Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

"you know, you can always count on me if you need ten or eleven dollars."

overjoyed to i had saved this! no better way to spend 4/20 easter than stoned, snacking on mini-eggs + twizzlers, listening to bunny and trinity (played by masters in drag) gossip & lament between ordering room service, lounging, and dancing. by the time the killer easter bunny arrived i had forgotten there was supposed to be one at all  lol. the vegas hotel room setting had me dying to rewatch the w.a.v.e. masterpiece the vegas showgirl strangler, which this reminds me of a bit had it been directed by 1960s doris wishman. thank you jared masters for bringing the bizarre [& subtextually dykey] melodrama!

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

"she's hardly attractive. her only attribute was her talent. that's why we sacrificed everything."
— "she sacrificed everything."
"sorry?"
— "you said we. it's anna who sacrificed everything."

while i undoubtedly liked la pianiste when i first saw it, it resonated in a way that made it a little hard to bear. painful to think about too deeply. i am as different from huppert's lead as i am alike, but i still connect deeply with the flawed, lonely erika & her self destructive urges. some aspects of her narrative really pierce right thru my soul. eight years after my initial watch i am still enduring somewhat similar struggles, but i can better tolerate seeing them reflected back at me. (& sometimes i need to). 

a cold, austere, gut-punch of a film that i feel like i needed to revisit for some time ... i am not feeling exactly like myself at times recently, and it felt important to watch something where i felt seen. i can't relate to her masochistic desires, but the way they impact her life (rather, the way her life has manifested them & how they've caused her to be regarded with disgust and repulsion by the one she's chosen to open up to) isn't hard to empathize with when you see such an honest break down of her psyche. that ending in particular was especially visceral </3 

i'd love to learn more about erika's relationship w/ her mother, so i may need to read the book to gain some further insight.... ; this rewatch also reminded me of how i should get back to working thru huppert & hanake's respective filmographies. recs welcome!

a seedy b&w faux-noir sexploitation/roughie from doris wishman w/ some Classy foot shots, creative camera work, a jazzy score, & a lesbian dream sequence (the highlight!). the "bad" dubbing in these films is honestly a treat. i have a feeling that over time doris wishman's apartment will begin to feel just as comfortingly familiar as gary whitson [of w.a.v.e.]'s basement + plaid couch to me <3

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

"it'll be just like in the movies; we'll pretend to be someone else."

mulholland drive has been discussed 2 Death so i'll keep this brief as can be, but it was so exciting to finally see this at the cinema! worth the resulting pain of sitting in a theatre seat for a total 3 hours. 

i don't watch a lot of tv shows but i would have loved 2 see the initially proposed mulholland drive series.... it's ridiculous to think of the reasons abc allegedly didn't like the pilot : the nonlinear story, cigarette smoking, close up shot of dog poop, and the most absurd of all — naomi watts and laura elena harring were "too old"??!!!? such bullshit lol. the film is perfect as is but i still wonder... the mystery could have gone so much deeper, & the betty/rita to diane/camilla switch could have been even more heartbreaking, i think. 

lynch refusing to give anything away besides his insistence that the film tells a 'coherent and comprehensible' story is very on-brand (and also ... correct, imo). you just have to think like you're dissecting last night's dream! justin theroux posits that lynch loves when people come up with bizarre theories and that he works from the subconscious, which is also very true. i can't help but respect the plight of a fellow dreamer! 

doomed romance between two women in the city of dreams, reimagined again & again as nightmares (or nightmarish reality) prevail(s) and a bottle's worth of swallowed pills takes over.... rejoicing at last in the ether </3

oh & shoutout to rena riffel, the lynchian star who should've been! at least they can never take showgirls 2 from us!

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

films added and removed regularly ; some horror-adjacent films included as well (gialli, exploitation, a few darker dramas/thrillers, etc)

(numbered for randomization/selection purposes!)

