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I very much prefer the aesthetics of horror movies from Mid-Sixties Bava to Early Eighties Fulci, and everything in between - but especially ghost stories, hauntings, big old houses and atmospherics in general.
I am genuinely turned off by torture, mutilation, physical sadism, and the aesthetics of tacky, gross horror. I'm not "too good" for it - I just hate it.
I'm more of a Gothic Romanticism type, I feel right at home with ghosts and retro nostalgic horror.
I am terrified of puppets and dummies.
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Punk in London (1977)
Depressing - Mostly of Historical Value Only
What is important about Punk in London is that it shows the real circumstances that led to the punk scene which are honestly quite depressing. There's a reason why punk was so angry, ugly and dirty - it was literally populated by neglected and/or abused teenaged children, and some poor unemployed or underpaid working class young adults. Some of the interviewees proceed to explain this, but to someone like me this is redundant: they're basically explaining leftist views or anarchist views in a political context of the post-industrial horrors of late 20th century London. But what they're saying is valid in any capitalist society with extreme wealth inequality, forgotten neighborhoods, ghettos and prejudice against the working class, immigrants, and in the case of 70s London, the Irish.
Some also complain about how quickly punk became commercialized and commodified, creating a gap between the sought equality, authenticity, lack of pretentiousness and all access that punk was originally about and the money-hungry greedy capitalists in the mainstream music industry.
It's just done really poorly so it's dull and depressing listening to it, I wanted to fast-forward through different scenes, as well as the fact that a lot of the antics are really childish (I mean in many contexts they were dealing with people still in their teens) like a boy "mooning" another boy mid-interview.
Bad Reputation (2018)
Joan Jett is an Amazing Person
I knew that Joan Jett was one of the early defining forces of women in rock and roll but I don't think I realized how driven she is, what a single-minded focus she's had for music and feminism since she was thirteen years old. Joan Jett is a real musician but she's also an astute business woman who is essentially married to her job, and she's had her hands in numerous projects throughout the years for other bands including The Germs and Bikini Kill.
She wasn't just a beautiful and sexy young performer with a hard edge that wasn't really seen prior to the Runaways and the Blackhearts, she's been a voice for queer people and she's mentored other women, gay men and trans people in a subtle, matter-of-fact way since she disappeared out of the top ten music charts. Joan has been behind the scenes, in small venues, on tour with rookie bands and generally being the guardian angel of younger performers, while continuing to make music and rock as hard as ever.
The Runaways (2010)
Kristen Stewart is Hot as Joan Jett
Young Joan Jett is one of the hottest women in rock 'n roll and I think Kristen Stewart was a very fair choice to portray her. However, as pretty as Dakota Fanning was in this movie I felt it was ridiculous for her to play Cherie Currie. There was just a constant sense of *awkward* every time Fanning tried to be the sexually aggressive and wild lead singer of The Runaways. If you look at old photos from the Mid-1970s, Cherie was even cockier than Joan - though Joan always had that solid confidence - and it's ludicrous to have a sweet girl like Dakota Fanning play her, I'm sorry.
Otherwise this is a cotton candy type of movie, really fun and light and inspiring. The bulk of the film focuses on the formation of The Runaways (as it should) but then it just kind of blandly fast-fowards through the band's break up and Cherie Currie's struggles with addiction, also never mentioning the rape of Jackie Fox by the obnoxious and sleazy Kim Fowley. The women in the band turned on him for much more serious reasons than are portrayed in this 2010 flick, and anyone saying this movie is "in your face" has apparently never left their mom's basement.
Sad Vacation (2016)
More Polish, Less Punk but Informative
I prefer the atmosphere of a 2009 documentary about this topic, because frankly it "stars" many of the same people just almost a decade later. However, the level of organization is actually helpful to understanding the entire case and incident, along with official police reports and legal documents instead of mere speculation or intuition. I would guess that Sad Vacation owes it's existence to the earlier, lower budget and decidedly more authentically punk Who Killed Nancy? That being said I'm grateful Sad Vacation exists because it does clear up a lot of questions that linger from other sources.
However just be warned that it sacrifices style in favor of a decidedly corporate sheen that is the polar opposite of everything the punk movement stood for (and continues to stand for).
