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monumental difference in quality with Maggie Cheung is in the scene vs when she isn’t. not just because she gives the strongest performance in the film, but mainly because the crime plotline is so thoroughly uninteresting

Leave Her There!

achieved perfect masculine/feminine energy balance by rewatching this in the background while i played God Hand on a PS2 emulator

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

there is no greater joy than watching early 2000s horror movies about the internet

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

ballerina is my girlfriend and i want her to set me on fire

a blend of Abel Ferrara and 70s Scorsese films filtered through Tsukamoto’s DIY punk aesthetic. feels very similar to Tokyo Fist thematically, but you really feel the grit on this one

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

what in the goddamn hell are you talking about

i’d rather do this than take the ALGEBRA TEST! XD #school #comedy #algebra #schoolhumor #instagramcomedians #sabrinacarpenter

what if what if uh what if you went craaaaaaazy

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

rocks for brains

how would kevin costner feel knowing that most of this film’s shelf life is because of rick the intern’s podcast

also if this was philadelphia this GM would be shot the moment he walked out of the building

fool me once

god forbid a girl catch a vibe

sure! why not!

?!

?

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

this movie is unrealistic because whenever Pom Klementieff isn’t on screen, everyone should be asking “where’s Pom Klementieff? how can we get her into this scene?”

COMPLETE RANKING: Mission: Impossible 

such a sucker for this kind of ending 

Ranked: Steven Soderbergh

the moral of the story is don’t pick up a penny out of the fountain 

Ranked: Final Destination

the most baffling film in Craven’s often baffling career, this time not due to a low budget or an odd execution, but the fact that it’s basically one of the fake oscar movies you might see in a hollywood satire. even more baffling- it’s pretty solid! fascinatingly structured, and not afraid to give its protagonist a little edge. well played mr craven

Ranked: Wes Craven

no one has ever been hotter than Pom Klementieff is in this movie. 

edit: shea whigham

Ranked: Mission Impossible

ok i guess

gloria should be secretary of state

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

the inherent problem with making a film about ennui, purposelessness, and detachment- very hard to engage with! I get the point you’re making but holy shit i’m bored brother!

Ranked: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

saw this shit in utah

crazy work to remake your own movie almost 30 years later and just make it kinda worse

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

the beach that makes you age at the same rate as you normally do

what the fuck man

There is 🧎a clown🤡🤡 in a 🌽 cornfield 😬 his name is 😱 Frendo 😏 Frendo 👯‍♀️ the clown 🤡🤡 he is in a 🌽🌽🌽 cornfield 🌾🌾 and there are 👧🧒people there too 🎯 the clown🤡🤡 is hunting 🤡🎯 them 😱😭 in the 🌽🌾 cornfield

brad pitt on an assassin train: i sleep

josh hartnett on an assassin plane: real shit

really vibed with the first 25 seconds of this

Ranked: Wes Craven

hate to break it to you but this is the best one

Ranked: Mission Impossible 

each scene pretty much works on its own, but if you zoom out and look at the whole, it’s like a mangled version of three different movies shoved together. got me in the end though!

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

immediately one of the funniest and most quotable comedies in years

me after a bad hinge date 

Ranked: Robert Altman

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

kidnap me Goldie Hawn

Ranked: Steven Spielberg

kind of feels like Altman just trying to replay the hits. even if it doesn’t have the spark of inspiration that Nashville or Short Cuts have, it still has the deftness that he brings to his other tapestry films. just feels like he couldn’t find a way into the material 

Ranked: Robert Altman

Has trouble deciding what to be- partially a dark drama about Haiti and the world of voodoo that’s well researched and mostly well executed. it’s also a major schlock fest at times, and it feels torn between wanting to both and never really succeeding at either

Putting the “based on a true story” tag ahead of a movie with this third act is genuinely hysterical

Ranked: Wes Craven

has nothing to do with mission impossible but there’s a motorcycle joust jump so who am i to judge

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

I don’t think that this is the MCU revolution that some seem to think it is (mainly because I have very low standards for these and have been enjoying most of the movies recently.) 

