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  Box Cutter 2020

  Watched by ryan 20 Jan 2020 11

  made this movie.

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  Titane 2021

  ★★★½ Watched by ryan 11 Sep 2021

  Titane bisects into two tonally disparate halves. The first is mostly carnage, acts of fetishism, and bodily breakdowns. It all spawns from the prologue: an inciting trauma, singular in its impact on Alexia, the protagonist, yet simultaneously indicative of other presumed, off-screen traumas. As an adult, Alexia spirals into a frenzy foregrounded at the interplay of flesh and metal (evocative of both Ballard/Cronenberg and Tsukamoto). The latter half of the movie addresses the consequences of the first, unfolding as an…

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  The Last House on the Left 1972

  ★★★★ Watched by ryan 09 Sep 2021

  This is something of an aesthetic precursor to Texas Chain Saw, fusing documentary and horror aesthetics as social commentary. Both movies are products of profound rage and national disillusionment, though Craven's film is more explicitly political than Hooper's. It feels like an indictment of everyone: the lost hippie youth who've turned their backs on any manifesto of "peace and love" and the older generation taking refuge in the violence of tradition. Craven shows neither mercy nor sentimentality towards either party.…

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  Halloween 2018

  ★★★ Watched by ryan 09 Sep 2018 41

  The idiot in front of me took out his fucking phone and rated this 4/5 on LB halfway through the FUCKING world premiere of this movie.

  (It's pretty good btw)

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  Burn After Reading 2008

  ★★★½ Rewatched by ryan 31 Jul 2014 6

  When a Tilda Swinton character feels boring compared to the rest of the characters, you know you have something special. Brad Pitt dominates this film, and makes us all ponder the security... of our shit.