It was also INFURIATING and DISGUSTING to listen to 60 year old Boomers rag on the memory of a mentally ill teenaged girl. Nancy was twenty when she died! She was between the ages of 17-20 when they knew her, she was barely more than a child especially having schizophrenia and behavioral issues, despite her intelligence she was very immature for her age - more like a sixteen year old, really. It's just revolting the level of sexism and the lack of insight some of these characters have in their old age. Obviously you want to excuse them because of their youthful drug use - but truly, the former addicts and all of the women seemed MUCH more affectionate, loving and understanding of Nancy's personality and life decisions. Of course it was the most self-satisfied, snooty, "look at me I'm a normie" old man just tearing Nancy apart, blaming her for Sid's downfall til the last ten minutes of the documentary. Absolutely disgraceful, and I'm glad this person has been exposed for the misogynistic narcissist he is (if he is still living) to the people who know him.
Sid - for all intents and purposes - likely had some sociopathic tendencies, there is more than one story of him killing a cat (one very disturbing and quite shocking) and there are reams and reams of evidence of him blinding people, cutting their faces open, and starting fights relatively unprovoked. I'm not dancing on his grave either, but come on ...how can anyone reach middle age and still be giving him a halo and Nancy the horns. As if.
Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
Really Strong Documentary
I've long outgrown the phase of my life when I was deeply fascinated by Sid and Nancy but I have read Nancy's mother's biography And I Don't Want to Live This Life about Nancy's schizophrenia and troubled adolescence, as well as seeing the ubiquitous Sid and Nancy fictionalization of their strange short lives. So I walked into this doc with pretty low expectations, curious as what it would even be about.
It's a fair representation of the underground pre-punk and punk scene in New York City by the people who lived through it, which is honestly probably the most compelling aspect of Who Killed Nancy? Rather than solving the mystery of the title person's 1978 murder. Let's face it - most of us bought into the story that an angry, mentally ill, and addicted Sid Vicious "accidentally" committed manslaughter in the middle of an argument accompanied by domestic violence.
But now I don't know, there are so many details that never came to light publicly until this documentary was made, apparently. It tracks because it was difficult to solve murders 40-50 years ago compared to today and no one really cared about a couple of "has been" junkies living in the latter days of the Chelsea Hotel.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
This Movie is Terrible
I don't know why people like this movie, it's basically a parody skit of the original 1974 film, the latter of which is still scary.
This sequel was obviously meant to be a comedy and has very few of the frightening, eerie or socially relevant elements of the first Chainsaw.
The positives of part two are far outweighed by the negatives, which mostly consist of a decorative warehouse full of stolen electric lights and corpses seated in chairs or at tables under umbrellas like a macabre life-sized dollhouse of death. I can see where Halloween haunted house attractions may have been influenced by some of the sets in the second half of this film.
But that's about it. The Sawyer family has been turned into a bad joke.
The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (2021)
Ignore The Gleeful Idiots Bashing the SK Police
The people who are whinging on about the police being incompetent are 110% true crime podcast fans and not actual FBI agents with some advanced ability of their own to catch criminals. Serial killers are notoriously difficult to catch, and especially prior to modern technology. In the US, that looks like Ted Bundy being a very prolific killer who got away with murder for years upon years. Ted Bundy wasn't a genius, he wasn't a movie star, he was however an educated man living in a time in the 1980s when an American could hop, skip, and jump two states over and get a shiny brand new driver's license and hide their identity - which is why Bundy went from the Pacific Northwest to Florida. He also escaped prison once and evaded the cops despite a traffic stop.
So pardon me if I'm a lot more reasonable in understanding that in the early 2000s South Korea was behind the U. S. in forensic technology. We were only "better at it" twenty years ago because so, so many mistakes were made with American serial killers all the way up to the 1990s.
SK was just a little behind the times in terms of their forensic teams. They also had corruption between the police and prostitution rings, which is what allowed the Raincoat Killer to get away with killing so sooo many sex workers - just like the Green River Killer here in the U. S., by the way!
What touched me the most was how human these cops still were about the victims, I love that Seoul's cops aren't sociopaths. We could do with more of that in the United States.
Curtains (1983)
Surprisingly Excellent Atmosphere
Curtains was a real surprise to me, especially with that off putting cover photo of meat curtains. Disgusting and tacky right? I was expecting some super cheap sexist exploitation film that would earn itself a shining 2 stars, if not 1.