1. The Sender
2. Diabolique
3. Vamp
4. Cronos
5. Frightmare
6. Maniac
7. The Ghost of Yotsuya
8. The Haunting
9. The Last Wave
10. I Am a Ghost

...plus 3977 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

an attempt to keep my Watchlist pared down a little.... 💥
— ft. experimental films, documentaries, lgbt films, popular films i haven't gotten around to watching. etc etc

• Gate of Hell
• I've Been Twelve Forever
• Meteorango Kid, Intergalactic Hero
• Tokyo-Ga
• 23rd Psalm Branch
• Spellbound
• Videograms of a Revolution
• Aria
• Time After Time
• Blow-Up

...plus 1953 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

under 60 min 𓅰

• Jabberwocky
• Mothers
• The Pleasure Garden
• Sway
• Journey to the West
• Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
• Salomé
• Psyche
• Magnetic Scramble
• Final Exit

...plus 3110 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

to rewatch...eventually...

• Let's Scare Jessica to Death
• Je Tu Il Elle
• Venus
• Belladonna of Sadness
• Dumplings
• Alice
• Heavenly Creatures
• Rebels of the Neon God
• Danse macabre
• The End

...plus 374 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

16/100

2025 cult movie challenge
2025 honey i shrunk the watchlist challenge 
2024 fave 1st-time-watches

interested generally in diving (further) into: v-cinema, pinku, jess franco, hisayasu satō, martial arts films + hong kong action, no budget/diy cinema, "bad"/early cgi, cinema of south/west asia and africa, w.a.v.e. + adjacent, low budget sci-fi & other (not just horror) genre films, pre-60s cinema, & general TRASH <3

no more films will be added to this list but i always love recs❕💜

• Rampo Noir
• Survey Map of a Paradise Lost
• The Gold of Love
• Night Has a Thousand Desires
• Who Wants To Be A Vampire Bride?
• Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
• Sada
• The Hole
• Killing Car
• Evil Dead Trap

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

keeping track of the films i've seen from w.a.v.e. productions! (the ranking is fairly loose & i'm always changing the order)

these odd & unique works of pure micro-budget mail-order regional cinematic ART are so special to me and i love/am thankful for everyone involved in making these silly & enigmatic treasures! thank you gary's basement & that one area of new jersey woods <3

➺ keep in mind that i like every single one of these no matter how far down on the list they are ; the first 21 i've rated ★★★★+  and the first 36 are ★★★½+. so many of these are masterpieces to me!!!! 

➺ & of course, thanks go out to my friends on here who have introduced me to w.a.v.e. and been on this little journey with me/shared movies with me! <3 you are all the best! 

➺ (note: the anthology around midnight is ranked based on the w.a.v.e. segment, not the film as a whole)

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

1. Chaos.TV
2. The Vegas Showgirl Strangler
3. Devoured!
4. The Invisible Stalker
5. Psycho Sisters
6. Cannibal Hillbillies
7. Sorority Slaughter 2
8. Witch's Feast (Part 2)
9. Eaten Alive: A Tasteful Revenge
10. The Infiltrators

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

original list
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not doubling up on any films from my 2025 watchlist or cult movie challenge. & when there is room to choose a film i've opted to prioritize films that've been on my list for a long time / 'classics' i've yet to see 
• also it's kind of hilarious seeing come and see between a talking cat!?! and cannabis holocaust
— prompts listed in the notes !


𓂀 0.7/30

• Funny Games

  first film added to watchlist

• Charmmy Kitty

  last film added to watchlist

• Dekalog

  longest film in watchlist

• Cannabis Holocaust

  shortest film in watchlist (i'm not including shorts for this)

• Come and See

  film with highest average rating

• A Talking Cat!?!

  film with lowest average rating

• Death of a Cyclist

  a film from the 1950s

• Confession

  a film from the 1960s

• The Butterfly Murders

  a film from the 1970s

• The Falls

  a film from the 1980s

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the original list
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 my picks are subject2change but i feel pretty good about these :-) 
prompts in the notes! 

