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If this movie came out a decade ago I would have sharpied Tony Todd's final lines on my quote wall in my room. And instead I'm gonna wait for someone to make it into an emotional IG reel amv. Nature persists.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

mrs voorhees i love your work

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

slasher killers with a thick masshole accent are VERY fun thank you

perfect level of cheese 🥰

wiping away tears from the tornado movie was not something I expected to do tonight

getting vivid flashbacks to ap euro

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Love that Clover was also traumatized enough by Spontaneous that she brought it into her mental hell time loop

This entire short was used as an intermission in a movie-length Danganrompa YouTube essay. Very good.

really cool they made a feature length version of that movie from the 'Bones' music video

art style is giving 'shelley duvall's bedtime stories' for adults and on acid.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Nothing is as scary as the devil you know.

surprise "Big Fish" prequel, love that

this is my infinity war

"we'll make sure everyone smiles" mission accomplished midoriya i'm grinning very hard

if anyone ranks this less than four stars the letterboxd mafia puts a bloody camcorder in their bed

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in order to achieve an R Rating today, a motion picture must contain full frontal nudity, graphic violence, or an explicit reference to the sex act. Since this film has none of those, and since research has proven that R Rated films are by far the most popular with the movie-going public, the producers of this motion picture have asked me to take this opportunity to say... "fuck you.""

physically impossible to watch legally blonde the musical and leave that experience feeling bad about yourself or the world. this musical is pure love. fucking love theater.

giggled quite a bit

WELCOME BACK TO STREAMING MISS DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

"I'm a teenager, I have problems" gut punch

Shout-out to my parents for not giving me a smartphone until I was 15, that was CORRECT

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Ted Lasso WHO???? I'd watch three seasons of the Maccabi Netanya F.C. set up like this. I have never cared more for the sport than the hour and a half we spent with them here.

✨✨✨✨✨Dreaming? Dreaming is FREE!!!! ✨✨✨✨✨

It's been way too long. Glad to be back in Pleasantville.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

obsessed that a dog was able to keep up with buster keaton w/ regard to stunts

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

Can't wait to add this one to my personal Critereon Collection

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

executive producer elon musk hit me like a cybertruck

Watched on Tuesday February 4, 2025.

i 👏🏻 love 👏🏻 this 👏🏻 movie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

the internet.......... is truly............... a series of tubes..........................

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

both wonderful and jarring. it's not that i'm opposed to silent films, it's just overtaken with the urge in the back of my mind that victor varconi should be singing 'mr. cellophane'. glad i watched this version, but next time, i'm going back to kander, ebb, and fosse.

what a shitshow

very subjective and likely to move!

1. Final Destination Bloodlines
2. Final Destination 5
3. Final Destination 3
4. Final Destination
5. Final Destination 2
6. The Final Destination

stories that play with time -- our observance of it, the fluidity of it, the people who slip through it

• tick, tick... BOOM!
• An American Pickle
• Via Dolorosa
• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
• If I Stay

  the cgi cello~

• The Age of Adaline
• The Lovely Bones
• The Last Five Years

  emotional breakdown whenever i hear the finale

• Before I Fall

  myyyyyy favorite time loop <3

• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

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

:hearteyes: scenic design + set dressing

• Modern Times
• The Wizard of Oz
• Rear Window
• Barbarella

  god, i love her spaceship. and vintage sci-fi stuff like this is such a wonderful time capsule.

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Suspiria
• The Muppet Movie
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Clue

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

a girlie can be trapped in many places. a house. the back of a van. inside a piece of media. a toxic family dynamic. within their own narrative.
alphabetical within release year order

• Frankenstein

  Run, Frankie, RUN!

• Sunset Boulevard
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Most unserious entry on this list -- that damn window!

• Rear Window
• Sorority Girl
• The Children's Hour
• Gypsy

  "I thought you did it for me, mama."

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• My Fair Lady
• Evening Primrose

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Scream
• Scream VI
• Scream
• The Belko Experiment
• Battle Royale
• The Batman
• Nobody
• Carrie
• Heart Eyes
• Shazam!

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the dream, the corruption of the dream, the mythos, the nightmare, the concept of what we really, really could be. the reality of what we are.

