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Based on a stageplay. The author wrote the screenplay as well.
A couple meets at the cemetary, ten years after their son died. The man left, shortly after. A lot of dirt of the past and present is coming up in their conversations, after having not seen each other for 10 years. The hurt of the loss sits deep in both of them, but they handle(d) their grief differently.
Directional debut of Desiree Nosbusch.

Much better than the third. Almost back to old glory.

With having (dark) dystopias as one of my favourite genres, I can't do other than love this movie.
It's a great dark satire on society and colonialism. Almost too real to be funny.
Mark Ruffalo as "Trump clone" is so disgustingly good.

Best Black Mirror episode that isn't one. "Westworld" meets "I am your man".

I love the black humor in here.

First of all: I usually love even the dumbest Jason Statham movie, if it has some nice fighting action. "Beekeeper" for example was excellent stuff.
This one is pure evidence that Amazon (Netflix and co) are killing good movies. The first thing that pops up when the film is starting "MGM - An Amazon Company" (explains why there is no BluRay release). The rest is an ultra-boring, predictable and cheap(!) TV movie of Jason Statham buying drugs to find the daughter of his employer (very simplified synopsis).
I don't want to think about, how they will massacre the James Bond franchise.

(One star for the on screen reunion of Jason Statham and Jason Flemyng)

The first two were more entertaining and original.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Kind of a modern, female, body horror version of "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

What a ride. An evil satire on today's youth madness in show business.

Laura Dern is amazing here. But over my head is a giant question mark.
My quintessence: be aware if your husband is ing a polish circus, to care for the animals.

Sequel to season 4 ep. 1: USS Callister. This episode is 90 min long. I watched both episodes one after another.
The idea is O.K., especially if you are a gamer and can relate to some stuff. The humor feels a bit forced at some points (worst here is the "Castaway" parody). The end leaves room for a possible third story, but it doesn't have to be, as we do not have a real cliffhanger.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

No, I am not ing the related game. D=

This review may contain spoilers.

Here it is, the mandatory lesbian episode.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

One of the best episodes ever.

Well... Stunning photography and great score (as one could expect from an Eggers movie). But to be honest... Could have been half an hour shorter. A bit too much pathos and visions for my taste. Maybe I just expected too much.
At least there are some cats.

Martyrs for intellectuals.

Interesting that this came out in the same year as Craven's "Shocker". The idea is the same. A mass murderer, toasted on the electric chair, is coming back to take revenge.
Here Lance Henriksen has to deal with Brion James.

Finally I got to see this (british) horror cult classic from the 80s. More a family drama then a horror movie. Nice handmade 80s effects, good story...

What's the plot? In short: imagine your dad was abducted by aliens and is returning 3 years later (slightly changed)...

Slow building mindfuck and arthouse horror with Scarlet Johansson.

Many questions are unanswered in the end. They don't have to be though.
All in all I see it as parable for becoming a woman.

Well played. Great cast and score. Nice ending.

City of God of the 70s.

This made me realize that I like Walter Hill movies.

Hab ich mir eigenlich nur wegen der Nostalgie und Dirk von Lowtzow angeschaut. Ein nicht besonders überragender Film. Sehr tränenrührig und ein bis zweimal lustig.

Tim Roth's character is a nurse for terminally ill people. He is caring for them at their homes. We follow him on four different patients (one after another). Inbetween all that, we learn about his troubled past.

I'd recommend a double feature with the french "Quelques heures de printemps"/"A Few Hours of Spring".

Just an ordinary day in the U.S. of A..

This was my teenage porn movie. "Prison sex" with Tim Roth.

Why has this not been in the OSCAR race?

Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth are both brilliant here. Actually I am scared of Tim (my favourite actor) now.

1* Stuart Gordon
1* Brian Yuzna
1* both in combination with Lovecraft
1* the most Lovecraft atmosphere ever caught on film

Jeffrey Combs would have given extra stars, but he's not in it. :(

Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

The more I see of Buttgereit, the more I love his work.
This is about the lonely death of a serial killer. We experience his shocking daydreams and daily routines of self harm, embedded in a story about his "friendship" with his hooker neighbour.

