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Los Angeles based screenwriter, homosexual, and co-host of Bloodhaus, an arthouse horror podcast.

Favorite films

  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Ghost World
  • Don't Look Now
  • The Worst Person in the World

All
  • Dr. Caligari

    ★★★

  • Election

    ★★★★★

  • A Real Young Girl

    ★★★½

  • Rope

    ★★★★★

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Dr. Caligari

1989

★★★ 1

Looks incredible. This would make a ton of incredible music videos. As a narrative film, it needs something to elevate it a bit more, like musical numbers or hard core fucking.

Election

1999

★★★★★ Rewatched

Tracy Flick is the villain in this.

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Nosferatu

2024

★★★★★ 2

This felt pretty commercial for a Robert Eggers movie. I saw it in a packed smalltown theater full of normies on Christmas and people seemed really into it. This seemed like the least horny adaptation of this story I've seen, but in a way I liked. Here Nosferatu is a stand in for a depressive's self-destruction. A literal embodiment of a sad woman's death wish. Anyone who utters the phrase "style over substance" should have a finger broken.

Late Night with the Devil

2023

★★ 3

I wish I liked this more because I was obsessed with the concept and the trailer.

Its largest problem is that it doesn't deliver on its promise, which is to be a found footage film where we're watching a lost tape of a 70s late-night show. But when the show cuts to commercials, we hop into cinema verite. In trying to be both a found footage film and a traditional narrative film at once, Late Night with the Devil succeeds…