Main complaint is that this film acts like an ensemble but it really isn’t- it’s pretty dead center focused on Yelena and Sentry. Their performances and arcs are rewarding, but it felt like this was done at the expense of Walker, Ghost, Bucky, and Alexei, who feel like one-liner generators who occasionally get a glimmer of character work. Without spoiling anything, there is a moment that is served up on a silver platter, begging on its hands and knees to be a major turning point for Walker’s character, and it’s completely ignored.

Rare MCU film where the third act is the best part. wish we had more of that. Overall, well themed with charming characters and some good set pieces. I think it needed a little more to really cross i to greatness.

Ranked: MCU

Unranked

• Scream
• Wet Hot American Summer
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Cloud Atlas
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Jurassic Park
• Shampoo
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix Resurrections
• The Matrix Revolutions

1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible
6. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Mission: Impossible III

1. Out of Sight
2. sex, lies, and videotape
3. Contagion
4. Ocean's Eleven
5. Schizopolis
6. Erin Brockovich
7. Black Bag
8. Logan Lucky
9. The Limey
10. Behind the Candelabra

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

• Final Destination 3
• Final Destination 5
• Final Destination
• Final Destination Bloodlines
• Final Destination 2
• The Final Destination

1. Scream
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Scream 2
4. Scream 4
5. Scream 3
6. New Nightmare
7. The Last House on the Left
8. Red Eye
9. The Serpent and the Rainbow
10. Music of the Heart

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

• Pulse
• Cure
• Sweet Home
• Cloud
• Charisma
• Chime
• License to Live
• Serpent's Path
• Serpent's Path
• Eyes of the Spider

1. The Long Goodbye
2. Short Cuts
3. The Player
4. Nashville
5. Gosford Park
6. California Split
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. 3 Women
9. Secret Honor
10. Prêt-à-Porter

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

1. Jurassic Park
2. Jaws
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. Schindler's List
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
9. The Fabelmans
10. West Side Story

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

TV doesn't count!!! Sorry Wanda!!!

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Avengers: Endgame
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
9. Black Panther
10. The Avengers

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

1. The Fly
2. Videodrome
3. Scanners
4. Crimes of the Future
5. Dead Ringers
6. Crash
7. Naked Lunch
8. The Brood
9. The Dead Zone
10. Shivers

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

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Black Panther
• Sinners
• Creed
• Fruitvale Station

• Annihilation
• Devs
• Ex Machina
• Men
• Civil War
• Warfare

• All That Jazz
• Cabaret
• Star 80
• Lenny
• Sweet Charity

1. Memories of Murder
2. Parasite
3. Mother
4. Snowpiercer
5. Mickey 17
6. Okja
7. The Host
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite

feat. some honorable mentions

1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Better Man
3. Challengers
4. A Different Man
5. Trap
6. Anora
7. The Brutalist
8. Hard Truths
9. Look Back
10. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

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

1. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
2. First Reformed
3. Blue Collar
4. Affliction
5. Master Gardener
6. American Gigolo
7. The Card Counter
8. Hardcore
9. The Comfort of Strangers
10. Oh, Canada

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

• The Lighthouse
• The Northman
• Nosferatu
• The Witch

• Bad Education
• Volver
• All About My Mother
• Talk to Her
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Law of Desire
• What Have I Done to Deserve This?
• Live Flesh
• The Room Next Door
• The Skin I Live In

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

• Secrets & Lies
• Naked
• Hard Truths
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Meantime

• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Fargo
• True Grit
• No Country for Old Men
• Burn After Reading
• The Big Lebowski
• Blood Simple
• Raising Arizona
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• The Tragedy of Macbeth

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

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

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

1. The Gold Rush
2. The Great Dictator
3. City Lights
4. Modern Times
5. Monsieur Verdoux
6. The Circus
7. Limelight
8. The Kid
9. A Countess from Hong Kong
10. A King in New York

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

My third annual journey into the depths of hell. me as destroy my vaguely healthy mind with ghosts, gore, and a whole lotta Exorcist.

LINK to the rules from Cinemonster’s list. 
My FIRST and SECOND lists.

