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The wackier Zucker stuff works a lot better than the sort of Adam Sandler loser schtick stuff but also, Reel Big Fish is in this.

this has some of the best underwater photography ever captured on film, it looks terrifying!

this is me now: frinkiac.com/meme/S08E14/1032931.jpg?b64lines=IFdIRU5FVkVSIEFuZG9yIGlzCiBOT1QgT04gU0NSRUVOIEFMTCBUSEUKIE9USEVSIENIQVJBQ1RFUlMgU0hPVUxECiBCRSBBU0tJTkcgd2hlcmXigJlzIApBbmRvcj8=

Story wise it’s incoherent but it’s also definitive proof that comedy and horror are exactly the same, it all comes down to lighting

i wrongly assumed I’d never seen this but it ended up unlocking a deep memory because i did when I was like five…i thought it was the cartoon toxic crusaders which i really liked, and why my dad let me rent it I have no idea!

Louis letting settlers hang themselves with their own words and evil thoughts. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

what a great time at the movies

the prisoner is a show I’ve always heard mentioned in relation to Lost and now Severance and while that is true, it’s also unlike anything you’ve ever seen. i used to think that Twin Peaks was the origin of prestige tv but it’s actually this, im not sure how they got away with the scope this has. there has always been ambitious TV writing, but I don’t think anything had attempted what the prisoner does, in a few ways i think it’s bold even now, and the damn thing is almost 60 years old! honestly in of pure tv writing, it’s probably the best show ive ever seen.

it’s no funny games, but there’s something about this one that for me at least, made it a decent film. Nothing that hasn’t been done before but decently cooked meal is a decently cooked meal even if the end is a little underbaked

written and directed by garth marenghi

really really fun, the rare big budget horror I’ve had a great time with

one of the first “adult” movies I ever got to watch

a movie made by someone who still thinks South Park is edgy

saw this when i wasn’t ready for it and missed a lot, rewatching it as an adult, god what a fucking movie he was 25 when he made this!!

Monkeybone was there for me when no one else was ok?

there’s zero pretension on this thing, this is a fucking looney tunes movie and it’s great! Everything you could want from a daffy and porky movie, love for the characters but not so much that it’s too reverent to not try shit, it’s heartwarming without becoming saccharine as well. also the animation as good as the stuff WB was putting out in the 90s. Thankful i got a 2D cartoon in 2025.

i want to go on a rant about what streaming has done to our culture and how this movie could’ve easily made a ton more money with even a half decent marketing roll out, but caring about box office is for suckers, im just glad the fucker got made and that i was able to see it on the big screen!

we used to make stupid movies in this country, exactly the kind of stupid movie you can catch on cable years later and find hilarious, we should do that again

the longest episode of the Simpsons I’ve ever seen

sharknado level cgi in this, everyone’s really racist, and the deaths are the least creative, franchise worst, the Friday the 13th part v of this series

had to sit with this a bit but it’s good, evil ass village

all in all it’s the best pure horror anime that exists

Naoki Urasawa is probably the best manga storyteller of all time, monster is incredible and is largely a straight retelling of the manga but who cares when the source material is as good as his stuff.

everyone’s starter anime for a good reason, and the soundtrack still kicks so much ass

in high school i had spiked hair and this cute girl i had a crush on used to call me Vash and one day she brought me homemade donuts with the name Vash on them.

a perfect anime in its time yes, but in 2025? oh baby you better believe it’s even better!

my absolute favorite anything of all time for all time, my heart and soul baby! Love the show so much there’s a half sleeve on my arm in loving tribute

if there’s a citizen kane equivalent in anime it’s probably this

the theme song alone is one of the best of all time

wow that was excellent, like I should not be surprised but I am, great stuff!

incredible film, one that in the cold light of being older and wiser I love even more. One of if not the best examples of showing and not telling you what a world is. 

it’s also crazy to me how much the video game the last of us just wholesale ripped this off. what’s funny though is that thematically they’re actually diametrically opposed, with the last of us being far more cynical and I think ultimately worse for that (esp the ending of Part 2).

a fun time at the movies was had by all

this sucks and is a huge disservice to the book which rocks

the home movies that they present in this are among the scariest images I’ve ever seen in a horror film, stuff of nightmares. 

now the plot is simply fine, and the characters are dumb to the point of stupid, but after a decade plus of horror movies that are either about trauma or imparting some moral lesson, I kind of love it for being that dumb, it’s pretty scary overall, and those home movies put it over the top for me, more than willing to overlook whatever dumb impulses it might have, movie is incredibly lucky it has Ethan Hawke to ground it all though, without his performance in this I’m positive I’d feel differently. He goes so hard in this

scariest home movie is either the pool or the lawnmower, but they’re all evil artifacts

“I stole the TV!”

look unless you’ve seen the series this probably wont work for you, but I’m a huge fan of the show and the movie is a great finale to that show.

takes a good premise and goes so stupid with it that it just barely saves itself from being bad, its kinda fun, but I’ll probably never think about it again beyond the wasted potential of the robot idea

as a kid me and my sisters loved watching this, mainly for the dream sequence which is still for my money, one of the best musical sequences in film history, anyway great movie, a classic

for a kind of dumb movie it’s both a lot of fun and also scares the fuck out of me

stone cold classic from my childhood

this is absolutely what that triangle of sadness guy thinks he’s doing

when are they gonna get to the yokai factory?

with the context that this is a shelved film from 2003 dumped by the studio on DVD in 2008, it’s pretty good! 

