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I couldn't a thing, but I ed it to be more memorable than that. I guess the joke's entirely on me. Thank god it has Beckinsale and Bill Nighy.

I had completely forgotten that Pryce played the villain from start to finish as an entirely cartoonish parody - wonderful! And Michelle Yeoh is just a blast to see.

What's weird, after watching a few of the more recent Brosnan appearances, is that he's actually more suave now than when he was playing Bond.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

What I learned from my recent QI binge: Orange used to be called red, until the name of the fruit became the name of the color. I don't know why I'm mentioning this here, though.

That said, this is really annoyingly groany. The poor self-serving, allies-threatening President is just misunderstood and only wants to be loved by his daughter.

I'm really trying to like Mackie, he's just not a leading man, I can't help it. It doesn't work. On top of that, Esposito as well as Nelson were properly wasted for this.

Yes, I was only 16 when I last saw this (when it was freshly released). I am still absolutely baffled how I took it as anything less than a rather wonderful comedy back then.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

Have not seen it since the original theater run, so this was my first watch in more than 20 years.

Shooting almost the entire thing - except the last few minutes - on video was certainly a choice. One I am not sure has aged well: While it certainly adds a lot to the eerie feeling of decay and lost hope, I believe most of that effect was aimed to work as an immersive effect on a pre-HD TV audience, emulating the aesthetics of TV news and documentaries to a degree. Now and at least to me, it pushes the movie into the surreal, adds some unnecessary distance between the audience and what is shown. It dates the events as something from a different time - which is most jarring when the final scenes of a hopeful future appear in crisp film images, full on recognizable as a piece of fiction.

But maybe that's part of the point: To unmask the hope for a better future, if we just manage to survive the present, as a fantasy, a dream - the fact that the brighter future starts by cutting to Jim (Cillian Murphy) waking up (again), mirroring the beginning, certainly undermines the positive outlook.

But musings about how "28 Days Later" can be read now vs then aside, it is in any case still a stellar movie. The whole sequence with Jim wandering through empty London in his hospital gown appears endless in its fatalistic beauty, and has every right to be as iconic as it has become over the years. I just wish the movie would actually start with this sequence, instead of the weirdly out of place intro with the lab break-in, which seems to serve no function but as a mostly unnecessary exposition dump (with a slight reactionary slant).

What's also interesting is how each act is coded by a color leitmotiv: From the hospital gown and walls to shopping trolleys, supermarket decorations and various elements in Jim's home, an unhealthy teal is noticeable as a recurring visual during the first third. Then, when Jim and Selena partner with Frank and his daughter Hanna, the picture saturates with bright and lush greens - most notably the tray of magically preserved apples in the midst of decayed fruit and vegetables. And lastly, how could it be anything else, red: First subtle in the decorations of the occupied manor, then crass in the red dresses Selena and Hanna are forced to wear; and of course in the blood and blood red eyes of the infected, now brightly lit by lightning among the grey of the surroundings.

28 Days Later is a movie about zombies, sure (sorry, "infected"). But more importantly, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland use their plot to reflect about families. About which forms they can take, how they can be lost and rebuilt, but also how they can betray you. From Jim, who needs to see his parents one last time ("We left you sleeping. Now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up."); to Selena, who vows to not get attached to anyone; to Frank and Hanna, who desperately look for a larger family as a mode of survival. And then we have the soldiers, first turning against one of their own, then driven to succumb to their own rage out of a lack of family: "What do nine men do, except wait to die themselves?"

"It's not all bullshit", says Jim, after he spotted an airplane flying above, and it is that sign of hope that allows the trio to survive being caught between a rock (a group of sociopathic soldiers) and a hard place (well, the world). And then Jim falls unconscious from his injuries. When he wakes up again, all the world is green. "Don't wake up."

This one moment is just beautiful: Miles Teller's Levi is about to travel back home from his forbidden date with Anya Taylor-Joy's Drasa, and of course something goes wrong and he falls into the mysterious gorge. Drasa watches him fall and - without a second of hesitation - just runs and leaps after him. Nothing of the usual montage of despair and preparations and weighing of options and rational decisions vs emotional ones. She just goes for it, and it's such a sincerely romantic gesture that it carries the film across many of its shortcomings in other areas.

