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Doesn't quite go hard enough, and the ending is undercut by the glibness and plotiness of the preceding events, but a pretty good time nonetheless.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Evil cinema. Reminded me of watching If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses do. Equal parts captivating and repellant.

Very funny, I see myself watching this repeatedly in the future. Wasn't expecting the stylistic parodying of A24 films.

Read the book (second King book I've ever read, first since highschool) and wanted to revisit this. Generally much better than I ed and also a pretty elegant adaptation. That being said at three hours I do wonder if you could gesture at a few more of the effective qualities and characters of the novel.

Still think the action is something of a weak spot but on rewatch it makes up so little of the runtime I simply no longer really cared.

Honestly maybe better paced than the Japanese version? 35mm was a treat.

Obviously something special, although the action portion of the siege came across a little sloppy.

Believe it or not, good set pieces.

Hell yeah

Do you think Tupac thought about cheering on Dan Aykroyd in monster makeup doing a keyboard solo on his death bed?

Dark and magical.

Kristofferson April. Great vibes and a great cast. Wonky pacing, especially during the last third, but doesn't really matter.

The whodunit is obvious, and I wish it reached the Gothic heights its occasionally gestures at, but still a pretty fun little black and white Sirk. Colbert is so kind in this but everyone talks about her like she's a raging asshole, hate to say it about my girl but she may have been miscast in this one.

Had no idea this film originated Knocking on Heavens door.

More fear mongering about rats in NY than cool rat facts, but certainly a good time to look at.

Celebrated Easter and the funny weed number day by watching a movie about a reincarnating deity with a plot that will make you feel stoned sober. If you know me, you know I like unique animation and this is certainly that. Nothing else looks like this, the music is great, the atmosphere is compelling. Things like this are perhaps better served at a 50 minute runtime but I still enjoyed it. Love Deaf Crocodile's commitment to animation.

Bad! Opens with deeply unmoored editing clearly trying to salvage irreparably terrible pacing in order to set the scene for the non movie to follow. The two highlights were the opera massacre and the 15 seconds of Joy Division. Weird they tried to have their cake and eat it to with goth needledrops, but only really sparingly deployed ones. Shoulda just had Twigs do the score or something, would've given this PS3 cutscene looking film more identity. Every digital era visual sin is here, boring design, centre framing, shallow depth of field, dark colorless murk... All the hits. Not well acted outside of the reliable Huston but no one has anything to work with, this things script is terrible. Never justifies its own existence in any way, easily skipped.

86 minute Salem Witch Trials movie where the witch paranoia doesn't start until the 45 minute mark, at which point the movie inexplicably introduces regular title cards to sorta yada yada the wider Witch Trial-y bits. Couple people get hanged but luckily a single testimony instantly clears everything up and ends the whole thing before our heroine can die. Not great but handsome enough to look at and I love Claudette Colbert and she's in the movie, so it can't altogether be bad either now can it?

Director who was raised by a French resistance journalist, grew up to be a Trotskyist, and worked under Melville and also btw on Orgasmo. Interesting! A war movie about how much serving permanently rewires your brain for the worse. Surprisingly epic in scope at times, but also sort of niche in its focus on a few key players.

Definitely not among my favourite Kurosawa's, or Kurosawa and Mifune's, but also obviously a masterpiece. Totally entertaining, a real treat to see in theatres. No one's better at framing wide screen action adventure than Kurosawa (maybe Lean is the only serious contender?) so it makes sense everyone's been shamelessly ripping him off for decades.

Bizarre, incredible looking, deeply arch. Classic might get the five star ranking on a rewatch sorta fare. Didn't expect all the body horror.

Weird movie. Critical and sentimental in pseudo equal measures. What's the deal with its whole poetic diads/mirroring thing and the bizarre way it's written? Effective when it went more poetic visually, but I found myself hating all the actual words in the movie. The narration, the way Stone writes black characters, incidental dialogue, I didn't like any of it. And yet a pretty good film. The performances felt all over the place stylistically, like David Lynch if he'd lost his precise tonal control, but theres obviously some excellent acting still. Idk man, send me some good writing on this one I'm chewing it over still.

