Category: i do movies badly
After a long and edifying journey, Jim (again) says goodbye to I Do Movies Badly and the friends he made along the way.
Alonso Duralde, podcaster extraordinaire and author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, returns to IDMB for the annual tradition of Christmas recommendations–this time with a bloody twist. On brand for 2020, Alonso’s recommendations for this year are Christmas horror films and...
In the pantheon of IDMB movies that have befuddled me, there’s Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror, Kim Ki-duk’s The Isle, and now, there’s Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession.
House is uh…an indescribable film. Avant-garde haunted house horror-comedy, Obayashi’s absurdist answer to Jaws is technically innovative, off the wall ridiculous, and a seeming deconstruction of horror archetypes. Also, boring and exhausting (unless you’re Chuck Stephens).
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a darkly comic tale of moral and social rigidity in which an unseen act brings out the inherent darkness in its protagonist. The balance that Lanthimos strikes between absurdity and horror is superb but...
Benny Krown returns to I Do Movies Badly for the November (and a little bit of December) theme of Highbrow Horror! The guest whose last appearance was to talk about Abbas Kiarostami has equal pretensions on his mind, discussing his relationship with...
Ma is neither great nor terrible, though its quality would certainly lean more towards the latter if not for the casting of and rewriting for Octavia Spencer, whose portrayal of a character not written to be African-American lends a subtext of...
What can be said about a film that in just 3 years has already been canonized as a classic and has inspired classes in academia? All I can really add to the conversation about Get Out are the reasons that I think...
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who contributed in some way – big or small – in helping me surpass 100,000 downloads! Second and..er…secondmost(?), Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs is clunky at times and strange all the time, but is an...
If you’ve ever been to BlackHorrorMovies.com or watched the fabulous documentary, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, then you may recognize my October guest. To help celebrate the Halloween season, Mark H. Harris joins I Do Movies Badly to talk about racial reckoning in horror...
