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Wow. I don’t like being negative about films, but this was bad. Let’s put aside Del Toro’s films because Hellboy 2019 is terrible (AF) all on its own. A jumbled collage of ugly scenes, loosely forming a plot that’s 5% about stopping the evil Blood Queen & 95% about exposition
Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii, 1993) sculpts the franchise into a pensive, nuanced political thriller. A precursor to Ghost In The Shell in tone and texture, the film simmers with conspiratorial suspense. Its climactic Labor battle is a claustrophobic tactical affair
While The Endless remains my favorite film from the duo, Moorhead & Benson's Synchronic is so vividly ambitious, smart, human, weird, and unpredictable. I strongly recommend not watching the trailer and going into it knowing as little as possible.
#31DaysofHorror 2020 #4:
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)
The black-hatted devil returns in a bolder, more lurid film infused with Gothic Hammer horror; one unforgettably arresting sequence drags the movie into a wailing Grand Guignol of Jigoku’s hell and Bava’s colors