Super Cool & Collected

Hi! My blog is all things cinema and pop culture. I also collect toys and memorabilia, so you'll find me talking about them here. Thanks for visiting!

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Obsession is so far my favorite horror film of 2026. I fell in love with Inde Navarrette. Her knockout performance as Nikki was equally unhinged and tragic.

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Here is the official Japanese movie poster! 💜

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I don't think Nikki scalped Sarah's corpse and wore her hair. After seeing Obsession for the third time now, she just styled her own hair to look like Sarah in order to attract that psycho Bear more. No idea why some viewers think she did otherwise.

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$148 mil worldwide and counting... Talk about catching lightning in a bottle. What a way to end May! 💵💵💵💵💵

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A movie with no marquee names and made for under a million outperforming a long-established IP? What a time to be alive. Obsession's praise and success are well-earned. 👏💰

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It's really about a guy being tortured by the vengeful spirit of his neglected cat possessing his dream girl's body. "Nikki" occasionally hides like one and also does a Cheshire Cat grin and Angry Cat frown. It even asks him what's the verdict on who he's dating: cat. 😾

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"I kind of clung to what I thought was creepy. When she does these things, when she snaps back into her body for a second and she's conscious and it's the real Nikki – what would that feel like, to be teleported into a random spot and not really know where you are or what's happening? That was just something that was really intriguing to me, so I tried to explore it."

- Obsession director Curry Barker on writing possessed Nikki, Rue Morgue #230

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Nikki crying over the end credits of Obsession immediately brought to mind a rain-soaked Daria Nicolodi screaming hysterically over the end credits of Tenebrae. The preceding scenes also featured major deaths that traumatized the two women, deaths unwillingly/inadvertently caused by them. You'll catch the parallels if you watch Argento's most shocking film of the '80s.

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I wish for a pristine '78 Trans Am.

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Repurposed!

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Inde Navarrette

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Me when I see today's gas prices.

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"I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you." ♥️

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Murder. Evil. Infidelity. Madness.

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Predator: Badlands was like a '90s Dark Horse comic book come to life. I know people have a hard time getting used to seeing a humanized Yautja (I did too) and a bubbly Synthetic, but that's the point of world-building in long-running franchises like Predator. You gotta do something out of left field to keep the nearly 40-year-old IP alive and fresh with the new generation. Some will like it and others will hate it which is expected. I liked it! And this is coming from an older fan.

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October 31: Terrifier 3

HAPPY FRICKING HALLOWEEN! We've reached the last flier for October 2025. Whether it's gorier than Terrifier 2 is up for debate, but Terrifier 3 had me squirming in my seat when Art the Clown chain-sawed the two horny college kids in the shower. Art's demonic visage makes him so marketable on all kinds of merchandising. He was born to be on Hot Topic shirts and Spirit Halloween decor!

And that's a wrap for 31 Days of Halloween – Japanese Style 2! I had a lot of fun doing this again especially since I'm not able to blog as much as I used to in years past. Will there be a part 3 to this? Maybe in another five years or so. Who knows? 🎃

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October 30: Class of 1999

They don't make 'em like they used to! If remaking Class of 1999 today crossed any Hollywood producer's mind, then that idea was likely struck down immediately in light of school shootings and gun violence in general. I caught this sci fi-horror actioner from director Mark L. Lester, which was filmed in 1988 as an indirect sequel to his Class of 1984, late at night in the early '90s. It was shown on either Showtime or Cinemax, can't exactly remember which channel. I thought it was the coolest fucking movie ever since Terminator 2: Judgment Day. A high school populated by gang members? Check. Deadly military robots posing as the staff to keep the students in line? Check. Mindless, blow-'em-up action? Check. The tagline is memorably tongue-in-cheek too: "It's 1999. School is a warzone. The latest in automatic weapons are the teachers."