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 used or commentary on the genre as a whole. The … Continue reading Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer
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 has its flaws but those are outweighed enough by Dutta’s … Continue reading Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside
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 wait, because Satan’s Slaves: Communion is a fantastic continuation of the story: upping the ante on the weirdness and frights, taking us to a new location and a grander scope of the horror, but never forgets to put our intrepid heroes Rini, Toni, and Bondi front and center, focusing on their strength as a family as they continue to deal with the fallout of the first film.
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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 in 2014. I don’t know what it was about V/H/S/85 that brought me back for another look, but I will say that like almost every other entry in the increasingly frustrating series it’s a mixed bag, albeit a bag where the lows and high are much closer together. Make of that what you will.
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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 budgets, but the assuredness, confidence, and execution of Talk to … Continue reading Hooptober 10.0 – Talk to Me (2023)
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 off. From there I was utterly hypnotized, fully invested in … Continue reading Hooptober 10.0 – Bones and All (2022)
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