Sister Midnight (2024).

I want to see this film but it is apparently available nowhere, not even the seven seas. Please release.

I love Ex Machina but I think The Witch is the best film made in the last 20 years at least.

Just such a goddamn good film that stays true to itself throughout. And everyone gives stellar performances. It is one of the few flawless films that I’ve seen.

Alicia Vikander should have won all the awards for her acting in Ex Machina.

In a roundly outstanding cast, she’s beyond great. She even changes her voice significantly for the part. ¹ Compare and contrast her speech and mannerisms in this interview with her film performance.

That’s a terrible, inane interview, even worse than most celebrity interviews (mainly due to Conan’s dumb questions), but she talks a lot at least.

What a great film Ex Machina is, though.

(Incidentally, Alicia pronounces her name correctly here. I hear two phonemes not present in English, though no difficult ones.)

1. Yes, I realize they do a little digital processing on her voice to make it sound slightly less human, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

Which actor or actress in a horror movie nailed their role so perfectly that no one else could ever top it?

Catherine Chevalier as Rachel in Nightbreed.

She’s fantastic and both the film and her performance in it are nearly unknown. This is a movie worth seeking out if you’ve never seen it. It has a really, really different tone than movies made now, or even ones produced then. Like a lot of Clive Barker-invovled films, it’s grimy in a way that modern films just can’t seem to duplicate.

Best performance from an actor in horror in 2024?

Other people mention her in thread, but my vote is Nell Tiger Free in The First Omen. It is an otherwise mediocre movie that is worth watching because of Nell’s performance. She really just kills it.

Anna and the Apocalypse.

Roger Ebert’s 4-Star Review of ‘Halloween’ Made Me Want to Be a Writer.

I miss Roger Ebert. I often disagreed with him, but never regretted reading what he wrote. Siskell & Ebert is what made me love movies and to see them in a way I likely otherwise would not have.

There are not any critics like him left writing any longer and that is indeed a great loss.

Anyone else enjoy Blood Red Sky?

The film itself was ok. Worth watching. But Peri Baumeister as the protag Nadja gives a fucking knockout performance. That’s the reason to watch the film there.

Some actors make a film. She did for that one.

I was talking with a woman at work and I mentioned I’d seen the first Dune in 70mm Imax.

She said, “Isn’t that pretty small?” For a split second, I had no idea what she was talking about. Then I realized she thought “70mm” was the screen size, not the film stock. I couldn’t help laughing. But once I explained she laughed along with me. I still chuckle a little thinking about it.

What’s your comfort horror movie?

Trick ‘r Treat. It’s just such a goddamn good film. It’s underrated as horror always is. Also, because it feels like an 80s movie, which throws a lot of younger millennials and Gen Z off. It’s not prudish, in other words.

Such a gem that went unrecognized for years. And so funny too, in a macabre way.