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The Deaths of Ian Stone

(2007)

This movie starts out like a cross between Dark City, They Live, and that Yes video where the guy washes his face with maggots, so at first it's pretty freaky. These crazy demons keep killing this dude, but whenever he dies he just pops back to life in different circumstances with a completely different past. He's like a DC superhero. Each time though there's this one mysterious stranger who seems to be on his side. I especially liked it when they had this conversation:

Ian Stone: "Who the hell are you?"
Mysterious Stranger: "That's not important."
Ian Stone: "No, you know what, that IS important!"

Way to call him out. Really, why do mysterious strangers always have to be so goddamned niggardly with their information? This cat knows exactly what's going down, but of course he only tells Ian Stone a little bit at a time. Just get to the point, you fucking dick. And was it really necessary to have the demons do that thing where they shake their heads around really fast? Could someone please explain to me why that's supposed to be scary? IT LOOKS RETARDED. I swear, there must be some freeware that does that effect automatically because lately movies can't seem to get enough of it. Anyway, eventually these clowns who look like they rent rooms in the Matrix show up and it's pretty much all downhill from there, unless you enjoy watching a guy in a "scary grandma" Halloween mask fight cartoon effects in somebody's basement.

I did like the brunette demon chick though. She had one hell of a body. Ha! One hell of a body. Get it?