Without further ado, here’s the lineup:

CHECKLIST:

There must be 31 horror films ✅

6 countries ✅
- USA ✅
- Italy ✅
- UK ✅
- ✅
- India ✅
- Czechoslovakia ✅
- Mexico ✅
- Spain ✅
- Japan ✅
- ✅

8 decades ✅
- 1920s ✅
- 1960s ✅
- 1970s ✅
- 1980s ✅
- 1990s ✅
- 2000s ✅
- 2010s ✅
- 2020s ✅

ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least 4 entries (my one rule fudge- I don’t need to watch Exorcist 1 again) ✅
- Exorcist II: The Heretic ✅
- The Exorcist III ✅
- Exorcist: The Beginning ✅
- Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist ✅
- The Exorcist: Believer ✅

1 film by Wes Craven ✅
- Deadly Blessing ✅

1 film caused by/worsened by weather ✅
- Dreamcatcher ✅

1 film starring a Black woman ✅
- A Quiet Place: Day One ✅
- Ganja and Hess ✅

1 Donald Sutherland film ✅
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer ✅

3 films from New World Pictures ✅
- C.H.U.D. ✅
- Piranha ✅
- Slugs ✅

2 Indian films ✅
- Manichitrahazhu ✅
- Tumbbad ✅

4 Italian films ✅
- Cemetery Man ✅
- Opera ✅
- Santa Sangre ✅
- Demons ✅

2 Horror comedies ✅
- Cemetery Man ✅
- Night of the Comet ✅
- Ravenous ✅
- The Cremator ✅

2 films made primarily or entirely in Texas ✅
- Piranha ✅
- Deadly Blessing ✅

1 film that exists in at least 2 available cuts (you just have to watch one. Bonus if you watch them all.) ✅
- Exorcist: The Beginning ✅
- Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist ✅

1 Robert Wiene film ✅
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ✅

1 Michele Soavi film ✅
- Cemetery Man ✅

1 film from 2011 ✅
- The Skin I Live In ✅

1 film from 1984 ✅
- C.H.U.D. ✅
- Night of the Comet ✅

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

• Ghostwatch
• The Exorcist III
• Opera
• Ravenous
• Tumbbad
• The Cremator
• Cemetery Man
• Demons
• The Skin I Live In
• Slugs

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

• The Exorcist
• The Exorcist III
• Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
• Exorcist: The Beginning
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• The Exorcist: Believer

• Opera
• Suspiria
• Deep Red
• Inferno
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Cat o' Nine Tails
• Phenomena
• Dracula 3D

• Red Rocket
• Anora
• The Florida Project
• Tangerine
• Take Out
• Prince of Broadway
• Starlet

• Apocalypse Now
• The Conversation
• The Godfather Part II
• The Godfather
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• One from the Heart
• Megalopolis

1. Ed Wood
2. Big Fish
3. Beetlejuice
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5. Edward Scissorhands
6. Batman Returns
7. Batman
8. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
10. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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

1. GoodFellas
2. The Irishman
3. The Aviator
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. The Departed
6. After Hours
7. Silence
8. Taxi Driver
9. Shutter Island
10. The Wolf of Wall Street

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

• Predator
• Prey
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator
• Predator 2
• Predators
• The Predator
• Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

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

WELCOME TO PRIME TIME, BITCH

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
3. New Nightmare
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
5. Freddy vs. Jason
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
7. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street

• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th Part III
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Friday the 13th
• Jason X
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• Friday the 13th
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

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

1. Cloud Atlas
2. The Matrix
3. Speed Racer
4. The Matrix Reloaded
5. Bound
6. The Matrix Resurrections
7. The Matrix Revolutions
8. Jupiter Ascending

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Return of the Jedi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Solo: A Star Wars Story

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

My first Hooptober - For those who are unfamiliar, it's a quest to watch 31 horror movies in October that fit certain criteria, outlined below. I'll be adding films and the criteria they fit as I watch them. One film can fill multiple criteria, which gives some wiggle room for some miscellaneous spookers.

