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Jeepers Creepers
All in all a serviceable slasher. Positively surprising, since I expected worse. A good monster and a few good kills and boom, we're off to the races.
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Last Night in Soho
A truly great film. You could knock out a 12 paragraph long glowing review and it still would not do it justice. He has demonstrated it throughout his career, whether it's in Shaun of the dead or Hot Fuzz or Scott Pilgrim, but Edgar Wright is an abolute master of visual storytelling. Just the shot alone of Eloise/Sandie coming down the stairs in the sixties club looks a million bucks. And there are so many of them in this film that I simply lost count before it even ended. Like the train sequence, where you could probably do a lovely parallel with Hot Fuzz. Or the shot of Eloise running through the hallway in a frenzy, between what are either fellow students or ghosts from the past. But I would miss out by not mentioning his talent as a storyteller. From the first moment she irresistably dances through the house, you are drawn into Eloise's world. Seeing the world through her eyes (with the discomfort that comes with the territory), growing ever more hallucinatory as the story progresses. Not unlike what you would would feel in films like Jacob's Ladder, where you cannot tell where the real world stops and the dream starts. The final reveal is set up perfectly well and kicks off an astonishing final sequence with images worthy of Argento. Edgar Wright has done so many comedies that this came as a surprise, but he can do haunting shots and give them the same beauty that Dario Argento does. All of the actors deliver. We know Anya Taylor Joy could do thrillers (like Split) and Thomasin McKenzie is someone to look out for with a performance reminiscent of Jessica Harper in Suspiria. And Matt Smith is perfectly cast as the sixties smooth man Jack. I can't wait for this to hit the streaming platforms, so that I can watch it again (and again). Or to see his take on The Running Man. My favorite Schwarzenegger film in the hand of a cinematic genius. I just can't wait. Five stars across the board.
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