Friday, April 29, 2022

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 543

 stand-out viewing for the uterine lining ping-pong trick that was April. 

(March)


2LDK (2003, dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi)

would make a great double bill w/ Inside. 



Deodato's still got it. 



another one crossed off my House of Psychotic Women bucket list. 



ignore the "giallo" tag. this is much more of a bleak coming of age drama with burst of messy, brutal violence. 



forced perspective pinku-violence yarn that feels more like a Nikatsu Roman Porno than any of the films released under that label for the last five years. 



easily the best film Hopper ever directed. makes a great you-wouldn't-think-there-are-parallels-but-there-are double feature with the aforementioned Hotel Fear (frustrated young lady protagonists who escape into their own imagined idea of a world beyond their oppressive, predatory, and abandonment-heavy surroundings).


SNUFF TAPES (2020, dir. Vito Garcia Viedma)

pretty strong first half that loses steam when it becomes a tacky revenge fable with a special FX budget that can't meet the goals of its intentions. 


STRANGLER VS. STRANGLER (1984, dir. Slobodan Sijan)

a little too silly in some spots, but comes together strong in the end. 


TESTAMENT (1983, dir. Lynne Littman)

wow that's a lot of dead kids for a PG film, eh? 


V/H/S/94 (2021, dirs. Simon Barrett, Steven Kostanski, Chloe Okuno, Timo Tjahjanto, Jennifer Reeder)

easily the strongest, most consistent, and most imaginative entry in the entire series. 

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