The Gorge pretends to be an action or even light horror movie that s a bit of love interest as a side plot to justify a Valentine's Day release. But it isn't. It's a love story, a romantic fairy tale, and its action scenes just serve as illustrations of the stages of Drasa's and Levi's relationship.

Yes, the two protagonists don't have more backstory than what would fit on a business card, but what little they have is efficient and precisely enough to carry the plot. Levi is the traumatized and ever brooding super sniper, including the cliché mystery of "confirmed kills" vs "the real number is much higher". And we get to know him in a 60 second montage of scenes of loneliness - at the beach, at home, at the supermarket. A man who has no place in the world anymore. Jeremy Renner's character from Hurt Locker, compressed to the essentials. It's simple - and it works.

Drasa's setup is basically the same - but with a wonderfully tragic little twist: Her relationship to her ex-KGB father. A loving father who tells her that he will take his life before they will meet next, to escape the most severe stages of his progressing illness, and he asks her to light a candle for him on the day it is supposed to happen. Later it will be that day when Levi sees Drasa across the gorge, crying, in front of a candle. "It's been a very rough day", she writes on a piece of paper, for him to read through his binoculars, and everything else that will happen is essentially a direct consequence of this. The man who has no home left in the world, meeting the woman who just lost hers.

As sweet - albeit cheesy, sure - and heartfelt the romance at the core of The Gorge is, as lucky is Derrickson to have two leads whose chemistry can carry the movie. The mystery about the gorge and the weird monsters that crawl out from it is a bit of a disappointment - borrowing from a wild mix of video game and body horror tropes, failing to ever find a way to turn this combination into original and compelling action set pieces. Fair, since both the gorge as well as the tacked-on conspiracy subplot serve only as devices to allow for Levi's and Drasa's relationship to blossom, to show their kinship evolving from spontaneous dancing on top of their observation tower to the tactical choreography of their highly trained super soldier gunplay down in the mist.

The Gorge is a sweet and sincere fairy tale of a love story, and it succeeds in turning the action-romance-relationship of the genre on its head. I just wish it would have invested a tiny bit more care into the elements of the genre it is trying to subvert. With lesser actors than Teller and Taylor-Joy, this would not have worked.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025.

Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

The opening sequence works - no wonder they put that on Youtube before the theatrical release. Unfortunately, it's only downhill from there. ATJ is really the only baaaaarely able element here, and even that is only because I assume his agent was wise enough to not let him try to do a bad Russian accent like the entire rest of the cast.

Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.

Watched on Saturday December 21, 2024.

Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.

Requires A LOT of suspension of disbelief, and that little action sequence on the highway in the car is just spectacularly misshot. But it's a great premise, Bateman is a wonderful villain (easily overshadowing Egerton's blandness), and Collet-Serra knows how to keep things moving forward and the audience just enough guessing to stay engaged.

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

A very high-concept slasher. It deconstructs a lot of what makes the genre typically work, and replaces it with... nihilism, kind of. It's very barebones, and it's really smart in how it places exposition throughout the movie. And it dwells in its tedium, so much so that it can be offputting. I was very much in "okay, that was an interesting idea, but not sure where it was supposed to go" mode.

But it's all just a smart ploy to make the whole thing hit even harder in the end. I let those final few shots sit with me for a bit. They *linger*. The ending is unsettling, just stays in the back of your mind, and it only does that because of the experiment you witnessed the 80 minutes before.

Die Hard and a bit of Home Alone, but with viking murder hobo Santa Claus and some fuzzy christmas feelings tacked onto it. I'm not surprised that it just works, despite how silly it all is.

Weirdly the most enjoyable of the three, which is a *very* low bar for me, and it only barely clears that. The plot is barely enough to fill 15 minutes, while the rest is just... stuff. And Tom Hardy is just so horribly incapable of playing this grimy-yet-somehow-still-lovable buddy comedy shtick, it's not even funny (also: it's really not funny because of that).

But something is slightly different this time. I guess it's the first of the trilogy that at least has a tiny bit of heart? Again, low bar. But it is what it is.

