Andrew Shearer

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  • Death Screams

    ★★

  • Opus

    ★★★½

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

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Death Screams

1982

★★ Watched

Susan Kiger was Playmate of the Month for January 1977, which is when I was born.

She’s probably best known for being the first Playmate to star in XXX movies, but she was in a bunch of cult flicks too:

H.O.T.S. (1979)
Angels Revenge (1979)
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
Galaxina (1980)

Death Screams is not one of them. Kiger plays a teacher who s a few of her students on a romp in the woods where a machete…

Opus

2025

★★★½ Watched

Ayo Edebiri is brilliant and I’ll watch anything she does.

Opus is definitely inspired by Midsommar, just with a popular musician (Malkovich) as the head of the cult.

There’s some weird gore, which I always appreciate. Amber Midthunder is under-used as a scary cult member who follows Edebiri around the entire film.

A character in Opus compares Edebiri’s bone structure to that of Pam Grier, which is something I noticed when I saw Bottoms a whole bunch of times.

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Ready or Not

2019

★★★★½ 2

Survival horror movie that doesn’t start off with rape? Check.

Survival horror movie where the protagonist gets to be funnier and more interesting than the villains? Check.

Survival horror movie that doesn’t turn the main character into Rambo in order for them to survive? Check.

All that and a hell of an ending that chooses entertainment over being clever. I loved this movie.

Lucky Grandma

2019

★★★★★ 2

Tsai Chin from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and THE JOY LUCK CLUB appears in every scene of this outstanding and hilarious debut feature from Sasie Sealy that plays like a hybrid of Bong Joon-ho and the Coen Brothers.

Chin plays an 86-year-old, first generation immigrant in Chinatown who goes bust on a senior gambling trip but absconds with a gym bag full of cash when the guy sitting next to her on the bus ride home dies in his sleep.…

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