• 12 Angry Men
• Across the Universe
• An American Pickle
• Anora
• American Graffiti
• American Psycho
• Assassination Nation
• Bad Shabbos
• Bandstand
• Barbie

...plus 120 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"this movie could fix me" no, these could make me worse, and that's the point 💕💅🏻🤪

• Halloween
• Scream
• Carrie
• Sinners
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• Assassination Nation
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Final Destination Bloodlines

  The universe of inherited trauma horror movies expands, and boy, do I eat it up

• Bad Shabbos
• Dead Poets Society

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

• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• The Incredibles
• Spy Kids
• A Knight's Tale
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• Sunset Boulevard
• Assassination Nation
• Banana Split
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Dead Poets Society

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
• The Muppet Movie
• Christopher Robin
• Hair
• The Last Five Years
• Castle in the Sky
• In the Heights
• Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie
• Spontaneous
• Fear Street: 1978

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

• Fiddler on the Roof
• Modern Times
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Knives Out
• The Prince of Egypt
• Metropolis
• Unspoken
• Banana Split
• The Handmaiden
• Newsies

...plus 112 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

made for "The Nice Guys" showdown
chrono release order

• Singin' in the Rain
• The Muppet Movie
• Dead Poets Society
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Across the Universe
• Hot Fuzz
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
• Newsies
• The Binge
• Hell of a Summer

alphabetical within release year order

• Nosferatu

  "blood so hypnotizing that you forget your curfew" type beat

• Black Christmas

  her influence! her style! her impact!

• Carrie

  she's a final girl to me <3

• Halloween
• Sleepaway Camp
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Silence of the Lambs
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Scream
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

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

Costumers knocking it outta the park 🤌🏻 some may be extravagant. some may be historically accurate. some may be plain. some may be incongruous with their era. but like it or not, they understood the assignment.

• Ever After
• Barbarella
• Clue
• Spencer
• Romeo + Juliet
• The Favourite
• Big Fish
• Polite Society
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Zenon: The Zequel

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dead Poets Society
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• The Muppet Movie
• Companion
• The Last Five Years
• Bad Shabbos
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Anora
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Heart Eyes

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ever After
• Dick
• Saved!
• The Princess Diaries
• Ella Enchanted
• Legally Blonde
• Barbie
• Sugar & Spice
• Penelope
• Drop Dead Gorgeous

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

they don't have to have a body count they just have to serve cunt. spoilers ahead!
sister list to final girl hall of fame and yes there is crossover

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

  we could remake baby jane in forty years and make it about influencers and family channels and-

• Carrie
• Sleepaway Camp
• Little Shop of Horrors

  we always give audrey ii her (well deserved) flowers but i think we're glossing over seymour's contributions. give my nebbish king some credit!

• Heathers
• Wild Things
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Jawbreaker
• The Rage: Carrie 2
• Memento

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

companion piece to judaism on screen
the stories that aren't explicitly jewish, but to me (a jewish viewer) can be jewish. as a treat.
(term comes from my college thesis)
alphabetical within release year order

• Frankenstein

  the world's most famous golem <3

• The Muppet Movie

  - "i'm going to go back there someday" diaspora theme song
  - every Muppet, unless said otherwise, is Jewish. fact of life.

• Prom Night

  (see my note on Halloween H20 for why this one makes the cut!)

• Footloose
• The Princess Bride
• Into the Woods
• Newsies
• Matilda

  she's mine now, roald!

• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

  There is SOMETHING to be said about Jamie Lee Curtis horror movies where she's related to the killer and she has to confront her generational trauma!

• Pleasantville

  my ass WILL see a nebbish character named David struggle with the concept of an idealized 50's suburbia and point at him and say yid

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

• School Ties
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• BlacKkKlansman
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• Whiplash
• Until Dawn
• Prom Night
• Spencer
• Christopher Robin
• Spotlight

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

• Sucker Punch
• Girl, Interrupted
• Jennifer's Body
• Cult of Chucky
• House on Haunted Hill
• Until Dawn

or like... fun enough to forgive bad teen dialogue <3

• Lisa Frankenstein
• The Sisterhood of Night
• Tragedy Girls
• The Final Girls
• Do Revenge
• The Breakfast Club
• Beautiful
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Bottoms

  SELIGMAN YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN

• Assassination Nation

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Scream
• Halloween
• Prey
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Belko Experiment
• Train to Busan
• Battle Royale
• Friday the 13th
• Scream VI
• Scream

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

ten sci-fi and fantasy icons through 1980
made for showdown: 'grand illusion', sorted chrono

• A Trip to the Moon
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World
• Metropolis
• Frankenstein
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Red Shoes
• Night of the Living Dead
• Fantastic Planet
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Xanadu

movies where an actor plays their own twin, ranked in order of how much I liked their performance

1. The Parent Trap
2. An American Pickle
3. Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper

   Barbie plays the Princess AND the Pauper

4. Sinners
5. Companion

   It was only a moment and it said all it needed to say!!!!

6. Glass Onion
7. The Lizzie McGuire Movie

   5 year old me was QUAKING!!

