top 5 locked in, though i would rec them all the same.

there are a couple of free spaces left because i make the rules and will update if anything else proves worthy this month. but also shoutout to: Slash/Back, Resurrection, On the Count of Three, Nocebo, Sissy.

guess how many movies i cried at. winner gets a compliment.

“best of” pre-2022 films here.

1. Aftersun
2. TÁR
3. RRR
4. Medusa
5. Crimes of the Future
6. Saint Omer
7. Neptune Frost
8. Leonor Will Never Die
9. The Fabelmans
10. Scarborough

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

Ranked-ish, in that I'm still feeling woozy from my booster (which already dates this list) but there's a flow if you've been following closely.

No standout winner, quite a few unexpected treasures.

Annette remains the most exhilarating and excruciating viewing experience I've had all year, mad respect. Woodlands is also on a level of its own.

Honorable mentions: Benedetta, Old, History of the Occult, Spencer, All Light Everywhere

Best new-to-me watches of 2021 here.

• Titane
• There Is No Evil
• The Green Knight
• What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
• Malignant
• Fortuna
• The Story of Southern Islet
• Yuni
• Drive My Car
• Boiling Point

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

Happy Hooptober from yours truly.

If you see any changes until this officially starts (let's be real, ends), no you didn't 🖤 Just know that it was very hard not to include my millionth rewatch of Vampire's Kiss.

Cinemonster's original list can be found here.

• Dancing Village: The Curse Begins

  1/6 countries (indonesia)

• The Devil's Honey

  1/4 italian films
  2/6 countries (italy)

• Hour of the Wolf

  3/6 countries (sweden)

• Where the Devil Roams

  woman director ☑️

• The Case of the Bloody Iris

  2/4 italian films

• The Devil's Bath

  4/6 countries (austria)
  woman director ☑️

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

  1/1 robert wiene

• Tenebre

  3/4 italian films

• Psycho

  1/4 all films from same horror franchise

• Psycho II

  2/4 all films from same horror franchise

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

From the depths of my watchlist, here are films I have not seen because 

- avoiding disappointment etc.
- they are categorically Not My Thing
- i've simply put them off and should probably get around to it

updated: 18 September 2024 after three years wow (half the list is gone and replaced!)

• GoodFellas
• Citizen Kane
• Memento
• Casablanca
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Apocalypse Now
• Dark Star
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• Akira

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

• All Cheerleaders Die
• The Clown at Midnight
• Cut
• Dracula 2000
• Ghost in the Machine
• Good Burger 2
• Hating Alison Ashley
• The Hidden
• Intruder
• Mars Attacks!

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

It was the year of Tony Leung and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers.
We love to see it.

Sorted alphabetically.

"Best of" 2023 here.

• 3 Women
• Dracula
• Flowers of Shanghai
• Happy Together
• Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
• Merrily We Go to Hell
• Night Raiders
• Prince of Darkness
• Red Cliff
• Smooth Talk

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

it's the nightmare of Hooptober past, where it's mostly a graveyard of films that have been on my watchlist for far too long. seems like there's a sprinkle of dracula too, just a little bit. and I will fight that the Nicolas Cage hit Knowing is a horror film.

tbh I'm here to champion 2000s cinema thanks to the "film released the year you turned 10" prompt because what a time that was.

extra women-made films I might switch some out for: Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning), Wishing Stairs (Yun Jae-yeon), I Blame Society (Gillian Wallace Horvat)

happy hooptober, my friends and enemies!! 🎃

• Saw X

  1/8 decades: 2020s

• Dracula 2000

  "worst" dracula film
  2/8 decades: 2000s

• Asylum

  amicus film
  1/2 peter cushing

• The Blood on Satan's Claw

  satan/devil centered film
  3/8 decades: 1970s

• The Wailing

  satan/devil centered film

• Prince of Darkness

  satan/devil centered film
  something is underground film
  4/8 decades: 1980s

• Dracula

  2/2 peter cushing
  5/8 decades: 1950s

• The Last Voyage of the Demeter

  based on bram stoker's work

• Dread

  based on a clive barker story

• Fragile

  released the year you turned 10

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

making my MUBI watchlist public to hold myself able.
will be updated etc.

context here.

