Adam Whybray
Joined April 2026
A formerly scared child
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Each dot is a film Adam Whybray has rated, colored by score. Lines connect films that share cast, crew, franchise, studio, or themes — thicker lines mean stronger creative overlap. Teal dots are unseen films pulled in by high-rated favorites.
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“The intensity rating ignores the baseball bat scene, which I thought was surprisingly gritty/ unpleasant!”
“Inspired by Švankmajer's experience being restrained while experiencing ego death by undergoing a governmental LSD-dosing experiment.”
“I think part of what makes Ruiz's 80s films disturbing is that they genuinely seem possessed of their own moral logic that is not our own (or maybe belongs to our unconscious minds).”
“One of the most convincingly //dream-like// films I've ever seen.”
“The audacity of starting a Wizard of Oz sequel with Dorothy being taken away to a mental asylum to receive electric-shock treatment!”
“Also, the best use of 3D I've even seen in a cinema, differentiating the flat everyday world to the seductive depths of the Other world.”
“Does anyone else mainly find it a deeply sad film?”
“Umezu should be as big as Ito. There needs to be a Chicken George/ 'Thirteen' live-action film, perferably directed by someone who shouldn't be allowed near a camera.”
“Seriously though, I suspect that only people actually involved in the making of this film, think about it as much as me.”
“It doesn't maintain its full intensity over its entire run-time, but it certainly contains some of the most intense individual scenes I have experienced in a horror film (outside of those including real violence or abuse).”
“Best experienced on a Manga Video VHS with a 5-minute trailer for 'Fist of the North Star' before it (this was actually my experience for 'Perfect Blue' but it should have been my experience for 'Akira'.”
“Schumacher must be the director with the highest deviation in scores I have awarded his films. I loathe 'Falling Down' for its crypto-fascism (however slickly achieved) and find his Batman films way more fun in theory than in practice... bu…”
“This film really brought home to me how much heavy lifting Clint Mansell's scores have, in my opinion, done for previous films by Aronofsky. Mostly though, I hate the way in which his screenplay layers three different allegorical messages (…”
“I'd argue it's the best horror-comedy of at least the last decade.”
“Who would have guessed ten years ago that a creepy, pretentious avant-garde horror novel called 'House of Leaves' would have such a cultural impact... but here we are.”