8. What Happened to Monday

   idc what you think about this movie (and idk if i'm ever watching it again) but noomi serves

9. A Simple Favor
10. Legend

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

where you least expect it

• Warm Bodies
• My Babysitter's a Vampire
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• Wicked
• Shrek
• Zombie Prom
• WALL·E
• Casper
• Lisa Frankenstein
• The Wild Robot

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

the literal version of hays code judaism, the films that (on some level) are explicitly Jewish. Counts even if there's only one character who's a tribe member. For the most part, no movies about The Big Event.
alphabetical within release year order

• High School
• The Queen

  'like a bar mitzvah mother' oh ok that's all i needed to hear

• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Godfather Part II
• Yentl
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Dirty Dancing
• School Ties

  Could never get through this bc it hurt too much

• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• The Prince of Egypt

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

yes there are some stage recordings on here. look me in the eye and tell me the newer into the woods is better than the original.

• Hairspray
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Hair
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Sound of Music
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Mary Poppins
• Hello, Dolly!
• The Muppet Movie

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

(approximately)

• Penelope
• Matilda
• Peter Pan
• Odd Thomas
• Castle in the Sky
• Jennifer's Body
• Kick-Ass
• I Am Number Four
• Assassination Nation
• Anna and the Apocalypse

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

for when the location IS a character.
made for showdown: 'this must be the place', sorted reverse chrono

• Fear Street: 1994
• Under the Silver Lake
• La La Land
• Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
• Moulin Rouge!
• Pleasantville
• Chicago
• The Prince of Egypt
• West Side Story
• Sunset Boulevard

• 12 Angry Men
• An American Pickle
• Anora
• Assassination Nation
• Bad Shabbos
• The Batman
• Battle Royale
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Catch Me If You Can

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

he's really good at playing this one type of guy and I eat it up every time

• Companion
• Tragedy Girls
• Scream

why do so many nefarious meet cutes happen in supermarkets (SPOILERS)

• Companion
• Fresh

the MUSIC
(note: not including musicals <3)

• Footloose
• Dirty Dancing
• Matilda

  the pancake scene <3

• Romeo + Juliet

  and WHY wasn't Radiohead's 'End Credits (For a Film)' included????

• Scream

  the acoustic 'don't fear the reaper' knocks it out of the park every time

• Practical Magic
• American Psycho

  he's literally walking on sunshine what don't you get

• Donnie Darko
• A Knight's Tale
• Legally Blonde

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

• Paradise Hills
• Now You See Me
• Shazam!
• The Binge
• Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
• Knives Out
• The Prince of Egypt
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Paprika
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Sucker Punch
• Jennifer's Body
• Fear Street: 1666
• Odd Thomas
• Rocketman
• Glass Onion
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Barbie
• Gunpowder Milkshake

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the whimsy renaissance is upon us
notes attached for the obligatory human element

• Death Becomes Her

  literally any of them

• Cinderella

  stepmother

• The Social Network

  i think andrew garfield should get to hang out with muppets whenever he so chooses.

• Frankenstein

  the monster

• Grease
• Scream

  ghostface (generic)

• Clue

  mr. boddy

• Sunset Boulevard

  betty schaefer

• Knives Out

  we just need a new benoit blanc movie with a full muppet cast and just daniel craig fucking around

• The Great Gatsby

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

makeover movies that did their characters dirty 💇🏻‍♀️

• The Princess Diaries

  Her poor hair..... Mia baby get a wet brush and some detangler

• The Breakfast Club
• Enchanted
• Grease
• She's All That
• Jawbreaker
• Geek Charming
• Penelope

  :( i miss her nose

• An American Pickle

  glad he grew the beard back at the end, it honestly feels like seth rogen was meant to have a big ol beard like this

"oh, and one more thing..."

if only these characters had done a little more research, a little more fact checking, and a little more world building.

• Captain America: The First Avenger

  Dramaturgical fault -- the ruse when Steve wakes up.
  - the game playing over the radio
  - wrong type of bra for the time period

• The Hunt

  Dramaturgical fault -- details in the convenience store

• See How They Run

  Dramaturgical fault --
  Not necessarily a technical fault on the behalf of the in universe dramaturgical team but more of a critique of our relationship with true crime as a whole. By reducing real tragedy to a incidental plot setup, they encouraged the whole string of murders. If we're going to continue to make true crime (as we have for decades and centuries), it would do us some good to recenter the conversation around the victims and the survivors.

• House on Haunted Hill

  Dramaturgical fault -- that rollercoaster preshow had to be insanely unethical.

• The Cabin in the Woods

  Dramaturgical fault --
  I can't believe the govt agency hellbent on creating horror didn't keep their eyes on the bodies and confirm the kills. WTF, guys?

