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I've never been the biggest lover of French new wave. They're okay, but I haven't considered any a masterpiece.

Day for Night is okay. It works best as a love letter to filmmaking, but I didn't care for the characters much and I actively disliked Alphonse. I thought the concept of his character was dumb, I just couldn't get on board with it.

Scavenger Hunt 123
613 Area Code - Eastern Ontario, Canada (Ottawa)

Watch a French New Wave film.

I would very much like for Ana de Armas to crush me. Thank you.

I was genuinely looking forward to Clown in a Cornfield and I'm a bit disappointed. It's definitely trying to be tongue-in-cheek, but I was hoping for something much more ludicrous, and that's really what this concept needed.

The characters were alright, but basic. Kevin Durand seemed like he was having a good time.

The real horror is all the pollutants we've been pumping into the water.

But seriously, this is a pretty decent eco horror.

The creature looks so much like manbearpig and given the environmental message underpinning the film, I'd be shocked if this wasn't the direct inspiration.

Features one of the funniest film deaths I've seen in a while. It involves a sleeping bag. When you see it, you'll know.

Scavenger Hunt 123
612 Area Code - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Watch a film that takes primarily in the woods or jungle.

Uncle Neddy sucks. He could never be an adventurous seaman.

Scavenger Hunt 123
609 Area Code - Central & Southeastern New Jersey (Atlantic City)

Watch a film that takes place primarily at the beach or a beachside town.

The main reason I wanted to watch Paradise Hills is the costume design. It looked great from the poster and now I've seen it, I can confirm the costume design is excellent.

The set design is pretty sleek too.

Beyond that, the concept is pretty great, but the execution isn't fantastic. It feels very baby's first sci-fi dystopia. The Brave New World reference was fun.

It's not awful though, and there's a place for films like this. This is like a gateway film to get young teens interested in watching other films, and that's cool.

I wouldn't mind seeing this idea with better writers and more money behind it.

Some very, very stupid fun.

The ludicrousness just keeps escalating. A definite recommend for a movie night with friends.

Scavenger Hunt 123
611 Area Code - Special service code used for general customer service related to telecommunications.

Watch a film where the protagonist works in some sort of customer-facing service role.

Why is the bourgeoisie so horny?

Scavenger Hunt 123
Area Code 607 - Southern Tier region of New York (Ithaca)

Watch a film either directly or indirectly based off of a Greek myth or figure.

This is Predator's Animatrix. An original concept with great world lore so a desire to explore other stories that exist in that world.

Cute, stylish animation, and a collection of three really fun short stories that come together for the second half of the film. The Predator designs are great. The snapshots of violence throughout history being party crashed by everyone's favourite yonic alien are really cool. The action is well choreographed to be exciting.

Absolutely makes me excited for Badlands later this year.

I have an exam tomorrow but instead of studying, I'm watching Airport '77, the third installment of the disaster film franchise, featuring Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lennon, George Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland, Christopher Lee, and M. Emmet Walsh.

Scavenger Hunt 123
630 - Western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois

Watch a film with water on the poster (or in the name).

What I've noticed about the John Boorman films I've seen so far is that they all seem to have a dreamlike quality. Even this crime revenge thriller.

It makes sense, then, that it'd lead to fan theories that Walker died in the beginning of the film and the rest is his death dream.

An interesting theory that I don't buy into, I think Boorman just had a style.

That said, I can't say I was too invested in Point Blank. There were a few moments that I thought were cool, but the overall plot didn't engage me.

Scavenger Hunt 123
628 Area Code - San Francisco, CA

Watch a film that takes place in San Francisco.

Seeing a young Eric Roberts is surreal, this is one of his first films, and a character not all to dissimilar to Dr. Beck of Stalked By My Doctor greatness.

The ending is shocking. Kinda rough. It's like a grittier, sleazier "A Star is Born".

Scavenger Hunt 123
610 Area Code - Southeastern Pennsylvania (Allentown)

Watch a film with a Billy Joel song on the soundtrack.

"Just the Way You Are"

To be fair, the way Coneheads lampoons attitudes towards immigrants is pretty good.

That said, of all the SNL skits to make into a feature film, it's insane that this is what they went with. It's not like I was watching SNL in the 80s to know the reaction to it, but was this really a hit sketch? Maybe in small doses. They're a bit longer the jakovasaurs film that early South Park episode.

Some elements are just annoying, like the insistence that they refer to everyday objects and concepts in the most technical way possible. Once or twice could be funny, but the whole film?

Chris Farley is cool, and this film is cameos galore.

Scavenger Hunt 123
Area Code 608 - Southwestern, Wisconsin (Madison)

Watch a movie based off an SNL skit. If none of those tickle your fancy or are unavailable to you, watch a film with multiple SNL alums in the cast.

On the one hand

- Who the hell is Josh and his team of white women wizards? If they're FBI too, won't there be a record of them doing this? If they're going rogue because Josh is buddies with the Wayans, why didn't the film show us that at all?

- Did that transformation montage really only take the 3 hours they told the captain it was going to take for the to arrive?

- If it did take 3 hours for that transformation with a team of a dozen people, how do they just change between white chick and Wayan at will later in the film?

- Did the Wilson sisters really just stay in a hotel for several days just because what they thought were two rando drivers told them to? Did these socialites really not get in touch with anyone to say they weren't at the Hamptons?

- How does Denise Porter, who pointedly tells us it's her job as a reporter to know who people are to explain how she (mis)identifies Brittany Wilson, not instantly recognise that Marcus isn't the supposedly famous American football player Latrell Spencer?

Other the other hand

Stop trying to analyse White Chicks you fucking nerd.

