Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Jun 19, 2026

the practical makeup work when things get bitey had me wincing in a packed theater, joe bird's possession scene is no joke

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Jun 9, 2026

that flaming axe fight made me feel things i haven't felt since i was rigging blood squibs for a living. you can SEE the trick on half these kills and that's the whole pleasure, somebody clearly loved their latex more than they loved the script. zazie beetz throwing herself into every limb that goes flying is the only reason this thing has a pulse, she's doing real choreography while the plot just kinda loops on itself like it forgot what floor it was on. they tell you every floor is a different vice and then show you basically none of them, which is the kind of crime i can't fully forgive. but a sentient eyeball named sharon? sold. heather graham gonzo as hell. saw it with my buddy who hates horror and even he was howling so make of that what you will

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Jun 8, 2026

a full body suit with not one speck of cgi anywhere near it and you wanna know something? i teared up a little. they BUILT this thing, it has weight, when it crashes a body in half you feel the latex and the karo syrup doing honest work. that grisly intestine bit had me grinning like an idiot in a near empty amc. is the script clunky? oh absolutely, half these characters sit in the dark talking and i forgot their names while they were still alive, and the ending reaches for something it never earns. but i don't care. i came for a man in a suit doing horrible things to people in the snow and i got exactly that. they spent the money where it matters. rip to everyone in this movie, the elements were never the problem

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Jun 7, 2026

a cross-section dummy bitten in half, intestines and all, built so you read the empty space where a person used to be. that's a savini move and somebody on this crew knows it. wirkola doesn't wait around, a tanker of meat paste cracks open, chums the flooded street, and the feeding starts. real blood in murky water is hard to fake and they didn't fake the part that counts. the basement chase with the great white actually got me, real weight to the thing. movie can't decide if it's a serious eco picture or a creature feature and it drags whenever it tries to be the first one. but when a fin comes through a porch, the practical holds. give me LSD cow next. i mean it.

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

May 20, 2026

a head goes into the banister and they shove the dresser into it. that's the whole reason this thing exists and it works. de rossi built that, real squibs, blood with weight to it because they brought in a coroner to get the spray right and it shows. the concrete saw chase is the real deal too, arterial work, throat work, an axe that lands like it means it. this is what they had to trim from an nc-17 and you can feel the cuts they DID leave in. the twist is dumb and the script eats itself by the end, won't argue. but i'm here for the craft and the craft is real. crank it loud.

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

May 17, 2026

word is they buried a puppet in the dirt with tubes running through it so it twitched on the day, covered in real viscera. THAT'S the difference, no clean-plate render, just a thing in the ground bleeding for the camera. first hour is nuns whispering in hallways and i nearly fell asleep in my own garage. but the back end earns its R, she rips the umbilical with her teeth, the branding iron sizzles, that final unbroken scream out into daylight, and the sound design sells every crunch. mohan kept it handmade and it shows. real screams, real blood. sat through the slow part for that ending and it paid off.

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

May 9, 2026

maraschino cherries, dark chocolate, dental silicone, and somehow the feeding scenes read as real blood on camera. extended too, none of that cut-away business, they sat in it. animalistic. good. michael stuhlbarg shows up for one scene and ruins your whole night, no squib required, just a guy talking. terrifying. sully's chin scar even has a backstory, bone cut him while he ate, somebody on this crew cared about the joinery. my gripe: it's a road-trip love story that wanders, i wanted more time in the kitchen and less in the field at golden hour. when it bites it's the real deal. wish it bit more often.

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

May 2, 2026

that screaming bear, skull half stripped, jaw hanging, built as a real puppet on set so the actors actually flinch. you can't fake an eyeline like that. the intestines webbed across the wall when they find the soldier, squirming guts done practical, that's the high point. lena pulling that worm out of crawford's body is nice wet work too. but so much of this is staring at pretty fungus and a humanoid doing interpretive dance. i kept waiting for it to bite and mostly it just shimmered at me. great creature, slow garage.

• PetalOkay the BEAR. Full pillow shield, pause count six, every light on lol. But the shimmer kinda lost me before the ending rewired anything? Floated out at 4 skulls saying why did i do this but like for a different reason than you haha

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Apr 18, 2026

pyramid head peels anna like a day-old sock and not one frame of it is faked. a real pull, real latex, blood on the chain link. and the monsters are people, gans hired dancers and contortionists so the joints bend wrong because a real spine is bending wrong, you can't fake that twitch in a render. the nurses are the standout, filmed walking backward then run in reverse so the stumble reads alive and broken at once. craftsman work. plot's a mess and it runs long, i'll grant the haters that. but the squib budget and the texture of this town is the real deal. i'd hang the pyramid head suit in the garage.

Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident

Apr 18, 2026

a body pops like a wet bag of meat in the first cycle and i sat up straight. sticky, real, dripping off the set the way it should, somebody in this crew knows latex. the wendigo build is the high point, the costume degrading across the loops instead of a clean swap. thirteen deaths means thirteen swings at a kill and most of them land, no implied nonsense, they show you the meat. the premise runs thin by the back half, sure, but they never reach for the computer to cover it. the psycho's mask work and the squib gags are craft. a whole valley of practical creatures and slimy grime you can almost smell. more of this, please.