Instead a spooky and almost supernatural atmosphere haunts this film despite a complete lack of ghosts. It helps that I watched a grainy old copy which is the way these old horror movies are meant to be watched, though the Blu Ray remastering freaks would lie to you otherwise. Directors used the dark and the fuzzy lines to evoke dreamlike mystery with early color horror in the 1970s and early 80s.
Fantastic appearance from rocking chair girl, better known for Black Christmas.
Phantasm (1979)
The Ewoks Ruined It
Phantasm is a cult classic and if you watch the first half you can see why. I think Sally and her grandma, for example, were an influence on David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (along with other films like Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace). But despite all of the cemetery scenes and ice cream trucks, the stupid little creatures ruined it for me.
A man who has been alive since the 1800s (Mike sees The Tall Man seated at a carriage in a photo at the antique store) is shrinking down dead bodies at the funeral home to be what are basically rabid Ewoks - little three foot tall beasties that attack and acquire more dead bodies. Whose dumb idea was this?
The Jack in the Box (2019)
Killer Clowns From Outer Space is Scarier
I want to check out the other two more recent Jack in the Box films to see if they're as poorly written and badly directed as this one, because the Jack is GREAT. If there was more Jack and less unbelievable dialogue between people who barely know each other (why would you mention the supernatural to a police officer on the very first visit unless you were profoundly mentally ill? Why is Mr. No Boundaries clinging to his co-worker after a week on the job?) this film would at least be FUN.
But the fun is padded much too thickly with grotesque meals (who drinks cola without ice with their pancakes?) and the behavior of a man who probably belongs in a padded cell (he's listening to his dead fiancee getting killed over and over again on voicemail AT WORK?).
Yeah I know it's a dumb low-budget horror movie but so much more could have been done with the Jack demon instead of these nauseating characters. And I was completely unimpressed with the victims being dragged inside the box and magically disappearing like it's Mary Poppins' handbag.
The Devil's Candy (2015)
Ridiculously Unoriginal and Boring
If you watch horror movies, this is like something that would have been on USA or Lifetime 25 years ago - it's more of a family-centric murder mystery with dumb references to Metallica.
It really goes to show how badly sites like Rotten Tomatoes misunderstand horror as a genre, and try to boost mediocre dramas that this has such a comparatively high rating.
The Devil's Candy is ...checks notes ...children. Not even little cute children but a surly teenager with an attitude problem. I was hoping for something candy or Halloween themed, and instead we get this when movies like Sinister did it first and better.
Gargoyles (1972)
Satan Lives in a Cave Near Barstow!
For some reason this works to the same gleeful degree as the riotously bad Day of the Animals, also a wacky desert 70s flick where beasts take vengeance upon terrible people.
I may not be big on creature features, but I certainly love when animals fight back. Giant lizards retrieve the body of their bereaved from a frankly vile and unethical anthropologist and his inappropriately dressed daughter (what was even going on there?) on a dead stretch of dusty highway in the middle of the night.
The scientist's name is even Dr. Boley which sounds like Doctor Bully. Then there's this woman who runs the roadside motel with a drink perpetually in her hand. It's utterly ridiculous - just like the plot of the film - that this woman can even stand upright or not break her glass.
Salem's Lot (1979)
Cozy Stephen King and Tobe Hooper Classic
All three hours of this made-for-tv schock are fantastic. I would rather watch this for three hours than watch most recent horror films for more than 30 minutes. Tobe Hooper and Stephen King make an unlikely duo in the writing and direction of this extra long blend of Dark Shadows and Hammer Horror (the last Hammer horror film was actually made three years earlier, in 1976). Hooper had a knack for detail, and for capturing a certain kind of ironic tone while also being deadly serious. Hilarious fade-aways of implied vampire attacks are the kind of horror that is "so bad it's good."
Hooper and his crew set out to convince you it was at least a decade earlier (possibly two) in cinematic style, while adorning the cast in clothes contemporary for the late 1970s. The implications of this tv movie are rather spooky and "the master" is one hideous looking beastie. However, I recommend it for the atmosphere and coziness.
Dark Harvest (2023)
The Purge...With Kids...and Pumpkinhead
Dark Harvest on its face seems refreshing and different, and even has an early 1960s retro setting. Too bad the writers of the script were complete idiots (or else they think the audience is). I can see the thread of the narrative that some demon demands a sacrifice so the farms will produce and "the year it went wrong" would be the Dust Bowl days back in the 1930s, right?