Don't watch if you expect a triple A Hollywood production. Buttgereit is always very low budget with amateur-like acting. I love the musical score and the camera work in all of Buttgereit's movies so far.

Brize and Lindon are always genious together. All these movies feel like you are a silent watcher of reality. You see people at work and in private with all their struggles on both sides, all shot with handcamera. That makes the characters a human like you and me. Like here you have one of the bosses of a factory, trying to save jobs, while struggling with his mentally challenged son and divorce.
This is kind of the opposite side of "At War".

"The Gift" with Jason Bateman and Joel Egerton is by (very) far the best movie with this background story.

I love Gaspar Noe. Yeah, I am a freak.

7 episodes around death and suicide. Brilliant camera work and music. The stories give you a lot of stuff to think about.

The Thursday episode hit me the most, though nothing is happening there, expect from names popping up on screen, while filming an Autobahn bridge from beneath. Whether the names are real or not, it hit hard.

Lanthimos, Lanthimos.... What to do with you? This is my third attempt, after "Killing of a Sacred Deer" and half of "Poor Things".

This is kind of his (perverted) version of "The Village".

A family with three grown kids (one son, two daugthers). The father is the only one to be allowed to leave their estate. The children have no idea what is outside and are raised with tons of fake knowledge. They don't even have names.

I assume this is a parable for totalitarian, isolated states like North Korea. That's at least what I thought of the whole movie. You got people with potential, but you waste it, because you lock them in and tell them sh*t to raise their fears, just to control them. But can you succeed to keep everything in check (all the time)?

Ticked one off of my bucket list of controversial movies.

This one is somewhere between Uwe Boll, Christoph Schlingensief and Helge Schneider.

It's a disgusting piece of art. Maybe the most grotesque thing I have ever watched. I can't imagine that Buttgereit meant this serious. It feels very much like satire. The handmade effects are pretty good, for an almost 40 years old (very) low budget amateur movie.

The idea here is not bad. Far better than "A Cure for Wellness".
I love movies that let Dan Stevens show off his almost perfect German skills.

Lovecraft and Jeffrey Combs in combination can't sink below 3 stars.

The team of Jeffrey Combs and Brian Yuzna is always instant 3 stars guaranteed. This is an episode horror, loosely based on H.P. the Lovecraft universe. The frame story has Jeffrey Combs as Lovecraft himself, searching for the Necronomicon in a secret lair, guarded by strange "monks". (We don't ask why the stories told, are set in the modern world then.)
The execution is well done, the cast is pretty good (Bruce Payne, David Warner...). Effects look handmade (apart from a bit CGI in the first epiode).
Director Brian Yuzna himself has a small role as taxi driver.

One of the best comedies ever made.

Not a bad movie. Well earned Oscar for Jeff Bridges. But all in all it fell a bit flat in my opinion. I don't know the novel which this is based on, but I hope it is more in-depth. This was not enough for me to attach an emotional band to Bridges' character.
Extraordinary soundtrack though, would buy a Jeff Bridges album. (Edit: I just did)

It is hard to rank tons of movies of your favourite actor. I love Tim Roth and his work for ages now. I didn't watch everything, but a lot.
After "The Con Is On" are the ones which are on my watchlist. The last 3 are those I have watched ages ago (I own the last 2 of those on VHS and there is no DVD available for a reasonable price).

1. The Legend of 1900
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Heart of Darkness
4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
5. Vincent & Theo
6. Deceiver
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Hit
9. Little Odessa
10. Vatel

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All from my collection.

• Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
• Battle Royale
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Boy Kills World
• Brazil
• Children of Men
• A Clockwork Orange
• Crimes of the Future
• Cube

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

I have my DVD/BluRay collection listed in an online database already, but I try to redo it here.

