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“To become the new flesh, you first have to kill the old flesh.”  One of the most surreal horror films i’ve ever seen, it’s very unique and gross in all the best ways when it comes to the special and practical effects combined with the super blizzare but worthwhile plot.  Crazy body horror and super unsettling, no breaks really at all in this. This imagery is chilling but memorable, it sticks with you thinking about it long after. Another film where it’s a lot of uncertainty around it but to me that just adds to the fun breaking it down and coming up with a theory of my own to what it was I just witnessed.  “Long live the new flesh.”

Solid enough, but heavily lacking the signature style from Edgar Wright. Mostly promising but heavily misuses the concept of the game of the show. Give it credit for the R rating and the fun kills but the final act kinda becomes too messy for me, though Glenn Powell does a good enough job in the lead role, he has a fun energy that he brings to these type of roles.

“My nightmare. I had it again last night.“ A truly frightening and chilling horror that doesn’t go in the typical route most films of the genre would go to at the time. The realism is almost too real, I almost forget that what I’m watching isn’t based on a true story. Very simple but effective, the antagonist is one of the most disturbing I’ve come to see in a horror / thriller like this. Something that really stood out was his lack of motive, the the idea that someone can really just do what he does simply for the fact of wanting to know if he could is utterly terrifying. And that ending? Straight nightmare fuel.

Typically I can get thrown off by musicals but the love story tied up in here is so wonderful but at the same time truly devastating and it’s beautifully showcased so well through singing, the settings, and colors it almost blinds me from how gut wrenching it all is. I can definitely see all of the inspiration that would spawn from this film.