Sydney🚀 has reviewed 25 films tagged ‘practical-effects’ during 2022.

Malignant

2021

★★★★★ Liked 23

Argue with the wall! Wan’s magnum opus

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

★★★★½ 6

So weird, I’ve literally been dreaming about this same dude in the green and red sweater. I’m sure it’s nothing, anyways good movie! Happy Halloween everyone!🧡🎃

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

1988

5

Waiting to rate until I watch more of them. I need to stop eating during these.

Hellraiser

1987

★★★★ 10

Absolutely terrifying and repulsive and definitely very cool. Jesus wept. Practical effects are the greatest thing to ever happen!!!!

Jaws

1975

★★★★★ Liked 14

Seen in IMAX! :) gets better every time, so much to notice. I LOVE the way Spielberg shoots conversations in this. His blocking for these scenes makes all his films feel so alive and dynamic but I think it’s especially magical here because it’s against the backdrop of a vast, now threatening ocean. He creates these little bubbles for his characters that retain intimacy and warmth in a setting that otherwise just swallows them up. It’s the contrast between these spaces/the…

In the Mouth of Madness

1994

★★★★★ Liked 8

John Carpenter’s Lovecraftian Rickroll. I love this man so much, didn’t expect this to become one of my favorites from him. Every moment perfection. Nonstop dread. When does fiction become religion?

Tremors

1990

★★★★ 6

I’m a simple woman - I like practical effects, and i like when very smart and funny people make B movies

Predator

1987

★★★★ Liked 17

This is exactly how it felt playing manhunt with the neighborhood kids growing up

Starship Troopers

1997

★★★★ 10

Oh god it’s SCALDING!!! I love how Verhoeven shoots his actors, I’ve never seen eyes look so beautiful, or so seductive. 
“Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?”

Crash

1996

★★★★½ 12

“Hey are you guys okay I saw your car go off th- OH JESUS WHAT THE FUCK”

Mad God

2021

Liked 5

I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES AND CUT DOWN YOUR INCENSE ALTARS. I WILL HEAP YOUR CARCASSES ON THE CARCASSES OF YOUR IDOLS. I WILL ABHOR YOU.

The Thing

1982

★★★★★ Liked 4

Happy 40th anniversary to TWO of my favorite movies, this and Blade Runner! That’s crazy. I was lucky enough to rewatch this in theaters and chat about its genius with my pal @Tanner and the other wonderful lads at Bomb Squad Prods here !!