Great time in the theatre, if perhaps slightly dampened by the comparison of Face Off the night before. Still, Demons is a hell of a good time.

Genuinely ecstatic theatrical experience. What a picture.

I have one friend who always gets my live texts on these sorts of docs, shout out to them. "Harry potter... was most unsatisfactory"

Perfect stuff right here.

Don't fully get the hate, like I get it in theory but not in practice. I think I'm just ambivalent to all these Next Gen movies.

Good movie! Good restoration!

Probably hits a lot harder if you're invested in the History of women's wrestling or Luna Vachon specifically. After some chilling anecdotes about some famous guys it was funny how long it took the Vince McMahon shoe to drop in the film's narrative. Like yeah I'm sure there's no way he'll end up being a problem to this bipolar lady who'd "take a bullet for him." Evil industry stuff is like the only wrestling stuff I know lol.

Like basically every Lynch movie I first watched this as a budding cinephile on a laptop in my bed. I found it frequently terrifying but also baffling. It lacked the relatively clean conceptual structures of Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, which had just blown my mind, and I thinking at the time it looked like about the same video quality as reruns of antiques roadshow. As my appreciation for film and for Lynch grew over time I revisited it, never quite loving it the way some did. It was an odd film out in the filmography for me, full of things I liked but never coalescing into a whole I could completely get behind. I held out hope though, that a theatrical screening would get me the rest of the way there. When I saw it on the schedule of The Revue's (<3) Lynch tribute I grabbed up tickets. I'd just seen my favourite Lynch (Mulholland) shortly before his ing so I thought I'd take the gamble on the one I'd always struggled with the most.

Maybe it was being locked into the theatre for 3 hours (I love The Revue, but not ideal chairs for that experience) maybe it was the fact that I've become even more of a video art, SOV, experimental sicko in the interim between viewings (canny the3rdwall fans will note the recent Ultramegalopolis log as evidence of this) but this time Inland Empire really sung for me. I felt I had an operable grasp on the proceedings, certainly a boon, but I'd always gone into viewings of Inland Empire hoping I would suddenly get it. Not "get it" in a puzzle box way, just truly unambiguously appreciate the film. This was that time. Stretches that seemed overlong at home were harrowing on the big screen, fully patching over the pacing problems that plagued previous viewings. The undoubtedly bizarre 4K restoration was a feast of obfuscating textures and artifacts, sort of a sumptuously fucked up sheen. I doubt unrestored footage would bother me as much as it once did, but I was concerned the restoration would be a negative. Far from it, I found it deeply complimentary to the film's affect. It's definitely still a meandering marathon (I do think it's probably ultimately telling that improv dropped back out of Lynch's repertoire after this) but sometimes it's important for a movie to be uncomfortably long, and more than any of Lynch's other work (until The Return perhaps) there's a horror in how neverending Inland Empire is.

RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it, I will think about those damn rabbits forever.

Idk I thought this one was charming.

Some extremely cool images and surprisingly thorny, brutal stuff. I gasped multiple times.

Obviously this movie's head is full of bricks but it's never dull.

Even more my kind of thing than I ed. Every week I think "I should watch more Guy Maddin movies" maybe this is the year.

Forced to sit front row for this, which only expanded the warped and fuzzed out textures of the 16mm. Made me want to make a sort of stoner doom version of Rose Hobart. Been a while since I'd seen this one and it was even more extraordinary than I ed.

You can probably already tell if you're the target audience for this one. I really enjoyed the VHS textures, the contextless visions of American hysteria and counterculture, and the accidentally psychologically revealing talking head interview with the long term inmate. Very funny after basically verbatim saying the things you hear everyone say about Charles Manson he went so far as to describe the Cult leader as "just a little guy."

The effects definitely hold up well. Not stellar beyond that but certainly better than the first one.

Do you think this one came up on the set of Maximum Overdrive? Very atmospheric looking film.