But no clear reference is made to the actual Dust Bowl and Great Depression, just the bad luck of the town, and it would have made more sense to set the time period in the 1940s or 50s so the horrors of the Dust Bowl would be fresh in the parents' minds.
It gets so much worse than that, though. Multiple kids die every year (and so do some adults) which would wipe out a small town fairly quickly. It would also be impossible to hide that many deaths from younger children and teenagers not yet eligible for "the run." It's utterly idiotic to set up a plot like The Purge in a small Midwestern town in the Mid-20th Century. It's laughable.
Furthermore, the boys are starved and even deprived of water for three days, so they would be weak af and not at all prepared to take on some Pumpkinhead monster. And the Pumpkinhead is actually the kid from last year? What?
Just stay away unless you're eight years old.
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Old Fashioned Monster Movie
Jeepers Creepers was an attempt in the early 2000s to bring back creature features from the 1950s or 60s. And I must admit, the Creeper costume was very cool....but we barely get to appreciate it. It isn't revealed that he's this flying bat-fish thing until way along into the movie.
Something about this movie just doesn't quite work. It's not bad but it's also not very good. I would have liked more attention to the monster himself and maybe more old-fashioned music? Dial up the atmosphere a notch? I mean they made an effort with the countryside, but rural areas aren't enough to scare me - I've lived in rural areas for about half of my life.
To be honest, I'm not much for monster movies either, creature features seem dated and silly - something that scares kids in elementary or middle school. So maybe my standards are unreasonable for Jeepers Creepers but it's just kind of meh.
The Munsters (2022)
Y'all Have Seen the Original Show...Right???
The Munsters was ALWAYS a dumb tacky show with lame, corny humor and a faux-goth atmosphere that made Hammer films look like refined, classy art in comparison. The Munsters was always for little kids, Herman's humor was always cheesy and terrible - it was meant to make him seem lovable and goofy, like a Homer Simpson kind of guy.
All of the reviews that are trashing this remake seem like the hysterical rantings of people who have never actually seen the original show from the 1960s and were fully expecting a violent Rob Zombie film. Well, jokes on you.
I thought this was very cute and I've seen it twice now. I will watch it again.
3 from Hell (2019)
Pointless and Silly
What a difference a decade makes. I wonder if Zombie needed the money to fund his Munsters project later in 2022, so threw this slop together to cash in. If Devil's Rejects just isn't my thing, this is not even in the same category.
I see a lot of wasted potential here, honestly. I enjoyed The Lords of Salem, I'm even one of those people who liked Halloween II from 2009 to a surprising degree. 3 From Hell is the bottom of the barrel, probably the worst Rob Zombie movie. There were some nuanced bits and pieces, like Baby's delusion of the dancing kitty cat and her "philosophical reflections" (at least for someone with her immaturity and lack of insight) later when she asks Otis if it's even all worth it. Sheri Moon and/or Rob Zombie could have delved more weirdly into Baby's broken mind, but instead we're treated to sophomoric scenes of partying in Mexico. Seriously?
What a waste of the fun, retro set-up in the first 15-20 minutes.
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Not My Favorite
The Devil's Rejects is one of my least favorite Rob Zombie films, despite the respect I have for his early work from the 2000s. I mean I think I "get it" - it's a tribute to Westerns from the 60s, cop shows with shoot-outs from the 70s, on top of having some themes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and ideas rooted in the Manson family. It's just not what I look for in a film aesthetically. It seems very much like a "guy movie" and not terribly different from Quentin Tarentino's flicks from the 90s and 00s.
This is more of an extremely graphic action film than a horror movie. There are some good points made in the humanization of Baby, Captain and Otis - in that through dehumanizing them, in reducing other people even gross awful people to less than human, you put yourself at risk of being just like them or falling into their traps like the vengeful Sheriff. The whole story of the brother police officers took a scene from Taxi Driver but an entire page from The Godfather in that the Sheriff's tragic end was his own undoing because he embraced vengeance and wrestled in the mud with pigs and lost.
I just don't care for the whole gritty, dirty, dingey ultraviolence thing. I felt lukewarm over this film in the theater and it hasn't changed much in 20 years.
