DeathBecomesDavid

@DeathBecomesDavid

I saved your best friend’s life

Work in a set lighting warehouse. ADHD man. All about B movies, media crit, and the odd video game. Active on Letterboxd

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Divine Intervention Review

Coy film with a pretty tame edge, likely so not to alienate the western audiences this was made for even as they (and admittedly I) struggle with some of the references, briskly walks us through cruel slice-of-life vignettes. Gonna need to read up on 2000s Jerusalem to figure more of this out, like I’m glad it isn’t poverty porn, but I was surprised by the middle-class setting and befuddled by the 666 gag. Maybe some of this is more regionally specific than I was led to believe in which case good, actually. This needn’t be some exercise in soothing 1st world anxiety over ethnic cleaning complicity. It asks a little bit of work from you and it left me wanting more.

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RIP Roger Corman (1926-2024)

We lost one of the all-time greats. He directed, produced, or acted in more than 300 movies and helped launch the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, William Shatner, and countless others.

To celebrate his legacy, here's The Little Shop of Horrors, which he shot in less than a week for about $30,000.

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Another thing The Little Shop of Horrors is notable for is saving costs by reusing sets built for A Bucket of Blood. A cutting satire of the beatnik art scene and one of the few films with the great Dick Miller in a starring role.