Delightfully muscular 70s actioner with Lee Marvin and Hackman and Spacek. Must watch if you like that sort of thing. First seen where Marvin antagonizes Hackman had me shooting, and the Combine Harvester chase is an all timer.

One guy hand animated a sincere science fantasy epic, what's not to like! Maybe I should start animating.

Didn't this one from my first watch. Seeing in theatres was transformative, a feel bad masterpiece.

Great tank top movie.

It's fine. Has some stuff.

Robin Williams, playing a cartoon bat named Natty, does a rap in this.

I've had post apocalypse on the mind lately. Not for all the obvious societal reasons, but for some creative ones. For one thing I put out a new TTRPG! It's inspired by Mad Max and When Hell Came to Frogtown and things like that.

Check it out here!

But, shameless plug aside, I'm also working on a long backburnered project that also has some post apoclyptic stuff going on. Natasha had never seen this, despite loving zombie movies and Cilian, and I hadn't seen it since I took a course on zombie movies at a university in grade nine. I didn't even the way this movie looked beyond knowing the reputation. Well, I learned a few things. For one chunks of this were more influential on me than I realized. For another, damn this movie looks cool. The lo fi digital really suits it, giving the rage victims the look of Jhorror ghosts and crunchy aesthetic making the rain and sunsets pop. Just really cool stuff. Honestly think the story rambles a bit, but the vibes are there moment to moment. Despite barely ing it beyond some generic (as in genre) stuff, which was the lens of that course (course seems awful lofty, there was organized tag involved) so it was cool to go back and realize this had stealthily made a long lasting impression all that time.

John Smith's got jokes.

Weirdly this featured in a dream I had the other day so I had to throw it on. What more could you possibly want out of a minute long short film with a single camera move?

Expected a sort of contemplative one man in an empty world jam and instead got a pretty propulsive movie with a large number of explosions and car stunts.

It's certainly no Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Format in notes (where ed). Incomplete because I'm forgetful.

• Lawrence of Arabia

  70mm

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  70mm

• Persona

  D

• The Ceremony

  35mm

• Mulholland Drive

  D

• The Thing

  70mm blow up

• Dracula
• To Live and Die in L.A.

  35mm

• Donkey Skin

  D

• Roar

  D

...plus 186 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Don't do drugs. But like, if you're going to I have some suggested viewing. Tried to include some stuff that will totally ruin your night, and some nice quick fixes. Feel free to drop suggestions below.

• Rage Net
• Night Music
• Fantastic Planet
• The Holy Mountain
• Witchcraft Through the Ages
• KoKo's Earth Control
• Snow-White
• House
• Mandy
• Monochrome Head

...plus 188 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Andrei Rublev
2. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
3. A Brighter Summer Day
4. Metropolis
5. Seconds
6. Notorious
7. All That Heaven Allows
8. The Zone of Interest
9. Early Spring
10. Hiroshima Mon Amour

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

They’re all great tho honestly

1. The Thing
2. In the Mouth of Madness
3. Big Trouble in Little China
4. Christine
5. Assault on Precinct 13
6. Prince of Darkness
7. Halloween
8. The Fog
9. Starman
10. Escape from New York

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

• The Substance
• The Monster Squad
• Robin Redbreast
• The Mummy
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
• Debbie Does Damnation
• Feeders
• Delirium: Photo of Gioia
• Jason X
• The Octopus

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

The best things I watched for the first time in 2023:

1. Battling Butler
2. The Palm Beach Story
3. Oppenheimer
4. The Shop Around the Corner
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Asteroid City
7. Bringing Up Baby
8. The Tales of Hoffmann
9. Go West
10. Showgirls

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

They're all good, but here's my ranking as of my first time through them all.