I own all this stuff physically and legal. The list is growing (faster than I want it to :D).

• 00 Schneider - Im Wendekreis der Eidechse

  BluRay

• 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter

  DVD

• 11:14

  DVD

• 12 Years a Slave

  BluRay

• The 13th Warrior

  DVD

• 1408

  BluRay

• 1917

  BluRay

• 1941

  BluRay

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  BluRay

• 2010: The Year We Make

  BluRay

...plus 1400 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list made from my physical collection (and with the help of the letterboxd horror tag).

• 1408
• 28 Days Later
• The 4th Floor
• Abigail
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• Alien
• Alien Apocalypse
• Alien: Covenant
• Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
• Alien Lockdown

...plus 397 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Is there any movie out there without a Skarsgard?
The answer is: No!
Is it bad? No!
Stellan, Alexander and Bill (yeah I know there's more of them) as far as I watched them. All mixed here, for you to find out, who is in what.

I am a big fan of Stellan since I have seen "The Glass House". Favourite Alexander movie is "Infinity Pool". Bill is great in "Boy Kills World".

• The Glass House
• Angels & Demons
• The Avengers
• Barbarian
• Boy Kills World
• Breaking the Waves
• Chernobyl
• Deadpool 2
• Exit
• The Hunt for Red October

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

Vampires and Werewolves... What do I have in my collection?

(Updated on October 16th 2024)

• Abigail
• An American Werewolf in London
• Blood and Chocolate
• Bordello of Blood
• Cronos
• Day Watch
• Dracula
• Dracula 2000
• Fright Night
• From Dusk Till Dawn

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

The 80s were, in my opinion, the golden years of horror. May it be, because it was the time I made my way into it. It started with the old black and white films on TV (Frankenstein, Dracula...) My Mom went with me to see "Psycho 3" in the cinema when I was 14. My childhood friend got some of the "harder stuff" from his much older brother from time to time and we watched it together. In retrospective I think most of it was censored/cut (which sadly is a thing here in , if things get too violent). It was always a sport for me to find uncut versions of something. I still have tons of rare VHS, which were never re-released on DVD or even on BluRay. In this list are only DVDs and BluRays from my collection.

• Aliens
• American Gothic
• An American Werewolf in London
• Anthropophagous
• Bad Taste
• Basket Case
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Cat's Eye
• Child's Play
• Christine

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

Movies with cats that I have watched and/or own. Just listing those where cats have a bigger role or meaning.

• The Aristocats
• The Black Cat
• The Cat Returns
• Cats & Dogs
• Cat's Eye
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
• Eye of the Cat
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Gummo
• House

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

Films from my collection that play almost entirely out in the open. May it be the arctic, a desert, woods, a swamp or even a plain field.

• Arctic
• Australia
• The Blair Witch Project
• Centurion
• Cliffhanger
• Deliverance
• Eden Lake
• Everest
• A Field in England
• First Blood

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

Mads Mikkelsen films I own (or have watched on legal streaming). Tried to rank them.

"Chaos Walking" still on my watch pile.

1. Valhalla Rising
2. Arctic
3. Pusher II
4. The Hunt
5. Adam's Apples
6. Polar
7. Pusher
8. Riders of Justice
9. After the Wedding
10. The Salvation

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

Well, where are the boundaries of Science Fiction? When is it fantasy already, when does the horror tag begin?

Here are my science fiction movies, as I would tag them.

I left out superhero movies and most James Bond.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: The Year We Make
• The Abyss
• Akira
• Alien
• Alien Apocalypse
• Alien: Covenant
• Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
• Alien Lockdown
• Alien Resurrection

...plus 130 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What I have seen of (the amazing) Vincent Lindon so far. Ranked.

Unrated films are already here or on the way, but still unwatched, which will be changed within a few days.