Great character and creature designs. Only thing I wasn't a huge fan of are the costume designs that are more futuristic than gothic.

Builds up a really cool world with a really cool vampiric lore.

The premise of competing bounty hunters is cool to begin with, but Vampire Hunter D has a great complex antagonist in Meier with his relationship with Charlotte, which leads this film buildings towards a really touching ending.

Scavenger Hunt 123
Area Code 606 - Eastern Kentucky

Watch a film where the characters are wearing hats on the poster.

Dave is simple and sweet. The character and the film.

It's sadly funny that "what if we replaced the head of state with a genuinely good person" is an interesting enough concept for a feature film.

There's some nice messages in Dave. It's a common idea that the best leaders are the ones who don't want to be a leader, and this film draws from that idea.

Pretty naive in the final third of the film to entertain the idea that a sitting president who commits a crime might also see the consequences of that crime.

Scavenger Hunt 123
Area Code 605 - The entire state of South Dakota

Watch a film with a president (real or fictional) or head of state character (doesn't have to be the U.S.). Ruling royalty is okay too!

The Hourglass Sanatorium has the most wonderful dreamlike quality. Transitions between scenes are flawless, they don't feel like transitions at all - the film flows between all these interesting settings as Józef fluctuates between serious and aggrieved and and being filled with a childlike wonder.

The premise is interesting, a sanatorium that uses the theory of relativity to sort of, but not really, turn back time and explore different paths that could have happened.

It's creative, thought-provoking, and at times pretty depressing. The style feels like it must have influenced Terry Gilliam down the line.

Scavenger Hunt 123
603 Area Code - The entire state of New Hampshire

Watch a movie that deals with death or mortality as a central theme.

The home invasion sequence is pretty scary. It's well done.

A fair few dumb decisions made by characters throughout this one. Definitely an interesting watch, and arguably a perfect role for Mark Wahlberg.

Scavenger Hunt 123
604 Area Code - Southwest British Columbia (Vancouver area)

Watch a movie filmed in Vancouver.

Why does Ann-Margret dance like a beached dolphin having a fit?

I don't love the feel of the film to begin with. It screams Hollywood production written solely to bank on star power, and it shows in the quality.

I just found the two leads unpalatable. Ann-Margret seems like someone who would be frustrating to know irl based on how she performs, and as much as I enjoy his music, Elvis just comes across as incredibly bland.

Scavenger Hunt 123
622 Area Code - Northern Mississippi (Tupelo)

Watch a movie starring Elvis or a biopic about him.

I'd have loved this as a teen.

As an MTV film, the soundtrack is pretty great.

The conflict in Orange County is really low scale. Colin Hanks doesn't get into the university of his choice so goes on a journey and explorers every path to get accepted.

But in doing so, he starts to appreciate those around him and the town where he grew up.

It's honestly just really sweet, and has a lovely ending that was built to incredibly well.

Great cast with a lot of recognisable names. Jack Black is as high energy as always, and it's nice seeing Jane Adams.

Scavenger Hunt 123
625 Area Code - Marshall Islands

Watch a film directed by, written by, and/or starring Penny Marshall or her brother Garry Marshall.

Jim Jarmusch is my kind of pretentious.

Isaach de Bankolé is a loner who has a series of meetings with an eclectic mix of individuals, and he has a brief conversation with each of them that is basically inconsequential, somewhat insightful, but also not really.

I love it.

Also his suits are fire.

Probably enjoyed Tilda Swinton and Paz de la Huerta's cameos most.

Scavenger Hunt 123
601 Area Code - Central & Southern Mississippi

Watch a film featuring the English actor John Hurt.

Ooh, spooky water.

I could watch Jennifer Connelly's eyebrows for days. I didn't love the original and this remake isn't much of an improvement, but Connelly elevates it

Scavenger Hunt 123
602 Area Code - Phoenix, Arizona

Watch a remake or reboot of a movie or franchise.

This review may contain spoilers.

Overall I really liked Sinners. I loved getting an hour of setting the scene. The ending is fantastic, though a little strange that we get some credits before an important closing scene that impacts your perspective on the rest of the film.

I wasn't a big fan of the deliberately anachronistic blues singing scene, where we see that DJ and the woman twerking. On its own, it's fine and well made, but it just felt out-of-place and I felt it broke the immersion.

I don't think the action sequences were handled well - and I thought the moment Grace Chow invited the vampires in was just really dumb. This should have been an easy film to survive, you just needed to stay in the club until sunrise.

Everything outside of that though, I thought was great. It's like the Kray twins in From Dusk Till Dawn. I liked when Smoke shot all the racists.

Mate, I only watched this because it appears in the top animated films list, but I'm glad it does because it goes hard.

The whole film is one basketball match with flashbacks which show you the characters stories and feeds into the way they play and relate to each other. I don't give a crap about basketball but I do give a crap about his film-making and this is it.

An anime basketball match is as exciting as it sounds. All the foot movements, the feints, they're all so dramatic and full of adrenaline.

And the animation is beautiful. There's such a smoothness to the motion I feel like I haven't seen much in other anime.

The stuff about grief is unexpected but so well done.

Zombies with guns is some of the funniest stuff I've seen.

Versus is wacky, and overall a good time, though it does start to lose a bit of steam in the second half. Good action sequences, for the most part.

I wasn't expecting this to be a bog standard sports film in spite of its sci-fi setting. It's less a Start Wars rip-off, and more Rocky in space.

The plot itself isn't up to much, but it's bolstered by it's lived-in world design. The costumes and sets are really fun, as are the characters.

My god, the original songs in this galaxy are fricking terrible though. They did not cook.

Yes, we watched the British original right after the remake.

