Walid

***🎵Eyyyy it's my birthday 🎵 *** While I wasn't as big of a fan of Oddity as everyone else— I was still pretty impressed by the scares and it had a great atmosphere so for my birthday today I chose to celebrate by going to the cinema to experience Hokum and I can definitely say that this movie was the literal definition of a spookfest. Firstly I love the creepy sort of wailing voice as the score/sound effects that we hear throughout the film which was just so eerie to witness at the theater and Damian McCarthy also did a good job with the build up of the jumpscares BUTT...if I'm being honest, the anticipation was far more effective than the jumpscares itself cause they were all straightforward and you could see them from a mile away which was a little underwhelming. I love the pure spooky vibes together with the hotel setting, made it feel like a horror videogame walkthrough which was fun. The story itself though wasn't as cohesive and I wished the plot elements had tied together better but overall it did great for the creepy scares and spooky atmosphere that it was trying to achieve, also wished we got more scenes with the uncanny terrifying bunny.... while I think I enjoyed this more than Oddity, I will admit that Oddity had a far better memorable ending

Objectively might be Gaspar Noe's weakest film but personally I still think it's pretty damn good, really highlights how deceptive lust can be as love and the striking visual style that I admire from Noe is still as present as ever in this. Plenty of very unserious hilarious easter eggs in this as well and overall it's an interesting film about unrestrained horniness & how it can influence people to make the most dumbest decisions leading to a self destructive path—too much love can be one hell of a drug kids! Gaspar Noe's funniest movie so far> ***There's nothing after death, Nothing at all***

So cheesy and emo I love it, also the fact that they used practical effects entirely which made it age so well. Some of the scenes here though were so randomly silly and clunky but overall it's a clever film that utlizes the werewolf horror subgenre as ties to puberty/bodily changes and female coming of age social obstacles, kinda feels like it was filmed as if it was a tv show episode though unfortunately

I will always give kudos to movies that are able to be engaging despite having a really simple premise and man is Frozen a good example of this. The tension, suspense and brutality were on point even with it being set in a one location like it manages to be effective in a lot of parts as the film is willing to go to darker places which thank god because this could've easily been a PG13 flick, so I love the much more unforgiving bleak tone they went for here. Obviously the story itself and how they even got to this situation felt unserious & nonsensical plus a lot of dumb shit happens but atleast the execution was entertaining and thrilling as fuckkk, couldn't take my eyes off it