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https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/out-of-darkness-2024 · 12 Aug 2024
A dark, beautifully cinematic vignette highlighting the human tendency to fear and destroy what we don't understand. Deeply atmospheric, chilling and austere — "nasty, brutish and short" (as Hobbes would put it — though the phrase has been used to the ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-abandon-2024 · 4 Aug 2024
An outstanding — almost entirely — one room thriller anchored by a brilliant performance by Jonathan Rosenthal. It plays wonderfully with the tenuous human connection he established with Damsey who exists purely as a staticky voice on the other end of ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/night-shift-2023 · 3 Aug 2024
An engaging — and altogether brief — thriller. It's not the scariest movie but it is clever and did a good job of consistently throwing every hunch I had for how events would unfold out the window (was that final bathroom scene where Alice is fleeing a...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/a-quiet-place-day-one-2024 · 31 Jul 2024
Wow. What a movie. The most compelling part of the movies set in John Krasinski's Quiet Place universe is the way in which they succeed so deftly at humanizing characters and telling stories when their characters are allowed to speak so sparingly. Lupita N...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024 · 20 Jul 2024
A journey into self-discovery that leverages a 90s aesthetic to great success, I Saw the TV Glow uses The Pink Opaque to force its central characters to consider their perception of themselves and reality itself. Maddy and Owen both know that something is ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/joy-ride-2001 · 16 Jul 2024
A tense thriller that feels right at home in the early 2000s. It's perfectly cast and Ted Levine voices Rusty Nail exceptionally well. It's a fun watch, minimally gruesome and the kind of popcorn movie I'd happily throw on again.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/it-comes-at-night-2017 · 14 Jul 2024
A bleak film in which the true horror is what people will do in the face of unseen threats and desperate circumstances.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/green-room-2016 · 8 Jul 2024
A musically well-researched, taught, relentlessly entertaining and utterly horrifying thriller. The band (actually) sounds solid, has some great stickers on their van and ends up in hell chasing a guarantee (siphoning gas along the way). The cast is strong...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/mandy-2018 · 21 Jun 2024
This is such a visually rich and spectacularly odd and gruesome film. Leading with a King Crimson tune was brave but works unexpectedly well. Outside of that track, Jóhann Jóhannsson provides a brilliant instrumental score that complements the narrative ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-invasion-2007 · 18 Jun 2024
If movies could be summed up by associating them with a color this one would be a dull gray. The whole thing is drab. The performances are flat, the plot is tiresome and as much as you'd hope that an otherwise talented cast could buoy this thing, it just s...