• The African Desperate
• Black Girl
• The Cathedral
• Code Unknown
• Evolution of a Filipino Family
• Farewell Amor
• The Five Devils
• Fundamentally Happy
• The Girl and the Spider
• Happy Hour

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

No, Ms. Marvel is not a 6-hour film no matter how hard they try to make the shows to be, but it is the only one I have thoroughly enjoyed and it knocks everyone else out of the park. So, logic.

1. Ms. Marvel
2. Black Panther
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. Iron Man
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Ant-Man
8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

torn between revisiting horror faves, checking out a couple of blindspots and watching every mary-kate and ashley movie i've already seen at least 30 times over as a kid. 🤷🏽‍♀️

• Dead Ringers
• Videodrome
• Jaws
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Ring
• The Ring
• The Grudge
• It Follows
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Dead Calm

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

listed in alphabetical order.
“best of” 2022 here.

• 8MM
• Ball of Fire
• Black Book
• Close Calls
• Cool Runnings
• Dangerous Seductress
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Donkey Skin
• Fresh Kill
• Hard Boiled

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

I accidentally deleted this list a while back and had to take some time to cry over it.

Will be updated regularly as I am a fragile, sensitive, emotional creature.

• Toni Erdmann
• Call Me by Your Name
• Ali's Wedding
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Kedi
• Lady Bird
• The Big Sick
• The Meddler
• Mustang
• Life, Animated

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Paul and Zheddy did it and so shall I.

Work in progress? I got lazy and only made it to the 1930s, which is embarrassing enough. It's amazing my trivia team hasn't kicked me out yet.

Based on Letterboxd popularity, the highest from every year. May not be accurate anymore.

• Top Gun: Maverick
• The French Dispatch
• The Father
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

  #4

• Isle of Dogs

  #14

• mother!

  #19

  lol like i'll ever watch this

• Hacksaw Ridge

  #24

• The Revenant

  #5

  there's a lot I haven't seen from this year, apparently.
  interesting.

• Edge of Tomorrow

  #19

• The Great Gatsby

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

RIP films that were already in my watchlist, you barely got a chance. But shoutout to Cinemonster for taking me out of my comfort zone for yet another year.

Prompts led me to too many English/American films for my liking so I might try to switch it up a bit more, but she looks pretty good.

Happy Hooptober!

• Blood Games

  ☑️ woman director

• Scream Dream

  EDIT: this was originally for the musician/band prompt but they must be IRL so this is now a bonus

• Leprechaun 4: In Space

  1/1 horror film set in space or the future
  1/1 worst horror sequel from the 90s

• Leprechaun in the Hood

  1/1 film with a musician or band in it

• Let's Scare Jessica to Death

  1/2 1970s regional US films

• Wicked City

  1/2 animated films

• Wendell & Wild

  2/2 animated films

• Halloween Ends

  1/1 bloodthirsty old person/people film

  i mean, he's gotta be right? and she's out for his blood?

• The Town That Dreaded Sundown

  2/2 1970s regional US films
  charles b. pierce

• Sting of Death

  william grefe

  (it's v hard not to simply rewatch mako!!)

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

by Justin Decloux

i'm well aware it's going to be tough balancing this with hooptober, non-spooky films and life but look at all of this fun stuff! she's never seen return to oz?!

at the very least, i have a brand new watchlist for the future. while i will it to failure now, i'm v excited to check these out.

wip 🔪

• Return to Oz

  a horror film seemingly for kids, that's way too scary for kids

  a tragic blindspot for me, can't believe I've never been haunted by this!

• The Crater Lake Monster

  a horror film featuring non-avian dinosaurs and mesozoic reptiles

• Fangs

  an egyptian horror film

• Raiders of the Lost Shark

  a horror film released by SRS Cinema

  fuck yeah, 🦈 ☑️

• Blood for Dracula

  a horror film directed by a fine artist

• Pontypool

  a horror film that takes place in one room

  (or one radio station, perhaps?)

