Hmm… not really getting the hype for this one. I’m trying to understand everyone’s raving reviews for this. I can only assume it’s cause it’s the best in a franchise that basically has nothing to offer outside of an interesting premise & gnarly kills.
Bloodlines does do more, I’ll give it that. It keeps the kills wild & traumatizing with constant misdirections every FD film always does, but it just barely steps out of its formula by introducing the idea of death…
Definition of “[insert fast food restaurant name here] tastes so good when you don’t have a bitch in your ear telling you it’s nasty”. What was y’all on? It’s not Fallout, but I’ll be damned if you think that just cause previous installments in this franchise have more standout sequences that that means it’s better than this film???
In of being coherent & actually having a core with emotional stakes & character investment, this film gives you what you need to…
So none of the 200 people I follow on Letterboxd have seen this movie? Kind of insane as it’s a pretty good film starring Ralph Fiennes as fucking Odysseus???
So yeah, this film adapts the Odyssey, but in a more grounded realistic way rather than the fantastical full of Greek gods kind of story. Which, honestly, makes this a perfect sequel spin-off to the 2004 film “Troy” as this film only references that war & event from the Iliad, really.
The…
Hands down the best horror movie of the year for me! Robert Eggers brings us yet another solid movie with his uniquely interpretive take on a classic tale!
My knowledge of Nosferatu goes as far as all my other fellow millennials (fucking SpongeBob LOL), but Eggers shapes out a fairly simple story here with on the nose symbolism that he full sends in eery & ionate ways that marries the original folklore of vampires with the newfound sexualized rep that vampires…