The plot just works so much better with deadpan delivery. The jokes are given time to build before their payoff.

Tudyk is so much fun in his role. Need to see him tripping balls in more films.

There are some fun moments in this Death at a Funeral remake, but most of what makes it good come straight from the original and the small ways it deviates are usually for the worst.

It has a good cast. They suit their roles well.

I watched it again because Roisin wanted to watch it, and if it gives her joy, then it gives me joy.

There are some films where the most notable thing about them is that they're considered controversial.

I don't mind giving them a go because I can get curious. They're usually more misses than hits, but I can get a pleasant surprise from time to time and find a film I enjoy past its transgressions.

The first Human Centipede, for example, I thought was okay. I didn't love it, but I thought it had an interesting concept and succeeded in its aim to be distributing. But then it's sequels I absolutely hated because of individual moments that rubbed me the wrong way.

I was interesting in the Bunny Game initially because it has a cool poster. Then I saw Dinner in America and loved it, so I was intrigued in how bad the Bunny Game could really be if it's Rehmeier directing.

I'll say I don't think the Bunny Game is without artistic merit. By all s, Rodleen Getsic was heavily involved with the creative side of the film and drew on personal experiences. I think it's fair to say this is her film but with Rehmeier called in to direct.

I didn't think it was disturbing, even if what we saw was really happening and that's supposed to be shocking. Frankly, from the moment she's kidnapped, it becomes boring. It's just an hour of torture and there's nothing really to be gained from watching it and it never really strives to be anything.

It's hopeless cinema and kudos to Getsic for making something different. Her "monsterpiece".

I'm at a funny point in my life where I feel like I'm close to understanding myself. And whereas on the one hand I feel good about that, on the other hand that realisation has given me a feeling of dread because if I do understand myself... I'm not sure what I'm moving towards anymore. I'm content and in being content, it doesn't feel like I have something specific to aim for. There are minor things, sure, but nothing like in my teens and 20s when I'm thinking about when I'll have a family or a career. I have a family now, and even if I'm still moving along the path, the career feels a given and we're secure and happy (for now).

So the realisation is, if I understand myself, this is probably who I am until the end, and the end is the only thing I'm moving towards. I guess all I can do is help and others, I guess this is the time to be selfless, because I think it's the only thing I have now.

All of these thoughts are the pretext for why I wanted to watch Waking Life again. I needed a film to make me think, and there are so many ideas about what life is being discussed in Waking Life, only to just stir the thought process without trying to profess any one way of living. The scene with the women talking about not being able to identify with themselves when they were babies resonates so much more now - a different person every 7 years. Maybe in another 7 years I'll have another epiphany and everything I'm saying now won't matter to me.

I mean, it's fine. The plot in this probably would have been better as an animated film.

There's an odd feeling in Brave New World. It just doesn't sit on certain beats long enough for them to matter.

The story is fine, but basic. If I was to take this film seriously, I'd probably say it trivialises political corruption, but there's no real point in trying to take it seriously. Why put in more effort than the creators.

I love the Leader as a character, I think he's a really cool villain and I think it's cool to finally get the pay off to the Incredible Hulk stinger, but the character is done dirty here. He doesn't feel very threatening, and the make-up and costume design are naff. The character deserved better.

Red Hulk was kinda cool. A bit cartoonish, but I enjoyed it.

I like the part where Mary Elizabeth Winstead makes it happen.

I popped when Sami Zayn delivered the chair shot to the back of our tribal chef Roman Reigns.

Better than I it being. It helps that it has a better cast than Final Destination 4, P.J. Byrne has some laughs with his Always Sunny-esque awful character.

I'm not as high on the twist ending as others are, but it's a fun direction to take at least. Certainly one of the stronger endings in the franchise.

They went all in with the 3D gimmick and it has aged terribly.

Features probably the worst kill in the final destination franchise with the pool death.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead delivers the best performance of any Final Destination film in this one. Single-handedly elevates the film.

I think the roller coaster was a cool idea for the opening catastrophe. There definitely that feeling of a loss of control that makes the young scarier.

Tanning bed deaths are iconic.

A definite dip in quality. The vibe isn't as strong as in the first film, but there are a few kills here and there that are really fun. Shame they couldn't sort things for Devon Sawa to reprise.

Now that's what I call FOWL PLAY.

Perhaps the healthiest relationship I've seen in film.

I didn't know what to expect with Black Bag, and I'm pleased to have had a good time. It's the personal dramas of top level spy organisation employees - less James Bond, more Real Housewives of GCHQ.

It comes together in an incredibly satisfying way, and it has some solid performances.

Taking a step back, I usually wouldn't rate this film more than a 4 because it starts to feel rushed towards the end of the film - the rube goldberg deathtrap for Clear isn't very inspired, and the fakeouts for Alex feel silly if we know he isn't next in the order.

And in general, the deaths in this film feel tame compared to the rest of the franchise, with the exception of Ms. Lewton.

At this point though, the film is iconic and any shoddy writing can be overlooked in favour of the pure noughties nostalgia.

This is how it sometimes feels to get up in the morning, except instead of the abyss I'm falling into the waking day.

Whoever's playing these characters is doing a terrible job. They keep dying every two minutes. How hard is it to just not drink water?

I thought Until Dawn was easy, dumb fun. If I had this on DVD two decades ago when I didn't have free access to basically every film, I'd have watched it a few times.

There are some trade-offs between the original Lilo & Stitch and the remake.

Folding Captain Gantu's character into Jumba removes any depth Jumba had. His character arc is butchered in the film.

The threat of social services and having to dance around them feels much more real in the remake, and it's an interesting and more grounded conflict to emphasise.

