Peter Williams

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Favorite films

  • Persona
  • Rocky
  • Citizen Kane
  • Stalker

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  • Pom Poko

    ★★★★

  • Macross: Do You Remember Love?

    ★★★★

  • Belladonna of Sadness

    ★★★½

  • A Thousand and One Nights

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  • Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors

    Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors

    Bad movies are common but it's not often that I see a movie which is actually evil. This is one of those movies.

  • Wavelength

    Wavelength

    ★★★★★

    I cannot tell you how surprised I am that I loved this. In fact, I'm kind of worried by how pretentious I might be and how pretentious this review could be.

    I went in knowing the basic concept of the film, expecting to tick it off my watchlist and say that I watched this weird old avant-garde movie. I didn't expect to really get anything out of it, though. In fact, I couldn't imagine what I would possibly enjoy from…

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  • Häxan

    Häxan

    ★★★★½

    Hooptober X #1 - country: Sweden, decade: 1920s, devil-centered film (1/3)

    I start my Hooptober viewing with a fitting film: a film that delves into why we create horrors in our collective imagination.

    In a world so full of horrors and seemingly inexplicable misfortune it is natural that people want to find some meaning to it, some force deliberately enacting this horror to fight against. And so, of course, the witch and all the outlandish connected beliefs came into existence.…

  • The Return of the Living Dead

    The Return of the Living Dead

    ★★★★

    Hooptober X #20 - country: United States, decade: 1980s

    The Return of a Living Dead is a horror comedy that gets the balance right. Obviously, this isn't the only way to do it, but this movie manages to be fun and amusing while also managing to have genuine horror and stakes. It isn't exactly trying to be scary, but it features some genuinely horrific elements, albeit executed in such a way so as to not be too upsetting. And for…