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Neil Annwn

@neilannwn.bsky.social
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If you're reading this, I could use the follow so the kids don't think I'm an out of touch middle aged guy. Punk band: www.cdcconspiracy.com Metal band: www.cwnannwn.com Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jame0123

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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Him - 3 / 5 Peacock - 2025 Arthur piece masquerading as a horror movie. Visually, this thing is amazing to watch. Story-wise...its a chaotic mess. #horror #horrorreviews
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A ★★★ review of HIM (2025)
A complete mess, but good to look at. Him is an auteur piece masquerading as a horror movie. It’s a looney tunes premise that takes the ‘professional athletics is a form of modern day slavery’ and pil...
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The three types of ‘50s pop songs were come on everybody let’s do the snap pea, if you ever kissed me I would turn into some goo, and hey hey beautiful child I would never take you over state lines
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Nicholas Cage looking at the camera/really messed up in Mandy.
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Surrender ‐ 3.5 / 5 Shudder - 2025 A good movie and very well executed although you have to accept an extremely flawed conceit to get there. The mother is one of the most baffling characters I've seen, and her motivations are completely inscrutable. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/9Rs1FJ
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A ★★★½ review of The Surrender (2025)
A good movie and very well executed although you have to accept an extremely flawed conceit to get there. Without getting into too much, the mother in The Surrender is a baffling character whose motiv...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Here For Blood - 3.75 / 5 Prime 2022 Well executed deliberately silly horror movie. Not as good as Psycho Goreman, but better than most other attempts at this genre. The elbow drop scene is hysterical and probably what I'll remember forever about this one. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/9NDezF
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A ★★★½ review of Here for Blood (2022)
As deliberately silly movies go, pretty good. Halfway in between Psycho Goreman (flawless) and Kids Vs Aliens (decent but disappointing) feels like the right score here. Unlike too many horror comedie...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Ugly Stepsister – 4 / 5 Shudder 2025 Unexpectedly gruesome serving of misery as entertainment a la The Coffee Table and Speak No Evil. Never matches the sustained dread of better films, but the high spots are gnarly. Lea Arden's acting is superlative. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/9FoxJR
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A ★★★★ review of The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Unexpectedly gruesome serving of collective misery as entertainment a la The Coffee Table and Speak No Evil. Has some definite high points but fails to elicit consistent emotion the way the aforementi...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
They Call Her Death (Shudder 2024) — 4 / 5 Wild tide that evokes Peter Jackson's early work, Robert Rodriguez and old westerns. The low budget seams do show quite a bit, but it's still quite fun. Definitely niche, but I am in said niche. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/9BypuN
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A ★★★★ review of They Call Her Death (2024)
Wild low budget ride that reads like a blend of Peter Jackson's early work, Robert Rodriguez and old westerns. For a movie that was clearly made on a shoestring, director Austin Snell accomplishes qui...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 Max) — 3.5 / 5 A perfectly pleasant viewing experience. Best looking movie I'll see this year likely. And good story! Does have tryhard syndrome. Too many bits reek of a culturally out of touch old man. Could be worse though. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/9AZUwv
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A ★★★½ review of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Look…it’s a bit much, and it makes no sense. But why would you watch this and not expect that? It’s a perfectly pleasant viewing experience. Aesthetically it’s gorgeous…I probably won’t see a better l...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Speak No Evil (2024 US) ‐– 3.5 /5 Surprisingly decent if still inferior to the original in every way. The original goes extremely hard, and this is the low ABV pre-mixed cocktail version for American audiences. Almost every fresh choice backfires. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/80g1Wr
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A ★★★½ review of Speak No Evil (2024)
Hard movie to review if you’ve seen the original version. Tried to think through what grade I’d give had I seen this one first, but it’s hard to ignore the standard set by Christian Tafdrup…particular...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
MadS - 3.75 / 5 Shudder - 2024 If someone were to ask "Neil, what do you imagine it would be like to be young, rich, French, and on bath salts?" much of the imagery from MadS would come to mind. Technically brilliant. Awesome acting. Pretty thin story though #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/7WOwOZ
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A ★★★½ review of MadS (2024)
If someone were to ask me, "Neil, what do you imagine it would be like to be young, rich, French, and on bath salts?" much of the imagery from this film would immediately come to mind. MadS is a filmm...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Rita - 3/5 Shudder - 2024 A strange hybrid of early Del Toro, a depressing doc about human trafficking, and a Victoria’s Secret fashion show shot in a frustrating aspect ratio that takes up <50% the pixels on your screen. Probably better than my score. #horror #horrorreviews boxd.it/7TePvt
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A ★★★ review of Rita (2024)
A strange hybrid of early Guillermo Del Toro, a depressing documentary about sexual abuse and human trafficking, and a Victoria’s Secret fashion show shot in a frustrating aspect ratio that takes up l...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
the people near me on fb marketplace are selling shit i couldn't even come up with as a joke
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Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA @buckyisotope.bsky.social · 17/05/2023
Over there sits your childhood stuffed animal slowly losing atoms to chaos. Piece by piece he says goodbye. Piece by piece you join him.
