Ben Horak Pro

Seattle-based cartoonist. Cartoon school graduate. Movie watcher. Creator of Grump Toast comics.

Favorite films

  • Boogie Nights
  • Nowhere
  • Freaked
  • Anguish

All
  • Bring Her Back

    ★★★★

  • Dead Mail

    ★★★

  • Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini

    ★★½

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★★

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Bring Her Back

2025

★★★★ Watched

The kind of movie that makes you want to call your mouth afterwards to check in on your teeth’s well-being. I don’t think about them enough but I hope they’re happy and healthy. Thanks for the reminder, knife scene!

Dead Mail

2024

★★★ Watched

Hooked for the first 20 minutes, then lost interest for the next 40, but goddamn if it didn’t pull me back in again for the remainder!

There’s a lot I really loved in this but the early plot pivot caused all the suspense to evaporate for a huge chunk of time. Would be interesting to see an edit with a more linear story structure. Start with Trent and Josh AND THEN move into Jasper and the post office. Not sure if it would really work or not but maybe!

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Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini

2015

★★½ Watched

This documentary: “I love Tom Savini! Savini’s the best! Hands down! What a guy! He can do so many things! I mean who can do the things that Savini’s done? Absolutely no one cause there’s no one like Savini. He’s never done anything wrong ever. Did I mention how much I love Tom Savini? Cause I love him, he’s the best etc etc etc”

Groucho Marx: “I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth every once and a while”

Swing Girls

2004

★★★★½ Liked 1

There’s a scene played out through a series of living tableaus of the swing girls being chased through the woods by a wild boar to ‘What A Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong. The boar is defeated when one of the girls falls out of a tree and crushes its skull with their butt. Pure magic from start to finish.

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