Matan007

Matan007

Silicon Valley manager, Science Fiction enthusiast, published author, occasional critic, occasional editor, and terrible banjo player.

Favorite films

  • Clerks
  • Never on Sunday
  • Tango & Cash
  • Lost Highway

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  • 28 Weeks Later

    ★★

  • Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

    ★½

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    ★★

  • Seventh Heaven

    ★★

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Bugonia
★★★★ Liked Watched

Whoever did CAPTCHA for this on Letterbox is a mad genius!

The Lure
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Pick Your Own Poison 2025

Day 9: Snakes, Snails, and Puppy Dog tails 🐌

Well, first surprise was - This was on Netflix. At least in my region. How on earth it got picked for distribution is beyond me. Nothing against Polish movies, but I'm 100% sure that 2015. had better examples. Someone said - but no, give us weird fishes in nightclubs, that's what we're going for this season.

Second surprise was how tame it was - give this…

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House of Wax
★★★ Watched

Pick Your Poison Challenge 2025

Day 1: Something Old

Well now, it's that time of the year where we all play along with one challenge or the other. Halloween is sorta 'round the corner, and the road is paved with bad intentions. Or wax figures. Whatever suits your fancy.

What unnerved me the most is that 70+ years have passed since this was made - fifties used to be a lot closer - and there'll soon come a time when…

Creepshow 2
★★★½ Watched

What I was saying about "Lifeforce" both applies and doesn't apply to "Creepshow 2". Unlike "Lifeforce", which was much too expensive and spectacular to be true video product, "Creepshow 2" comes straight outta Compton...I mean cheap thrilla-land whose rotting corpses and wild imaginings fueled many a childhood dream over years. I can't really remember, but I'm pretty sure all of my childhood friends watched original "Creepshow 2" when it finally appeared in video-stores near us. Creep himself was slightly less…