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
@murderxbryan.bsky.social has anybody suggested Renaissance Fair Guys? I think this is rich, fertile territory
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
@murderxbryan.bsky.social parked next to a true Jeep guy today. There was a lot to unpack on this vehicle!
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
they found a way to make the cybertruck worse
A cybertruck with cybertruck nuts that are all 8-bit looking
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
@drewmagary.bsky.social I had to wait a day before asking...who the fuck has Bryan Ferry on the same pantheon as Robert Plant, Stevie Nicks and Freddie Mercury?
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Happy 8th Anniversary of J. Mascis Buying a Volkswagen to all who celebrate.
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Baghead - 2.5 / 5 Shudder - 2024 Creative concept but has way too many cogs and gears that were assembled with something less than machine-shop caliber precision. Definitely needed more time in the oven. 100% of plot locomotion is driven by characters behaving like morons. #horrorreviews #horror
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Review of ‘Baghead’ (2023) ★★½
Creative concept but has way too many cogs and gears that were assembled with something less than machine-shop caliber precision. Definitely needed more time in the oven. One of my big questions…
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Drift @inanity101.blacksky.app · 02/10/2023
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Lord of Misrule - 2.5 / 5 Hulu - 2024 It’s as if you went to ChatGPT and said “write a folk horror script,” took the AI’s suggestion to cast Ralph Ineman and then handed it off to the Canadian production company makes Syfy original content. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Lord of Misrule’ (2023) ★★½
It’s as if you went to ChatGPT and said “give me a full length script for a folk horror movie,” took the AI’s suggestion to cast Ralph Ineman, and then handed it off to whatever Canadian production…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
Night Swim - 1.5 / 5 2024 - Peacock Fatally flawed concept. Fundamentally misunderstands why people pick the horror movies they do. If you want a movie about a killer swimming pools, you don't want what this was (a halfass Blumhouse Shining). #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Night Swim’ (2024) ★½
Fatally flawed concept that fundamentally misunderstands why people pick the horror movies they do. People who want to watch a movie about a killer swimming pool don't want what this was. And people…
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
idc what the haters and losers say, maria bamford is out there doing what it takes to win ball games.
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Lisa Frankenstein - 3.5 / 5 Peacock - 2024 Lisa Frankenstein is the movie where we learned that Tim Burton's magic owes to something more than just fairy tale sets and bombastic character design. Home run potential but only hits a single. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ (2024) ★★★½
Disappointing. Lisa Frankenstein is the movie where we learned that Tim Burton's magic owes to something more than just fairy tale sets, bombastic character design and Danny Elfman. It's a bummer…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
The Medium - 4.5 / 5 Shudder - 2021 Extremely good. Integrating demonic possession, mockumentary filmmaking, found footage and heavy family drama was a recipe for disaster but platinum-caliber acting glues it all together #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘The Medium’ (2021) ★★★★½
Tremendous young-girl-gets-possessed horror set in North Thai. The Medium combines a lot of disparate, delicate ingredients really effectively. Integrating demonic possession, mockumentary…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
You'll Never Find Me - 3 / 5 Shudder - 2023 Remember that moment in The Sixth Sense when you found out what was going on? That's how big of a reveal this movie needed to pay off its slow premise. Unsurprisingly, said payoff never materializes. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘You'll Never Find Me’ (2023) ★★★
Remember that moment in The Sixth Sense when you learned what was going on? How about when you were watching Cabin In The Woods and exclaimed “wait…THAT’S what this movie’s about?” That’s the payoff…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
@jessefarrar.bsky.social my jury duty experience...bus company sued a guy who plowed through light into their bus for repair costs One juror said "we should award 50% so they split costs. That would be fair!" Me: "What if they hit your car? Would splitting be fair?" Him: "that would be different"
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
The Passenger - 3.5 / 5 Prime - 2023 Good, but never stops feeling like an Aldi-brand Scorcese/Kevin Smith riff on antisocial. Cerebrally it's all there, but artistically it needed more than everyone involved was capable of giving. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘The Passenger’ (2023) ★★★½
Good, but never stops feeling like an Aldi-brand Scorcese/Kevin Smith riff on antisocial. On a cerebral level it's excellent. But it's missing a lot of intangibles and as a result doesn't connect as��...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches/I slam with this bag of
A photo of a bag of fregula.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
From “technically it isn’t fascism” to “technically it wasn’t an insurrection” to “technically it’s not a genocide,” our intellectuals are really making a bold show of their commitment to sophistry and semantics above any meaningful confrontation with the realities of their time.
