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Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Feb 11, 2026
2/4
Bride of Re-Animator is surely one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of franchise filmmaking.
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Bride of Re-Animator
(1990)
57%
45%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
May 12, 2025
3.5/4
Setting aside the primitive, goofy-looking visual-effects work and excusing the script's repeated flirtations with cliché and mawkishness, Starman reveals Carpenter as the sensitive, assured director of actors he so rarely gets credit for being.
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Starman
(1984)
83%
70%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
May 9, 2025
2/4
What C.H.U.D. lacks in style and scares it almost makes up for with a surprisingly fine cast and an offhand kind of social realism.
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C.H.U.D.
(1984)
45%
33%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Feb 18, 2022
2/4
its CGI is frankly cartoonish, while the composites that make up that surfboard ride down Wilshire Boulevard are…unconvincing.
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Escape From L.A.
(1996)
45%
39%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Feb 5, 2021
44/100
Imagine a downbeat cross between historical romance, rape-revenge thriller and what's become known as folk horror and you'll have a pretty good idea of the overall mood.
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The Reckoning
(2021)
20%
26%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Jan 31, 2021
75/100
A threadbare narrative that's gorgeously shot, beautifully performed and spooky as hell.
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Knocking
(2021)
80%
61%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Jan 30, 2021
54/100
It runs a bare 84 minutes and yet manages to feel draggy in its slow-moving first hour and rushed in its eventful climactic segment.
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Censor
(2021)
89%
56%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Jan 28, 2021
95/100
A horrifying but finely observed thriller about psychology, cyberintelligence, and that old chestnut, the duality of mind and body.
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Possessor
(2020)
94%
59%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Sep 8, 2020
4/4
Impressively rich with period detail and finely drawn characters.
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First Cow
(2019)
95%
65%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Sep 2, 2020
C+
Diverting if overly familiar crime drama with horror-movie undertones comes to life when Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham arrive.
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The Owners
(2020)
60%
30%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Aug 13, 2020
B+
A gorgeous and evocative piece of entertainment that takes a deliberately playful approach to its genre.
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Zatoichi
(2003)
87%
88%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Apr 8, 2020
46/100
Simply can't wring suspense from a scenario that ends up isolating the murderers from their murderees on either side of a locked door for a long, dull section of the film.
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We Summon the Darkness
(2019)
68%
34%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Jan 17, 2020
C+
In quieter moments, Martin Lawrence turns in a genuinely touching performance as a man torn between duties to his family and his friend, but Smith is more reliant on a constant feed of mild one-liners.
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Bad Boys for Life
(2020)
76%
96%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Dec 6, 2019
B-
The film's style can be frustratingly mannered, but Reeder's teenaged characters have some heart and soul.
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Knives and Skin
(2019)
69%
28%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Jun 25, 2019
Detour is about as threadbare as they come: a small film, shot on a shoestring over a handful of days at a Poverty Row film studio. And yet, the finished product is uniquely compelling.
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Detour
(1945)
98%
78%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Mar 6, 2019
2.5/4
Nobody's idea of an innovative masterpiece, but at least an unpretentious, lavishly designed, and mischievously executed spookshow.
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
(2018)
65%
44%
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Jan 31, 2019
B-
Dark, contrasty imagery complements increasingly uncomfortable action on-screen, as Piercing settles into an entertainingly twisted groove and a compelling rhythm of give and take.
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Piercing
(2018)
72%
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Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Nov 26, 2018
2.5/4
These flourishes keep Ant-Man and the Wasp light on its feet...and it doubles down on the first film's fathers-and-daughters themes to moderately heart-warming effect.
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Ant-Man and The Wasp
(2018)
87%
76%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Oct 31, 2018
2/4
Twilight is an earnest fantasy set on the cusp of adulthood, just as the way the light falls on everything in your life is changing. I don't blame anyone who wants to linger there for a moment. Even with sparkle vampires.
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Twilight
(2008)
48%
41%
Bryant Frazer
Film Freak Central
Oct 30, 2018
2.5/4
The idea of a female-fronted, R-rated spy movie isn't especially novel... but there is something delicious about the notion of a couple of completely ordinary millennials boasting and bluffing their way through a multinational conspiracy plot.
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
(2018)
49%
58%
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