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Night of the Ghouls (1959)
i... i... i can't go on living without valda hansen...
i just... i just love her so... i... i think that... actually this is a marvelous film - tor johnson makes every movie a winner, stumbling around in his monster-contacts, and valda hansen is radiant in her "ghost"ness. anything that starts with criswell in a casket is bound to be a revelation (though maybe hard to understand) of the nature of existence and the transitory nature of our humanity. i'm not kidding.
Pitch Black (2000)
lame lame lame
man, this movie has been hyped non-stop as a breakaway from the "Alien Ripoff Curse" that has plagued sci-fi for the last twenty years, but it's just another on the long list of unoriginal and very unscary throwaways to drop on the heap. i'll admit that vin diesel has a "presence" that might serve him well in future roles, but for cripes sakes IT NEVER ACTUALLY GOT DARK IN THIS MOVIE! whoever said this was based on arthur c. clarke's "nightfall" was sorely mistaken. grrrrrr...
Andrey Rublyov (1966)
The sublime is a sense of the infinite in nature
This movie tore me up. I love all of Tarkovsky's stuff, but this one stands out to me because of its complexity and, well, richness, even compared to his other works. It's a very long, tense film, and the meditation that it facilitates in turn makes for a certain kind of marvellous enlightenment at the end.