It's cheap and indy and low stakes and did I mention cheap? But it's surprisingly charming and enjoyable and honest. Like not GDT charming, but still about 3x more charming than that David Harbour trainwreck. 25 years ago this would have been DTV and recommended in certain forums as a "cult" movie. Not correctly, but it would still have happened. That kind of movie. Haven't seen one of these in a long time, and I appreciate it for that.

Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.

Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.

Has the occasional oldschool ZAZ moment, mostly when Nielsen is in the scene. But really only very occasional.

Could have very, very easily turned into bleak cynicism, as many with a similar setup do. But didn't. Very pleasant surprise.

Watched on Sunday November 3, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday October 23, 2024.

Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.

Yes, I had fun, and yes, I like how heartfelt it is, especially towards the end. But ramping up to that, I also could not help but groan about how unfulfilling the whole affair is.

Watched on Sunday September 29, 2024.

Watched on Monday September 2, 2024.

Watched on Sunday August 18, 2024.

Released in 2024 and watched no later than by end of 2025. Ranked not based on what I think is the best movie, but what I'm most glad I spent time with. It'll also not always completely align with the rating I gave. Concluded (as of Dec 31st) one-season shows are included.

1. Civil War
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Nosferatu
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. In a Violent Nature
6. Longlegs
7. Heretic
8. The First Omen
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. Alien: Romulus

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

A bit of a challenge for myself: These are all the movies
- I have lying around at home (in HD or higher resolution),
- that are part of the Criterion Collection, and
- I have never seen before (or only in parts or so long ago that I genuinely don't if I've seen them or not).
I want to have watched at least 12 movies from this list by the end of 2025.

If successful, I will remove the watched movies and start with 0/x watched into 2026 again.

Note: This list is WIP, I'm still combing through my collection for more movies that are also part of the CC. Also, I may add new movies to this list throughout the year, when they become available to me.

• Ikiru
• Autumn Sonata
• Fanny and Alexander
• Stalker
• Persona
• Do the Right Thing
• Paris, Texas
• Scenes from a Marriage
• Army of Shadows
• The Seventh Seal

...plus 207 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Released in 2023 and watched no later than by end of 2024. Ranked not based on what I think is the best movie, but what I'm most glad I spent time with. It'll also not always completely align with the rating I gave. Concluded (as of Dec 31st) one-season shows are included.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Extraction 2
3. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
5. John Wick: Chapter 4
6. No One Will Save You
7. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
8. The Equalizer 3
9. Late Night with the Devil
10. A Haunting in Venice

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

Released and watched in 2022. Ranked not based on what I think is the best movie, but what I'm most glad I spent time with. It'll also not always completely align with the rating I gave. Concluded (as of Dec 31st) one-season shows are included.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Pearl
3. The Northman
4. X
5. The Batman
6. Prey
7. Nope
8. Clerks III
9. Top Gun: Maverick
10. The Princess

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Dune
• Don't Look Up
• The French Dispatch
• Black Widow
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• The Suicide Squad
• Encanto
• Licorice Pizza
• Luca

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Gone Girl
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Interstellar
• John Wick
• Kingsman: The Secret Service
• Nightcrawler
• What We Do in the Shadows

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Ant-Man
• Carol
• Ex Machina
• The Hateful Eight
• Inside Out
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• Our Little Sister
• The Revenant
• Room

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• La La Land
• Arrival
• Moonlight
• Deadpool
• Doctor Strange
• Captain America: Civil War
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Split
• Suicide Squad
• Zootopia

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• The Father
• Hamilton
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• The Invisible Man
• Minari
• Nomadland
• Palm Springs
• Promising Young Woman
• A Quiet Place Part II

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Baby Driver
• Call Me by Your Name
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Coco
• Dunkirk
• Blade Runner 2049
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• 1917
• Avengers: Endgame
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Knives Out
• The Lighthouse
• Little Women
• Midsommar
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Parasite

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 10 most popular feature films and up to 5 from the highest rated of that year, combined to a quintessential "must see" list. Created not before July 1st of the following year.

I'm taking some liberties on those "up to 5 from the highest rated": Generally from the first page only, trying to pick only feature films with which I associate some level of relevancy, based on media coverage and public debate.