Otherwise, there are many similarities between the two. They tried to stay as faithful to the original film as they could and it shows. Lilo and Nani are well cast, Jumba and Pleakley... eh.

Stitch is still cute, and his character arc survives this adaptation.

I like the concept of a Mean Girls slasher, and Fear Street: Prom Queen does okay with it. But it could have been much better, it feels like wasted potential.

It's a bit basic. Feels more like a horror aimed at preteens rather than trying to be a more legitimate horror film. Which is fine, it makes sense if this is an R.L. Stine book series.

It plays homage to all the great horror, which is always nice, and it has a killer 80s soundtrack.

I love cats, but I think this just had really bad pacing issues. Every now and then it would just depend way too long focussed on the cats. Would be a cute 30 second tiktok video.

Beyond that, some parts with the cats were just too silly for me and you could tell the actual cats just dngaf, and in general the film could just be too extra for me to enjoy it.

The cats are cute, and Dancer's a lad.

I'm not sure why this was made?

Too chaotic at times for me to understand what the hell is going on. I struggled to tell people apart, with the exception of when they were burnt up or screaming in pain for 30 minutes.

Do soldiers genuinely refer to the enemy as "bad guys"? Whatever helps, I guess.

A little surprised at the low ratings for this. It's a gimmick horror film, but the gimmick is good. The thought of losing control of your body is terrifying, let alone in a situation where you're being hunted down.

There are a few convenient plot points that does poor writing, but it's more than made up for by strong lead performances and an overall pretty looking film.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Perfect final film for Tony Todd. His monologue is poignant, and I can't help but appreciate how this return to the franchise is a fitting finale for him. It reminds me of Vincent Price's final role in Edward Scissorhands. I'm thankful we could have these horror icons for as long as we did and they got to live a long life making the movies they loved.

I haven't watched a film in the cinema without the kids in a long time. I hated the experience. The film was excellent, but that's why I hated being in this darkened room on my own. I don't know what's happened to me, but I felt so much anxiety and kept having to physically shield myself from the screen. That's because the film does its job - it gave me characters I didn't want harm to come to, but I also knew that was never going to be the case given the film I bought a ticket for.

This franchise is the king of foreshadowing, both obvious and subtle. It uses sound, music, camera focus, and dynamic scene choreographing perfectly to build up tension. I genuinely just wanted to escape in those first 15 minutes. I'm never going up a tall building again.

It has a good humour in doses too. It's self-aware like every other franchise these days, but not obnoxiously so. This installment treads the line well.

It also expands the Final Destination lore in an interesting and coherent way, so there are writers behind this who are both competent and clearly fans of what's come before.

I may have hated the experience, but the film is great and I can't wait to watch it again in the comfort of my own home with my wife to protect me.

The opening kills are pretty gnarly, and the scenes with Vance training to Laurie like she's his daughter are truly unhinged.

Kent Kingsley is a pretty cool character overall.

A good film for slasher fans.

Original list hosted by samuel_shovel.

Top 5:
1. Orange County
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3. The Hourglass Sanatorium
4. The Limits of Control
5.

Bottom 3:
28.
29. Coneheads
30. Viva Las Vegas

1. The Limits of Control

   601 Area Code - Central & Southern Mississippi

   Watch a film featuring the English actor John Hurt.

2. Dark Water

   602 Area Code - Phoenix, Arizona

   Watch a remake or reboot of a movie or franchise.

3. The Hourglass Sanatorium

   603 Area Code - The entire state of New Hampshire

   Watch a movie that deals with death or mortality as a central theme.

4. Fear

   604 Area Code - Southwest British Columbia (Vancouver area)

   Watch a movie filmed in Vancouver.

5. Dave

   Area Code 605 - The entire state of South Dakota

   Watch a film with a president (real or fictional) or head of state character (doesn't have to be the U.S.). Ruling royalty is okay too!

6. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

   Area Code 606 - Eastern Kentucky

   Watch a film where the characters are wearing hats on the poster.

7. Theorem

   Area Code 607 - Southern Tier region of New York (Ithaca)

   Watch a film either directly or indirectly based off of a Greek myth or figure.

8. Coneheads

   Area Code 608 - Southwestern, Wisconsin (Madison)

   Watch a movie based off an SNL skit. If none of those tickle your fancy or are unavailable to you, watch a film with multiple SNL alums in the cast.

9. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

   609 Area Code - Central & Southeastern New Jersey (Atlantic City)

   Watch a film that takes place primarily at the beach or a beachside town.

10. Star 80

    610 Area Code - Southeastern Pennsylvania (Allentown)

    Watch a film with a Billy Joel song on the soundtrack.

    "Just the Way You Are"

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

1. All About Eve
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3. No Way Out
4. Sleuth
5. Dragonwyck
6. Guys and Dolls

Average Rating: 4.1

1. Arabian Nights
2. The Canterbury Tales
3. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
4. Theorem
5. Oedipus Rex
6. The Gospel According to Matthew

Average Rating: 3.3

1. Deliverance
2. Zardoz
3. Point Blank
4. Excalibur
5. The Emerald Forest

Average rating: 3.7

1. Twins
2. Kindergarten Cop
3. Ghostbusters
4. Dave
5. Evolution
6. Ghostbusters II

This was a joy to put together. It's difficult to not look at the diary and relate my movie watching to what else was going on in my life.

List starts with The Toxic Avenger in January 2016.

I moved to the Netherlands in August 2016 to start my BSc Mathematics in September, hence Hush being the only film I watched that month.

In July 2017 I met who would go on to be my wife, and in December 2017 we found out we were expecting children.

