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What vision and determination Marlon Riggs had to make this beautiful film at the end of his tragically short life. A profound and essential film about Black identity and a true celebration of intersectionality.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Who thought this was a good idea? And where's the laughter?

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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Not very good at all, and yet I will continue to watch things solely because Lili Taylor is in them.

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One of the better depictions of stifling, depressing contemporary low-wage work. Aurora's profound loneliness will stay with me for a long time.

The anti-Amazon film we all need.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

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Artists = people in the creative field.

• The Lost Weekend
• In a Lonely Place
• Sunset Boulevard
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• All That Jazz
• Starstruck
• Tootsie
• Amadeus
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Feature films directed by women and my favorite shorts that have screened at Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (www.finalgirlsberlin.com).

• The Babadook
• Messiah of Evil
• Lyle
• Raw
• XX
• Good Manners
• Nancy
• Pin Cushion
• Tigers Are Not Afraid
• The Slumber Party Massacre

...plus 347 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that depict different kinds of grief well.

• Tokyo Story
• Wild Strawberries
• The Virgin Spring
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• You'll Like My Mother
• Don't Look Now
• The Haunting of Julia
• Beyond the Darkness
• Ordinary People
• Finnegan Begin Again

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Sunset Boulevard
• Tokyo Story
• Eyes Without a Face
• The Cremator
• The Laughing Woman
• A Married Couple
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• The Beauty
• A Swedish Love Story

...plus 141 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films portraying social evils in a realistic fashion. Either inspired by real events or hewing very close to our reality.

• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Gaslight
• The Lost Weekend
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Red Shoes
• The Third Man
• Late Spring
• In a Lonely Place
• Tokyo Story
• Bigger Than Life

...plus 534 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

With a special focus on the 70s & 80s.

For a film series/film marathon

• These Three
• Stage Door
• The Women
• Old Acquaintance
• Diabolique
• The Good Girls
• The Children's Hour
• The Group
• Persona
• Daisies

...plus 253 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that include incest - either seen, talked about, or implied.

Avoiding sheer exploitation films here.

Warning: Spoilers

• Murmur of the Heart
• The Color Wheel
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Cement Garden
• Luna
• Flowers in the Attic
• Sister My Sister
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose
• The Dreamers
• Ma mère

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

• Bigger Than Life
• Fear Strikes Out
• The 400 Blows
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• Mouchette
• The Cremator
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
• Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
• Walkabout

...plus 98 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Suddenly, Last Summer
• Psycho
• Lolita
• The Graduate
• Wanda
• You'll Like My Mother
• Carrie
• Autumn Sonata
• The Brood
• Luna

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

So I don't accidentally buy films I already own.

• The Spiral Staircase
• The Red Shoes
• Bitter Rice
• Ikiru
• Shadows
• Peeping Tom
• Psycho
• Jules and Jim
• Daisies
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

...plus 292 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Cinema centered on old people and the lives they lead.

• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Late Spring
• Umberto D.
• Ikiru
• Tokyo Story
• Wild Strawberries
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Harold and Maude
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that question why we're here and what we should believe in.

• A Matter of Life and Death
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Red Shoes
• In a Lonely Place
• Ikiru
• Ordet
• On the Bowery
• The Seventh Seal
• Wild Strawberries
• The Virgin Spring

...plus 269 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Metropolis
• Modern Times
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Bicycle Thieves
• Tokyo Story
• Pickpocket
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Daisies
• Mouchette
• Salesman

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Black Cat
• The Conformist
• Deliverance
• Lisa and the Devil
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Who Can Kill a Child?
• The Hills Have Eyes
• The Final Terror
• The Hitcher
• The Vanishing

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that explore the world of filmmaking.

All the films here are either above average or films I want to watch.

• Twentieth Century
• In a Lonely Place
• Sunset Boulevard
• Peeping Tom
• 8½
• La Ricotta
• Contempt
• The Producers
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

...plus 162 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Pump Up the Volume
• Out of the Blue
• Heathers
• Thirteen
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Times Square
• The Breakfast Club
• Heavenly Creatures
• A Clockwork Orange
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies with radio hosts & podcasters in key roles.

• Pump Up the Volume
• Times Square
• The Fog
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Halloween
• Women Who Kill
• Poser
• Born in Flames
• Play Misty for Me
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs

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

All the shorts and features that we have screened at Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (that are on Letterboxd).

They are all horror films directed, written and/or produced by woman and non-binary filmmakers.

• The Velvet Vampire
• Messiah of Evil
• Hollywood 90028
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Possibly in Michigan
• Celia
• Cold Light of Day
• I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
• Kissed
• Office Killer

...plus 520 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Great films that touch on Jewish themes.

• Next Stop, Greenwich Village
• Arranged
• A Serious Man
• Anywhere Else
• Menashe
• Ida
• Demon
• Disobedience
• Three Identical Strangers
• School Ties

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

• Welcome Home Baby
• Friendship's Death
• Home Sweet Home
• The Long Road to the Director's Chair
• Tenderness of the Wolves
• Peter Hujar's Day
• Hot Milk
• Jonathan
• Dreams in Nightmares
• The Ugly Stepsister

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

Films that feature the scuzzy, grimy side of New York.

