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This is a powerful list - tho I wouldn't put Child's Play on this level

I'd call Texas Chainsaw a splatter movie, but not a slasher

With Psycho, I'd call it a mystery thriller intersecting w horror - but I wouldn't say Psycho itself is a slasher movie, even tho it virtually gave birth to such subgenres

I see what Ebert was talking about - tho I do think QT's onscreen work in Pulp Fiction served that film very well - but part of the comedy of that hilarious scene was the in-joke of his presence in its own right, and precisely in how out of place he seemed, in relation to how these other characters were responding to him - it worked wonderfully in that film, but that sort of joke grows old very fast if repeated in other projects

Great shout-out to Kathe Koja, one of the ground-breaking horror writers of the 90s - she created a uniquely GenX subgenre w scrounging young artists stumbling on some kind of threshold teetering on madness and transcendence, drawn to it like moths to a flame, as it glistens w a queasy silvery sheen - her breathless noir style brings to mind Burroughs and Gibson - both Cipher and Bad Brains would be perfect for A24; my own favorite work of hers is Skin, which IMO is calling for a more elaborate Mandy-style hallucinatory treatment - and I'd love to see Cronenberg adapt her most famous work, Strange Angels

Casting RDJ as Dr Doom was especially awful - since the character is so iconic and beloved, and notorious for having been repeatedly mishandled - there was so much anticipation around this - and they could easily have cast anyone of South Asian heritage, since Romanis are South Asian diaspora - just like they cast basically anyone of African heritage to play an African character, regardless of which part of Africa is involved - besides the heritage issue, of course, the presence of such a familiar MCU actor is obviously distracting, and makes him the center of attention instead of the character - just, why?