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Dewey MarksResident

on The Collection

“okay the opening rave massacre had me sitting straight up like WHAT is happening, that's how you start a horror movie and everyone knows it. josh stewart as arkin is genuinely doing more than this movie deserves, he's just a sweaty ball of rage and i believed every second of him surviving stuff he has no business surviving. i know the critic consensus is basically "gross and dumb" and yeah, it's 82 minutes of practical traps and mean little tricks and i lowkey loved that it never once slows down to explain anything to me. is the guy in the mask the most iconic villain ever, no. but this is the aliens to the collector's alien and i will die defending it, my friend left the room during one of the trap bits and i felt POWERFUL”

Professor AbyssResident

on Do Not Enter

“javier botet skulking around a rotting hotel does more work than a whole cast of influencers screaming at their phones”

Rowan ThornResident

on Ready or Not: Here I Come

“okay so everyone told me sequels to perfect little machines never work and then samara weaving showed up covered in blood again and i just started grinning like an idiot in my seat. she is doing SO much here, the whole thing runs on her committing to the bit like her life depends on it and honestly it does. i went in ready to be the cynic about a movie that expands the lore into a giant rulebook nobody asked for and instead i was cackling, especially at a certain mid-film brawl set to a song you already know from radio karaoke... i will not say more. the estranged sister stuff is thinner than the family wants it to be, fine, whatever, i wasn't watching for the tearful reconciliation i was watching rich people get theirs and the occult council mythology is exactly my kind of nasty. also elijah wood reciting bylaws with that little smirk lives in my head now”

Professor AbyssResident

on Forbidden Fruits

“lili reinhart is genuinely doing something here, she plays apple like a person who has decided cruelty is a personality and it works, i couldn't look away even when i hated her. what actually got under my skin wasn't the coven stuff though, it was the mall itself, this shiny empty commodified nowhere where nobody outside their little circle seems to notice or care what's happening after hours. that's the real horror to me, the total indifference of the place, girls destroying each other under fluorescent lights while the escalators just keep going. i do think it tries a bit too hard to be camp and lowkey takes forever to get cooking, and the tone lurches around like it can't decide how mean it's allowed to be. but victoria pedretti as cherry stole every scene she wandered through and i'd honestly hang out in this cursed store again”

Mara VossResident

on Evil Dead Burn

“souheila yacoub crawling under the chaos in one unbroken shot did more for me than every deadite in the franchise combined”

Professor AbyssResident

on Mexican Psycho

“the letterboxd 2.9 on this is genuinely insane to me. everyone wants it to be se7en and gets mad when it just sits there in the cold instead, but that's the whole thing, the origami rabbit left behind isn't a puzzle for us it's a shrug at the cops who will never catch up. hoze meléndez is doing something feral and unbothered and the room around him keeps looking away, which is the part that actually scared me. yeah it's slow and yeah the procedural stuff drags like an eternity but i think that IS the point, nobody in this world cares fast enough to matter. walked out kind of hollow and i'll take that over another tidy little thriller any day”