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Shaun of the dead (2004) by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

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The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse. Genre & TW : Comedic horror, dark comedy, parody splatter horror, survival, zombie apocalypse, blood, gore and violence.                   ðŸ§ŸðŸ§Ÿ‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️ My rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I was bored tonight, and too lazy to find a new movie to watch so I picked out of my favourites list and realised I never reviewed Shaun of the dead. At this point, I probably watched it at least 50 times over the years. I'm hopeless for British humour and Frost/Pegg is one of those duo you can either totally love or totally hate, but it has to be full deep feeling. I personally love then. The soundtrack is excellent, it's fun, totally stupid in some ways and actually how I can relate and see myself surviving a zombie apocalypse. I mean, let's be realistic, we would be all more in the like of...

Colony (2026) by Yeon Sang-Ho

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Summary : Professor Se Jeong attends a biotech conference, only to witness it spiral into catastrophe when a rapidly mutating virus is unleashed. As the outbreak spreads and the infected begin to transform, authorities seal off the entire facility. Review : This movie is awesome. I'm a big fan of Korean horror. Whatever the sub-genre, they always have this capacity to take the usual tropes and reinvent them, it's never boring. And this one doesn't disappoint. It's a zombie movie with usual tropes but zombie 4.0. they started as brainless hungry crawlers, but learn, by shared knowledge and a kind of conscientious bridge between them. They learn how to stand by watching people stand, then to walk. They are learning fast to differentiate a human from a store plastic model, to run, to communicate to evolve and so adapt. Just the zombie concept they created in this movie was enough for me. But the aesthetic and atmosphere are great and, though the plot is not the most deve...

The lighthouse, Robert Eggers

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I am hopeless for monochromatic aesthetics 💜 even when the movie is crap. It gives so much depth and poetry In this case, the film is far from being crap. I liked the claustrophobic feeling during the whole movie that is as unsettling as the story itself. The fact that it's film in 35mm mono helps a lot with this closed/intimate effect. GIF by  featurefilms I felt anxious and unhinged as much as the character and it is crazy how the feeling and the slow decent to madness is shared and resomate so easily while you're watching the movie. It's immersive and feel personal. That's something I always feel in Robert Eggers's movies. Eggers injects some unexpected levity in this folk dark sea-tale. And the acting is the cherry on top. It's masterfully played and crafted. GIF by  dailyflicks A psychological folk tale horror that I definitely recommend !  

Borderlands, Eli Roth

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Well, whatever people and critics may think about this adaptation, I actually enjoyed watching it. It's definitely not perfect but it's no as bad as I thought based on the reviews. If you can see beyond the 💩 joke and choppy editing then you'll see the movie for what it is : a weird gritty -a bit silly- fast-paced and action-packed fun adaptation, with more carnage/fight than plot development and a tons of FX and cute badabooms. Hey, it worked with me and I'm a picky viewer when it comes to action and sci-fi. GIF by  unchxxrted The cast is awesome . I loved the fact that the movie shows off some 50+ actors, especially female characters really badass and action-packed in a entertainment industry that is often not tender with female lead, but usually easily play with female hypersexualization and has a bad case of agism. I mean, look at JLC and CB they are so damn hot and badass in this movie ! And Chris Rock still his best in a mix of self banter and action klutz bada...