A lot of that is in thanks to the actresses, which I love that the…
Palm Springs 2020

★★★★ Watched 11 Jul, 2020

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Not only is this a romcom that I REALLY deeply enjoyed which is rare itself, but it also managed to make time loops interesting and never felt annoying or tiresome once throughout, which is also tough to do. I really love that it explores something that I don't see a lot, which is the comfort of what's known. I admittedly found myself wishing, as aggravating as it would also be, for the freedom of just not having to move forward.…

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