Jeremiah Kipp

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Jan 15, 2020 2.5/5 This lazy reimagining of a terse Stephen King short story drags itself through the horror paces, with a predictable slow build toward a couple of splashy gore sequences Go to Full Review Children of the Corn (2009) 0% 17%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Jul 6, 2017 4/4 This isn't the realm of sentimentality, because love here is violent and obsessive and all-encompassing. Go to Full Review That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) 93% 89%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine May 21, 2015 As the final episode of the first season of Masters of Horror, Haeckel's Tale is representative of much of the series: talented filmmakers working on material from genre aficionados, yielding uneven results. Go to Full Review - - - -

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine May 21, 2015 In these days of PG-13 horror films too timid to alienate their audience, it's nice to see that Stuart Gordon hasn't lost his knack for macabre impropriety. Go to Full Review - - - -

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine May 21, 2015 Tobe Hooper lacks the nerve to stand by his transgressions, and resorts to cheap effects. Go to Full Review - - - -

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Sep 28, 2009 3/4 Chelsea on the Rocks is very lively, somewhat thrown together in that loose yet aggressively visceral Ferrara style. Go to Full Review Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) 71% 44%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2009 4/4 It wouldn't be a stretch to compare Paradise to Alphaville, what with its imagining of the modern as otherworldly, or to imagine it as a capsule made by an outer-space explorer who visits Earth and finds layers of mystery in the mundane. Go to Full Review Paradise (2009) 83% 89%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Aug 20, 2009 3/4 A worthy public record of a show most people nationwide didn't get the chance to see. Go to Full Review Passing Strange The Movie (2009) 100% 90%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2009 2.5/4 Nearly two hours of yackety-yak is less expressive than one image of White's hand bleeding from the intensity of pressing his guitar strings during a mad improvisation. Go to Full Review It Might Get Loud (2008) 79% 85%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Aug 6, 2009 2.5/4 Unashamed of flaunting its B-movie conventions Go to Full Review A Perfect Getaway (2009) 62% 52%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Aug 5, 2009 4/4 Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant. Go to Full Review Bad Lieutenant (1992) 78% 67%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Jun 12, 2009 2.5/4 While there's a superficial been-there-done-that, why don't-we-just-mock-the-whole-thing quality to this entry in the series, it certainly livens up what has become by this point a stale franchise. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Jun 12, 2009 1.5/4 The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Jun 12, 2009 2.5/4 This one certainly felt as if it properly closed out the Friday the 13th series before it devolved into unadulterated camp. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Mar 19, 2009 3.5/4 Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate. Go to Full Review Hearts and Minds (1974) 90% 90%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2009 1.5/4 There's almost no expressionistic phantasmagoria here. Go to Full Review The Haunted Castle (1921) 40% 31%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2009 4/4 Lean's splendid frames specifically work to show the high and low status of a social grid. Go to Full Review Hobson's Choice (1954) 91% 91%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Feb 18, 2009 4/4 Though Kessling can be interpreted as a stand-in for Zulawski, Femme Publique is not his autobiography in the same way his previous film Possession was. Go to Full Review Femme publique, La (1984) - - 71%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2009 3/4 Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality. Go to Full Review Faces (1968) 84% 87%

Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2009 3/4 The Beat generation espoused a rejection of mainstream American values, and John Cassavetes's Shadows feels like a relic from that movement. Go to Full Review Shadows (1958) 100% 81%