Peter Counter

Peter Counter

Favorite films

  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Drive My Car
  • A Serious Man
  • Bride of Chucky

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  • Frankenstein

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

  • Backrooms

  • Jennifer's Body

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Frankenstein
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Terrible. But hear me out: cut this down to 43 minutes, keep the part where Michael Madsen dies in monster childbirth, and add in Mulder and Scully? You've got yourself a pretty strong X-File.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
Watched

Disappointed in this one, which was too long and too serious with too few stunts. The Fiat chase scene was really fun though. As I near the end of the series, I'm hoping my qualms are a symptom of this one being a "part one."

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Weapons
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These days it's really difficult to remove a film from the discussion of what it's supposed to be. In this case, Weapons is being sold as the ultimate WTF experience that you HAVE to see in a crowded movie theatre and that you MUST go into knowing as little as possible to allow it to work its spell. And sure, I think that's a good philosophy for most horror flicks. But Weapons is more than a culmination of it's weirdness.…

Backrooms
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The horror of semiotics!

A very fun, very creepy time. I think the film would have benefitted from slightly slower pacing, especially leading up to the kitchen table scene, but that's barely worth mentioning in the face of a great achievement: someone finally made a good movie about a building that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.