1. Sherlock Jr.
2. Battling Butler
3. The General
4. Go West
5. The Cameraman
6. Our Hospitality
7. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
8. The Navigator
9. Seven Chances
10. College

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

• The Adventures of a Blue Fly
• Whaler out of New Bedford
• Luzern Viper
• Düsseldorf Blackbox
• Osnabrück Lagerhalle
• Berlin Eiszeit
• Stuttgart Filmwinter
• Bonn Experi
• Jameln Cafe Grenzbereiche
• Bielefeld Lichtwerk

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

Kinda loose ranking they're all pretty similar quality. Mainly the first two are clearly the best for the character arcs and increased amount of boat action.

• Hornblower: The Even Chance
• Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
• Hornblower: Mutiny
• Hornblower: Retribution
• Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
• Hornblower: Duty
• Hornblower: Loyalty
• Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

• Memoria
• Mad God
• Nope
• Decision to Leave
• TÁR
• Shin Ultraman
• Crimes of the Future
• RRR
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

• Sherlock Jr.
• Ace in the Hole
• The Turin Horse
• The Fifth Seal
• Nostalgia
• For All Mankind
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Cabaret
• Clearcut
• Once Upon a Time in China III

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

1. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
2. Sonatine
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Nothing Lasts Forever
6. Klute
7. Penda's Fen
8. The Hidden Fortress
9. The Last Temptation of Christ
10. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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

All the spooky month movies logged here

• Hocus Pocus
• Hocus Pocus 2
• The Blob
• Clearcut
• It Lives Again
• Hellraiser
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Viy
• Friday the 13th
• Countess Dracula

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

1. Dirty Ho
2. Crippled Avengers
3. Five Fingers of Death
4. The Boxer from Shantung
5. Shaolin Temple
6. Challenge of the Masters
7. Heroes of the East
8. Five Shaolin Masters
9. Executioners from Shaolin
10. Chinatown Kid

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

Upset your friends and family this holiday season!

• Blast of Silence
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Inside
• Prometheus
• Maniac Cop 2
• Black Christmas
• In Bruges
• The Night of the Hunter
• American Psycho

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

So I can keep track of all the things I've hoarded digitally.

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• 48 Hrs.
• The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
• 8MM
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Act of Killing
• After Hours
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God

...plus 1059 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Begotten
• The Amusement Park
• Escape Room
• Below
• The Invisible Man
• The Hidden
• Paranormal Activity
• The Mummy Returns
• Howling III: The Marsupials
• The Brain

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

Click notes to see info about editions etc.

1. Godzilla

   Criterion plus Boxset Copy

2. Burst City
3. Quay

   Collection of their shorts

4. Dog Star Man

   Criterion set

5. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
6. The Tale of Zatoichi

   All Zatoichi are the Criterion set.

7. New Tale of Zatoichi
8. Zatoichi the Fugitive
9. Zatoichi on the Road
10. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

...plus 425 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

They are all good.

• A New Leaf
• Mikey and Nicky
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Ishtar

Howdy folks! I recently published a script I’ve been working on for the better part of a year on Blacklist (if you’re not a member but interested in reading it feel free to get in touch with me here or on Twitter) and I thought I’d make a little list of some of the films that inspired me. The script is a near future crime thriller with some socio-political underpinnings. 

When a master criminal and their crew discover a prototype time machine they set their eyes on a powerful tech CEO and decide to attempt an impossible heist.

The list includes films that served as everything from direct inspiration to vague touchstones for genre, setting, character, and writing style.

• Thief
• Primer
• Heist
• Heat
• Ronin
• Ex Machina
• Le Samouraï
• Alien
• Le Cercle Rouge
• Rififi

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

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Finally cleaned up his filmography so it was time. I expect this to fluctuate with further rewatches. *last updated 01/28/2021*

1. Heat

   A basic choice for first but I adore.

2. Thief
3. Collateral
4. The Insider
5. Miami Vice

   Theatrical cut bumped this up.

6. Blackhat
7. Manhunter
8. Ali
9. Public Enemies
10. The Last of the Mohicans

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

Now that I’ve seen Straight Story I can do this. I was gonna assign ranks to the chunks of the list, but dropping from S rank to A rank to B rank seemed harsh to B Rank, so I reworked it. 

