Category: 1 Star
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Criterion: It’s Alive (*) and it’s bad
Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist naturally lead to stuff like this crawling around in the sewer of entertainment. Having Warner produce just brings a nicer sheen to the turd.
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Antebellum (*) blunders its opportunity
Take it as a warning. This film robs of the senses you should have and replaces them with garbage.
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Criterion: Season of the Witch (*) – Mom’s a hungry wife
This film is painful, even if the idea could have been a decent film in the hands of someone with any skill writing, directing or even editing.
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3 Turns of the Screw: The Nightcomers, The Turning and Netflix’ The Haunting of Bly Manor
Of the three James’ inspired works, The Haunting of Bly Manor is the one that is truly inspired, even if it’s not as scary as we’d hope.
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Criterion: Daughters of Darkness (*) doesn’t see the light of day
One can understand why Criterion would show these films during the month of October. They do at least have historical value as a representation of how the X-Rating pushed mainstream films to a new level of what it conceived as eroticism. Still the time period represents a low period of cinematic achievement, even if its…
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Criterion: The Vampire Lovers (*) You must take it all off, dear…
If there is good Hammer horror, I haven’t seen it yet.
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Criterion: Trog (*) Not so wild thing
This movie knows it’s trash. It’s still trash. Except for Crawford, on both counts.
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Criterion: Further downstream of The Virgin Spring to The Last House on the Left
…it’s remarkable how far a medieval ballad can reach through time, even if what comes out on the other side holds little resemblance to the significance of the tale.
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Guns Akimbo (*) is SJW disguised as comedy
For me, I will stick with Running Man. It’s dumb too. Just not as preachy. And I will hold out for filmmakers who are actually bold, and not just gross and silly.
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Timeline (*) is out of sync
This is what happens when one takes B-Level material by a good writer with a director who is kind of through with the hassle of being a director.
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