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24) The House that Jack Built (2018) 4/5 - Matt Dillon portrays Jack, an oddball with OSD who is obsessed with pianist Glenn Gould and seems to somewhat accidentally become a serial killer. Jack comes to view his killings as some grand work of art and spends the movie looking back on them and...

22) Knock Knock (2015) 3/5 - Writer/Director Eli Roth indulges his adolescent fantasies with this home invasion story of two sexy young women knocking on Keanu Reeves' front door in the middle of a rain storm. This movie kind of goes around in circles, but also kind of weirdly ends up working...

21) Bug - 4.5/5 - Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon portray Agnes and Peter, two broken people who cross paths before descending into a pit of insanity brought on by their growing belief in an absurd string of conspiracies. It starts off with... well... bugs. Blood-sucking "aphids" to be...

It's Jarmusch. If it wasn't weird, well, that would be weird.

I've only ever seen one Sandler movie, and there's a reason. It's awesome, though.

That makes sense. It's also part of what amped up the horror in the novel, but executing it in a movie could be difficult.

19) Black Swan (2010) 4/5 - I swear, if it isn't one thing, It's your mother. Seriously, there's nothing like a nice descent into madness, but rarely is it accompanied by such awesome music. Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers, a dancer in the New York City Ballet who is on the cusp of achieving...

18) Pet Sematary (2019) - 3.5/5 - Stephen King's story of grief, guilt and death is one of his nastier tales. I read the novel a million years ago, probably immediately after it was published. Back in my teens I was an avid King fan. I don't recall ever seeing the first film adaptation, but...

I think Let Me In is extremely good. I own both movies and I'd seen Let the Right One In a couple years before Let Me In. I've also never understood the attitude of "I love movie 'a' so I refuse to see movie 'b'." There's no reason both can't occupy their individual space. They are the same...

I'm not a fan of '70s exploitation flicks and had never seen any of them until maybe the last ten years. Since then I've seen a handful, including some of the recent revisits. I tend to prefer the revisits, maybe because the gritty, low budget, shot for a bag of chips look of the originals...

14) Body Snatchers (1993) 4.5/5 - I've always liked this movie. I like Abel Ferrara's work. I like that it plays on the audience knowing what's going on, but the characters being in the dark. I like the artsy approach, and Bojan Bazelli's awesome visuals. I like that Meg Tilly's "Go...

12) Midsommar (2019) 4/5 - The next time someone invites you to the every-90-years solstice festival in their remote Swedish village, the correct answer is "Thanks, but I need to do some laundry." A creepy, well done movie that despite the deliberate pace, kept my attention with no problem...

That could be. I also know a lot of people found the Weinsteins a convenient place to divert the blame of their own mistakes. At this point, after all these years, who knows. I don't think there's any doubt that Harvey is a repugnant individual.

I did a little Christina Ricci Triple Feature over the last two days. 9) The Gathering (2002) 1.5/5 - After being hit by a car, Christina has a bout of amnesia in an English town where a buried 1st Century church was just discovered. Strange, staring people and general oddness ensues. Nice...

The Others - Great, classic ghost story. What Lies Beneath.

I got an "Ultimate" set last year. Is this one different?

If I may indulge, I'm curious what others consider to be the single greatest horror movie of all time. Just one. Seriously, just one. Commit and take the dive. One movie above all others. For me it's John Carpenter's The Thing.

8) Maggie (2015) 4/5 - Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson and Ahnald star in this unusually quiet, drama driven zombie story. What's essentially the story of the family dynamics of a teenage daughter and her father's second family after the death of her mother years earlier is complicated by the...

A good one. My UHD disc just arrived for a second viewing.

There's several things going on here, and I don't know which one you're referring to. The fact that Gloria is connected to the Kaiju is pretty clearly spelled out early in the movie. It's in the trailer, in fact. Having said that, this movie seems to be one of those "love it or hate it"...

The casting of Jason Sudeikis is particularly clever.

6) Colossal (2016) 5/5 - Yes, I am giving Colossal a 5/5, and I solidly stand by that. Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, a thirtysomething party girl whose life is pretty much a waste. When her boyfriend (I suspect the latest of many) kicks her out, she has no option but to move into her parents'...

Definitely one of the better, lesser known horror flicks, with a noir twist. It plays some nice games with the audience.

5) The Neon Demon (2016) 3/5 - When 16 year old orphan Jesse (Elle Fanning) arrives in Los Angeles with hopes of a career in modeling, she checks into a sleazy motel, meets lots of new people, and finds instant success. Everyone seems to be enchanted by her mere presence. Maybe the unwelcome...

4) Bone Tomahawk (2015) 4/5 - First thing, this is an extremely well done movie. Writing, acting, directing, all excellent. After three people are kidnapped from the sheriff's office in a small, 19th Century Western town, the sheriff and thee others journey out into the wilderness to retrieve...

1) Brightburn (2019) 4/5 - I enjoyed this Psycho-Superman flick the first time I saw it. I don't understand why it's so poorly received. In fact, I generally enjoy the whole "dark" superhero genre. Probably more than the regular ones. It's also nice to have an 'R' rated horror flick. Far...

Actually, it’s a weirdly entertaining game. Not “good” football, but comedic.

The Broncos are playing the Jets tonight. That counts...right?

I guess Jack is about 2 1/2 hours. Still shorter than the DC of Midsommar. I saw Climax. Kind of like Irreversible with dancing addicts.