Halloween (2007)
My Favorite Version of Halloween
Yep, hate me and accuse me of terrible things like not being able to appreciate "atmosphere" but honestly my top five horror films are all atmospheric, classic horror films from the 1970s and I strongly appreciate a lot of Italian and Spanish giallos. The truth, as I see it, is that John Carpenter is wildly overrated - he wasn't some "atmosphere" genius, he simply combined Bob Clark's Black Christmas 1974 with Argento's Deep Red 1976 and threw in some teenaged baby-sitters to exploit.
So I found this film to be a breath of fresh air when it was new back in the late 00s. It also bears Rob Zombie's trademark over-the-top visual style that lends itself to carnivals and comic books, and another quality Zombie tends to have that some overlook: he really thinks about where human violence comes from. He did this in a more general way in House of 1000 Corpses, and Halloween 2007 is a specific tale of the origin of contemporary human violence of the most shocking proportions.
I love this version of Halloween for the same reason Boomers hate it: they can't stand the thought of Michael Myers being a human being with a family and early life trauma which I find exceptionally moronic. The irony is so rich with accusations towards people who enjoyed the Rob Zombie flick that we're somehow intellectually lacking, when I can't think of anything more idiotic than needing to see other people as sub-human.
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Truly Creative - Funny and Disturbing
I think you either like Rob Zombie or you do not, there isn't much of an in-between on whether or not you appreciate his world view. I think it helps if you understand he's a lifelong vegetarian and not actually a violent psychopath who made movies to avoid being a convicted felon. When I see a Rob Zombie movie, I see his analytical processes about the roots of human violence, how he connects it animal cruelty (Captain Spaulding's Fried Chicken and Gasoline, and the rabbit ritual at the end are two overt examples), as well as ancient ritualistic violent behavior that is reminiscent of Great Apes in parts of Africa who also make "artistic displays" of their enemy apes' bodies not unlike a human serial killer and weird shrines to their battles to conquer other groups of apes. If anything is apparent about the Firefly clan, it's that they take the artwork of ritualistic murder very seriously. They're also insatiable - people who enjoy killing aren't going to stop, and this is made evident in numerous cases of real prisoners who went right back to rape and murder if let out for even one day.
So it's unsurprising that he connects this ape-like blood lust to less intelligent and probably inbred people in rural areas. However, House of 1000 Corpses also features something reminiscent of the Catacombs in Paris, a part of more recent human religion and civilized rituals where bones of six million people remain under the streets of a major world city. Doctor Satan, too, represents an even more recent 19th-20th century macabre normalization of experimental medicine, especially in asylums until the 1960s.
This movie is much more brilliant than I think some people realize, for all of its aesthetic tributes to classic horror films of the 1920s-1970s. The human attraction to horror films should be catalogued with all of those other historical artifacts of death.
La mesita del comedor (2022)
Not a Comedy
Good lord I was expecting a mildly amusing, light and possibly ridiculously silly horror comedy about a weird old coffee table. I wanted to see this movie because the concept sounded funny and creative. It's nothing like that at all, it's more of a drama than anything. I hate "real life" horror, the news is bad enough without having to sit through someone else's horrific trauma.
Do not watch this movie unless you want to see something truly ugly, despite the lack of serial killers or gore or demons. It's a very captivating piece - it seems like it could have been a serious stage play originally.
Just yikes. I also couldn't get over how old the "mother" was. I realize they were going for the angle that she was already menopausal so would be especially traumatized by losing a child, but she looked and laughed like someone's 68 year old grandma who has been smoking a half a pack a day since she was 18, not like a mother in her 40s. It's really a flaw in the film that they chose such almost witchy older woman to play the mom.
The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024)
Should Have Been a 15-20 Minute Skit
The American Society of Magical Negroes was a movie that I was sort of looking forward to seeing. Not enough to pay extra but enough to be happy it was on a streaming service. I walked into this knowing that a "magical negro" is a racist trope from 20th century movies, where the token Black is an overly-nice dark skinned person who may or may not have spiritual and/or supernatural abilities that result in peace, happiness or joy for the main white character(s).
So I am not one of the people who are whining that this is racist or offensive to white people.
I am however saying that it was done poorly. For example, David Allen Grier as Roger (the most magical of negroes) tells younger Justice Smith as Aren that he's only nice to white people because he's afraid of them.
