Dellamorte Dellamore (lit. "of the death of love," English title Cemetery Man) was amazing!! Creative plot, very funny dark humor, smart dialogue, great practical effects, and plenty of sex appeal (starring hotties Rupert Everett and Anna Falchi) -- the whole package.
Also, I was struck while watching this film by the similarities to my boy Dario Argento... come to find out, Michele Soavi was his protégé! Definitely worth a watch.
Possession (1981) was incredible! And Lovecraftian, which came as a pleasant surprise. With Sam Neill, 12 years before Jurassic Park. Themes of madness, death, perversion, doubles, radical love. Incredible story, cool effects, dope music, and fascinating shots. I've said it before but I'll say it again, nothing beats 80s horror. Recommended if you liked Dead Ringers (1988).
Jesse and I watched Cam (2018), a glitzy, sensual, cyberpunk thriller. Really smart and interesting, tho it left some key questions unexplored. (Also, it did not devolve into a morality play about the evils of sex work, which was a welcome surprise.) Themes of identity, reality, paranoia, guilt, suicide.
Recommended for fans of Satoshi Kon's masterpiece Perfect Blue, or William Gibson enthusiasts. Recommended!! 🍑🍆
An evening with friends gets freaky when a comet crosses overhead, in 2013's Coherence, watched with Jesse tonight. I would term this a sci-fi thriller, rather than a horror film. Interesting, though not earth shattering. The characters also made a bunch of rash/ill-advised decisions, which always bugs me.* 😅 Noticing how many dinner-party-gone-wrong films there are, cf It's a Disaster (2012) and The Invitation (2019). Oh also, I've been watching Buffy on Monday nights with Megan, and it was super weird seeing grown-up Xander (Nicholas Brendan) in this film! 🤣
* Sometimes people say "that's just horror," but I think that's actually a hallmark of bad storytelling. People should not have to act irrationally or stupidly to advance the plot. In the best horror, the plot advances inexorably, like in a classical tragedy, due to what I think of as "the winnowing of possibilities." Every safe option becomes closed to you through the machinations of fate, and you are forced to make dangerous decisions, you don't just stumble into them through your own incompetence.
