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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

Hooptober movie 18/31:

THE FLU (2013)

Solid disease movie, though it gets a little repetitive and relies too much on scope creep to up the intensity of the ending. That said, really charismatic performances made me buy in enough to the characters it kept the rating higher.

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A ★★★★ review of The Flu (2013)

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

No no it's okay, we have a Barney movie totally coming that's gonna fix everything.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

Tonight I find out if Nosferatu (1922) pulls off being 95 fuckin' minutes long.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 12h

Do I NEED to pay Vimeo $5 to download the forgotten French found footage vampire movie Nosferatu(dot)com? Absolutely not.

Am I morbidly curious about a critically-panned movie with what looks like a Gmod character model in the poster? Absolutely.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 16h

That guy behind the gimmick account you like turned out to be Aranthulax, Harrower of the Wretched

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sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 16h

hot take: art is good for you and making art is good for you

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

By popular demand:

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Silent Hill got lucky that it doesn't fit any any of the categories I have left to fulfill in Hooptober.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Hooptober movie 17/31:

GRAVEYARD SHIFT (1990)

There's a reason the Letterboxd and modern media for this plaster Brad Dourif all over it despite him having like five minutes of screen time, and it's because the movie would be so much better if he was the protagonist.

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A ★★★½ review of Graveyard Shift (1990)

There are many things Graveyard Shift failed to deliver on, but randomly killing off Brad Dourif with an unrelated environmental kill. It's a monster movie where the monster is 1: not scary and 2: has...

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

It's wild to watch him play a wacko Vietnam vet and then it clicks he's actually the right age in 1990 to have been one.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

He's truly the highlight of whatever he's in

A young Brad Dourif in a jumpsuit and tactical gear as The Exterminator in Graveyard Shift (1990)

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Time to watch a horror movie with Brad Dourif :)

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jacobbles @jacobbles.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost of Yotei got me thinking about this one

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

In a rare win against AI, shanty legend David Coffin has covered I Stole an F16 so I can finally share it in good conscience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPx...

I Stole an F16

YouTube video by David Coffin

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

I just love that The Devil's Backbone was named that because originally it was set in the mountain range of Mexico but when it shifted over to being set in the Spanish civil war it didn't make sense. So Guillermo del Toro made up two scenes purely to keep the name he liked.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Chris Bores built his ghost hunting career on a 90 minute conversation with a ghost. Sure would be a shame if I found something in his footage...

Join me this Friday at 7:30 EST / 6:30 CST for the premier of my first video essay. I'll be in chat, it'll be fun!

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I found the most gullible ghost hunter, it's The Irate Gamer.

YouTube video by Gavin G Whiz

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Just updated Android and suddenly my phone feels like a baby toy with how chunky and childlike the new UI is.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

But for real: it opens with this psychosexual opening that's weird as hell and I settled in like "fuck yeah let's get weird with it."

Then it played with unreliable narration and I was like "fuck yeah lets' get weird with it."

Then the ending is "everything worked out perfect and fine. :) "

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Hooptober movie 16/31:

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK

Maybe giallo isn't for me, because I see all these reviews saying this is peak and I'm over here like "THIS is peak?"

Aesthetically gorgeous at times, good ideas, half-baked and sloppily assembled.

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A ★★½ review of All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

I'm not saying nudity makes or breaks a movie, but you gotta be pretty damn run-of-the-mill to have so much nudity it's literally on the poster and I'm still like "that was forgettable" seven minutes ...

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Hooptober movie 16/31:

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK

Maybe giallo isn't for me, because I see all these reviews saying this is peak and I'm over here like "THIS is peak?"

Aesthetically gorgeous at times, good ideas, half-baked and sloppily assembled.

letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...

A ★★½ review of All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

I'm not saying nudity makes or breaks a movie, but you gotta be pretty damn run-of-the-mill to have so much nudity it's literally on the poster and I'm still like "that was forgettable" seven minutes ...

letterboxd.com

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Krusty the clown "what the hell was that meme" where Krusty looks annoyed, cigarette in hand, gesturing like "what the fuck?"

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Wild that the Italians didn't find a second sex position until the 1980s.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Instead I'm watching the one where a traumatized lady is so lonely she agrees to go to a cult meeting and ends up getting forcibly kissed by a bunch of pale English dudes (it works and fixed her trauma)

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

If you have a speaking role in this movie there's a 90% chance you'll be in a scene built around getting your boobs out.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Ah yes the 70s fascination with side characters telling protagonists "oh, you wanna talk to a psychiatrist? You're dumb and stupid and dumb and a freak for thinking about that. Also they're idiots and wrong."

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