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Yesterday I watched Ichi the Killer, which careens wildly between brutal and silly, and the moment when Kakihara takes out his piercings and his Joker scars open up like a shark mouth is such a delight. Joker, take notes. I want to know how THIS GUY got his scars.

I just watched Grave Encounters, and I knew going in that it was a spiritual predecessor of Deadstream and Gonjiam Asylum, but what a pleasant surprise that it also feels so much like House of Leaves. The distortions of time and space create some really creepy disorientation.

I’m wary of haunting movies, because in some of them nothing interesting happens, but this had the House of Leaves vibes, the Poltergeist-style scares, tangible ghosties akin to those more often seen in Asian horror, and some really creepily invasive alterations to the characters’ clothing and bodies.

Yes, this is what I want from supernatural horror: Get the slamming doors out of the way early, then move on to bigger and more creative scares.

A Quiet Place: Day One was really good, maybe the best of the franchise, but realistically, she 100% would have been killed in the scene when she fed the cat. You don’t open a can of cat food and not get screamed at by the cat from the moment of food awareness until the moment that cat can access that food. This is not a criticism of the movie, this is a criticism of cats.

I just watched Humane. Good stuff. Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut movie is very different from her father’s or brother’s work. Not so much body horror; more domestic horror in a dysfunctional family of rich assholes, like Ready or Not or You’re Next, but all catalyzed by wild stuff going on at the societal level too, so maybe more like The Purge. Some of the social commentary seems to run in the family even if the aesthetic is different.

Also, it’s so funny watching Jay Beruchel be the biggest douchebag while he still sounds like Hiccup HTTYD to me.

Anyway, now we have three Cronenbergs making great movies, hell yeah! Any others wanna step up? Maybe we can get some weird Cronenberg cousins coming out of the woodwork like they’re the Addams family or something?