• Night Vision

  an action film that's secretly a horror film

  no idea, but i'm getting vibes from it

• The Mummy Theme Park

  a film made after 1989 that features a mummy but not Brendan Fraser or Tom Cruise

• The Screaming

  a horror film directed by jeff leroy

  why have I already seen hell's highway? 🖤

• Ghostkeeper

  a horror film scored by paul zaza

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

Honourable mention to Marilou Diaz-Abaya's Moral, which narrowly escapes at 565. Love to see it.

• Talentime
• Amanda & the Alien
• In the Dark
• Kami The Movie
• Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
• Number 37
• The Gold of Love
• 0s & 1s
• Gol & Gincu
• Limbo

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

kiss kiss vroom vroom but 2021 edition can be found here.

• Juvenile Court
• The Heiress
• Fail Safe
• Welcome II the Terrordome
• Leave Her to Heaven
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
• Ode to Nothing
• Saving Face
• The World Is Full of Secrets

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Deep Blue Sea
2. Face/Off
3. Cube
4. The Endless
5. Doctor X
6. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
7. A Cure for Wellness
8. Amanda & the Alien
9. The Happening
10. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

As you can see, I‘ve always had great taste in film so don't ask me why I decided to make this dumb list. Tell me yours in case there were more traumatising moments that I've blocked out.

"Kid" is debatable, I'm stretching it out to 13/14.

Oh hey, it's a showdown now.

1. Eyes Without a Face

   fucked me up! absolutely deserves a rewatch!

2. Mars Attacks!

   i hated these weird brain aliens

3. Death Becomes Her

   this was my favourite film i would watch it every time it came on cinemax along with deep blue sea + ghost ship

4. Thirteen

   girls are fucking scary

5. The Wizard of Oz

   pretty ironic that i thought the wicked witch and her spider monkeys were cool but i was always scared of the cowardly lion

6. Click

   very sad

7. Jumanji
8. Into the Wild

   also too sad for a child!!

9. James and the Giant Peach

   this was so scary to me i have no idea why

10. Hook

    i'm gonna cry again

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

Definitely some extra folk horror in there and I really wanted to stretch out the geography. No rewatches officially but we'll see. (ETA: one rewatch)

As always, huge shouts to Cinemonster for the good old spooky challenge that gets me trawling the depths of my watchlist.

Happy Hooptober!

• The Demon

  1/2 folk horror

• The Blood on Satan's Claw

  2/2 folk horror

• Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

  1/2 hammer horror

• Alucarda
• The Devil's Honey
• Videophobia

  1/3 asian horror

• Kaun?

  2/3 asian horror

• Killers

  3/3 asian horror

• Kisapmata

  1/4 1981

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

  2/4 1981

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

Rip off that Band-Aid: Franchise Edition
Listed are films up next, will update accordingly.

• Hellraiser: Inferno
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Tonight I'll Possess Your Corpse
• Child's Play 3
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
• Night of the Demons 2
• Blade: Trinity
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Predator 2
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Aquamarine
2. Blue Crush
3. About Elly
4. Night Tide
5. Holiday in the Sun
6. Lilo & Stitch
7. Moana
8. Point Break
9. The Shallows
10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Ready to start prioritising films I've missed out on over the past few years simply because I didn't want to see it at Kino or something. I'll probably find an entire festival's worth after sorting through the archive. Feel free to rec/brag about any hidden gems!

• Monos
• Invisible Life
• Koko-di Koko-da
• A Regular Woman
• Rafiki
• Rose Plays Julie
• This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
• House of Hummingbird
• Ash Is Purest White
• Fourteen

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

in lieu of the entire Fast & Furious franchise....

1. Addams Family Values
2. Ali's Wedding
3. Furious 7
4. Mustang
5. Shoplifters
6. Lilo & Stitch
7. Coraline
8. Signs
9. Other People
10. Krampus

1. The Sweetest Thing
2. Logan
3. Wild at Heart
4. Roadgames
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. American Honey
7. A Goofy Movie
8. Dead End
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Crossroads

as always, it's about the entire viewing experience and most importantly "am i still thinking about it today?"

top 5 locked in, the rest are blurry tbh and might change as i get through more 2020 releases? idk! happy new year if you celebrate!

