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Halloween II (2009)
Brutal, bizarre, wild, weird, drop dead gorgeous and emotionally vicious...
Just everything about it. I've always been absolutely nuts about this. I adore it, I love it, it just resonates with me.
While the director's cut is a better, pretty unflinching exploration on how trauma shapes people completely differently, often devastatingly- despite surface level "big guy murders people"- is too true and tracks, between complete personality swaps, guilt, denial, repression, rage, etc all that good bad stuff from your brain-hole... it's the fascinating and overlooked heart of RZ H2.
The theatrical cut is still extremely good overall and quite watchable- but what it picks up in the pacing it loses out on both the wallop and in all the little moments. I actually rather quite like both cuts/endings here so I'd say give both a chance if you can, and keep in mind that maybe the whole point of RZ Halloweens is to be a little different....
...you're watching "Rob Zombie's Halloween II" like why would you want it to be a normal Halloween?
La morte vivante (1982)
Twisted, nifty, eerie spin on some undead vampire melodrama
Some shocks, some spooky stuff, some splatter... gorgeous haunty imagery and what I think's a pretty singular performance- love it, this is some top shelf Rollin.
Les deux orphelines vampires (1997)
"The dead dream about the living, not the reverse..."
I adore Two Orphan Vampires, I find it such a raw, honest and endearing piece of filmmaking.
So far out, kooky, beautifully strange, devastating- it's just so sad they're these poor blind little orphan vampires not fit for this world! I can't even.
Resident Evil (2002)
Classic! Totally rips...
B-movie cheese, A-movie atmosphere, great characters, tight pacing, nice bursts of action, beautiful production design, a literal killer building w/ twisted traps & dang laser corridor? Yes plz.
Mansion, lab, commandos, conspiracy, high angles, big monster on a train fight? ✅ It's so weird in retrospect that people hated this for not being a 1-to-1 adaptation of the early games when this really does a great job adapting said vibes?
It's an adaptation, it's in the word, you have to *adapt* things for a different medium- and if you just copy/paste the source material there's nothing new, fresh or exciting.
But alas, the most annoying Resident Evil fans will never be happy until there's mystery jewels inserted into the eyes of a secret tiger statue and *2* different types of crank puzzles accurately portrayed on film.
Sequels aside, this film as a standalone is really something special, and looking back it's a kind of lightning in a bottle that they never quite recaptured.
La rose de fer (1973)
Beautifully bizarre trip to the cemetery...
A whole lot of nothing happens but in a good way, it's just a whole mood, strange, musing- Françoise Pascal makes for such an enchanting, interestingly mad character and it's such a great performance... paired up with some like jerk-dork
Sort of a standout from a Rollins earlier work, in that it feels like very very Rollin right off the bat- you got some trains, that beach, cemetery, vampires, tombs, nudity, clowns in sad places, etc all the poetry good stuff- even a couple nods and pop-ins from those films, Requiem and Demoniacs, but Iron Rose feels like something of different experience overall from them 🥀
Just two people having a good time in a cemetery, then having bad time in a cemetery, then having a great time in a cemetery 👍
You'll either love it and find it very much your jam- or hate it and find it boring af dumb artsy junk.
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Honestly, quite excellent... an entirely over-hated/willfully misunderstood gem.
It's this short, sweet, scary, fun, gorgeous little neon-nightmare with vintage techniques and an absolutely perfect soundtrack. Everything here just sort of... clicks? I love it. Love it. Dark & cheeky fun without being goofy.
Brilliantly executed terror sequences, juxtaposed to total bangers creates something uncanny and enchanting, with some beautiful standout scenes either managing to really get under the skin with some creepy-crawlies- or wind up simply dazzling or oddly emotional?
I find this particular film rather cathartic upon every revisit... it's why I keep coming back to this over-hated sequel that bleeds atmosphere, heart, horror & spectacle. The Strangers: Prey at Night rips.
Sadie, Baby (2014)
CURSED production
Unfortunately this film's production was 100% cursed and ill-fated and maybe even doomed from the very start, so being something of a salvage-job story-wise in the editing room maybe it's not a totally great end result but there were a lot of totally great people involved here.
Fabulous performances from both Christini and Greenberg carry this short-film oddity, both of them exploring different ends of the spectrum of some subtly unhinged character acting that leaves you wanting more.
Excellent but admittedly underutilized special fx makeup might burn itself into your brain with a particularly nasty, ghastly recurring image, and the film's eerie, over-the-top and often purposely ill-fitting soundtrack might just get under your skin a bit too.
*also, for the record, those are bats flying around off in the distance during the brief skyward intro.
Laced (2022)
ZOINKS!
It's creepy kooky ghoul-punk melodrama in the haunted crackshack of forever.
It's a story that's eating itself, a rabbit hole that's way bigger on the inside than from how it appears on the out. There are not exactly any right or wrong answers here- connections are what you make of them.
A grim portrait of dysfunction and codependency being painted inside a tragic and tangled web of deja-voodoo. People aren't statistics, but we're all ghosts- just not yet. And some are ghostlier than others, and some are ghastlier than others...
...an oddball character-driven melodrama rolled up into strange, totally demented sitcom- set in a cold & lonely painted world w/ ya beautiful, problematic besties.