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Black Panther
• Hereditary
• A Quiet Place
• BlacKkKlansman
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Incredibles 2
• Deadpool 2

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked not based on what I think is the best movie, but what I'm most glad I spent time with. Or most precisely: How fondly I the experience. But since emotional memories change, so will the order of this list, either upon rewatches or just because I feel like it. It'll also not always completely align with the rating I gave. Concluded (as of Dec 31st) one-season shows are included.

1. Nomadland
2. Shadow in the Cloud
3. Love and Monsters
4. Underwater
5. Bill & Ted Face the Music
6. Tenet
7. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
8. If Anything Happens I Love You
9. Sonic the Hedgehog
10. The Invisible Man

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked not based on what I think is the best movie, but what I'm most glad I spent time with. Or most precisely: How fondly I the experience. But since emotional memories change, so will the order of this list, either upon rewatches or just because I feel like it. It'll also not always completely align with the rating I gave. Concluded (as of Dec 31st) one-season shows are included.

1. Pig
2. Last Night in Soho
3. Midnight Mass
4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
5. No Time to Die
6. Zack Snyder's Justice League
7. Malignant
8. Loki
9. The Card Counter
10. Candyman

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I am late to this particular party, called Hooptober Eight. First I was looking forward to this, then I didn't want to commit to horror, then all of a sudden I only wanted to watch horror movies but was too lazy to build a list. So I read the rules and watched a couple of horror movies (after September 15th) where I thought they might fit. And then I decided I wanted to build a list. Well, this is it: Late and deliberately light. Also: By the end of the month will be tough for me, despite the head start I gave myself for including every horror movie I watched after September 15th.

But I'm doing this mainly to reduce my option paralysis when chosing a movie, so, sue me. I'll be using the hashtag anyway. ;) I'm sure you'll survive.

So, without further ado, here's the categories:
6 countries: 9 - USA, Italy, Canada, Spain, UK, South Korea, Norway, Japan, Ireland.
8 decades: 1950s to 2020s, so 8.
2 folk horror: 3 - The Wicker Man (1973), A Classic Horror Story, Kill List.
4 films from 1981: 5 - The Beyond, The Funhouse, My Bloody Valentine, Dead & Buried, The Howling.
2 films from my birth year 1982: 2 - The Thing, Slumber Party Massacre.
2 haunted house films: 4-ish, not sure with some, but judging from what I read - The Beyond, A Classic Horror Story, The Legend of Hell House, House on Haunted Hill (1999).
The worst Part 2 that I haven't seen and can (easily) access: Alone in the Dark 2.
1 film set in the woods: 4-ish, some are probably fringe cases - Mandy, A Classic Horror Story, Kill List, The Hallow.
1 Kaiju or Kong film: 1 - really didn't feel like it, so I chose Pacific Rim which I wanted to rewatch for ages.
2 Hammer films: 2 - Dracula (1958), Captain Kronos.
3 fils with a PoC as director or lead: 3 - Candyman (2021), Black as Night, House at the End of the Street (2012).
3 Asian horror films: 3 - Parasite, Pulse, #Alive.
1 Tobe Hooper film: The Funhouse.

Since I failed last year with just two movies to go (Cat People remake and The Eye 2), I hereby pledge that I'll finish this list, even if it may leak into November.

Oh, and I'll add reviews to the things I already watched but didn't review, of course. Now, off to scary or gory stuff.

PS:
First time watches: Candyman (2021), The Beyond, Mandy, Alone in the Dark 2, The Funhouse, Slumber Party Massacre, My Bloody Valentine, Repulsion, The Devil's Backbone, The Wicker Man (1973), Dracula (1958), Captain Kronos, Black as Night, Parasite, Thelma, A Classic Horror Story, Kill List, The Legend of Hell House, House at the End of the Street, The Hallow, #Alive
Watched it, but so long ago I barely a thing: Ghosts of Mars, Jason Goes to Hell, Dead & Buried, The Howling, House on Haunted Hill (1999)

• Candyman
• Urban Legend
• The Faculty
• Ghosts of Mars
• The Beyond
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Mandy
• Alone in the Dark 2
• The Funhouse
• The Thing

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Source and comments here: filmschoolrejects.com/best-movies-2020/

Recreated without explicit permission for private use to check completion status, please let me know if you're from the filmschoolrejects.com crew and want me to remove it.