07/52

1. The Curse of Kazuo Umezu

   week 1: anime week

2. Robowar

   week 2: reb brown week

3. Splatter University

   week 3: vestron video week

4. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

   week 4: 80s teen comedy week
   
   

5. The Haunted Palace

   week 5: roger corman week

6. The Brother from Another Planet

   week 6: blaxploitation week

7. Taste of Fear

   week 7: hammer films week

8. Nemesis

   week 8: albert pyun week

9. Clockers

   week 9; keith david week

10. Hard Rock Zombies

    week 10: cannon group week

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

no i never watch all the movies on my yearly watchlists and yes i still like the make them :-)

• Kill, Baby... Kill!
• Séance
• 13 Ghosts
• Young Soul Rebels
• Ganja & Hess
• The Sentinel
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
• The Appointment
• Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
• Hands of the Ripper

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• What Have You Done to Solange?
• The Sentinel
• Def by Temptation
• Autopsy
• Torture Garden
• Death Smiles on a Murderer
• Graduation Day
• The 4th Man
• Eyeball
• Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

so first of all sorry this list is so long i just have a lot of love in my heart <3

my fave first time watches of 2024 (roughly the top 27% of my logs)

2024 was my 10th year using letterboxd (since jan 2015) but my first year really attempting 2 formalize my thoughts / scribble down reviews and use the platform more socially for a variety of reasons, which incidentally lead to many new cinematic discoveries and building a lovely community / befriending people with equally bizarre, niche, & trashy+classy taste :'D

so anyway sappiness over ! here are lots of the movies i watched in 2024 that i adored / left a considerable impact on me, though surely i'm still forgetting some

( not ranked )

• Noriko's Dinner Table
• Death Powder
• The Black Tower
• Gorotica
• Shinjuku Triad Society
• Blank Generation
• Séance
• Ganja & Hess
• Angel Dust
• Witch's Feast

...plus 239 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

19/40

• Poison for the Fairies
• Deep Red
• Wolf's Hole
• Blind Woman's Curse
• Requiem for a Vampire
• The Pyx
• She Killed in Ecstasy
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
• Hatchet for the Honeymoon
• Lake of the Dead

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

films i plan on (hopefully!) watching in 2017

8/25

• The Handmaiden
• Code Unknown
• Poison
• Scenes from a Marriage
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• No Home Movie
• Hotel Monterey
• Judgement
• Moonlight
• The Times of Harvey Milk

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

top 10% of films i watched for the first time in 2020 :-) subpar year lmao but lots of good movies! 

(order is arbitrary)

• Sonatine
• Personal Problems
• The Fan
• Killing Spree
• Man
• Vive L'Amour
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Don't Go in the House
• Tales from the Quadead Zone
• Babylon

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

389 films watched for the 1st time in 2020 / 458 total films watched in 2020 (85% new watches)

stats for 1st time watches!

281 feature films (72%) / 108 shorts (27%)
194 liked / 389 (50%)
horror : 217/389 (56%)

2020s : 7 • 2010s : 53 • 2000s : 32 • 1990s : 45 • 1980s : 101 • 1970s : 97 • 1960s : 27 • 1950s : 8 • 1940s : 3 • 1930s : 4 • 1920s : 2 • 1910s : 2 • 1900s : 5 • 1890s : 2 • 1880s : 1

italy : 29/389
: 26/389
japan : 12/389
: 12/389
spain : 6/389
south korea : 5/389
netherlands : 5/389
russia : 4/389
thailand : 4/389
usa : 224 ; uk : 54 ; canada : 14 ; australia : 5

• Drowning by Numbers
• Thirst
• Spider Forest
• The Irishman
• Shutter
• Child's Play 3
• Child's Play 2
• The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Happy Death Day

...plus 377 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

watchlist for 2020!
(4/20 watched)

• City of Pirates
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
• Sorcerer
• Deep Red
• Demons
• Cronos
• Brand Upon the Brain!
• Kwaidan

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies i would like to watch in 2018!

10/25

• Yi Yi
• Le Bonheur
• The Handmaiden
• Tropical Malady
• Calvaire
• Kuroneko
• Code Unknown
• Kwaidan
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• From the East

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

non exhaustive and continuously expanding list of movies i plan to watch in 2016

[ 20/44 watched ]

• Scenes from a Marriage
• Suzhou River
• Woman in the Dunes
• El Topo
• The Lobster
• Belle de Jour
• The Devils
• Dead Ringers
• The Killing
• Wild Strawberries

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies to watch in 2019!
(6/15 watched)

• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Noroi: The Curse
• Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels
• The Children's Hour
• What Have You Done to Solange?
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Mother Joan of the Angels
• True Stories
• The Perfume of the Lady in Black
• Drowning by Numbers

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.