W.R. Breedlovecraft

So, uh, yeah this remains an ever-relevant movie
(it's an early video of mine, so forgive the kinda rough audio)

3 months ago | [YT] | 0

W.R. Breedlovecraft

Howdy new subscribers! Caught me at a weird time because I'm sort of in a hiatus as I work on other projects. However, I may start putting out some Shorts again, er, shortly and I have a big announcement on the horizon for something in September...keep an eye out!

4 months ago | [YT] | 2

W.R. Breedlovecraft

Posting this for visibility because looking at where it shows up in "Suggested Videos", the algo has no earthly clue where to put it. Not even joking, half of them are "full" uploads of Jason Statham movies and random telenovela clips.

7 months ago | [YT] | 1

W.R. Breedlovecraft

Thanks to all who watched my most recent video and subscribed! I do plan on doing more Witcher videos. I have ideas (and even scripts!), but no timetable on when they'll come out. Tbh the Sirens of the Deep vid was supposed to be something quick to put out to give me a break from my "History of the Yakuza Film" project, but ended up taking much longer than I anticipated. Also Avowed is eating up a lot of my free time at the moment. In any case, stay tuned for any updates!

9 months ago | [YT] | 1

W.R. Breedlovecraft

NEXT WEEK (hopefully): To ring in the new Netflix Witcher anime movie SIRENS OF THE DEEP, I will be doing my own deep dive into the second anthology of Witcher short stories: Sword of Destiny. How do these stories informed by post-Soviet politics of 1993 ring even truer in our current Time of Contempt of 2025?

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10 months ago | [YT] | 1

W.R. Breedlovecraft

Well shoot, should I do anything to commemorate this? A movie from the Church of Satan's "Satanic Sources" film list? The Magician, a silent 1926 horror film loosely inspired by Aleister Crowley?

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10 months ago | [YT] | 2

W.R. Breedlovecraft

RIP DAVID LYNCH (1946-2025)
I admit I came a little late to Lynch's work (really just a couple of years ago) but his films have left an indelible mark both on me and on the rest of visual art as a whole, even in places where you least expect. Last year I talked about the Lost Highway connection with the criminally underseen Star Wars Visions short from Cartoon Saloon: Screecher's Reach

