i'm dying here

Name: i'm dying here
Item: Love Massacre
Rating: 80
Author: screenqueeen

Review of Love Massacre (1981) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

the thirteenth night in the lonesome hooptober day 18 film 13 cats: 0

64/100

a breathtaking arthouse deconstruction of horror from the mentor of Wong Kar-Wai. Tam paints such a satisfying leisurely tone and landscape that every time something sudden rips across the screen it always becomes burned into your psyche as it creates its own new cavern of memory. the amount of unspoken taboo dealt with here informs a lot of the motivation behind so much of the chaos. once we also start following the brother there was a moment where i audibly gasped. this was definitely one of those moments that whips away as soon as that shocking action happens. this is my first Patrick Tam film and it seems like i picked one hell of one to start with.

once the restoration finally becomes more widely available i can see so many more people discovering this but yet again internet archive rescued the options for viewing this in a magnificent laserdisc transfer with external subtitles.