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TIM BURTON: The Return (PRAGUE 2024 EXHIBITION)

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"An exhibition which explores the more than 50-year artistic career of this visual storyteller, who always manages to lighten his darkly tuned stories with his trademark exaggeration and humor." https://timburtonpraha.cz/en/

Book review: The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

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  This book is a non-fiction book that is introducing the life of Dr. Victor Capesius, one of the pharmacists in the Auschwitz during World War 2.  The book is very well written, referencing a lot of further articles and studies on the WW2 theme; introducing also the most important companies of the period and how they affected the entire war. It deals with both youth of Capesius, his role in Auschwitz and crimes he partake in during WW2 in Auschwitz as retold by survivors and witnesses as well as the post war years. Large portion of the book introduces the trials of post war years with many of SS key figures, followed by actual photos referencing many of the important events.  As a first book I read that in detail introduced the post war trials, it was very captivating to read. Majority of the books I read were solely focused on the issues in concentration camps, but failed to introduce the injustice that was still present in the following years. After reading this book, ...

Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

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This movie is one of the best I have seen recently. My rating: 10

Recommended: Shirley (2020)

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My rating: 8/10 Any fan of horror stories is probably familiar with Shirley Jackson. Her writings are, in my opinion, true masterpieces when it comes to horror books. Thus I was very excited to watch this film.

Horror reviews list

  A B Bone Tomahawk (2015)  RECOMMENDED C Candyman (2021) The Clearing (2020)   NOT WORTH WATCHING D The Dinner Party (2020)  NOT WORTH WATCHING Don't Breathe (2016) E F G Get Out (2017) Gretel and Hansel (2019) H Haunt (2019) RECOMMENDED Hereditary (2018)   RECOMMENDED The Hunt (2020) I In the Tall Grass (2019) The Invisible Man (2020) J K L Lights Out (2016)  RECOMMENDED M Malignant (2021) N O P The Purge: Election Year (2016)  RECOMMENDED Q R Run (2020) S Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)  RECOMMENDED Scream (2022) The Silence (2019)  NOT WORTH WATCHING Summer of 84 (2018) T Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)  NOT WORTH WATCHING Train to Busan (2016)  RECOMMENDED Train to Busan 2 (2020) U Us (2019)  NOT WORTH WATCHING V W X Y Z Others

Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

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  I had wondered how the lives of characters from my favorite Beetlejuice (1988)  movie would have developed before the new  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  was announced. So of course, I needed to see it asap and it gave me all the answers I needed as it was not a remake but continuation of the original story. A lot of the scenes in the movie are references to the previous one so you might want to watch the og Beetlejuice  so you would understand the relationships between the characters better. 8/10

Review: Run (2020)

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  7/10

Review: Scream (2022)

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  Rating: 8/10 I mean, I was never really a huge fan of Scream movies so I got to watching this one with not really high expectations and this might be my favorite one of the films. Not differentiating too much in the basics from the previous movies, still it is good enough to watch and here is why. 

Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

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  Rating: 1/10 Is this a joke? Even having covid was better than this movie lol 

Review: Candyman (2021)

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  My rating: 6/10 Before I proceed with my review I have to mention that I have not seen the original '92 version of this film so the actual impression from this one was based on this work only with no comparison to the original version. And I actually kind of liked this film.

Review: Malignant (2021)

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  My rating: 4/10 This review contains major spoilers, because I am so done. James Wan used to be my favorite director because of his very heavy atmospheric horror movies. I remember his pieces to always be the scariest shit there was so hell yes that I was terribly disappointed with this one.

Review: Don't Breathe (2016)

Don't Breathe is an average thriller film with quite tense atmosphere. There are not that many horror elements, but in this particular film I enjoyed the way the film plays with the sensory perception of the characters. Such scenes were the ones best shot and best highlighting the overall idea of the film. However, the characters do not stand out much - apart from the antagonist, and in the end I was not sure who I should be rooting for to survive, because to some extent, the blind guy was in the right to shoot them (as mentioned in the movie itself, too). The film tries to bring in a very sad story of the girl lead character, but it just feels forced and as if there could have been another way to escape her fate, thus I did not agree with her actions.  As for the plot, there are some original and unexpected twists and the action going on is enough to keep you entertained as the film is quite short.  5/10

Review: Train to Busan 2 (2020)

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  My rating: 4 I consider Train to Busan one of the best zombie horror film, thus the disappointment while watching the second part was huge. Train to Busan 2 is more of an action film. Despite that it seems that it takes characters forever to make a decision or move away when they should. It just has way too many plot holes for me to enjoy, even though when the action scenes of the film were going on, it did not seem that bad. So to speak though, the film seems a bit familiar to the not-so-good episodes of The Walking Dead. The focus on people being the evil in the postapocalyptic world is not working in this case though, there is simply not enough time to dive deep enough into the evil nature of the said characters.  From the visual point of view, zombies are yet again portrayed very well. But we do not get to see much of them, as majority of action happens either when fighting humans or when the protagonists are in a car. Car chasing scenes were done with special effects th...

Review: Hereditary (2018)

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  Rating: 7/10 I am glad I have not watched a trailer of this film, that way it remained mysterious and strange. 

Review: Bone Tomahawk (2015)

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  Rating: 7 Bone Tomahawk is a story from one of my favorite eras to watch. The plot is kind of basic, yet still interesting, with just a few holes in it that did not seem to bother me at all. Apart from a quite good (even though overly repeated) story, the movie cast was very well chosen and the actors just fit the characters they are portraying. As far as the dialogues are concerned, there are some funny remarks, some witty parts, and apart from final scenes in the cave I enjoyed the dialogues a lot.  As for the horror elements, they are mostly build on gore scenes portrayed in the second half of the film. And these were really authentically portrayed making the scenes uneasy to be watched. Second half of the film plays on the note of cannibalism and is very disturbing. But overall, there are not many gory scenes.  The film is nice one to watch as it blends more genres together, which we do not see quite often with this theme. 

Review: Summer of 84 (2018)

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My rating: 6 Quite a good thing to watch when you're completely exhausted and do not want to think too much into anything.

Review: Train to Busan (2016)

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My rating: 9 One of the best zombie horror films of all times, even after rewatching it many times.

Review: Get Out (2017)

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My rating: 6 The film is very interesting to watch, with quite an original idea that was not developed that well within the plot.

Review: Lights Out (2016)

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My rating: 7 One of the better ghost stories. But ffs stop making kids say all this deep shit... no one is buying it.  Lights Out is surprisingly ... unpleasant to watch. Even though it is basically all what we've seen so far withing the subgenre with just a bit of an original concept, it is still quite a good horror film.  It feels very similar to The Ring, maybe because the ghost or demonic entity is portrayed in a similar way - an evil girl who got murdered, the psychiatric ward pictures, etc.  The portrayal of the entity itself was very well done and Diana is really scary to look at, that is mostly because she is this person we cannot clearly see and who is always hiding in the shadows. This makes your mind go on and further imagine what she possibly looks like (which eventually gets ruined in the second half of the film as you get to see her clearly - not a good idea). We also get some jump scares, which to my own surprise were working for me. The idea with focusing ...

Review: The Purge: Election Year (2016)

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My rating: 7 It gets surprisingly interesting to watch, especially considering the situation that has been going on in the US last couple of we eks.