1. Nomadland
2. First Cow
3. Minari
4. Lovers Rock
5. Possessor
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. Sound of Metal
8. The Vast of Night
9. The Assistant
10. One Night in Miami...

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 30 movies per decade from 1920 to 2019, sorted by all time popularity. Just a fun and (hopefully) motivating canon completion list to get to 100% with...

((I wanted to pick 3 per year instead, but in some years, the results were very wonky and I didn't want to overcrowd this list with concert movies, TV show theatrical cuts and TV documentaries, so picking 30 per decade instead...))

• Metropolis
• Nosferatu
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Un Chien Andalou
• Battleship Potemkin
• The Kid
• The General
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

...plus 290 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What the title says. I just picked one movie per release year since my birth. This is not necessarily what I think would be the best movie (from those that I've seen), but it's the movie that means the most to me personally. Really, this list is probably saying more about me than about the movies featured on it.

I was strict with one rule: Just look at individual years. No mercy picks like "I want something by director xy" and then picking one while there's actually something else you like more in this year.

There were a number of weird years, where I basically had to pick between a few "meh" choices, and others where I would have loved to pick three at once. I might add some runner-ups in the comments later.

• Fitzcarraldo
• Videodrome
• The Terminator
• Pale Rider
• Down by Law
• Near Dark
• Vampire's Kiss
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Total Recall
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies I have seen, completely forgotten and want to watch again.

• Tell No One
• You Kill Me
• A Crime
• Crossfire

Alright. I always spend more time chosing what to watch than actually watching things. So it was about time to participate in one of these list challenges, to take this option paralysis out of the equation. So I stumbled upon this Hooptober list by cinemonster - thank you for that.

I'm supposed to pick 31 movies and watch them in the month of October and review them all. To be upfront: I won't do that. I'll start watching right away, I don't want to burn out by trying to cram one movie per day, so I need to space this out a little. The rest, however, I'll try to do. Knowing myself, on about October 25th I'll be at 19 movies and still unrealistically optimistic that "I just have to watch 3 movies per day for the next 4 days, easy, right". But maybe I prove myself wrong.

So, without further rambling, here's the list I picked, and how those movies relate to the challenges posed:

6 countries: 9. 1x , 1x Netherlands, 1x Japan, 1x Thailand, 1x Hong Kong, 1x Canada, 2x UK, 3x Italy, 20x USA.

6 decades: 8. 1x 1950s, 2x 1960s, 4x 1970s, 9x 1980s, 2x 1990s, 4x 2000s, 7x 2010s, 2x 2020s.

7 2nd films of franchises: 10. 6 obvious sequels, the less obvious "10 Cloverfield Lane" and 3 remakes (Cat People, The Crazies, Maniac)

4 body horror films: 6. Slither, Possession, Scanners, Akira, From Beyond, Pandorum (I assume, I really don't know enough about this last one).

2 films from this year: The Invisible Man, Gretel & Hansel.

3 disease based films: Depends on the definition of "disease based". If that means "disease plays an important role", then 8. Flesh + Blood, Slither, Vampire Circus, The Crazies (1973), The Crazies (2010), Pandorum, Black Death, The Bay.

The highest rated horror film from the 50s that you haven't seen and can access: Diabolique.

1 film that is set entirely inside one location: With being rather liberal with "inside one location", I count up to 5. Slither, Baron Blood, Pandorum, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Pool.

1 Invisible Person film: The Invisible Man.

1 Non Dracula Hammer Film: 2. Vampire Circus, The Devil Rides Out.

2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead: 3. Demon Knight, Ganja and Hess, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh.

1 film with a movie theater in it: 1, but I'm sure while watching I'll find more. So far I'm only certain about Demoni.

And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Bonus note: Up to 28 of these 31 movies are first time watches (I'm incredibly uncertain about the original Crazies, I'll find out, I guess). While building this list, I discovered a couple of glaring holes in my watch history (and ed many I already knew about). So here's to catching up.

Anything else I should know before I start? Please leave a comment.

• Diabolique
• Black Sabbath
• The Devil Rides Out
• Baron Blood
• Vampire Circus
• The Crazies
• Ganja & Hess
• Scanners
• Possession
• Cat People

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.