Um...you could say this about women being nice to men, about children behaving for authority figures, about common citizens acting passive around the police, about yes white people being afraid of people of color. It's not a convincing idea to me that the Black version of a "nice guy" is only that way because he's afraid of whites.
The scene with the ATM was weird too, it wasn't believable or even funny. A seemingly intoxicated and not too bright young woman asks for help with the ATM and asks Aren to hold her purse, which turns into some white men almost beating him up for a mugging that didn't happen. Like, no.
Aren's art was also bad. He didn't sell his art because his art sucked. There's just so much wrong with the execution of this film in the first 30 minutes that it causes me to believe this would have been funnier and much more powerful as a Key and Peele or SNL skit.
Baby Reindeer (2024)
Richard Gadd is an Unreliable Narrator
This show is addictively watchable and different - but come on, people, Richard Gadd is an unreliable narrator. No wonder the real woman he based this on is suing him and Netflix. All that business about him following her home, peeping into her window, hugging her, hanging out with her, and then the cherry on top...AFTER he files a stalking report, he decides he MISSES HER and goes to her house and has sex with her, all the while pretending to be a victim.
Same with the business with the older man. Okay, he wasn't a little kid he knowingly avoided his serious live-in girlfriend to go fool around and do drugs with a guy. Of course I believe that the man assaulted him while he was passed out, I believe people who say they have been raped, BUT he knowingly hung out with this guy INSTEAD OF HIS READILY AVAILABLE GIRLFRIEND.
I don't know who knows this man in real life, but stay away from him. His willing role in his own predatory relationships reads a lot like him also being manipulative and completely messed up in the head emotionally and sexually. If this is how much of the truth he gives away, just imagine what he didn't include here.
In fact the more I think about this show and the character's choices and motivations, I begin to think that his own personal narcissism has clouded the entire narrative in shame. As ashamed and weird as he was about being with a trans woman, it's really not too far fetched that this kind of emotional toddler would also intentionally portray his plus sized older ex-girlfriend as "a stalker" because well of course he's ashamed of being attracted to middle aged women with full figures. The author's attempts to make himself seem kind, charitable or nice are utterly erased by the fact that he'd manipulate such a woman into seeing him again after a stalking report by going to her house to engage in lovemaking with her. The entire show is about a covert narcissist trying to get the audience to feel sorry for him.
All You Need Is Death (2023)
Um
All You Need is Death isn't an amusing horror comedy as the title might suggest being a word play on the Beatles folk song. Instead it starts out with a very drab and boring couple who chase annoying old songs from Irish people in rural areas. They're mostly in it for the money, like people who only trade in art because it pays a lot. There's a weird demographic who wants these old folk tunes because they're rich and crazy.
I mean to say that the songs aren't even appealing or beautiful, most are repeated off-key by a mediocre singer without any help from a musical instrument or a back-up chorus, which makes the songs even less beautiful. Why the director made this appalling decision is far beyond my comprehension. It would have heightened the haunting atmosphere and/or made the chase for these songs more relatable if they were extremely pleasing or strangely ethereal to the audience. As it is, they might as well be singing dumb country songs for all these tunes are worth.
Finally they encounter an evil haunted ballad that has been protected through generations. Somehow keeping the ballad alive but hidden from the general public trapped a demon who collects human souls through tricking people that they're "in love" to the point of insane desperation so they'll be consumed by the demon. I mean, that's a great idea too bad the execution is by turns underwhelming or ridiculous.
Oddity (2024)
Scary
Oddity begins quietly enough as a pretty atmospheric horror film that might be a cozy ghost tale or eerie at most. Surprisingly, this film quickly becomes scary as all of the triggers pile up.
A woman is pitted in a situation where a mentally ill man seems to be trying to break into her home by convincing her someone else is there who slipped in behind her back while she left the door open earlier in the evening. Already, this prospect is very disturbing to me as a woman, and you know the woman doesn't want to choose wrongly (but alas, she does, or there wouldn't be a movie).
A blind lady runs a shop of haunted old objects, and her frailty as someone with a visual disability is emphasized when she pays a call to her brother-in-law's rural old home year anniversary of her sister's death where she is clearly unwanted by him and his new partner.
Unsettling visuals in the form of an odd gift (which I am guessing is the reason for the title) lead to further mayhem with creepy arrogant men and a twist which might not be the most dramatic in horror history, but is another icky element in a host of sinister details.
It all comes together quite effectively, in my opinion.