Could it have used a through line and a couple rewrites? Sure! However I do have a fondness for the dawn of Adult Swim era humor stuff and this fits that bill. I think what I’m getting at is that you probably have to have had your adolescence during the Iraq was for this to work for you.

revising my stance on this a bit! 

Plot is dumb but the tension it builds and number of decent scares it has makes it worth it.

This has more in common with An American Tail than you’d think!

ok I’ve had a sit and a think about this one for a long time and it’s pretty good, it’s not a masterpiece, but its good filmmaking and because that is in extremely short supply these days, well it stands out.

That being said there’s lots in here that for me fall short of it being or approaching masterpiece level, but this is absolutely the kind of movie that would be an also ran Oscar contender in the 90s that you’d watch and go, hey that was pretty good! 

It’s an 8/10 movie if there ever was one.

also: if they do ever make that Bioshock movie Guy Pierce should absolutely play Andrew Ryan, he’s perfect for it!

a classic and the only John waters movies I’ve been able to show my parents

he’s the villain of the picture but he’s correct about pbr

it’s called doing research for a role.

Lynch believed that its a cycle and as such and as a way to mourn his ing im going back to the start.

I this was on a list of films I’d made to see in high school and had a friend who wanted to go through them with me, and man did he hate this movie, but we talked about it for weeks afterward and it was kind of a useful exercise for me to try and tell him why i liked the film, we both had never seen anything like it (well I had seen Mulholland and some Twin Peaks) 

Lynch movies always take place between two realities, and the realities are leaking into each other. I’d argue that eraserhead takes place at a point where those realities have completely merged. 

I really do think all his movies take place in the same universe, but i refuse to think about it anymore than that because you can easily get “Pixar Theory” brained with that shit and i think analyzing lynch in a way that says “this is definitely this” is dumb and not the point.

Couple stray thoughts:

The soil and tree at his bedside reminds of that brain stick thing in the return. 

Curtain/Stage: Lady in the Radiator

distinctly being in HS and getting a gift card from Best Buy, I bought my favorite film Ghost World, but also 5 I hadn’t seen: Say Anything, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Pumpkin, and Slums of Beverly Hills.

What I’m trying to say is this film is part of my personal cannon.

“when the truth is found to be lies
and all the joy within you dies”

possibly the worst directed big budget film I’ve ever seen! Every shot is amateurish and stilted, it made me long for the workman like quality of something like Chris Columbus Harry Potter films. 

Where you place your camera and how you plan your shots can communicate so much even if the audience is unaware of what the director is doing, film language itself is intrinsically linked to what we feel when we see something on screen because that ultimately what directing is in the screen sense, it’s how the visual info is communicated and that shit used to be almost a gimme in a sense, like you can have lazy or stilted direction, but here you get the sense that this director didn’t know where to point the fucking camera. 

I don’t see what a lot of you do in Ariana and think she’s doing a BAD impression of Chenoweth but whatever. Cynthia however is a great Elphaba, and is bringing something despite the shit direction and CGI that looks like it was leftover from other movies.

I’m lucky enough to have seen the stage adaptation and I really liked it so the moment the original girls had a cameo rocked because god do those two have charisma and charm, loved those two minutes!

if I hadn’t seen the musical on stage though I’d have no idea what was going on because all nuances of the characters are gone, instead they’ve essentially turned things into a superhero team up movie. Just dogshit on every level here.

a list of movies where the protagonist is a dirtbag detective (they may or may not view themselves as a detective proper but are curious enough about their own situation to try and either change or solve it), for this list they cannot be a cop or a former cop (a cop is not a dirtbag, they’re a bastard).

• The Long Goodbye
• Inherent Vice
• Under the Silver Lake
• The Big Lebowski
• Donnie Darko
• Mulholland Drive
• Body Double
• Being John Malkovich
• Brick
• The Nice Guys

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Man in the Moon
• It Takes Two
• Jumanji
• Now and Then
• The First Wives Club

• Funny Games
• Princess Mononoke
• Perfect Blue
• Boogie Nights
• L.A. Confidential
• Fight Club
• The Matrix
• GoodFellas
• Scream
• Jurassic Park

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Viy
• Messiah of Evil
• The Black Cat
• Jigoku
• The Funhouse
• The Skull
• Shivers
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Over the Garden Wall
• The Craft

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

Horror is without a doubt the genre of film I’ve spent the most time with, it’s the thing I’ve developed a taste for, I do get asked a lot what I recommend, so here are some of the best along with favorites to compliment what you might be in the mood for:

1-20: my personal top 20 

21-30:

1. Cure
2. Evil Dead II
3. The Thing
4. Suspiria
5. Noroi: The Curse
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. Army of Darkness
8. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
9. It Follows
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the fact that I’ve watched all of these is an obvious cry for help. 

ranking them because that’s just the day and age we live in. I refuse to give any of them star ratings though.