• Nerdy Prudes Must Die

  Dramaturgical fault --
  if you're going to do a ghost stunt in a haunted house, MAKE SURE THE HOUSE ISN'T HAUNTED!

• The Muppet Movie

  No dramaturgical fault in this story, I just think it's fucking hilarious that the Electric Mayhem use the script to find the squad in the middle of nowhere. That's good use of the source material, folks!

• Pippin

  Not a dramaturgical fault in the story, I just want to see a copy of what the in-universe script is supposed to be

why let the girls have all the fun?
alphabetical

• Dead Poets Society
• Dirty Dancing
• Easy A
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Heathers
• La La Land
• Lisa Frankenstein
• Moulin Rouge!
• Peter Pan

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

movies i did NOT expect to hit as hard as they did

• Spontaneous

  I avoided seeing this movie for a while. Watching it on release -- around the start of COVID -- didn't feel right. I'm glad I finally watched it though. We're raised to fear existing. And I think this movie hit the nail on the head. The way we have to keep going. Keep going to school. Keep being. God, I need to watch something dumb now.

• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Matilda
• Penelope
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• Scream VI
• Battle Royale
• Barbie
• The Princess Diaries
• High School

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

"Pay attention, class. This is what we call foreshadowing."

• Scream 2

  Class discussion -- Sequels.
  I'm a fan of MTV's Scream series, where they have this sort of meta class discussion tenfold.

• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

  Class discussion -- Frankenstein. Who's really the monster, Frankenstein, or his creation?
  In a funny way, Michael created his own monster.

• The Rage: Carrie 2

  Class discussion -- Romeo and Juliet.
  One of many films to lean on R+J like that, but by no means the most heavy-handed. I think the comparison of doomed characters is earned, in the sense that no one of the White bloodline, just like protagonists of Shakespearean dramas, can escape their fate.

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  Class discussion -- Romeo and Juliet.
  Can't think of a single thing that adds to this conversation, except the always present question -- why in HELL are the Cullens repeating high school over and over? Just go to college if you're that desperate to linger in education. Seriously, the frustrated, bored recitation of Shakespeare from Edward nails it on the head enough.

• Avalon High

  Class discussion -- Arthurian Legends.
  When the characters study themselves..... cinema.

• Easy A

  Class discussion -- Scarlet Letter.
  Well.... yeah.

• Before I Fall

  Class discussion -- Sisyphus. Apt for a time-loop film!
  I freaking love this film. Plus, the class discussion on Sisyphus, like the days she lives, change just a bit every time, showing that her choices matter -- she's just making them a bit too late.
  Rewatch note -- the fact it's a history class, too... damn

• Scream VI

  Class Discussion -- Slashers
  Does it count if the discussion happens outside of the story? Samara Weaving's character teaches a class about slasher movies, which she brings up in conversation with her Ghostface, who (it turns out) is a student from that class and killed her because she gave him a bad grade on a paper about Giallo movies. I'll count it.

• Donnie Darko

  Class Discussion -- Literally everything
  Religious existentialism? Literary analysis of one's own ethics? It's all here!

• Nosferatu

  Class discussion -- microbiology
  Something something all magic is science all horror is understandable

all the films I saw at the BJFF in 2024, alphabetical

noncomprehensive, missing 'How to Make Challah' by Sarah Rosen, 'Kiss My Ass' by Arielle Goldman, and 'The Story of Jacob' by David Foley

• Anyuka
• Bad Jew Good Girl
• Bad Shabbos
• Children of Peace
• The Eighth Day
• I Missed You at Synagogue
• Nathan-ism
• Sabbath Queen
• Unspoken
• Via Dolorosa

• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
• Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie
• Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Batman & Bill
• Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
• Crime + Punishment
• Mike Wallace Is Here
• Kusama: Infinity
• Girl in the Picture

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

• All About Eve
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  yes, the film is gay sex purely, but i think a little more would have solved the conflict. just a little.

• Hair

  vague gesture to Claude and George

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Heathers
• Dead Poets Society
• Death Becomes Her
• Foxfire
• Scream

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

personal scream franchise ranking

1. Scream
2. Scream VI

   if it wasn't blasphemous to even CONSIDER ranking a movie over the first one, this could be even higher. may move on a rewatch.

3. Scream 4

   Favorite Ghostface motive since the original, Jill is a joy to rewatch. I really gotta make a horror villain hall of fame list to accompany my final girls one...

4. Scream

   Would be higher if I liked the Ghostface reveal better -- the removal of Amber's romantic ties to Tara (textual, at least) lessening the "never trust the love interest" message, definitely impairs it. Scream VI improves the reveal for Richie though, with the glimpse into the lives of the people and culture who enabled him.

5. Scream 2
6. Scream 3