1. Minari
2. Mogul Mowgli
3. John Denver Trending
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Long Walk
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. Mayor
8. Papicha
9. Sound of Metal
10. 12 Hour Shift

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

MIFFest streams exclusively on MUBI Malaysia from January 15 - 21, 2021.

• Cleaners
• The Code of Happiness
• John Denver Trending
• Law of Tehran
• Light for the Youth
• The Long Walk
• Malu
• A Man without a Shadow
• Many Chickens, Lots of Luck
• The Slaughterhouse

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

We sure played a lot of unexpected hits this year.

1. Brief Encounter
2. The Innocents
3. Only Yesterday
4. Moral
5. The World of Us
6. Variety
7. I Still Hide to Smoke
8. Hellraiser
9. Violence Voyager
10. Star Trek: First

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

In 2017, a guy watched the entire Before trilogy after our first date so curating this list was the least (most) I could do.

Work in progress.

• The Big Lebowski

  I know I have a type but why is this everyone's go-to film?

  BORING. 
  PICK SOMETHING ELSE.

• Primer

  as if this is not the most pretentious australian film bro rec EVER (for some reason)

• My Fair Lady

  "It's hard to to be a male feminist. I never know what to do. Anyway, have you seen this? A lot of people say it's misogynistic but I don't know. It's more like a social commentary on misogyny. Should I feel bad for liking this?"

• The Neon Demon

  Yeah boy bye.

• The Godfather

  This took three dates and four viewings before I realized I deserved better.

• The Godfather Part II

  See above.

• The Godfather Part III

  Also see above.

• Re-Animator

  He wouldn't stop talking and let me tell him that this is actually one of my favourite films :(

• The Blues Brothers

  "Best soundtrack ever. I have it on vinyl."

• They Live

  Ok, this was right up my alley and he was nice.

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

So, it wasn't an outrageous year. There was a lack of Nic Cage marathons and me seeing Suspiria x3 in cinemas. The most absurd thing I did was see Avengers: Endgame twice in its first week. 

As usual, at least half this list wouldn't be possible if it weren't for MIFF. Thanks for always letting me have the best time with all of my favourite people. Thanks for letting me cross off both opening and closing night this year, and the hangovers that came with. See you in 2020..........?

Honourable mention to the White Night IMAX screening of Mad Max: Fury Road that was maybe my best cinema experience of 2019.

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Parasite
3. The Lighthouse
4. For Sama
5. System Crasher
6. The Body Re When the World Broke Open
7. Swallow
8. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
9. In Fabric
10. And Then We Danced

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Let the Corpses Tan
2. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
3. Amer

1. Revenge
2. Wild Tales
3. Batman Returns
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5. The Loved Ones
6. The Long Hair of Death
7. Legally Blonde
8. Heathers
9. Sleepaway Camp
10. The Craft

Films screening at Static Vision's Halloween streaming event, Cursed Signal.

The non-stop lineup includes Australian premieres, Q&As with filmmaker and academic guests, musical performances and more.

🕯 Streams free all weekend from October 30th, 6PM (AEDT)
Pink Flamingo live cine-concert Sounds of Horror on Nov 1st, 8PM 🕯

us at spooky.digital 🎃 🔪

• Leptirica
• Great Choice

  The Films of Robin Comisar + Q&A

• Mom Died
• Invasion

  Q&A with Shahram Mokri

• Wild Zero

  Q&A with Guitar Wolf and Tetsuro Takeuchi

• If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

  Q&A with Jimmy McDonough from byNWR.com

• Things

  Q&A with Andrew Jordan

• Blood Feast
• The Little Shop of Horrors
• Golden Horns

  Q&A with Sibelan Forrester

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Great set of rules, I couldn't resist.

My quest to complete franchises this year has come to bite me back though as I'm left with an interesting selection of sequels. It's too soon for me to revisit Cube 2: Hypercube, can't do it. But I'm very jealous of those watching Cube for the first time!

