Viewing Journal: 10/13/2026

415) OTHER MOMMY

(2026 dir. Rob Savage) Date Seen: October 13 2026

might as well've released this one as a horror-comedy, 'cause it was making me & the audience I saw it with bust laughing every few minutes. Every time the entity shows up it's so ridiculous & tonally over-the-top, you coulda easily set the KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE song to them. Not saying none of it works cinematically, it's just entertaining in an entirely different way from what I think the filmmakers intended.

no such thing as "Less is More" for Rob Savage

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Viewing Journal: 10/12/2026

414) I AM FRANKELDA

(2026 dir. Ambriz bros) Date Seen: October 12 2026

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Viewing Journal: 10/11/2026

413) EVERYTIME

(2026 dir. Sandra Wollner) Date Seen: October 11 2026

412) AMITYVILLE II: 

         THE POSSESSION

(1982 dir. Damiano Damiani) Date Seen: October 11 2026

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Viewing Journal: 10/10/2026

411) NEVER AFTER DARK

(2026 dir. Dave Boyle) Date Seen: October 10 2026

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Viewing Journal: 10/9/2026

410) HEART OF THE BEAST 

(2026 dir. David Ayer) Date Seen: October 9 2026🟣

409) V/H/S MIXTAPE

(2026 dir. lots of people) Date Seen: October 9 2026

individual segments: (favorites highlighted red) 

• Flying Lotus' "GWAR is"                           *1/2
• Zhan & Z.Cooper's "Dance x4"                    **
• Flying Lotus' "Another Cabin"                   ****
• David Moreau's "Heartbeat"                       ****
• Ernie Dickerson's "Music of Mr. Sze"         **
• Tobias Forge's "Premature Burial"              **
  
• RZA & Landman's "Death Tone"               **
  

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Viewing Journal: 10/8/2026

408) YOUR MOTHER

YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER 

(2026 dir. Bassam Tariq) Date Seen: October 8 2026

407) SHORT 

NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS

(1971 dir. Aldo Lado) Date Seen: October 8 2026

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Viewing Journal: 10/7/2026

406) DIGGER

(2026 dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu) Date Seen: October 7 2026

405) THE PSYCHIC

[SEVEN NOTES IN BLACK]

(1977 dir. Lucio Fulci) Date Seen: October 7 2026

Fulci doing a Hitchcockian thriller! Emphasis on the Cockian.. Genuinely deranged & crazy stuff.

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Viewing Journal: 10/6/2026

404) ATONEMENT

(2026 dir. Reed Van Dyk) Date Seen: October 6 2026

Hiam Abbass --> still one of the greats.. ATONEMENT's thankfully not a garden variety "Shoot & Cry" war movie, but still.. that poor family. They are far better souls than myself, because I would have absolutely extinguish this dude's life as soon as he walked into our house.

I might have even been tempted to PRANK him for hours in the basement -- Eli Roth HOSTEL style.

403) DRACULA

(1979 dir. John Badham) Date Seen: October 6 2026

Visually one of the most beautiful versions of the story ever done for film --In terms of pure production value (& that's saying a lot, cause there're lots of pretty riffs on Bram Stoker's classic) .. But DRACULA 1979 also features one of the lamest Draks and Van Helsings in history too, & there's the rub. Langella lookin' like WRATH OF KHAN's dorky not sexy little brother. Also, I kinda dig the uniquely novel & ambitious decision to completely jettison all the Transylvania first act. But it creates kind of a funny continuity problem later when Dracula arrives at the Carfax Abbey & it's already pre-furnished in a comically satanic way.

That hypnotic high-contrast neon red "bite orgasm" scene (back lit by The Who's fog-machine "laser roof") is probably the coolest shit John Badham ever directed. & he's the guy that made disco dancing look believably cool!

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Viewing Journal: 10/5/2026

402) THE SCOUT

(2026 dir. Paula González-Nasser) Date Seen: October 5 2026

Would make a good thematic double feature with MAN PUSH CART interestingly enough. They both offer illuminating snapshots of class & economic precarity in NYC through the last 2 decades. Late Aughts housing bubble crisis on to the pure deregulated Wall Street present.. That dough's gonna trickle-down any day now.. 

+ Paula González-Nasser is a promising new directorial voice.

401) THE FAT ALBERT 

     HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

(1977 dir. Hal Sutherland) Date Seen: October 5 2026

Why does no one ever listen to Fat?! He's clearly the only kid in the group with any common sense.. Easily the best thing Hal Sutherland ever directed & the background artists on this did A+ work. 

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Viewing Journal: 10/4/2026

400) 

THE INFLUENCER PROJECT

(2026 dir. Jeremy Garelick) Date Seen: October 4 2026

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399) THE CAT IN THE HAT

(2003 dir. Bo Welch) Date Seen: October 4 2026

This partially counts as a demonic entity movie