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“dan stevens licking leather like it's a personality and honestly? it kind of works on me”

“oliver reed does the whole thing with this clenched quiet dignity and it wrecks me because everyone around him is screaming and nobody is actually listening, the machine just keeps grinding regardless. jarman's sets are so white they feel like they're bleaching you, these endless scrubbed tile walls where the worst stuff happens almost administratively, like paperwork. that's the part that got under my skin way more than any of the famous shock material. not evil exactly, just the bored efficiency of power deciding you're expendable and moving on. saw the restoration in a half empty theater and walked out kind of hollowed out, i get why people call it a mess and i also think the mess is sort of the point”

“made godzilla scary again on the budget of a legendary pictures catering bill”

“a little girl combing a severed head's hair is the most tenderness any eli roth character has ever shown and i mean that”

“the mirror-faced figure gliding down that path got into my body in a way most contemporary work can only dream about. fourteen minutes and i still check my key when i drop it”