David Gifford

When Renting is Not Enough
"There's Nothing Better Than Cheddar"
Horror Movie Academic. Metal Musician. Self-Proclaimed Journalist.

Favorite films

  • Halloween
  • Mandy
  • Pumpkinhead
  • X

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  • Scream VI

    ★★★★½

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    ★★★★½

  • Halloween

    ★★★½

  • Halloween: Resurrection

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★

    Watched this via A24 Screening Room, which was an excellent experience and I would recommend to fellow fans.

    I have been looking forward to Everything Everywhere All at Once since its initial screenings, and it looked great from the trailers. I never had a good opportunity to check the movie out during its theatrical run, as the closest theater showing it was a significant distance away. Luckily, I was happy with the movie that has getting so much hype, although…

  • Crimes of the Future

    Crimes of the Future

    ★★★★½

    As a Cronenberg fan, I was eagerly awaiting the release of his newest release. Crimes of the Future is a really strange movie. I will get that out of the way early on. There are going to be many people not like this movie, and his style may just not be for you. It's definitely possible, especially since it's been a while since a lot of newer movie fans have seen one of his theatrical releases.

    The movie opens up,…

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  • Scream VI

    Scream VI

    ★★★★½

    What a massive improvement, and I’m definitely glad I gave this one a shot! Scream 6 picks up after one of my least favorites in the series, which had me a bit concerned. Luckily, I had nothing to be concerned about. 

    The movie features a really strong story, and the characters I felt were better written and more interesting. This one ditches some of the nonsense from the previous entry that bothered me to, and instead felt like it both…

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    ★★★★½

    Especially given that I’m not the biggest fan of the series up until this point, I was absolutely shocked at how great this was. Absolutely amazing visuals and spectacular storytelling on display here. One of my favorite animated movies in recent memory for sure.

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  • Child's Play

    Child's Play

    ★★★★

    For those that know me, they know that Child’s Play holds one of the most special places in my heart. In many ways my terror towards the doll Chucky got me into horror, and facing my fears of dolls in general. The entire franchise I have watched many times over, and I still do fairly often when I am wanting some nice entertaining killer doll movies. I was still excited though about the idea of this movie. I will not…

  • Midsommar

    Midsommar

    ★★★★

    I will certainly have to second to Steven Francis in saying that the movie is certainly hard to rate. There are a lot of different reasons for that which I will get into, but my overall thoughts about the movie is that I liked it. I didn't love it in all honesty, but I had a good time and will likely be picking this one up when it comes out.

    Firstly the movie's technical elements are very strong. The cinematography…