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1957

★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2025

The pacing leaves more than a little to be desired, but watching a hunky Richard Denning and a legion of giant, stop-motion scorpions is enough to entertain me. Even the hokiest effects shots are still pretty delightful.

53/100

2025

★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2025

Far from a fun night out at the movies, but Danny and Michael Philippou are clearly the future of horror in their ability to craft such visceral experiences that it’ll keep you off your phone for the duration. Its sound design should be the industry standard. Sally Hawkins in this is to me what Toni Collette in Hereditary is to everyone else.

72/100

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1987

★★★½ Watched 06 May 2014

Using vampirism as metaphor for homosexuality long before it was cool, this is surprisingly thoughtful for a teen horror comedy. The messaging is progressive despite not actually having a gay character. Among the highlights are Robert Sean Leonard's awkward coming out speech (as a vampire, of course) and his parents mistaking him for gay, reading guidebooks on the subject, and accepting him before being corrected. It's entertaining watching Leonard come to with himself and he's an affable, awkward teenage…

2018

★½ Watched 29 Dec 2019

Two hippies with no farming experience find investors so they can start the farm of their dreams, relying heavily on staff and unpaid interns who never get interviewed. It feels somewhere between a how-to guide on forming a cult and a treacly, folksy of farm livin’ that’s as profound as an episode of Green Acres. If you make a propaganda film about your charming farm, the Glassdoor page better back it up.

20/100

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