Trash & Treasures: Romeo Must Die
If nothing else, watch this for one of the few records of what a gifted performer Aaliyah was.
Trash & Treasures: Bad Ronald (w/ The Fifth Dollanganger)
This film is so 70s you can smell the proto-Satanic Panic on it.
Trash & Treasures: Ghost – In Your Arms Again
Sometimes the remake is better.
Trash & Treasures: The Spirit of Christmas/Last Christmas
WHO’S READY TO TALK ABOUT ROMCOMS AS A GENDERED AND MALIGNED GENRE.
The Lighthouse Mixes Great Sound Design, Prestige Horror Tropes, and Fart Jokes
When you’re a horror fan for long enough, you tend to get rather specific about the subgenres that catch your interest. For example, you’d be amazed how many movies “a person slowly losing their grip on reality while buried under about six different metaphors, and also it’s kind […]
Trash & Treasures: Blood & Chocolate
I don’t know if this is a GOOD movie, but it is an absolutely heroic rewrite of the source material and I want a novelization of it.
Trash & Treasures: Ginger Snaps
I’m mad that we’ve now watched all the good female werewolf movies.
Vrai Watches Jupiter Ascending
A shoujo isekai classic for the ages.
Trash & Treasures: The Howling (w/ Jourdain Searles)
The theme for this year’s spooky season can be summed up as “WHERE ARE ALL THE LADY WEREWOLF MOVIES.”
Let the Right One In is a Queer Vampire Love Story
As VRV Blog appears to be somewhat of a defunct site at this point, I’m going to be migrating the pieces I wrote there over here in full for preservation purposes. 2008’s Let the Right One In was the counterweight to the Twilight fever of the 2000s: a vampire love story that […]
