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Marianne (2019)
I am a young woman, but after watching this I will need a pace maker.
I watch a lot of horror, and by that I mean a LOT. It's like my breakfast cereal. And as you can imagine, by doing that you have to sort through all the kinds of trash that is out there in the horror genre.
When I first saw the poster for "Marianne" on Netflix I was intrigued, but nothing more. I figured I would like it as much as "The Haunting of Hill House", which I really enjoyed. I thought that "Hill House" was outstandingly good and that I wouldn't experience such good horror again in a series. But boy oh boy, how wrong I was. Compared to "Marianne", "Hill House" is a bleak comparison - although I still love it and this should only be seen as a radar of how much I am obsessed (pun intended) with Marianne, and not in any way trashing of "Hill House".
Marianne manages to catch and mermerize and scare the living hell out of me. It is beautifully written, composed and the photography is wonderful. The actors are great and for the first time since I've seen anything in horror I can say that I have absolutely no complaints (note that I still have two more episodes to go though, so who knows?). I just felt I had to write this review now, before seeing the last bit just to capture my devotion of the moment to it.
It is a masterpiece, and after "Game of Thrones" I never thought my heart would heal again - well, "Marianne", you brought me back to believing in love and I thank you for it.
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
To this day the best Bundy-movie as it gives focus to the victims
Many of the books and movies about Bundy out there often focuses mainly on the serial killer himself. This movie is no exception, but - it also shows us how the victim's family and the detectives are affected by his horrendous acts. Surely not enough is being told about each of the victims (Ann Rule however does a good job of this in her book), but it is the one movie so far that gives some acknowledgement to them. And otherwise it is a good movie, script, casting, acting and staying to the facts. They do not explicitly show the murders - unlike the movie "Bundy", which btw is awful - and this is a good thing as we are capable of realising the monster he was but not having to feed into the misogynistic viewings that often show women being hurt. It does a great job of balancing telling the story of the victims and their killer in a truthful way without being gruesome and disrespectful to the victims.