• The Measure of a Man
• Anything for Her
• At War
• La Haine
• A Few Hours of Spring
• Titane
• Another World
• Welcome
• Bastards
• Mademoiselle Chambon

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

Films that caused uproars or are considered to be too intense or shocking. May it be at the time of their release or still today.
Just stuff I own or & have watched. I still have to watch some of them. I am looking for the right mood. Sometimes it is hard to find. ;)

• Antichrist
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Boxing Helena
• Caligula
• Cannibal Holocaust
• A Clockwork Orange
• Come and See
• Crash
• The Death King
• Dogma

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

The list of movies I watched with (in my opinion) the recently sexiest man alive, Dan Stevens.

1. Colossal
2. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
3. The Guest
4. Abigail
5. Apostle
6. Cuckoo
7. Kill Switch
8. A Walk Among the Tombstones
9. Criminal Activities
10. Dracula

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

In my physical collection and watches on streaming.

• Beyond Re-Animator
• Bride of Re-Animator
• Castle Freak
• The Color Out of Space
• From Beyond
• The Haunted Palace
• Lurking Fear
• Necronomicon
• Re-Animator
• The Evil Clergyman

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

My collection of Jeffrey Combs movies. Jeffrey is one of my three horror icons (next to Robert Englund and Bruce Campbell).
He just has a very small role in "The Man with two brains", but I'll count it anyway. I need a DVD of "Felony" badly, I just have a VHS copy.
I met him at a Star Trek convention a while ago. He's a totally nice and charming guy.

1. Re-Animator
2. The Frighteners
3. The Man with Two Brains
4. The Black Cat
5. From Beyond
6. Castle Freak
7. Beyond Re-Animator
8. Doctor Mordrid
9. Would You Rather
10. Fortress

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

In my physical collection and watches on streaming.

• The Black Cat
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Oblong Box
• The Pale Blue Eye
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Raven
• Tales of Terror

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

(Modern) Movies from my collection which are black and white or with massive black and white sequences.

• American History X
• The Artist
• Clerks
• The Color Out of Space
• Control
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Eraserhead
• The Eyes of My Mother
• A Field in England

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

Here I have an extra list for concerts, stand up comedy or music documentation (as far as letterboxd has it).
It feels like putting them in my DVD/BluRay list, is breaking the immersion.

• Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
• Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
• Amnesty International's Big 30

  DVD

• Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That!
• Bowie: A Reality Tour
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Rockpalast Live
• The Chemical Brothers: Don't Think

  DVD

• Dire Straits - On the Night
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Live at Montreux
• Eric Clapton: One More Car One More Rider

...plus 72 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A selection of revenge movies from my physical collection.
(including Netflix watches like "The Killer")

• Léon: The Professional
• Boy Kills World
• A History of Violence
• The Gift
• Mandy
• Hard Candy
• The Northman
• The Beekeeper
• In Order of Disappearance
• Pumpkinhead

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

Some of the most violent movies I know.
Not counting pure horror or war movies.
Alphabetical
I'll add some classics as soon as I rewatched them to ensure they fit in here.

• 300
• Becky
• Bone Tomahawk
• Boy Kills World
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
• Centurion
• Dobermann
• Eden Lake
• The Expendables
• Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job

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

Movies I encountered which used ego perspective (in parts or entirely). Of course found footage is part of this. Counting 3rd person as well.
Not many yet, but maybe the list will grow.

Suggestions welcome.

• The Blair Witch Project
• Cloverfield
• Enter the Void
• The Gallows
• Hardcore Henry
• In a Violent Nature
• Kill Switch
• Maniac
• [REC]

My Cronenberg "collection", ranked. I still need a digital copy of "Scanners". I have the VHS. I can't re-watch it, so it's unranked.

1. Dead Ringers
2. A History of Violence
3. M. Butterfly
4. Videodrome
5. Crash
6. The Fly
7. Spider
8. eXistenZ
9. The Dead Zone
10. Maps to the Stars

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

Ben Wheatley as far as I have watched his stuff.

Meg 2 still coming up.

