Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin

Award winning special effects artists and podcaster. Arrow Video Podcast.

Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Parents
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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  • Breakfast at Tiffany's

    ★★★★½

  • Bugonia

    ★★★★½

  • The Money Pit

    ★★½

  • Pillion

    ★★★★

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
★★★★½ Watched

Recently seen for the first time, it was one of those classics that I’d never caught, I think due in part to a posturing avoidance of “romantic” and “mainstream” films at the time I first heard of it, in my mid teens but mostly due to my associating it with that appalling song by Deep Blue Something which was everywhere for a bit when I was 16 and fomented a vitriolic reaction to the concept of this film. 

I was…

Bugonia
★★★★½ Watched

This is how remakes should be done; respectfully, with enough reconsidered, recontextualised or updated to keep it fresh but not changing so much as to make the connection pointless, and a minimum of 20 years after the original. 

Easily in Lanthamos’ top three films.

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In Fabric
★★★★½ Watched

Like a ‘70s, psycho-sexual fever dream. Possibly Strickland’s best.

Spider
★★★★½ Watched

Beautiful, dreamlike sex-horror that plays like 80% Valerie and her Week of Wonders with 10% Blind Beast, 5% Jodorowski and 5% La Bete.