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Destroy All Neighbors - 3 / 5 Shudder - 2024 As a fancy metal boy I wanted to like this so much. And it was fun. But astonishing how few jokes landed given how much talent was involved here. And if that's not working not much else does. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Destroy All Neighbors’ (2024) ★★★
I play in a prog metal band. I've watched hundreds of horror movies. You couldn't be more squarely in the target of a film than I was for Destroy All Neighbors. And it was fun. But I wanted so much…
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
An underrated genre of videogame is “sports game that isn’t really a sport”. Games like Pyre and Rollerdrome and games where robots play baseball and shoot each other, that sort of thing.
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Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
The neighbor kids made this. Somebody get me a flamethrower before it kills all of us.
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Octopus/Caveman @octopuscaveman.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
Jesus blessing a woman with the recipe for Pepsi
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
it's suspicious to me that the temperature of underground is perfect for humans and it's the same year round. we are supposed to be down there
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
The Sacrifice Game - 1.5 / 5 A dreadful mess. Starts out as an unexpected Last House On The Left then halfway through takes a hard right into an even deeper and dumber ditch. So overburdened it can't even get out of the barn. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘The Sacrifice Game’ (2023) ★½
A dreadful mess. The classic overburdened ass of a film that can't even get out of the barn it's so heavily weighed down with excessive baggage. Starts out as an unexpected Last House On The Left –�...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Totally Killer - 3 / 5 The classic Jason Blum movie in that it's never in danger of being bad but it does nothing well enough that you're likely to remember it later. In the end, a perfectly fine, low calorie time travel meta slasher. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Totally Killer’ (2023) ★★★
The classic Jason Blum movie in that it's never in danger of being bad but it does nothing well enough that you're likely to remember it later. Time-travel movies are hard to write and this one…
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
SOMEBODY GET RUDOLPH A FUCKING EPIPEN IMMEDIATELY
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Spiral - Book Of Saw: 2/5 Could've been better. Could've been worse. Love that Saw is the most unintentionally prolific ACAB art there is. If you've got a badge, you're either evil, dishonorable or incompetent, and probably more than one. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ (2021) ★★
Something that has struck me about the Saw series as I've been binging it is that it's low-key the most unintentionally prolific piece of ACAB art that exists. If you've got a badge in this universe,�...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Jigsaw - 0.5 / 5 Wild in that simultaneously it's completely overengineered and indefensible lazy. The only thing interesting is determining whether it's the worst in the series (spoiler: it is). #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Jigsaw’ (2017) ½
Meet the new Saw. Same as the old Saw. While it was nice to see an entry in this franchise that didn't look like it had been passed through a mid-aughts nu-metal Instagram filter, to me this is the…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Saw 3D - 2.5 / 5 The first in the franchise to be unapologetic in its stupidity. The smugness and preachyness is gone which is refreshing. Unfortunately, the stupidity is at near toxic levels. Unconscionably dumb. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Saw 3D’ (2010) ★★½
In the cold open vignette, three people are trapped in an impenetrable glass cell in downtown Chicago so that a crowd of nearly 200 spectators could watch a Jigsaw trap unfold in real time. I was…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Saw VI - 1.5 / 5 The franchise's take on injustices in health insurance and lending that no one was asking for. Proof that no topic is safe from reduction in the face of Saw's bottomless common denominator. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
I tried warning him. I said “Henry, you’re much too old to take a Pedigree from Triple H.” But he wouldn’t listen. The man was just too committed to sports entertainment
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Saw V - 2 / 5 Better than previous entries by virtue of being less overtly shitty. But you can really feel the momentum petering out by this point as the budgets and new ground explored continues to shrink. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Saw V’ (2008) ★★
While still colossally dumb, Saw V was a modest improvement over III and IV. What changed? The story of the five people who needed to progress through the trap gauntlet was more interesting than…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Saw IV - 1.5 / 5 The offensiveness of Saw IV and isn't a function of dirty, rusty metal or the gallons of blood it spills but rather the distance this series is now shoved up its own ass. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Saw IV’ (2007) ★½
Another entry in the world's most excessively self-serious, unfun franchise. By now the showrunners have very clearly figured out their target audience – a subset of rabid gorehounds who secretly��...
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Saw III - 1.5 / 5 If you trained an AI on a corpus of 90s industrial metal and South Park, then asked it to direct a horror movie, you'd probably end up pretty close to what we got with Saw III. Irredeemably dumb. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Saw III’ (2006) ★½
If you trained an AI on a corpus of 90s industrial metal and South Park, then asked it to direct a horror movie, you'd probably end up pretty close to what we got with Saw III. Saw III is a dumb…
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Neil Annwn @neilannwn.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Pontypool - 3.5 / 5 When you boil it down, it's just a low energy Night Of The Living Dead with a very unusual conceit. Still a proven formula though. #horror #horrorreviews letterboxd.com/jame0123/fil...
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Review of ‘Pontypool’ (2008) ★★★½
Odd zombie adjacent movie with a device that's really hard to wrap your head around. Your mileage will vary depending on how cool you think that device is because outside of that it's just a low…
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