I was gonna say something else but then I remembered the last movie I saw was Hellraiser II, so this is going to be the last two movies I saw because I wanna say a more obscure one.
So Hellraiser II gets a 4/5. I enjoyed it about as much as I did the first one, very good movie, great practical effects, cool sets, very painful looking. I liked how much it was just a direct sequel, picking up right after the first one(this is apparently something the others do not do at all), and seeing more of the Labyrinth and hell was great, as was seeing the dark god Leviathan(even if they do defeat it pretty easily. I suppose they do in Silent Hill too and I love that game.) It was a good 80s body horror movie and I had a good time watching it. Sadly and ironically, I had just finished watching it when I heard Kentarou Miura died. I got around to both(as well as watched Flesh+Blood) because of their influence on Berserk.
The movie, sorry I mean film, I watched before this was The City of Lost Children, a french film from the mid 90s. I'd also rate it 4/5. It has Ron Pearlman in it speaking french! As sideshow strongman with a heart of gold, called One. He's goes on an adventure through the strange, dark, and incredibly well designed city(cannot stress this enough, fantastic set and art design), looking for Denree, who he sees as his little brother. Denree has been kidnapped by agents of Krank, an old evil clone of a scientist who is kidnapping and giving kids nightmares when he links up to their dreams trying to find a way for him to dream, as he can't. There's also a brain in a green fishtank who talks through a speaker. On One's quest he ends up roped into helping some orphans steal a safe full of jewels for two conjoined twins who force the children to steal for them, and since one of the orphans runs off with him, they also chase after them. They use a weird bug that can cause people to be mind controlled by a street organ if it injects them with some weird green liquid.
What I'm saying is this movie is weird and pretty silly. I don't know french so I can't tell how much of it is intentional, but I'd say the tone is fairly comical. It's surreal and fun and it looks cool, I'd highly recommend it if what I said sounds good to you.
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