EDIT: Candyman delayed until 2021 😭
+ more women & poc directors
+ bonus spooky freebies

• The Return of Doctor X

  1/6 decades: 30s
  1/7 sequels

• Tonight I'll Possess Your Corpse

  2/6 decades: 60s
  2/7 sequels

• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

  3/7 sequels

• May the Devil Take You Too

  4/7 sequels

• Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

  5/7 sequels

• Ouija: Origin of Evil

  6/7 sequels

• Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

  7/7 sequels

• The Girl with All the Gifts

  1/3 disease-based films

• Antiviral

  2/3 disease-based films

• Cabin Fever

  3/3 disease-based films

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Deep Blue Sea
2. Birdemic: Shock and Terror
3. The Happening
4. Black Sheep
5. MouseHunt
6. Dam Sharks!
7. The Deadly Bees
8. Black Water
9. Zombeavers
10. Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

1. Hellraiser
2. Violence Voyager
3. Ginger Snaps
4. Spring
5. American Mary
6. Re-Animator
7. Raw
8. Teeth
9. Society
10. The Fly

1. National Treasure
2. Martyrs
3. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
4. Now You See Me
5. The Wicker Man
6. Unfriended: Dark Web
7. The Endless
8. The Cabin in the Woods
9. The Village
10. Mandy

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

Sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It doesn’t feel right not hanging out with everyone on the final Sunday night of MIFF but feeling very grateful I got to see 16 more films than I thought I would this year. Miss ya, Melb!!

DNF: Black Bear (not by choice), Prayer For a Lost Mitten (by choice)

1. Mogul Mowgli
2. Kill It and Leave This Town
3. Mayor
4. On the Record
5. DAU. Natasha
6. The Metamorphosis of Birds
7. Hyenas
8. Boys State
9. Shiva Baby
10. La Llorona

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

Thank you to Static Vision for hosting Alexandra Heller-Nicholas's 1000 Women In Horror book launch, and to Alex for being amazing and curating a great list of films to watch! Buy her book! 

1-6: Doris Wishman
7-16: Historical shorts
17-35: "Director speed dating" trailer montage
36-42: Contemporary shorts
43-61: Films mentioned during Q&A pre-Office Killer screening

Also screened: Doris Wishman’s incredible interview on Conan, which you may find on YouTube.

Feel free to let me know if I've missed anything!

UPDATED: All films commented below (thanks @NotASexyVamp!)

1. Hideout in the Sun
2. Bad Girls Go to Hell
3. Deadly Weapons
4. A Night to Dismember
5. Dildo Heaven
6. Each Time I Kill
7. The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

   Watched on stream.

8. Suspense.

   Watched on stream.

9. Hypocrites
10. Frankenstein

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Final Destination
2. Con Air
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
4. Snakes on a Plane
5. Altitude
6. Non-Stop
7. Red Eye
8. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
9. Die Hard 2
10. Final Destination 5

1. The Sweetest Thing
2. What We Do in the Shadows
3. Single White Female
4. Rope
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Beetlejuice
7. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. Ratatouille
9. Black Christmas
10. Step Brothers

1. Con Air
2. Toni Erdmann
3. Ali's Wedding
4. Midnight Special
5. The Nice Guys
6. Bicycle Thieves
7. Like Father, Like Son
8. Veronica Mars
9. Finding Nemo
10. Call Me by Your Name

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Beetlejuice
2. Monster House
3. Crimson Peak
4. Coraline
5. The Beyond
6. The Boy
7. The Innocents
8. Funny Games
9. When a Stranger Calls
10. The Addams Family

I don't know if all the titles fit Letterboxd's definition of feel-happy but they're the ones I know to put on when I need to.

Paddington 2 is going to win anyway so I can make my own rules.

Comedy specials don't count except for the titular reference.

1. Paddington
2. Evil Dead II
3. Galaxy Quest
4. Addams Family Values
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6. Hot Rod
7. Beetlejuice
8. The Cabin in the Woods
9. National Treasure
10. Moana

*shakes fist at dude cinema*

“Best of” 2019 can be found here.

1. Shin Godzilla
2. Memories of Murder
3. Opera
4. Heat
5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
6. I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
7. Martyrs
8. The Seventh Continent
9. Charade
10. Logan

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

Most likely ongoing unless they start getting their shit together, send in your recs!

• Love Actually
• (500) Days of Summer
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Manhattan
• Phantom Thread
• A Star Is Born
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Twilight
• Force Majeure
• To All the Boys I've Loved Before

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.