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Eric J
finished watching The Devonsville Terror ๐๐๐๐๐
I love a good witch story and I enjoy Donald Pleasence and this is pretty alright.
I appreciate the strong feminist angle this takes. I like that almost all of the men are cartoon villains. I love the lore they try to build. I don't love how this is only 83 minutes long but I felt almost every one of them.
Perhaps a rewatch will make it all better?
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Eric J
finished watching Blood Tea and Red String ๐๐๐๐๐
I think the "folk" aspect of this is the dreamy fairytale-like setting that makes up what I believe is the "horror" part, a fable about the commodification of art or self or beauty or womanhood or all of the above.
Beyond the movie: If there's a theme or takeaway to the disc (which also houses Litan) this is on in the All the Haunted Be Ours Vol. 2 box set, for me it would be that with a strong will or an idea and someone who believes in you, you can do or create anything, and I think that's a lovely thought.
To tie that idea into this title: It took Christiane Cegavske 13 years to make this beautiful, touching, heartbreaking - yet often fun - movie. I'm glad it exists.
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Eric J
finished watching The Last Voyage of Demeter ๐๐๐๐๐
It's a little boring, and I immediately thought of a thousand different and better ways that it could've ended, and it probably could've been about 10 or so minutes shorter, BUT I thought it was beautifully shot and that the actors did their best with what they had.
Cool looking Count helps, just what a blah ending, though, gah!
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Eric J
finished watching Dracula ๐๐๐๐๐
There are various levels of acting on display in this lush and incredibly horny version of Dracula, it's hard not to be distracted by it.
I was hovering around a 3 for most of its runtime, but the last 20 minutes in the snowy Carpathian mountainside are so beautiful, I was moved to 3.5.
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Eric J
finished seeing ไน่ฎธ็พๅฅฝ็ปๅฑ๏ผ่ฑๆ็๏ผ ๐๐๐๐๐
Great stage design, and a great story that's like if Eternal Sunshine was about robots and also a little happier.
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Eric J
finished watching Dracula ๐๐๐๐๐
Still working my way through my list of 13 Dracula/Nosferatu movies that I made, and after watching this I discovered a minor misordering on my part: This movie starts with the ship that Count Dracula was on running aground; I should've watched The Last Voyage of the Demeter> (2023) first.
At any rate, it's been a fun experience watching so many of these in such a short time and really being able to pick up on the differences and seeing what each writer and director wanted to focus on, as well as how each actor (in every role, really) wanted to play it.
I didn't think I would like Frank Langella's portrayal of the Count going into this, and it did take me a while to get used to how fluffy his hair is, but he actually turned out to be a really great Dracula. I also found him and Kate Nelligan's Lucy to have pretty palpable chemistry. A later scene between them takes a bit of a psychedelic turn I wasn't expecting, but it was so well done that I'd recommend watching this for that alone.
I feel like Willem Dafoe may have taken some of what Laurence Olivier did with Van Helsing here and injected his von Franz in Nosferatu (2024) with it. Not a bad thing!
No one will remember me bringing up Donald Pleasence's choice to eat in every scene in Nosferatu in Venice (1988), but interestingly it seems that he's done it here first (different character, but still).
I could probably be talked up to a 4.5! This was better than I expected it to be, to the point of me wondering why it seems as though this isn't as popular as others.