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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 341g2f 1986

Mon, 9 Jun 2025 12:55:33 +1200

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Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

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Tourist Trap 5g3a2o 1979 - ★★

Mon, 9 Jun 2025 03:39:50 +1200

I can see this having a certain charm for people, but the charm's not workin for me. Everyone's reactions are so bland, like this is the most bland I've ever seen someone look watching their friends get psycho slashed and/or as they're being choked out. Except for psycho and Molly they just seemed so disinterested in being there.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 5z3h5e 1974 - ★★★★½

Fri, 6 Jun 2025 15:33:56 +1200

Who tf goes around robbin graves just to leave the loot behind as grody statues? Seems dumb. In summer in Texas too. It's like they're askin for heat stroke, although minus a good 50 years of climate change, it was probably tolerable to be a sneakthief gravedigger round those parts.

Freakin heat waves distorting the air in some of these scenes say probably not tho.

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Troop Beverly Hills 2j6q5u 1989 - ★★★★

Fri, 6 Jun 2025 15:30:02 +1200

"I'm sure it's very nice to know how to live in the forest, and eat bark, but I'm gonna show you girls how to survive in the wilds of Beverly Hills."

Watching this on repeat in the early 90s was the closest I ever got to being in girl scouts and thank goodness for that cause I don't think I'd have done well in juvie with my problems with authority figures.

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Mortuary 5d1e1p 1982 - ★★

Fri, 30 May 2025 14:12:51 +1200

I'm super glad I finally have the desire to watch movies again after like a whole year, but maybe letting a randomizer pick what I watch isn't the best way to go about it. It's too bad the rest of the movie wasn't up to the standard of freaky wackjob creepazoid Bill Paxton.

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Carnival of Souls d106u 1962 - ★★★½

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:45:31 +1200

"It's funny... the world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again."

Every man in this movie except The Man is a condescending, sanctimonious, patronizing jerk. But oml OML if Johnny-just-down-the-hall-Linden ain't the rotten cherry on top of that pile of offal.

"Ya know my room's only a coupla feet from yours. Ain't likely to get very far from me, are ya?"

I wish Mary'd invite him into her room, let him get liquored up, and drown him in the bath Mrs. Thomas is so generous with. I wish he'd misstep, take a tumble down the stairs, and break every bone in his body. I wish his tie would get stuck in the door, he'd lose his footing, and end up strangling himself. What an absolute pile of filth.

Linden is such a little BITCH. He's a scraggly f'n creep. Disgusting, slimy, weasely fuckboi. He's so offputting, at times I was physically leaning away from the screen.

He's one of those stupid assholes that talks too much and thinks he's a master manipulator who can get whatever he wants with a smile or a guilt trip or an ever-unwanted unsolicited touch, except he's too damn stupid and slimy for any of that to work. Mercurial, idiot twat.

Minus points for Linden not having a grisly and harrowing on-screen evisceration, even in daydream form.

Aside from the more overt problems Mary is having with seemingly losing touch with or her place in the world around her, I thought a few possibly overlooked things were interesting in their symbolism. Both times after Mary's had a return to being able to hear and feel the world around her, it's been under a tree, with birdsong guiding her way back. Trees act as bridges between realms in many mythologies, and birds also have connections to death or the afterlife, bringing messages of loss or symbolizing mourning.

And near the end when Mary is leaving town for somewhere new, her car's transmission begins to give out, signaling that it will be leaving her stuck right where she is soon enough, unable to continue moving to and fro from place to place or realm to realm, sending her in a panicked flight back to the otherworldly abandoned pavilion she's so drawn to for the last time or for eternity. We don't really know which.

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Charlotte 2v6a3d 2024 - ★★½

Sat, 24 May 2025 11:32:47 +1200

Great effort by writer/director/main character Georgia Conlan. I wish she'd had more of a budget and some better editing and acting (other than the two leads).

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Ice Cream Man 3n3sy 1995 - ★½

Mon, 19 May 2025 11:58:45 +1200

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

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Fatal Contract 4y4n40 2018 - ½

Mon, 19 May 2025 10:15:02 +1200

9 minutes of this was enough to let me know I will not, in fact, do anything for Bai Ling.

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Frogs c2v62 1972 - ★★★½

Sat, 17 May 2025 15:15:05 +1200

What a wacky lil movie.

First, most of those lil cuties are clearly toads, not frogs.

