There was a time when Steven Soderbergh tried to retire. Now he’s back to directing one movie a year. Presence just opened today here in Finland and Black Bag, his next movie, opens here in less than a month.
Well, two to be precise.
I haven’t seen very many Lucio Fulci movies, so when the local arthouse theatre screened The New York Ripper (Lo squartatore di New York), I decided to take the opportunity and go see it.
It’s definitely in the bottom three, but that isn’t that bad from eight features. Potential worse ones are Okja and Barking Dogs Never Bite. But hey, let’s answer the question of whether you can watch this movie without having seen the 16 previous movies.
Not that it’s actually a chore. It is a movie worth talking about.
The movie got some Oscar buzz for Pamela Anderson’s performance, but that didn’t really go anywhere, which is weird since both she and Jamie Lee Curtis did get SAG nominations and those nominations are usually very close to the Oscar nominations.
This is one of those kinds of movies I’m not sure I should be talking about since it clearly isn’t for me, but I will.
Severin has thusfar released two collections of folk horror films under the name All the Haunts Be Ours. This is from the second one.
When I saw the trailer for a romantic comedy / slasher with a very derivative masked killer with some kind of a bladed weapon, I was not expecting much.
Oh, it’s that time of the year. Maybe I should acknowledge that for once.