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Immaculate 2024
It was never going to be of the quality of Rosemary’s Baby, but Immaculate was a concise and effective horror that left me feeling stressed and uneasy throughout - particularly before the ‘big reveal.’ Unlike many of today’s anaemic, so-called ‘horrors,’ this movie did actually deserve that title.
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Drive-Away Dolls 2024
Is Drive-Away Dolls a lesbian exploitation movie? It’s a very odd film that doesn’t quite work.
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Woman in the Dunes 1964
Wow! If I had to give an example of what cinema is, what it can do, I would cite Woman in the Dunes. Some adaptations, such as Visconti’s The Leopard or Losey’s The Go-Between, are good, but do not add anything to the source material. Woman in the Dunes is something completely different. I read Kobo Abe’s novel about a decade ago and was not particularly impressed. However, Hiroshi Teshigahara manages to bring to life the arid (in all senses) world of…