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🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · May 2

Type of shit I’m tryna be on

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 1h

I just wanted to share this analysis of the film that is the top rated review for it on Letterboxd because I love it so much

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Review on Letterboxd for the film Phantasm (1979). It is by user Will Menaker who rated the film 3.5 stars and posted this on October 12, 2020.

It reads:

“At its heart a very sad and moving portrait of how adolescent boys fantasize about sex and death to cope with the essential loneliness and pain of growing up. The younger brother looks up to his older brother who drives a cool car, has huge hair, and gets laid, but is also kind of an asshole who is going to leave him behind to grow up on his own, so he invents a fantasy about an evil mortician who turns dead bodies into dwarf slaves he shrinks and stuffs in oil drums so he can send them to another planet. In this fantasy there is danger and death but he also gets to do cool shit with his brother like drive cars, shoot guns and see boobs. The dead end, boring American town that is his prison becomes a surreal abattoir but at least it's fun and interesting and he doesn't have to think about his brother and parents actually being dead.

One of the best things about horror movies, particularly of this era, is that they represent some of the few honest and non-cloying depictions of childhood in film. In America, only through the sleaze and amateurism of the horror genre is where we find anything that feels like an authentic portrayal of being 13 or 14 and realizing the world sucks, nothing is fair, and that growing up is just an endless series of humiliations and traumas about sex and death until you die or just die inside.”

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 2h

Type of film AI could never conceive of

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no he bleeds mustard!!!!!

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

AND “DUNES CANTINA!?”

Legit gotta be deliberate

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Going to the local psychic lady to do the fucking Gom Jabbar test from Dune

Literally “fear is the killer”

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Underrated main theme!!

Though I will never forget when Chelseas on the Dead Meat Podcast said it sounded like the intro to Bring Me To Life by Evanescence 😭

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Fr where is this mausoleum I want to go to there

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Tall Man’s eyeshadow game was pretty good lowkey

🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Rewatching Phantasm (1979)

BOY!!!!

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🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.social · 7h

Oz literally breathe! My god man lmao

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 7h

Production has officially started on Osgood Perkins' THE YOUNG PEOPLE, with the LONGLEGS director sharing a photo from set that looks like a bloodbath - literally.