Perfect Blue Film Review: 

I’ve started quite a few of my longer Letterboxd logs saying things like “I could write an essay on this film it's so good.” or “I could write a scene-by-scene breakdown of this movie and why I love it.” So, I thought considering this film covers some of my favorite talking points (the patriarchy). Why not do just that, so here’s an informal essay coving my thoughts on the film Perfect Blue😊

 As the film concluded,…

I turned on this movie thinking it was a typical shark film, but after finding out it’s based on a true story, I was intrigued, so I looked into it.

Open Water is inspired by the 1998 disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were mistakenly left behind during a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef after a mistake with the headcount. No one realized they were missing for two days, and their bodies were sadly never found.…

Such a funny, entertaining movie and honestly a masterclass in building and sustaining tension. The first 20ish minutes make for some of the most effective tension building I've seen in modern horror, and I absolutely love how the film puts the viewer in the perspective of Tess.

Tess arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been double booked and a man is already staying there. Seeing as she’s pretty much stranded at night in…