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swampbutch wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:59 am Re-Animator (1985)

fuuucking awesome. i've been meaning to dive into old horror flicks for a while, and this was my first one since i checked out The Fly (1986) a year or so ago. perfect mix of goofy and cheesy as shit. great gore ofc (90% of the shots in this film have a bloodied button-up shirt in it), effects were pretty goofy but like i said i think that kicks ass, herbert west is like a weird little bug that i wanna hit with a flyswatter. love a good genius with zero sense of ethics

Oh I LOVE Re-Animator! There's another movie starring Jeffrey Combs called From Beyond that's not as gory but does manage to be even weirder. If you're a gorehound I highly recommend An American Werewolf in London... it's a pretty famous movie so you've probably seen it, but if you haven't you must!

F1® the Movie

Good bits: Definitely a popcorn flick but a pretty enjoyable one. Cinematography, acting, directing, and soundtrack are all gorgeous; and it's really quite cool how it was filmed at real Formula 1 races, with the real drivers, team principles, cars, commentators, et al.

Bad bits: The writing is pretty predictable and cliched throughout. There's a couple of plotlines that don't feel necessary and some character arcs that don't feel like they go anywhere. Can't really live up to the claim of being "the most realistic racing film ever" by virtue of the creative liberties it takes with depicting actual Formula 1 racing and procedure, but it'd probably be a worse story if it did keep rigidly to the sporting rules.

I'd personally probably give it a 7.5/10.

swampbutch wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:59 am Re-Animator (1985)

fuuucking awesome. i've been meaning to dive into old horror flicks for a while, and this was my first one since i checked out The Fly (1986) a year or so ago. perfect mix of goofy and cheesy as shit. great gore ofc (90% of the shots in this film have a bloodied button-up shirt in it), effects were pretty goofy but like i said i think that kicks ass, herbert west is like a weird little bug that i wanna hit with a flyswatter. love a good genius with zero sense of ethics

If you liked it maybe you can consider watching From Beyond next. Same director and some of the same actors. In many ways it's kind of a sister film for Re-Animator.

Serpentsaurus wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:00 pm Oh I LOVE Re-Animator! There's another movie starring Jeffrey Combs called From Beyond that's not as gory but does manage to be even weirder. If you're a gorehound I highly recommend An American Werewolf in London... it's a pretty famous movie so you've probably seen it, but if you haven't you must!

higadoyrinon wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 8:49 pm If you liked it maybe you can consider watching From Beyond next. Same director and some of the same actors. In many ways it's kind of a sister film for Re-Animator.

Ohhh shit thanks you two. American Werewolf has been on the shortlist for a while and I'll probably watch From Beyond right now. Will report back with my findings............

swampbutch wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:59 am Re-Animator (1985)

fuuucking awesome. i've been meaning to dive into old horror flicks for a while, and this was my first one since i checked out The Fly (1986) a year or so ago. perfect mix of goofy and cheesy as shit. great gore ofc (90% of the shots in this film have a bloodied button-up shirt in it), effects were pretty goofy but like i said i think that kicks ass, herbert west is like a weird little bug that i wanna hit with a flyswatter. love a good genius with zero sense of ethics

Re-Animator is so good. Such a perfect understanding of the right moment to cut scenes off in particular

I watched Captain Underpants yesterday with my brother and it’s pretty good! Some gross-out humor, yes, but it never got too bad and the whole thing was consistently funny and clever. As someone who read the books when I was younger, I was satisfied that it kept the soul of the original - as silly as that might sound to say about Captain Underpants of all things LOL

Blue Velvet

David Lynch's psychosexual horror film. Oh my god. Frank Booth is terrifying as an antagonist. Kyle McLaughlin's character feels like a prequel to Twin Peak's Dale Cooper. I keep trying to sing Ray Orbison's "In Dreams" to myself.

i caught Blade 2 last night after somehow missing out on this entire series for years and wow is that a wild ass film

its less put together than the first one and the plot is all over the place with asspull twists and things happening for seemingly no reason and lots of very dumb decisions from various characters but its still an easy recommend from me lmao. very good Turn Brain Off type film and you get to see Wesley Snipes pull off more cool fight scenes, and although i'm not a big Snipeshead by any means every movie fight i've seen him do has been fun, at the very least

the two things that took me out of it somewhat was being jumpscared by Cat from Red Dwarf, and the frankly incredible line from one of the bloodpack vampires . like i had to take a couple of minutes to calm down because it absolutely comes out of nowhere and I was NOT ready for it. also norman reedus gets taken out in a very funny way, which i also was not ready for