I moved back to the UK April 2018. The kids were born August 2018.

March 2019 I took my mother to the cinema to see Us for her birthday, and we had a great time. It's the first time in a long time that we'd been to the cinema together. That's a fond memory.

I hosted the Scavenger Hunt May 2020 while we were all stuck at home.

Between jobs throughout all of this. I finally graduated Jan 2021, around the same time I quit a job where I was being treated really badly.

Didn't get full-time work again until Nov 2021, before being promoted Feb 2023 and starting my MSc Mathematics in September.

This is the backdrop to all this movie watching.

• The Toxic Avenger

  Jan 2016

• Perfect Blue

  Feb 2016

• Synecdoche, New York

  Mar 2016

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Apr 2016

• Everybody Wants Some!!

  May 2016

• Magnolia

  Jun 2016

• Possibly in Michigan

  Jul 2016

• Mulholland Drive

  Aug 2016

• Hush

  Sep 2016

• Don't Breathe

  Oct 2016

...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average Rating: 3.9

1. Orange County
2. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
4. Jumanji: The Next Level
5. Red One

The Scavenger Hunt is a Letterboxd community event which has been going strong for over ten years, ed by Wood for that time who has recently retired as the event's commissioner and handed the reigns over to me. This is the master list to collect all the Scavenger Hunts as they get published each month and to explain how you can take part.

Current Hunt
Scavenger Hunt #123 - samuel_shovel - June 2025

Next Month's Hunt
TBD

Enter the host raffle for July 2025

the Scavenger Hunt discord server:
https://discord.gg/hp9eKfDP7J

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RULES
What is a Scavenger Hunt?
Scavenger Hunts are a popular and fun challenge undertaken by Letterboxd s where the aim is for the participant to watch and review a film for every day within a month using prompts created by that month's host. For each prompt, the participant must find a film that matches.

How do I participate?
All you have to do is create your own list that fills the criteria in the host's prompts and post your list as a comment on the original hunt for that month. It is recommended that hosts add the participants to their list so everyone can explore what others have chosen for the prompts, and it's recommended to include a link to the original hunt in your list so anyone interested can easily find it and take part. It's also a good idea to add the prompts into the notes of each film in your list.

What other rules are there?
The majority of films you watch should have been previously unseen, discovering new films is part of the fun! You can't use one film for more than one task. You should also make it clear in each review that you watched the film as part of the Scavenger Hunt.

Anything else?
You can watch your chosen films in any order and you are allowed to change your list at any given time providing your choice meets the criteria. If you don't complete the hunt, it isn't the end of the world - even if you watched one new film that you loved and otherwise wouldn't have, then the hunt has been a success.

What else can I do?
These scavenger hunts are designed to be community-based challenges so please take the time to read, comment and like the lists and reviews of others. It makes the whole endeavour much more enjoyable if we all take the time to interact with one another. Also, be sure to tag each of your lists and reviews with the "scavenger hunt" and "scavenger hunt [number]" so others can find them with ease.

How can I host?
To be eligible hosting the next month's hunt, you need to have made a Scavenger Hunt list for the current month's hunt. If that's the case, you can enter the host raffle.

Do not enter if you cannot host. If you win and cannot host, you will not be permitted to enter future raffles.

You also cannot host if you have already hosted in the previous year.

Winners of the monthly raffle are chosen on the 15th. If the winner is on the discord server, the announcement will be made there. If the winner is not on discord, they will be ed through their current month's scavenger hunt list.

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Previous Hunts
Wood's original Master List, including Scavenger Hunt #1 (April 2015) to Scavenger Hunt #72 (March 2021).

Scavenger Hunt #73 - Kevin - April 2021

Scavenger Hunt #74 - Zach Rayman - May 2021

Scavenger Hunt #75 - lissa - June 2021

Scavenger Hunt #76 - Michelle (Guyver Spawn) - July 2021

Scavenger Hunt #77 - Cecily 🍊 - August 2021

Scavenger Hunt #78 - cadburyhedges - September 2021

Scavenger Hunt #79 - Zoey Rose - October 2021

Scavenger Hunt #80 - Ruff - November 2021

Scavenger Hunt #81 - JustElizabeth - December 2021

Scavenger Hunt #82 - Logan - January 2022

Scavenger Hunt #83 - dianne 🌼 - February 2022

Scavenger Hunt #84 - daisy 🌼 - March 2022

Scavenger Hunt #85 - Michelle 🐚 - April 2022

Scavenger Hunt #86 - samuel_shovel - May 2022

Scavenger Hunt #87 - Julia - June 2022

Scavenger Hunt #88 - bailey - July 2022

Scavenger Hunt #89 - seafoam 💗 - August 2022

Scavenger Hunt #90 - Kelli Madden - September 2022

Scavenger Hunt #91 - ndegwa45 - October 2022

Scavenger Hunt #92 - malucomastodon - November 2022

Scavenger Hunt #93 - Chloe Jewell - December 2022

Scavenger Hunt #94 - Jenna Morrison - January 2023

Scavenger Hunt #95 - Tel - February 2023

Scavenger Hunt #96 - Evan - March 2023

Scavenger Hunt #97 - 🎀 audrey 🎀 - April 2023

Scavenger Hunt #98 - Morgan - May 2023

Scavenger Hunt #99 - Hannah - June 2023

Scavenger Hunt #100 - Community List - July 2023

Scavenger Hunt #101 - preisman - August 2023

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• Scavenger Hunt
• The Master
• List

Average rating: 4.27

1. Paterson
2. Mystery Train
3. Coffee and Cigarettes
4. Dead Man
5. Only Lovers Left Alive
6. Down by Law
7. Broken Flowers
8. The Limits of Control
9. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
10. Night on Earth

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

Average Rating: 3.7

1. Fruitvale Station
2. Creed
3. Sinners
4. Black Panther
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

1. Baby Invasion
2. Mickey 17
3. Final Destination Bloodlines
4. The Monkey
5. Presence
6. The Ugly Stepsister
7. Black Bag
8. The Gorge
9. Novocaine
10. Companion

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

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

Average Rating: 3.4

1. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2. Annabelle: Creation
3. Until Dawn
4. Shazam!
5. Lights Out

• The Shining
• Funny Games
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Speak No Evil
• Don't Move
• Until Dawn
• Silent Hill

Films the kids have seen in cinema. Maybe they'll like that I've kept track. On the flipside, maybe they won't care but I'll keep track anyway.

