Europa's Lost Expedition: A Scientific Novel
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This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter's...
Amphigorey: Fifteen Stories
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The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory,...
Alexander McQueen: Redefining Beauty
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Magnificently illustrated with some of McQueen s most riveting designs, this book illuminates the...
Reservoir 13
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From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir...
The Other Side of Silence: 11: Bernie Gunther Mystery
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The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel...
Grave Danger
s. k. Gregory and Happy Monique
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Aurelia Graves was born a necromancer. She just didn't know it until now. That sudden supernatural...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Final Destination (2000) in Movies
Oct 3, 2020
In many places somewhat more awesome then I remember, but suffers on subsequent visits because of how increasingly over-the-top these immediately began to get with the deaths in the sequels compared to the more humble ones here - which still finds a morbidity in their simplicity, but no one's being cooked alive in a tanning bed, you feel? Still has a lot going for it, the garrote in the shower is every bit as grisly as you recall and remains one of the hardest-to-watch executions in the entire series. But what actually rings better for me this time around is the heavily portentous teen melodrama packed tight with insane amounts of hilarious foreshadowing and a palpable sense of fear + paranoia (through Wong's clean direction and these astute performances [Sawa in particular is real outstanding]) all over the fact that death just really fucking hates these kids lol. Accomplishes as much playful winking as is legal without going full meta. Still one of the all-timer horror movie premises which honestly should have spawned an infinite number of sequels, but the writing around it is genuinely ingenious here, too. Still prefer the sequels for being leaner and meaner though.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Zombeavers (2015) in Movies
Oct 21, 2020
I enjoy a so-bad-it's-good film now and again - may I interest you in the culinary delights of Basket Case, or Maximum Overdrive perhaps? Hell, I'd even take The Wicker Man remake at this point - but Zombeavers is one of those films that thinks it's so-bad-it's-good when if fact it's just plain shite.
It would be a much easier film to enjoy if the characters weren't just completely awful assholes for the entire runtime. There is just no redeeming quality to any of them. I know that they are designed purely to die horrible deaths, but considering those parts don't happen for quite a time, it's a really grating and deeply unfunny experience.
By the time the horror hits, it's too hard to care anymore, and no amount of gratuitous nudity or silly gore can fix that.
I will acknowledge that it does step up a notch in the dying minutes when we get the human-beaver-zombie hybrids (with some pretty gross practical effects) and is the sole reason why this film went from a one to a two.
Big old pile of toss.
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Peaky Blinders - Season 5 in TV
Sep 30, 2019
Unsurprisingly there are stellar performances in this yet again. Cillian Murphy is fantastic as we see Tommy spiralling into a terrible state, and I absolutely adore the rabid dog with a heart of gold that is Arthur. And Sam Claflin is truly slimy and despicable as Oswald Mosley, I didnโt realise I could hate him so much, he really embodies such an awful character. There are also some surprise deaths and reappearances in this too, some of which that were unexpected and very welcome.
The plot itself is good, but my main issue with this series is the amount of loose ends that havenโt been tied up by the end of the final episode. One of the things Iโve loved about the earlier series, is that everything is wrapped up rather nicely so the next series can start โafreshโ set a few years later. The same canโt be said about this fifth series, thereโs a lot of plot points that arenโt cleared up and itโs rather frustrating that we have to wait another couple of years to find out!
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoy's
Shaun Simon, Gerard Way and Artist: Becky Cloonan
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'Over a decade ago a team of revolutionaries called the Killjoys lost their lives while saving a...