Second, this old bitch said pour oil in the water to choke off the frogs and wasn't immediately slapped by any and everyone at that cursed lunch. They all deserve to get eaten by frogs. They should be so lucky! Literally wtf do you expect building your dumbass gross plantation in the swamp other than frogs and lizards and gators and snakes and squitos being everywhere. Money really can't buy brain cells. Or earplugs.

Frogs are soooooooo cute and the ones that live here were singin through this whole movie. c:

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The Fog 5p2h71 1980 - ★★★★

Thu, 15 May 2025 15:56:10 +1200

John Carpenter and Dean Cundey are such a freakin great combo, the richness of all the darkness and night filming combined with that soundtrack.

To the jerk sweeping up the grocery store and drinking o.j. out of the bottle AND PUTTING IT BACK ON THE SHELF - I see you and I hope the fog rots your face off.

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Barbie 704z2h 2023 - ★★★★★

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:05:46 +1300

I don't care about the critiques on levels of feminism or digging beneath surface level on anything in Barbie. It's not the job of women - directors, creators, artists - to solve all of society's problems or present complete dissertations in a single movie just like it's not women's jobs to carry the emotional burdens and perform the unpaid labor we already do daily. We're allowed to have media that's fun, and cute, and pretty, and all "fuck yeah, girls!" We're allowed to have things that are lighthearted and silly, that dip into more without exploring every single facet, just because they make us feel good, just because we want them. We deserve all the damn things we want, and we deserve them without having to justify their existence. We don't have to pay a fee for our enjoyment beyond what society already taxes us with, so I won't even say how I felt as an individual about the movie, because it doesn't really matter. It matters that it exists and it's needed (which is obvious considering its reception), and no matter where on the path of solving-all-of-life's-problems-for-women it is, it's at least on that path and going in the right direction, which is a lot more than anyone can say about most media aimed at us.

"You can go now."

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Dune t3r24 Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:17:03 +1300

Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.

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Dune t3r24 2021 - ★★★★★

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:38:54 +1300

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

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Bedtime for Sniffles 5e486q 1940 - ★

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:44:30 +1300

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

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A Tudor Feast at Christmas 7363j 2006 - ★★★★★

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:25:19 +1300

Watching these people go through three full days to prepare one feast without any modern conveniences to watch it slip away in moments at the end is truly something. I despise watching modern cooking and baking shows for the most part, or usually even movies where cooking is some background theme (I'm sure it's trauma from working in restaurants as a neurodivergent person) but this kind of thing I'm 100% on board with. The knowledge, ion, and dedication everyone involved has is fantastic to see, and the manor home and its surrounding areas are so lovely. Wearing period dress, making recipes authentic to the era, using their cooking methods that are so different from the ones today. Imagine the kind of knowledge that would be needed to go in and do something like that and also have it all turn out well!

Seeing real people in a setting like this for a documentary rather than having it glossed up for a film brings a whole new dimension, and the mid-90s cozy documentary feel helps that even more. So glad Tubi seems to have a bunch of documentaries in this vein including some of the same historians/archaeologists/etc.

I really am such a British person.

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Out of Scale i2og 1951 - ★★★★

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:46:41 +1300

The majority of this is super cute but of course Donald F'n Duck can't go 3 minutes without being a jerk. I'm pretty impressed with him having put so much work into the miniature town since all he seems to do is try and mess things up.

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Deck the Halls 31g40 2006 - ★★★½

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:51:34 +1300

Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.

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Edward Scissorhands 271g4o 1990 - ★★★★

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:07:55 +1300

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

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Black Christmas 1w2c7 2019 - ★★★★★

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:29:34 +1300

ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL HOLY HECK!

Literally can't say anything I want to without spoiling things but I wanna relate some things to Buffy so bad. I can't believe I never added this to my watchlist because of backlash or trash talk about it. This is why I'm never listening to people and their negative nonsense ever again.

Sophia Takal and April Wolfe I love you. I love all of the women involved in making this. Honestly just as good as the original and totally its own thing.

The way I yelled "OH FUCK" at the keys scene and didn't know how 92 mins went by. I don't care if things are on the nose, things are realistic, infuriatingly so, particularly in this current trash fire era we live in.

Feminist movies don't have to stay in a certain lane. They can be fun, and dark, and brutal, and yes, obvious, and still be feminist. This movie is goddamn cathartic and I give not a single fuck if people dislike it because of their expectations. I'll not only take my feminism how I can get it, especially in male-dominated fields, ESPECIALLY in a genre so oppressing to women, I will also absolutely delight in anything like this that comes my way.

