TIFF #4 - People's Choice Award
*World Premiere*
Attending: pretty much the whole cast and Mike Flanagan... With Stephen King sitting in the audience.

Warning: This has become a Rabbit Hole Review ...

Flanagan has pulled a hat trick here, managing to convince programmers that this was a straight sober drama instead of his signature horror. Alas... we all know he's more nuanced than that, and in the end, what's more terrifying than existential unpacking and facing one's own mortality?…

It's another edition of... WILL YOU LIKE...?
So...
Will You Like... LONGLEGS?

To find out, answer the following quiz questions, allot the question’s worth (in brackets) and tally your score at the end...

Do you like...

Sinister (+3)
Zodiac (+2)
The X-Files (+1)
The Silence of the Lambs (+1)
Dead Silence (+2)
Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, or the case on which it is based in The Devil On Trial (+1)
The Lodge (2019) (+2)
The Shining (+1)…

#SlasherSaturday

The Last Horror Film
AKA Fanatic (not to be confused with THE FAN 1981 or 1982)

Right away it's making me miss both NYC and Cannes.

Interesting to overhear the connection to the attempted assassin of Reagan to stalking of Jodie Foster from her Taxi Driver days, highlighting another type of notoriety obsession. In the days when attempted assassinations were credible enough to make international news and warrant a full transparent investigation through the FBI... With a later mention…