1. Bad Ben
2. Bad Ben: The Way In
3. Badder Ben: The Final Chapter
4. Bad Ben 7: The Haunted Highway
5. Bad Ben: The Mandela Effect
6. Bad Ben 2: Steelmanville Road
7. Bad Ben 5: The Crescent Moon Clown

worlds most sincere director of horror.

1. The Sixth Sense
2. Unbreakable
3. The Visit
4. Old
5. The Village
6. Signs
7. Split
8. Knock at the Cabin
9. Glass
10. Trap

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

• Ghost World
• The Devils
• The Apartment
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Citizen Kane
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Memories of Murder
• Alien
• Chungking Express
• Eyes Wide Shut

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

here are some movie that really make me laugh

• Duck Soup
• Hellzapoppin'
• Airplane!
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Wrongfully Accused
• Bowfinger
• Hot Rod

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

1. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
2. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
3. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
4. Friday the 13th
5. Friday the 13th Part 2
6. Friday the 13th Part III
7. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
8. Jason X
9. Freddy vs. Jason
10. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

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

• The Devils
• Evil Dead II
• The Thing
• Cure
• It Follows
• Hereditary
• The Blair Witch Project
• Suspiria
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Pulse

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

in theaters baby!

• When Harry Met Sally...
• M3GAN
• The Menu
• Skinamarink
• Violent Streets
• Knock at the Cabin
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Infinity Pool
• Wild at Heart
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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

1. RRR
2. TÁR
3. The Fabelmans
4. We're All Going to the World's Fair
5. Memoria
6. Decision to Leave
7. Glass Onion
8. The Batman
9. The Northman
10. Top Gun: Maverick

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Akira
• Perfect Blue
• Millennium Actress
• Tokyo Godfathers
• Your Name.
• Promare
• Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
• Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
• Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
• Ghost in the Shell

I love haunted house movies even if they are very bad

• The Haunting
• Two on a Guillotine
• The Legend of Hell House
• Burnt Offerings
• The Changeling
• 13 Ghosts
• The Innocents
• House on Haunted Hill
• Poltergeist
• Sinister

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

• Blow the Man Down
• The Invisible Man
• Color Out of Space
• Freaky

  fun horror movies are back baby!

• Possessor
• Daniel Isn't Real
• Come to Daddy
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• VHYes
• Onward

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

• Sorry to Bother You
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• First Reformed
• The Favourite
• Hereditary
• Mandy
• Shoplifters
• Roma
• Eighth Grade
• Annihilation

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Personal Favorites of 2019. Top 20 followed by Honorable mentions and Best Docs and Shorts I saw.

1. Parasite
2. Under the Silver Lake
3. Uncut Gems
4. The Irishman
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
6. The Lighthouse
7. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
9. Knives Out
10. Ad Astra

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

Can’t believe it had been an entire year before I was allowed to go back to the theaters.

• Licorice Pizza
• The Beatles: Get Back
• Annette
• The Matrix Resurrections
• The French Dispatch
• Dune
• The Empty Man
• Malignant
• The Card Counter
• The Sparks Brothers

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

special place in my heart for these dumb things NGL.

Here’s how I’d rank them.

• Paranormal Activity 3
• Paranormal Activity
• Paranormal Activity 2
• Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Movies new to me I’ve watched for Halloween 2021

1. Cure
2. The Happiness of the Katakuris
3. Kuroneko
4. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
5. Squid Game
6. V/H/S/94
7. Dead Ringers
8. The Night House
9. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
10. The Dark and the Wicked

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

My favorite horror business.

My highest endorsement watch these.

• Frankenstein
• The Evil Dead
• Evil Dead II
• Army of Darkness
• Hereditary
• The Shining
• Get Out
• The Babadook
• The Thing
• The Conjuring

...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

there’s nothing quite like watching hard boiled detective fiction in the early hours of the morning. there’s really something to this genre, something that only could’ve existed in that time and place. 

in many ways it reminds me of how modern horror movies work, in that they are self contained morality tales, and by virtue of being that type of story are allowed to experiment and often brake convention in their respective times.

Here are some of my favorites in that mold.

1. Stone Cold Classics of the Genre
these are the top examples of the genre for good reason.

2. Personal Ones I’d Recommend
examples of what make the genre great to me.

3. Proto-Noir
film noir owes a big debt to German expressionism not just because of the look, or because one of its pioneers made tons of film noir (Fritz Lang), but the kind of stories it aims to tell. 

4. Good but not Essential IMHO
the B tier. well made but didn’t work for me as much.

• The Third Man
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Big Sleep
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Night of the Hunter
• Double Indemnity
• Laura
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Out of the Past

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

• Taxi Driver
• Mulholland Drive
• Spirited Away
• Millennium Actress
• Safe
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Citizen Kane
• Oldboy
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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