1. Spirit Untamed
2. The Boss Baby: Family Business
3. Encanto
4. The Bad Guys
5. Sing 2
6. Lightyear

   Abandoned

7. DC League of Super-Pets
8. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
9. The Little Mermaid
10. Barbie

    Abandoned

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average Rating: 3.3

1. Ex Machina
2. Civil War
3. Men
4. Annihilation
5. Warfare

Average Rating: 3.3

1. Happy Death Day
2. We Have a Ghost
3. Happy Death Day 2U
4. Drop
5. Freaky
6. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Original list.

Top 5:

1. Mickey 17 (2025)
2. A Moment of Innocence (1996)
3. Le Trou (1960)
4. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
5. I Origins (2014)

Bottom 3:

29. Annabelle (2014)
30. Duplex (2003)
31. The Smurfs (2011)

Biggest surprise: No Way Out (1950)
Biggest disappointment: Sacramento (2024)

1. Annabelle

   1. Watch a movie that grossed at least $200 million.

2. Femme Fatale

   2. Watch a movie directed by Brian De Palma.

3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

   3. Watch a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, Signed Mixing, Sound Editing, or any of the various sound categories over the years.

4. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

   4. Watch a movie based off a children's book.

5. A Moment of Innocence

   5. Watch a movie from a Middle Eastern country.

6. An Autumn Afternoon

   6. Watch a Fall film.

7. Gretel & Hansel

   7. Watch a movie with a flower, tree, or any type of plant on the poster.

8. Le Trou

   8. Watch a prison movie.

9. The Ron Clark Story

   9. Watch a movie featuring students being educated.

10. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    10. Watch a movie about friends.

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

The most popular movies I've yet to see, by year, going back to 1920.

Last updated April 29th 2025.

1. Sinners
2. Gladiator II
3. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. Lamb
6. The Devil All the Time
7. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
8. Love, Simon
9. Wonder
10. Me Before You

...plus 96 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average Rating: 3.8

1. The Warriors
2. 48 Hrs.
3. Brewster's Millions
4. Streets of Fire
5. The Driver
6. Last Man Standing

Average rating: 3.42

1. Logan
2. Identity
3. Heavy
4. Walk the Line
5. Girl, Interrupted
6. A Complete Unknown
7. Ford v Ferrari
8. The Wolverine
9. Kate & Leopold

1. (500) Days of Summer
2. Gifted
3. The Amazing Spider-Man
4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
5. Snow White

1. The Spine of Night
2. Murder Death Koreatown
3. Jigoku
4. Hell House LLC
5. Smoking Causes Coughing
6. MadS
7. A Dark Song
8. Def by Temptation
9. All the Colors of the Dark
10. Mad Monster Party?

1. Scooby-Doo
2. Big Momma's House
3. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
4. Never Been Kissed
5. The Smurfs

1. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
2. The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
3. Island of the Fishmen
4. All the Colors of the Dark
5. Torso

Average rating: 4.5

1. Snowpiercer
2. Parasite
3. Mickey 17
4. Memories of Murder
5. The Host
6. Mother
7. Okja

Step into a world where vintage technology and eerie aesthetics collide. These films embrace the grainy visuals, distorted audio, and cryptic narratives of old analog media. From found footage classics to mysterious transmissions, Analog Horror offers a chilling experience that blurs the line between reality and the supernatural.

• Skinamarink
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• Ghostwatch
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Lake Mungo
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes
• Ring
• Sleep Has Her House
• The Outwaters
• The Blair Witch Project

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

Also they have cool posters

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Solaris
3. Sunshine
4. Interstellar
5. Ad Astra
6. High Life
7. Gandahar
8. Moon
9. Ikarie XB 1
10. Time Masters

1. The Blackcoat's Daughter
2. The Monkey
3. Longlegs
4. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
5. Gretel & Hansel

Average rating: 3.79

1. Body Double
2. Carrie
3. Carlito's Way
4. Hi, Mom!
5. Blow Out
6. Sisters
7. Snake Eyes
8. Scarface
9. Femme Fatale
10. Mission: Impossible

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

Average rating: 4.4

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. It Happened One Night
5. You Can't Take It with You
6. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Average rating: 2.5

1. Independence Day
2. Universal Soldier
3. The Day After Tomorrow
4. Moonfall
5. White House Down
6. 2012
7. Godzilla
8. Independence Day: Resurgence

Average rating: 3.1

1. Hairspray
2. A Dirty Shame
3. Cecil B. Demented
4. Serial Mom
5. Female Trouble
6. Cry-Baby
7. Pink Flamingos

Average rating: 3.7

1. The Toxic Avenger
2. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
3. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
4. Class of Nuke 'Em High
5. Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2
6. Tromeo & Juliet
7. The Toxic Avenger Part II
8. Waitress!