1. Free Fire
2. Kill List
3. High-Rise
4. Sightseers
5. Down Terrace
6. In the Earth
7. A Field in England
8. Meg 2: The Trench

Stephen King adaptations that I own physically (and those which I watched on Netflix, that exist as stream only).

1. 1408

   BluRay

2. 1922

   Netflix

3. Apt Pupil

   Netflix

4. Big Driver

   BluRay (3 Movie Collection)

5. Carrie

   BluRay

6. Cat's Eye

   BluRay

7. Cell

   BluRay (3 Movie Collection)

8. Cujo

   BluRay

9. The Dark Half

   BluRay

10. The Dead Zone

    BluRay

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

What have I watched with South Africa's main male actor export Sharlto Copley?
I am after his work since I have watched "District 9".
Why has he constantly to die in his movies?

1. Free Fire
2. District 9
3. Boy Kills World
4. Hardcore Henry
5. God: Serengeti
6. Europa Report
7. Gringo
8. God: City
9. Open Grave
10. Elysium

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

My ranked list of Clive Owen movies, as far as have watched them.

1. Children of Men
2. Shoot 'Em Up
3. Inside Man
4. Sin City
5. Derailed
6. Closer
7. The International
8. Last Knights
9. Killer Elite
10. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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

What have I watched that comes from scandinavia? Sometimes it is hard to tell if it is enough to get an entry, just because there is a scandinavian director, as Winding Refn, von Trier and Östlund e.g. are working international. But I think their scandinavian hallmark is on there.

• Adam's Apples
• After the Wedding
• The Ambulance
• Another Round
• Bleeder
• Breaking the Waves
• The Celebration
• The Conference
• Copenhagen Cowboy
• Dead Snow

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies I watched that are more or less in real-time.

• 11:14
• 1917
• 7500
• Buried
• Carnage
• Crank
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Fail Safe
• Free Fire

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

French movies that I watched (and mostly own).

Looks like there's either comedy or extreme stuff and nothing in between.

• Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
• Amélie
• Anything for Her
• The Apparition
• At War
• Bastards
• The Cabbage Soup
• The Chorus
• The City of Lost Children
• Climax

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I am working on watching Anime (I started late, yes) and began with Ghibli of course. Here I try to rank my experiences (not only Ghibli) so far.

1. Kiki's Delivery Service
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Akira
4. The Cat Returns
5. Whisper of the Heart
6. Spirited Away
7. From Up on Poppy Hill
8. Pom Poko
9. My Neighbor Totoro
10. Howl's Moving Castle

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

As far as I watched them. So no Tom Hanks with a ball here. ;)
List maybe updated at times.

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Abigail
• Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
• Arctic
• Buried
• Coherence
• Cube
• Dead Calm
• Ex Machina
• The Eyes of My Mother

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

There are not many totally bad movies that I ever experienced.
Some of them (which is very rare) did I not even finish.

This list may grow slowly, but I hope it does not. ;)

• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
• Crank: High Voltage
• Exists
• Paranormal Activity
• Van Helsing
• The Wolverine
• A Cure for Wellness
• Gambit
• The Con Is On
• Poor Things

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

My ranked list of the Coen's works.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Barton Fink
3. The Hudsucker Proxy
4. Blood Simple
5. Fargo
6. Miller's Crossing
7. A Serious Man
8. The Man Who Wasn't There
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Inside Llewyn Davis

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

This list will always be in progress. Check for updates if you like.

• Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Calvary
• The Chumscrubber
• Colossal
• Criminal Activities
• Dave Made a Maze
• The Devil's Backbone
• Frailty

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

Movies you might not it to like, but I do. =D

• 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Black Sheep
• The Cable Guy
• Doctor Mordrid
• DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
• Dracula 2000
• Frankenstein Unbound
• Guest House Paradiso
• Hardcore Henry

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

There were so many horror-movies in this list, I'll make them an own list.

• 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Bang, Boom, Bang
• Barton Fink
• The Blues Brothers
• Brazil
• The Cannonball Run
• Children of Men
• Clerks
• Clockwise

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