Favorite films

More

1988

★★★★ Liked Watched 09 Jun 2025

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

2007

★★★½ Liked Rewatched 08 Jun 2025

Criminally underrated, this is a superbly crafted horror with an excellent premise that delivers from the get go. The setting obviously plays a pivotal role in everything and it is excellently realised, and coupled with careful camera work, creates an eerily atmospheric ghost town that looks beguiling under the moonlight and snow. The unique vampire designs are also on point; their uncanny, distortedly monstrous features adds greatly to the sense that you are confronting something otherworldly and dangerously alien. The ending is a little sloppy, but it doesn't ruin the rest of the experience.

More

2017

★★★ Liked 1

Solid, if mostly, unspectacular occult horror. Rafe Spall, who is usually relegated to comic relief side character, does a very decent job leading this one, and the character interactions come across as genuine and relatable. The main strength of this film, which I have criticised others for, is that it keeps it's monster hidden throughout, using darkness and sound to up the ante, and only reveals it at the very end; its creative visual design makes it well worth the wait.

2019

★★★★ Liked Rewatched 21 May 2025

Watching the director's cut for the first time, it doesn't really add much more value to the theatrical cut, but I'm happy to sit through an extra half hour of Aster. The one thing I will say about the added scenes is that it turns Christian from run-of-the-mill, inept boyfriend into abusive, male manipulator, which to me, weakens the ending slightly as it simplifies the moral quandary of Dani's final choice. I also can't get over how beautiful this film is, the location and lighting are stunning, and it really makes itself stand out amongst other films in the genre.

40

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
•