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The killer. 2022. South Korea.
7/10
A hitman is asked to look after a young lady, but she is kidnapped by a sex trafficking ring.
The formula is old but this film spices it up a bit. The girl is 17, and her mother and the hitmans wife go off together for a three week holiday.
He is sterile and effective at killing. This ensures a constant barrage of well filmed action scenes. The plot itself is kinda simple. Where is gets interesting is when he is trying to find out why the girl was kidnapped, even after he has rescued her. This makes the film it slows down but with a run time of just on 90 mins, it doesn't get bogged down in bullshit.
Effective action film that does a excellent job of not making you cheer for the killer, but be kind of afraid of him, he is so merciless.

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Holy spider. 2022. Iran.
7/10
Someone is killing hookers in Iran.
'Inspired' by true events, the film largely follows a single woman reporter who is on the case. Slow burn crime drama it displays the usual plot elements of a serial killer film, but also highlights some aspects of Iranian culture.
With a two hour run time the first is taken up with murders and the second the criminal process. Some of the plot is pure fiction but works well as a story telling process. There are little things that show how a womans life is, and the intense way religion rules and influences everyday life. Not much is said about the victim characters apart from being opium addicts. The 'support' the killer gets at the end is reflective of the religious dominance in society, but it's also suggested that the police were under pressure to find the killer, but the lack the necessary equipment or techniques. The killings themselves are kinda brutal, but not gorey.

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The banshees of Inisherin.*​2022. Ireland.
10/10
Living on an island with only a certain number of people to interact with, over time, a musician gets tired of his friend. Unwilling to accept this the friend tries to make amends but pushes the musician further.
A balance of comedy that slid effortlessly into drama with only dialogue in any particular scene. Set in 1923 off the coast of Ireland, the film is a exploration of isolation and depression. The film winds up nicely to a dramatic end.

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When pigs have wings. 2011. French production.
5/10
A poor fisherman living in Gaza ends up with a pig.
French, Belgium, German production filmed in Malta, it tells the story of a bloke and the trials he has trying to get rid of a pig that he hauls up in his net. Unable to be seen with it or deal with it, he can't sell it the 'settlers' so he has to come with a alternative.
Slow 90 min comedy that is engaging and laugh out loud funny at times. The characters are a wide range that kinda symbolize the situation.
The common people represented just want to live, any politics of the situation, that is largely left to anyone in positions of power, who are duty bound to tow the company line.

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Lokis. Rekopis Profesora Wittembacha.*1970. Poland.
6/10
A professor goes to a dukes residence to research a book and finds sinister things happening.
Interesting slow folk mystery. There is alot talked about and some circumstances that happen. Not a horror, but is set in what could be the early 1800s.
​Large cast with different parts keep the story evolving to a interesting conclusion.
No trailer, scene from the film.

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Melancholie der Engel. 2009. Germany.
8/10
Two friends take two woman they meet at a fair to a abandoned house, where, with another woman and a older man. All hell breaks loose in the name of end of days.
With a run time of of 2 hours 40 minutes this was an extreme cinema masterpiece. It was hard to know what was going on as the dialogue was more of a philosophical nature. No one was directly talking to each other in terms of a conversation and there was alot of voice over.
Well filmed in a art house kind of way, with a constant soundtrack. It slowly ramped up the violence, to a kind of astonishing level. There was everything a horror movie would normally might have, plus a whole a alot of other stuff.
Not exactly well known, the film is not rated or reviewed well. This is not surprising. Given one particular scene involves the rape of a woman in a creek, cut with the actual slaughter of a large pig. And that is only at the one hour mark.
A interesting film is a artistic sense that is quite challenging, but in a way that strangely disarming.

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The butcher. 2007 South Korea.
4/10
A 'serial killer' style film that is made to look home made.
Interesting concept, just not that good. Cameras are strapped to the victims heads and the killers recording there own footage.
It's mainly the 'victims' with some of theres edited in.
75 min film that barely has a scene without wild camera movement. The plot is them just talking and yelling at the victims, some are killed off camera at the start, with the 'husband and wife' taken to a blood splattered area to play a game of sorts.
A japanese film (Grotesque 2009) did the same concept with a man and woman to better and more violent degree.
It looks like a better version of August Underground overall but still not very interesting.


MAD GOD. 2022.
8/10
Stopmotion surreal nightmare.
A post apocalyptic surreal world in which a character travels Encountering mutilated creatures and fantastic structures. No real plot line apart from the occasional part that seems to link up with a previous segment.

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Fear is the key. 1972.
8/10
Crime thriller about a bloke who is seemingly a bad apple.
Not knowing anything about the film including not watching the trailer helped build a level of suspense for this film.
Starting with a impressive car chase it soon slows down. The characters are kinda simple, but the plot kicks in with numerous twists.*
Good thriller that kept me engaged right till the end.

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Glass onion. Knives out 2. 2022.
3/10
Simple whodunnit.
The first was passable, just, as a mystery. No real thinking, just a quirky basic film is the style of a 'murder mystery.'
Number two in the 'series' is bloated, stylized and over priced. It's the same style of film like the first on, but in the end doesn't really keep you guessing in the slightest. Hard to be surprised by anything, laughable amount of silly 'cameos'.
Only worth watching for back ground noise, which is what it was for me.

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Horrors of malformed men. 1969. Japan.
8/10.
A deformed bloke imprisons and mutilates men and women on a island.
Looks to inspired by the H.G. Wells book The Island of Doctor Moreau.*​But with a more complex plot.
A bloke escapes an asylum in order to find out certain truths about his past. From there it gets slowly more complicated. Slow enough that you don't loose track as the film follows him as the main character. Kinda cheesy with the costumes but with a very sinister purpose when he reaches the island.
As it goes on it becomes backstory dialogue heavy to a degree, but the intensity of the film doesn't let up.