10 months ago | [YT] | 1

W.R. Breedlovecraft

In lieu of a video, here are my top 10 favorite movies of 2025
10 - DUNE PART TWO: Timothee Chalamet haters (me) in shambles. The way he fills up and commands the grand space opera scale of Dune completely blindsided me. I finally see it now, he is our Lisan al Gaib.
9 - LOVE LIES BLEEDING: The first film I've seen in a while that I would call properly "GRIMY": real sweat, real grease covering every surface and every character. Perfectly nails the vibe of late 80s/early 90s neo-noirs (think True Romance meets To Live and Die in LA). Rose Glass writes such imminently compelling screwed up characters and relationships and the final shot is a big ol' chef's kiss of ambiguity that has lingered in my mind all year.
8 - NOSFERATU: Robert Eggers remains steadfastly resistance to modern affect, understanding that Stoker's late Victorian angst over class, capitalism, and predation is still our angst in the 2020s. This is Eggers' version of a horror crowd-pleaser: a sinewy spooky thrill ride that neither sacrifices his transportative sense of place nor the jagged edges of his pathos.
7 - HERETIC: The 2012 r/atheism poster in me was grinning from ear to ear watching Hugh Grant teethily eat up scenery as Richard Dawkins Jigsaw. But mostly I appreciate the film for then turning around and calling out every trite, reductionist historically cherry-picked anti-theist "argument" from the last 20 years. Guys, we gotta stop sourcing our talking points from Bill Maher's Religulous.
6 - RIDDLE OF FIRE: I've been traveling up to my grandparent's house in the Texas Hill Country a lot this year for very melancholic reasons, and this delightfully idiosyncratic throwback adventure film brought back a rush of childhood memories wandering around the mesquite thickets and creeks. Riddle of Fire takes that specific magical sensation and tunes it to its own fantastical wavelength that defies comparison: too authentically unpolished to be Wes Anderson, too gentle and low-key to be the Goonies. But boy did it hit me at the perfect time this year.
5 - KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: It took four movies, but the reboot Apes series has *finally* gotten to the proper *Planet* of the Apes. It's the most like the original run of films in the '60s and 70s in that its dialed in on BIG ideas that can *only* be explored through its primary sci-fi conceit. How does a completely different species grapple with the legacy of mankind? And does humanity even *deserve* to exist? Much more my speed than War.
4 - THE SUBSTANCE: A satire of unattainable female beauty standards pulled off with absolutely *audacious* body horror execution. Also kinda love how it's low-key set in the Hotline Miami universe: where television fitness instructors are the biggest and most influential celebrities on the planet and everyone does aerobics to darkwave music.
3 - ANORA: The aesthetic, music, and frank depiction of physical intimacy are very much "of-the-moment", but Anora is secretly built upon the sturdy foundations of screwball comedies of the Old Hollywood past. Think Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" or "Bringing up Baby" for the gig worker generation. The sudden shift in tone and protagonist at the film's midpoint has proven to be divisive, though I'm such a sucker for the trope of the overworked (though still somewhat reasonable and diplomatic) screw-up henchman that I was 100% on board.
2 - FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA: The "Beyond Thunderdome" to Fury Road's "Road Warrior". To many that's a pejorative but for me that's George Miller playing around in an extravagant (and indulgent) sandbox with both literary ideas (this could easily be one of the Djinn's stories from 3,000 Years of Longing) and pure filmmaking technique. I read Blood & Chrome, the oral history of Fury Road, which gave me even more appreciation for what Miller does here. Even a "lesser" Fury Road is still a damn miracle.
1 - CIVIL WAR: I get the impetus to want this movie to be about the current American moment, but that just isn't Alex Garland's goal here. The *real* subject are the journalists themselves living on the morally frayed edges of the profession where the lines between propaganda and truth-telling, exploitation and empathetic human interest become blurred. The American setting - for as little sense it makes politically - is a brilliant device that allows the (mostly Western) audience to reflect on how our own insatiable media gaze drives the coverage of conflicts abroad. Man, Garland must've felt vindication watching the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria play out in real time through the lens of war reporters. It's a shame that Assad didn't meet the same end as President Nick Offerman. Unquestionably the best final line of the year.

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11 months ago | [YT] | 10

W.R. Breedlovecraft

Happy New Year! And thank you to everyone who has recently subscribed to my channel. I had hoped to make more "Christmas Movies for Sickos" Shorts but three straight 60 hour workweeks just didn't leave me with a whole lot of free time and in all honesty it's been a rough past few months for me, so I needed a couple of weeks to reset. I'm gearing up to finish episode one of my "History of the Yakuza Film" project and hope to get that out in the coming months. In the meantime look out for a Witcher vid when the Sirens of the Deep anime movie releases on Netflix in February (I have so many thoughts on the weird place that franchise is in right now). And if you're looking for more Shorts content, you should know that I tend to do those on a "when I feel like it" basis, but I do have a short list of movies that I hope to cover in that format.

As for long term plans for 2025: As always, I hope to someday monetize this channel. I had foolishly missed the window of eligibility for Memberships after my (original) Everything Everywhere All At Once Video blew up. I guess I *could* start a Patreon but I just don't know if I even have the audience for that, but if there is enough interest...

11 months ago | [YT] | 3

W.R. Breedlovecraft

So the Witcher IV trailer was pretty fire...*and* we're getting an animated Netflix movie in February. I'm thinking of doing more Witcher videos in 2025. I revisited an early video I did on Season 2 of the Netflix series and it held up surprisingly well. Never got around to covering the rest of the season, but to tbf it ended up being a hot mess that everyone just sorta pretends doesn't' exist.

Also coming this weekend: another Christmas Movies for Sickos short.

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