• Moonfall
• Foodfight!
• Son of the Mask
• Pinocchio: A True Story
• G-Force
• Carnosaur
• Born Into Mafia
• Waitress!
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
• Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Average rating: 3.81

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula
2. The Conversation
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Godfather
5. Peggy Sue Got Married
6. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
7. The Outsiders
8. Apocalypse Now
9. Rumble Fish
10. Megalopolis

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

Average Rating: 3.4

1. Despicable Me
2. Despicable Me 2
3. Despicable Me 4
4. The Lorax
5. The Secret Life of Pets

Average Rating: 3.5

1. The Trial
2. F for Fake
3. The Other Side of the Wind
4. Touch of Evil
5. Citizen Kane

Average Rating: 3.8

1. Tokyo Sonata
2. Retribution
3. Cure
4. Chime
5. Pulse

Average Rating: 3.7

1. Eat Drink Man Woman
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Life of Pi
5. Gemini Man
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7. Hulk

Average Rating: 3.1

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. The Graduate
3. Working Girl
4. The Birdcage
5. Closer
6. Postcards from the Edge
7. Charlie Wilson's War

1. Garbanzo Gas

   Titane

   This is proper crackhead cinema, and I'm all here for it.

   I have now learned about Vietnam Ron, and the man is a legend and he plays the cow in this film beautifully.

   Garbanzo Gas is absolutely absurd - but my god if I wasn't hypnotised while watching it. And with next to zero budget, it's certainly creative.

   All the original songs are perfect. "Burgers at the foodcourt, foodcourt" - absolute banger.

   I was laughing uproariously quite often. Suddenly I need to see more films by Giuseppe Andrews. This film has changed my life for the better, and I like it on this trajectory.

2. Tokyo Sonata

   JamieGalley

   Fantastic.

   I'm a fan of American Beauty and without wanting to be reductive, Tokyo Sonata feels like a Japanese equivalent.

   We start with what feels like a typical Japanese family with a conservative father who is concern about how he's received in his working life, a stay-at-home mother and two boys who are somewhat rebellious but not to any kind of extreme.

   But as soon as the father loses his job, that downward spiral that it sends the entire family on is superb. With the father presented with his hypocrisy and this weird unfounded obsession with his authority getting in the way with common sense decisions, and boy who discovers and wants to pursue his (harmless) ion.

   In particular, that night where every member of the family sent into a spin with none of them even aware that they are all absent from home is absolutely glorious.

   And the sonata and the reaction to it is the icing on the cake. Phenomenal film.

3. Good Morning

   c0l@ guy

   I was apprehensive about watching anymore Ozu films because I didn't like Tokyo Story and struggled to understand it's acclaim. Thankfully, I loved this. It's such a simple film, but it's so sweet and endearing.

   I can see some of the similarities with Tokyo Story, but why I think Good Morning worked for me is its beautiful colouring and its focus on child characters which really emphasises the basic innocence of the film.

   The conflict doesn't amount to much more than small town talk and the intergenerational differences of children who want to watch TV and adults who worry that TVs turn people into dullards. But I was gripped - it was effective, it was sweet, it was relatable, it was nostalgic, it was funny, it was endearing.

   Cinematography is gorgeous. It shows one of the grey brutalist buildings that looks terrible in real life, but somehow this film makes even that look stunning.

4. Field of Dreams

   AOL

   I do not care even remotely about baseball, so it's a pleasant surprise that I enjoyed Field of Dreams as much as I did.

   Is this heaven? No, this is Iowa.

   Every aspect of the film is dreamy. From the plot which relies on some non-sensical goings-on with Costner having to just be guided by a cryptic voice that says one sentence at a time and his feelings for what that sentence means, to the cinematography with uses a lot of twilight to make those shots really beautiful, to a score that I really loved and think set the mood for the film well.

   This felt like a bunch of characters discovering their heaven and to that end, it felt like a film about much more than baseball - and another film eschewing what the most economical decision would be in favour of the decision that helped you rediscover some of the magic you feel experiencing the world as a child. I don't care about baseball, but the feeling it creates gives me that sense of nostalgia too and I fully get it.

   I'd go so far as to say the film didn't really need the conflict about the financial stability of the farm and the shitty uncle trying to make them sell - it could have focused entirely on that magical feeling and might have been better for it.

5. Red Rooms

   Lmndgrrl

   An incredible uncomfortable protagonist to follow, and this weird obsession with this trial is disturbing. Some models are just weird irl, true fact.

   Speaks to the weird addictive intrigue with get from voyeurism that distracts from living a healthy life.

   That school uniform scene was nuts, but executed so well.

   Great performances. I loved Clem as a character - how much she made me cringe, and how bad I felt for her. Technically, she wasn't wrong when she was trying to defend the plaintiff but my god, read the room and also the hurt you cause.

6. Ikarie XB 1

   Claggart

   Before I started the binge, I thought this was going to be my favourite.

   I love those philosophical space movies and I tend to give good ratings to Czech cinema. Whereas it didn't quite reach the moon of my expectations, it still landed among the stars - which was always a bit of an odd saying because stars are further away, but regardless...

   Ikarie XB 1 is much campier than I was expecting. Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised, given the year of release, it must have drawn a lot of inspiration from Star Trek with the aim of doing something a bit more "down to Earth" with the concept. If this had been made post-Space Odyssey, this would have been a masterpiece - but then again, if this was released post-Space Odyssey, this would have just been Solaris and that film already exists.

   That's to say it has its own identity, which is for the better. It's campy in the beginning, and with its set design and costumes, but very much philosophical in of its plot and its execution. I now realise that Sunshine must have borrowed a lot from this film, with one of its major plot points being this abandoned special and resolving the mystery of what happened to the crew, with that mystery also posing and existential threat to the film's characters.

