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Official Synopsis:  Bodies start to pile up when a drug-user nurse, Mandy (Angela Bettis) and her cousin, Cathy (Julianne Dowler) try to find a replacement kidney for an organ trafficker. (Mick Foley) This is another film that was featured on the documentary 1000 Women in Horror that I previously had not heard of.  Being released during COVID probably didn't help that, according to IMDb this film grossed a little over $6,000 in its opening weekend. Thankfully, it has now found a home on Netflix for easy viewing. 12 Hour Shift is a horror comedy first, and your mileage may vary with just how much absurdity you can handle. Mandy is a an easy character to follow. She has a drug problem, but she and her co-worker, Karen (Nikea-Gamby Turner) mostly have their shit together when it comes to handling their jobs and moonlighting as organ smugglers. It's when Cathy comes into the picture that it can get trying. Cathy is easily one of the dumbest characters ever written. It's very i...

  Official Synopsis: Follows Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets. Writer/Director Aaaron Sorkin follows up the very successful 2010 feature he also wrote, The Social Network with how Facebook is still ruining people’s lives. Only this time he loses Director David Fincher, his Oscar nominated star in Jesse Eisenberg, but you know what? That’s fine! He doesn’t want you to view this as a sequel anyways. And it’s true. this isn’t exactly a sequel, but Fincher, Eisenberg, and I’d argue even Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross cast heavy shadows over the film that is sometimes just impossible to get around. I’ll start with the good. Because there IS good here. I’ve always been a big fan of Sorkin’s writing, even if his directing isn’t as strong. The rapid fire dialogue has always appealed to me and because of it, his...

Official synopsis : A lonely hairstylist, Claire (Najarra Townsend) becomes obsessed with the private lives of her clients and descends into murderous madness.  This was one of the films I learned about from the 1000 Women in Horror documentary I watched recently. Director Jill Gevargizian adapted this from her short film of the same name. This film is shot like a 90’s erotic thriller at times. the close ups of Claire doing hair with that sensual score playing in the background made me think of that immediately, and it works despite this being a pretty un-romantic film. Claire is a pretty interesting character to follow. It would be easy to write her off because she IS a murderer, but she’s also just an incredibly awkward woman. I weirdly had a soft spot for her. It might be the first time I’ve ever been worried about a serial killer taking too long in a room. Like girl, you’re gonna get caught. The film reminds me a lot of Maniac (2012)  which was another I really enjoyed. Yo...

  Official Synopsis: A celebration of pioneering female filmmakers and performers who have left an indelible mark on horror cinema from the beginning of the silent era to the present.  October is in full swing and I wanted to take this month to finally catch up on some horror films that I missed. And what better way to start than with documentary that gave me a few more ideas to add to the list There are far more than 1000 women in horror, as this doc points out, but it’s nice to get a few of them together so they can talk about the genre they love. Director Donna Davies keeps the runtime concise, though I could’ve listened to these ladies talk for hours. She’s also very careful of what horror clips are shown, because if we’re going to talk about women in horror, we are eventually going to get into some uncomfortable topics. As someone who struggles to watch media with sexual assault scenes, I really appreciated that Davies doesn’t jump scare us with inserted assault clips o ...

Official Synopsis : A Harvard student (Jacob Tremblay) becomes the Unabomber after psychological experiments. Years later, an FBI agent's (Shailene Woodley) pursuit reveals how his past shaped his deadly campaign that killed 3 and injured 23 from 1978-1995. True Crime is basically Netflix's bread and butter at this point. There's 100's of documentaries, a new TV show centered around a criminal every year. While most get the mini series format, Unabomber stands out as a single film. I'm not sure who was asking for a film based on this particular psycho, but Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley and Jacob Tremblay were enough to get me to watch. Especially when I didn't have to leave my couch. This film doesn't have anything particularly interesting to say. Its strongest points are when it's being a detective story. Woodley is very engaging as an FBI agent trying to do the right thing when none of her male colleagues listen to her. They are practically caricatu...

Official synopsis: In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) sets out to make television history. To Catch a Predator was one of those shows everyone knew about, even if you've never watched an episode. That's the camp I fell into. I've seen episodes of the show here and there, but I was never a regular watcher. Primetime, much like the name suggests follows the point in Chris Hansen's career where he and producer Andie (Merritt Wever) get the opportunity from the Network to take their show to the next level. It's going to get a Primetime spot, right up against Lost. Now the stakes need to be higher, they need to find more "important" people to trap. While this is happening, a new Decoy is being hired, played by a young actor Dan (Skyler Gisondo) who doesn't quite know what he's getting into with this job.  Primetime is deliberately shot in a grainy, over-saturated fashion. It made me feel like I was watching a VHS tape...