QUICK EASY RULES:

6 countries (6/6)
- USA
- Australia 
- South Korea 
- England
- Hong Kong
- Canada

6 decades (8/6)
- 1930s
- 1950s
- 1970s 
- 1980s 
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s 

7 2nd films of franchises (7/7)
- Child’s Play 2
- Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies 
- The Babysitter: Killer Queen
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
- Bride of Reanimator

4 body horror films (7/4)
- The Stuff
- Body Melt
- Altered States
- Teeth
- The Seventh Curse
- Shivers
- Bride of Re-Animator

2 films from this year (4/2)
- Fantasy Island
- The Babysitter- Killer Queen
- Hubie Halloween
- The Wolf of Snow Hollow

3 disease based films (3/3)
- Resident Evil
- Shivers
- Dawn of the Dead

The highest rated horror film from the 50s that you haven't seen and can access. (1/1)
-Creature from Black Lagoon 

1 film that is set entirely inside one location (2/1)
- House on Haunted Hill
- Terror Train

1 Invisible Person film (1/1)
- The Invisible Man (1933)

1 Non Dracula Hammer Film (1/1)
- Twins of Evil

2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead. (2/2)
- The First Purge
- Blacula

1 film with a movie theater in it. (1/1)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (1.3/1)
- Body Bags
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK, WATCH:
The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1/1)
Cube 2: Hypercube (0/1)

-review them all.(eek)

10/1: The Stuff
10/2: Child’s Play 2
10/4: Fantasy Island
10/5: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
10/5: Body Melt
10/6: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
10/7: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
10/8: Resident Evil
10/10: House on Haunted Hill
10/11: The Wailing
10:12: The Babysitter: Killer Queen
10/13: Altered States
10/14: Scream
10/15: Teeth
10/15: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
10/16: Hubie Halloween
10/18: Twins of Evil
10/19: Body Bags
10/20: The Invisible Man
10/20: Blacula
10/21: The Witch who Came from the Sea
10/23: The Seventh Curse
10/25: Shivers
10/25: The First Purge
10/26: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
10/26: Bride of Re-Animator
10/27: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
10/28: The Wolf of Snow Hollow
10/29: Terror Train
10/30: Dawn of the Dead
10/31: Evil Dead II

• The Stuff
• Child's Play 2
• Fantasy Island
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
• Body Melt
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
• Resident Evil
• House on Haunted Hill
• The Wailing

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

i doom myself once more to 31 horror movies

the Challenge!

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films
6 countries
8 decades
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
1 film with Robert Englund
1 something is underground film
3 Satan/Devil centered films
1 Amicus film
The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access. 
1 LGBTQ+ connected film
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson.
2 Peter Cushing films
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
1 film based on a Clive Barker story
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
1 Mario Bava film.
1 film with an 'x' in the title
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place.

• Day of the Dead
• Tales from the Crypt
• Saint Maud
• Red Eye
• The Amityville Horror
• Lord of Illusions
• Saw X
• Martyrs
• Asylum
• The Omen

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

• Alien
• Aliens
• Alien: Romulus
• Prometheus
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator
• Alien³
• Alien: Covenant
• Alien Resurrection
• Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• X2
• X-Men: First Class
• Logan
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• X-Men
• Deadpool
• Deadpool 2
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• The Wolverine

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

narrative only- but highly recommend 4 Little Girls and American Utopia, and want to watch When the Leevee Breaks and Over

• Do the Right Thing
• Crooklyn
• Bamboozled
• Malcolm X
• 25th Hour
• Inside Man
• Clockers
• Get on the Bus
• BlacKkKlansman
• Mo' Better Blues

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

• Peppermint Candy
• Poetry
• Burning
• Secret Sunshine
• Oasis
• Green Fish

1. Election
2. The Holdovers
3. Sideways
4. About Schmidt
5. Citizen Ruth
6. Nebraska
7. The Descendants
8. Downsizing

• Bride of Chucky
• Seed of Chucky
• Child's Play 2
• Child's Play
• Cult of Chucky
• Curse of Chucky
• Child's Play 3

• X
• The House of the Devil
• Pearl
• MaXXXine
• The Sacrament
• The Innkeepers
• In a Valley of Violence
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
• The Roost
• Trigger Man

• Cloud Atlas
• Scream
• Wet Hot American Summer
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Parasite
• The Dark Knight
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Spirited Away
• The Shining

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

• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• You Were Never Really Here
• Morvern Callar
• Ratcatcher

1. Before Sunrise
2. Before Sunset
3. Boyhood
4. Before Midnight
5. Slacker
6. Dazed and Confused
7. Everybody Wants Some!!
8. Hit Man
9. School of Rock

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Mad Max 2
• Mad Max

• Thanksgiving
• Cabin Fever
• The House with a Clock in Its Walls
• Hostel
• Hostel: Part II
• Death Wish
• The Green Inferno
• Knock Knock