1-2: GOAT Ranking
3-5: S Ranking
6-9: A Ranking
10: B/C Ranking (I hope repeat viewings will eventually change this one for me)
11: D Ranking

• Mulholland Drive
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Blue Velvet
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Eraserhead
• Wild at Heart
• Lost Highway
• The Elephant Man
• The Straight Story
• Inland Empire

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

Best first time watches of 2020

1. Dog Star Man
2. Koyaanisqatsi
3. Taboo
4. Come and See
5. The Black Tower
6. The Hellstrom Chronicle
7. The Red Shoes
8. Army of Shadows
9. Werckmeister Harmonies
10. Lessons of Darkness

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

Everything we watched in order.

• Ganja & Hess
• House
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Driller Killer
• Toolbox Murders
• Halloween II
• Uzumaki
• Autopsy
• House of Usher
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death

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

See the rules HERE.

• Hard Times
• Rollerball
• Black Girl
• Ed Wood
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Best in Show
• Madam White Snake
• Invaders from Mars

1. The Lighthouse
2. Uncut Gems
3. Parasite
4. The Irishman
5. Ad Astra
6. Deadwood: The Movie
7. Long Day's Journey into Night
8. Mister America
9. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
10. Ready or Not

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

Schmelzdahin (melt away) is a film group which worked in Bonn between 1979 and 1989. : Jochen Lempert, Jochen Müller, Jürgen Reble. Schmelzdahin tly carry out research in the fields of shooting, montage and material processing. As a part of this, lengthy studies relating to the effects that bacterialogical decomposition, disintegration, and chemical processes have upon film emulsion were carried out. Within a period of ten years, some 20 short films are made and published world-wide carrying the Schmelzdahin name, without any personal reference being made to the artists. The selection programme „Ein harter Falter“ was on tour from 1988-89, together with the film performance „Wir lagern uns ums Feuer“. Some 30 screenings take place in West , Switzerland, the USA, and Canada. Break up of Schmelzdahin in 1989. text: cinovid database

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• Stadt in Flammen
• Aus den Algen
• 15 Days of Fever
• Schildmeyer Darlaten
• Der General
• Krepl
• Weltenempfänger
• EIS
• E.R.
• Flamethrowers

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

I like collecting things slightly too much. View notes for details.

• Alien

  Phantom City Creative Mondo Poster

• Beneath the Planet of the Apes

  Paolo Rivera Mondo Poster /
  / Eric Powell Mondo Poster

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Greg Ruth Mondo Poster /
  / Reprinted Poster /
  / Chirashi

• Donkey Skin

  Local Rep Poster /
  / x3 Dress Chirashi Posters

• M

  Repro

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

  Robert Sammelin Mondo Poster /
  / Chirashi

• The Brood

  Cronenberg Fest Chirashi

• Frankenhooker

  Chirashi

• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

  Local Rep Poser

• Destroy All Monsters

  Repro

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

Need to watch 7 and 8 again honestly. At least the first half are all masterpieces obviously.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Shining
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Paths of Glory
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. The Killing
10. Spartacus

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

Subjects of Winkie's Diner Pod episodes. (Listen here: t.co/RgDTEdnEsK)

1. Event Horizon
2. Crash
3. Green Room
4. Gunbuster
5. The Haunting of Hill House
6. Alita: Battle Angel
7. Ghost in the Shell
8. Paterson
9. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best to Worst.

1. Resident Evil: Retribution
2. Resident Evil: Afterlife
3. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
4. Resident Evil: Extinction
5. Resident Evil
6. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Within the ancient Greek tradition, psychagogy was considered the evocation of a soul from the nether world Hades. The word comes from the Greek Ψυχαγωγία being a composite noun with the two roots ψυχή ("soul") and αγωγία ("guidance") which in turn is a noun derived from the verb άγω ("to lead/guide/go"). Thus, it literally means "guidance of the soul".

Taken from Wikipedia

• Demons
• Mikey and Nicky
• The Seventh Seal
• Inland Empire
• Deadwood: The Movie
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Ikiru
• No Country for Old Men
• Don't Look Now
• The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

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

The films we end up watching logged in order. Gonna watch at least one for every day in October, likely some extra.