• Make Way for Tomorrow
• The Lost Weekend
• The Naked City
• Marty
• On the Bowery
• The Cool World
• The Sex Killer
• Bad Girls Go to Hell
• The Incident
• Rosemary's Baby

...plus 139 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Because they're so rare to find...

• The Devil, Probably
• Ordinary People
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
• Crumb
• Donnie Darko
• Tarnation
• Mysterious Skin
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• Waltz with Bashir
• Mary and Max

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

A ranking of Anthony Perkins films. Anthony Perkins is always wonderful, but occasionally his films aren't.

• Psycho
• Play It as It Lays
• Pretty Poison
• Crimes of ion
• Goodbye Again
• Psycho II
• My Name
• The Trial
• Evening Primrose
• Winter Kills

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

Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990 - An excellent film history book edited by Samm Deighan & Andrew Nette

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• Punishment Park
• Maeve
• Camila
• The Strawberry Statement
• The Girlfriend
• Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
• in Autumn
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Black Girl

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

• Mr. Crocket
• Generation Terror
• Confession
• Nightbitch
• Mi bestia
• Night Silence
• Little Bites
• Gazer
• Animale
• Apartment 7A

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

• Robot Dreams
• Fishmonger
• Late Night with the Devil
• In Flames
• All You Need Is Death
• UFO Abduction
• Motel Melati
• The Uncle
• The Appointment
• The Funeral

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

• Janet Planet
• Last Swim
• A Different Man
• At Averroes & Rosa Parks
• Ain’t Nothin’ Without You
• Just Don't Think I'll Cry
• Cuckoo
• Treasure
• Arcadia
• A Family

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

I'm going to try and do it this year even though October is the busiest time of the year for me!

**Films might change, depending on availability/mood.**

The Rules:

There must be 31 films

6 countries

Anatomy (), Successive Slidings of Pleasure (), Satan's Slaves (Indonesia), Cure (Japan), Dead Man's Shoes (UK), Train to Busan (South Korea)

8 decades

The Black Cat (1934), Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Spirits of the Dead (1968), The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dressed to Kill (1980), Tremors (1990), Femme Fatale (2002), Train to Busan (2016)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films

Train to Busan & The Birds

1 film with Robert Englund

Urban Legend

1 something is underground film

Tremors

3 Satan/Devil centered films

Spirits of the Dead, Bedevil, Inferno

1 Amicus film

From Beyond the Grave

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access.

Dracula 3D

1 LGBTQ+ connected film

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5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson

Dressed to Kill, Femme Fatale, Last House on the Left, Frenzy, The Birds

2 Peter Cushing films

The Vampire Lovers, From Beyond the Grave

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker

Dracula 3000

1 film based on a Clive Barker story

Dread

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10

Evil Ed

1 Mario Bava film

Bay of Blood

1 film with an 'x' in the title

Saw X

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)

The Funhouse

• The Black Cat
• Elevator to the Gallows
• The Birds
• Spirits of the Dead
• The Vampire Lovers
• 10 Rillington Place
• A Bay of Blood
• Frenzy
• The Last House on the Left
• From Beyond the Grave

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

I recorded a Somebody's Watching episode on the top 3 horror films of the decade from the 1960s to the 2010s with podcast guests Jess Sweetman and Sara Neidorf.

Part 1: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somebodyswatching/episodes/Episode-2-Top-3-Horror-Films-of-the-Decade-Part-1-1960s-1990s-w-Jess--Sara-e26g217

Part 2:
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somebodyswatching/episodes/Episode-3-Top-3-Horror-Films-of-the-Decade-Part-2-2000s--2010s-w-Jess--Sara-e27tnam

1 - 18 - my picks

19 - 35 - Sara's picks

36 - 46 Jess' picks

1970's - Jess picked Don't Look Now & Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1980's - Jess picked Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

1990's - Jess picked Cube

2000's - Sara picked May

1. The Cremator
2. Eyes Without a Face
3. The Laughing Woman
4. Martin
5. The Haunting of Julia
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
7. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
8. The Evil Dead
9. The Vanishing
10. Candyman

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• She Came to Me
• The Beast in the Jungle
• The Quiet Migration
• Perpetrator
• Touki Bouki
• The Beauty
• Manodrome
• The Adults
• Past Lives
• The Bride

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

• Father's Day
• Beautiful Beings
• Grand Jete
• The Line
• Convenience Store
• Dark Glasses
• Twentieth Century
• Both Sides of the Blade
• Mutzenbacher
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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

Films that I have seen this time around.
Includes films in the official program and the European Film Market

• Censor
• La Mif
• Ninjababy
• The Power
• Ted K
• Jakob's Wife
• Schoolgirls
• Sirley
• Wild Indian
• Souad

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

Films I want to see that are mentioned in Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' fantastic book "1000 Women in Horror."

• The Penthouse
• A Bay of Blood
• The Mephisto Waltz
• The Godsend
• Family Demons
• Twins of Evil
• The Dreaming
• Chopping Mall
• Burnt Offerings
• Wicked Stepmother

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.