Black ComedyAmerican Psycho (2000) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mary Harron read a novel everybody called unfilmable and found the comedy in it. Made for seven million dollars, mostly in Toronto, and it is far funnier and…
ActionWorld War Z (2013) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A great book turned into a competent chase film with the structure removed first. The Jerusalem sequence is worth the ticket and nothing else is.
Body HorrorLeviathan (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An underwater Alien with a good cast and a wrecked Soviet ship. One of three deep-sea monster films released in 1989, and the middle one.
HorrorGhost Ship (2002) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A salvage crew boards a liner missing since 1962. The first twenty seconds are among the best in modern horror and the remaining eighty minutes cannot follow them.
HorrorGuillermo del Toro reroutes the vampire myth through a clockwork device in his startling 1993 debut. The fascination with antique machinery.
HorrorMurnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
ComedyWhat We Do in the Shadows earns its 8.5 by finding a joke the vampire genre had somehow left lying on the ground for a century. What if immortal creatures of the night still had to argue about whose turn…
HorrorThe film looks extraordinary. The Hunger earns its 6.5 the way a fashion shoot earns a magazine cover.
HorrorMartin earns its 8 by asking a question that quietly dismantles the entire vampire genre. What if there is no such thing as a vampire, only a disturbed young man who believes he is one?
HorrorWhat if the actor in Nosferatu was a real vampire? The conceit is irresistible.
HorrorKathryn Bigelow's Near Dark strips every vampire cliche and builds a Western instead. That tension carries the picture.
DramaReligious tragedy meets erotic horror, reviewed at Master of Worlds. Few directors would even attempt this combination.
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