1. In the Mouth of Madness
2. Hardware
3. Truth or Dare? - A Critical Madness
4. The Ruins
5. The Legend of Hell House
6. The Frighteners
7. From Beyond
8. The Black Cat
9. The Black Cat
10. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm anxious and have a broken brain, so it's real easy to make me jump, and nervous before a jump. That does not count. Too fleeting and insubstantial. These are movies that may have made me start, but more importantly they wormed their way under my skin and genuinely scared me, which is much harder.

• The Shining
• The Exorcist
• Pulse
• Dark Water
• Inside
• Noroi: The Curse
• The Descent
• Ghostwatch
• The Nightmare

Movies that really capture that specific Halloween vibe.

• House
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Pumpkinhead
• Death Spa
• Trick 'r Treat
• Over the Garden Wall
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Dracula
• The Return of the Living Dead

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

Bored at work. Here are some movies with punching I like. Probably forgetting loads of shit.

• Police Story 3: Super Cop
• Police Story
• Wheels on Meals
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Come Drink with Me
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Last Hurrah for Chivalry
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Raid
• The Raid 2

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

Gonna keep adding to this I think.

• Cure
• How Some Jellyfish Are Born
• Sea Urchins
• Hyas and Stenorhynchus
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Fantastic Planet
• The Holy Mountain
• Phantom Thread
• Le Samouraï
• Witchcraft Through the Ages

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

Add Videodrome to make a creepy Debbie Harry triple feature.

• Body Bags
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Asian cinema where badasses prove how tough they are through coin tricks.

• Come Drink with Me
• Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
• Dragon Inn

One of my absolute favorite film franchises. Love the first five, like all but the last two.

• Planet of the Apes
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Planet of the Apes

I'm sorry my opinion on Aliens is so controversial it's one of my great flaws.

1. Alien

   It's a perfect film.

2. Alien: Covenant

   Such a personal film from Ridley Scott. I totally adore it.

3. Prometheus

   It's flawed and messy but there's so much good stuff and ambition too.

4. Alien³

   Basically see above, but even messier.

5. Aliens

   James Cameron is not my guy, just don't dig turning Alien into an action movie, or the typically messy Cameron subtext. Sorry I'm trying to delete it.

6. Alien Resurrection

   There's like two good moments, but god it's a disaster.

Actors with intense manic energy play the hero in a revenge fueled chainsaw duel

• Mandy
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Self-explanatory title. Some of these I have not seen but seem fitting enough. Feel free to suggest anything I've missed.

• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
• Lady Snowblood
• Goyokin
• Three Outlaw Samurai
• Yojimbo
• Demons
• The Sword of Doom
• Samurai Spy
• 13 Assassins

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Shining
• Alien
• Carrie
• The Night of the Hunter
• The Return of the Living Dead
• The Witch
• Inside
• House
• Don't Look Now
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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

Just gonna keep adding to this one as I think on it

• Kwaidan
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
• Dark Water
• Pulse
• Cure
• Marebito
• Matango
• Audition
• Noroi: The Curse

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

• Tremors
• King Kong
• Godzilla
• Godzilla
• The Thing
• Alien
• The Blob
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Host
• Pumpkinhead

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

I love kaiju films, here are some of my favourites.

• Godzilla vs. Biollante
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah
• Godzilla
• Godzilla
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
• Gamera vs. Gyaos
• Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
• Daimajin
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

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

The new watches that most inhabited my brain in 2018. Excludes new releases.

1. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2. Don't Look Now
3. Taxi Driver
4. Perfect Blue
5. Possession
6. Pulse
7. Memories
8. Hard to Be a God
9. Raw
10. Beauty and the Beast

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

No ranking and so set number cuz why the hell not.

• Widows
• Possum
• Paddington 2
• Annihilation
• Mandy
• Suspiria
• First Reformed
• Eighth Grade
• You Were Never Really Here
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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