Tag: 2020s
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Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer
David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy will probably continue to divide fans of that franchise for years to come. It’s three films that took at big swing. For all their faults though, those three films at least attempted something. They’re three slasher films that at least felt like pure slasher films. No overt meta humor gets…
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Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside
It Lives Inside is the debut feature film of Bishal Dutta. This might be the first wide release Indian-American horror film. Instead of relying on the Christian and European based horror tropes, the movie introduces audiences to the mythology and mysticism of Hinduism. It’s an impressive and confident debut for a first time filmmaker. It…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Satan’s Slaves: Communion (2022)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2023 I had to do it. After being enthralled with Joko Anwar’s remake/prequel for Satan’s Slaves, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to go the month without checking out his sequel. Good things come to those who wait, but sometimes good things also come to those that don’t…
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Hooptober 10.0 – V/H/S/85 (2023)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2023 Oh V/H/S franchise…after so many entries have you finally gotten to the point where there’s nothing left to say? The rapidly diminishing returns of the shorts, the frayed ends of commitment to the format…all of that caused me to drop out after the initial run of film that ended…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Talk to Me (2023)
Being Film #21 for Hooptober 2023 A couple quick ones while I’m away for an extended weekend. I’m not sure anyone was expecting the feature debut from Danny and Michael Philippou, also known as YouTube’s RackRacka, to be bad – the team over the years have been great at executing high concept shorts with miniscule…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Bones and All (2022)
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2023 The first 10 minutes of Bones and All were excruciating, the anticipation based on the trailers and summary folding in with director Luca Guadagnino’s camera to create a sense of dead that had me pause the film at least three time before the inciting “incident” that kicks the film…