   From the halfway point, the campy atmosphere changes to start to feel bleak and hopeless. Claustrophobic amid the enveloping emptiness of space.

   Great film, I really enjoyed it.

7. Oslo, August 31st

   Lir

   A film that starts hopeful, but gets sadder as it moves along. And I guess this is the importance of allowing someone the room to change and better themselves.

   As a recovering addict, Anders appears to be written off by those in his life who seem to already define him by his previous problematic behaviours. The film follows him trying to struggle against it, until it all becomes too much and leads to a sad but effective ending that mirrors the opening scene both thematically and literally.

   The cafe bucket list in this is solid. Need to use that to review my own.

   A slow conversational film. I adored it. Great nuanced performance from Anders Danielsen Lee.

8. Land of Mine

   Tel

   I had never heard of Land of Mine. I thought it was great.

   The conflict is obvious - immediately post-war and the Danes want to punish German soldiers left in their country. A sentiment that is easy to empathise with but much harder to justify when those soldiers are just kids.

   Off the bat, the film makes a point of showing how much Sgt. Rasmussen hates the Germans but having him brutalise a random soldiers. As he's given charge of a group of German soliders who aren't even 18 yet, we see him having to adapt.

   Given the film is about clearing land mines from a beach, there's obviously some rough emotional moments in the film. At times feeling hopeless, but that's what makes the film work and Sgt. Rasmussen is a great character and role model.

9. F for Fake

   G M

   So I'll be honest, I've always found copyright laws a bit weird. I get it, if you want to make a living off what you can create artistically, or what you can invent if we're talking about patents, but my view is that it takes the purpose of the endeavor away from artistic expression or communal benefit respectively to the recognition that comes to having your name attached to some innovation.

   I know the argument for why these laws foster innovation, but I don't necessarily agree that the extent to which it helps with innovation outweighs how much they hold back people who try to break into a certain market.

   I think I've muddled myself a bit discussing art and economics as though they're the same, but I think there are parallels and we can see that in F for Fake as Elmyr clearly had the craft necessary to be a successful artist, but instead of creating anything new, he painted copies of famous art and shipped them as though they were originals, and at some stage the art industry became complicit in the deception because they don't care if it's an original, they care about the money.

   Only just occurred to me but I when NFTs become a thing, it was described as a digital version of storing your money in art in the same way that cryptocurreny acts as a digital version of real world money. Cryptobros got mad when they owned an NFT but people could do what they want the image anyway because owning the NFT meant fuck all.

   I think it's the same with Elmyr. It takes a lot of legitimate skill, but what does it matter if you own an original Matisse if someone can recreate the Matisse to the extent that experts can't distinguish them?

   Incredibly interesting documentary that talks about authorship presenting in a very theatrical way by Welles. Those final 20 minutes with Welles and Oja Kodar are incredible, Welles is such a troll - the dialogue is delivered so well, and it's filmed in such a dreamy fashion. Wonderful.

10. This Magnificent Cake!

    Pikachu

    Silly me thought this was going to be a simple film about an actual cake. Turns out, the cake is Africa and the film is about colonialism.

    And it's a good one at that - with the ruling class presented as man-babies, a strong emphasis on the importance of freedom and perils of greed, with some incredibly creative surreal moments that really embed into your memory.

    Snails are slightly scarier now.

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

Original list.

Top 5:
1. Better Man (2024)
2. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
3. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
4. The Monkey (2025)
5. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Bottom 3:
28. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
29. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)
30. Mermaids (1990)

Biggest surprise: Better Man (2024)
Biggest disappointment: The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Funniest: The Monkey (2025)
Saddest: Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

1. Clifford

   Watch a movie centered on pranks, hijinks, or schemes.

2. Dracula's Daughter

   Watch either a Universal monster movie or an Elvis movie.

3. The Monkey

   Watch a movie you meant to see in theaters, but didn’t get around to it.

4. Borderline

   Watch a movie from one of the countries in EPCOT’s World Showcase (Mexico, Norway, China, , Italy, America, Japan, Morocco, , the United Kingdom, and Canada).

5. Airport

   Watch a movie that heavily features aviation.

6. Venom: The Last Dance

   Watch a movie that prominently features a horse or pony.

7. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

   Watch a movie that has been nominated for best costume design at the Oscars.

8. Space Cadet

   Find an actor that shares your birthday and watch one of their films.

   Emma Roberts

9. Marathon Man

   Watch a movie featuring an iconic side character (or several).

   The Dentist

10. Mirai

    Watch a movie with a brother and sister duo.

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

Average rating: 2.92

1. High School Musical
2. Hocus Pocus
3. High School Musical 2
4. Newsies
5. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
6. Descendants
7. Descendants 3
8. Descendants 2
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

• Baby Invasion
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• A Minecraft Movie
• Cars
• Minions: The Rise of Gru

• Encanto
• Frozen
• Frozen II
• Turning Red
• Ghostbusters
• Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Barbie

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

• A Bug's Life
• Return of the Living Dead III
• Mary and Max
• The Lawnmower Man
• The Aristocats
• Everybody Wants Some!!
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• La Belle Noiseuse
• The Witch

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

Average Rating: 3.8

1. Face/Off
2. The Killer
3. Hard Boiled
4. Hard Target
5. Broken Arrow
6. Mission: Impossible II

Average rating: 3.2

1. Brazil
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. The Zero Theorem
4. Twelve Monkeys
5. Time Bandits
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
8. The Brothers Grimm

What will the Stathe be employed as this week?

• A Working Man
• The Beekeeper
• The Transporter
• The Mechanic
• Spy
• The Bank Job