alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

i would like to date this kaiju. they have a very cool looking tongue and i think they'd be nice once you get to know them

like five goons simultaneously drawing guns at point blank range on the scientist was funny

i think it is especially cool when the giant robots work by some weird strange means like having two pilots that who synchronize one hemisphere of each of their brains to control the giant robot, or they're powered by love.

i liked this one more than the first one. trolls and fairies are much more interesting than nazi occultists and idk, whatever the monster thingy was in the first one. the golden army (the full title is "Hellboy II: The Golden Army) itself was pretty underwhelming but the final fight was pretty good.

i do not like ghost gas guy but i do like him being a ghost gas guy

to be clear, it was good. i am just rolling my eyes at wikipedia and other things characterizing it as a horror film

this was not a horror film. there being a ghost does not in itself make the thing be horror!

surprisingly the fascists were not the monster in The Devil's Backbone

if you want to optimize for scaring me personally with a horror movie, you should use these three elements:

• bugs (bonus for ants but that's probably so much bonus i just won't watch your movie)
• things or other people impersonating or replacing people
• lots of high perches and falling and structural collapses

mimic did 1.5 out of 3 but i liked it a lot

i was about to be like "okay but there's like half an hour left in this movie but i have no clue how they're gonna survive the next five minutes" but then stuff happened and okay that fits, i dig it.

on the other hand, i'm a fan of how we never really clearly see the monsters in full

some of these scenes could do with more lighting

this is definitely one of the more scary types of horror for me.

unless too many ants show up and i get too scared. there are a lot of bugs certainly