If you're reading this and thinking of doing a nOt AlL mEn in my comments over the plot or my thoughts on this film, go ahead and wrap that up for yourself as an early holiday present and fuck yourself with it cause I don't wanna hear it. 😘

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Home Alone 2 3v3h4k Lost in New York, 1992 - ★★★★

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:11:59 +1300

You can't tell me Kevin McCallister isn't secretly John McClane’s love child.

It didn't click til this time watching how weird it is that Harry won't even cuss but now he's ready to get out his lil pistol and shoot children and strangers in the park.

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Home Alone s2t4z 1990 - ★★★★

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:35:18 +1300

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

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Last Holiday 4h374j 2006 - ★★★★½

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:53:29 +1300

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

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Scrooged 3z4l56 1988 - ★★★★

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:03:15 +1300

1. Carol Kane is a treasure
2. Alfre Woodard literally always needs more screen time
3. this movie still makes me sniffly at the end
4. someone really should have made The Night the Reindeer Died a reality

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Die Hard 2 2h212i 1990 - ★★★★

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:16:10 +1300

Watched on Sunday December 15, 2024.

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Die Hard 51642k 1988 - ★★★★

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:21:50 +1300

Alan Rickman is great at a lot of things but maintaining a German accent throughout an entire movie is not one of them.

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Trading Places 1u6o5q 1983 - ★★★½

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:08:36 +1300

Dan Akroyd is always so likeable and fun to watch even when he plays a pre-character-arc twat.

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Erin Brockovich 606z6u 2000 - ★★★★

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:29:18 +1300

"You might wanna rethink those ties."

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The Brothers Grimm 1y4i4g 2005 - ★

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:11:07 +1300

It's trying so hard, bless its heart. Weird this thing is named after the bumbling sidekicks though.

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Weasel While You Work 1a356s 1958 - ★★½

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:08:21 +1300

I will forever be annoyed that Foghorn Leghorn is Hollywood's default version of any southern person in a movie ever, and he doesn't sound like any person I've ever met or probably who's ever existed. Both he and the dog are absolute jerks to this poor little cute weasel. Great backgrounds though.

Watched here.

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The Captain's Christmas 6h6x36 1938 - ★

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:02:08 +1300

Really pretty snowy night backgrounds and a lot of wackiness that could be fun if not for the random racism. I mean ffs a cow is wearing gloves on his horns and says "Moory Christmas." That's great! It's absurd fun! I wanted to like this, but bigotry ruined that. It's also overwhelmingly noisy, which I don't know whether that's a me thing or just an MGM of this era thing since the previous two shorts I logged had to be muted or turned way down. The accents are also atrocious and Pirate John is jerk.

Watched here.

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Mice Follies 1x5i53 1954 - ★★★½

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 05:22:30 +1300

So many cute concepts! Imagine having your own personal ice rink on demand cause you figured out how to rig the fridge's freezer and went Wet Bandits on all the faucets in the room. These mice are such rascals but it's impossible to get mad at them about it cause of all the vicarious fun.

Leave it to Robert Gentle to make all those ice textures and other backgrounds look amazing.

Watched here.

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The Night Before Christmas 3o233g 1941 - ★★★

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:18:22 +1300

This is my favorite character design of Tom + Jerry I've seen so far, especially for Tom. They have some super cute interactions here too in the spirit of the holiday, even if they are still scrappin with each other for most of it. Most of the art is not my favorite, the colors feeling saturated and style feeling a little weird (maybe the shifting eras idk), but there are a few things to appreciate. The falling snow is amazing, with different colored specks making up the animation so it looks like it's twinkling in the light from the window.

Watched here.

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Black Christmas 1w2c7 2006 - ★★★★

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:03:48 +1300

"Dick Cheney's a better sister to you than your sister."

This is the only thing I've ever seen Michelle Trachtenberg in where she wasn't a psycho or a villain. YES that includes Buffy cause Dawn is BOTH!

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Fred Claus 6k5l1j 2007 - ★★★½

Sun, 1 Dec 2024 09:35:43 +1300

Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.

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Snowed Inn Christmas 2j93t 2017 - ★★½

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:00:51 +1300

Really glad to see Bethany Joy Lenz recovered from that cursed strawberry pie to live and find love in Indiana.

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This Changes Everything 532n4u 2018 - ★★★★★

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:33:17 +1300

Watched on Monday November 25, 2024.

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Taxi 38192y 2004 - ★

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:21:00 +1300

Watched on Monday November 25, 2024.

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Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys 6rd2n 2004 - ★★★★

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:26:44 +1300

+ Sci Fi channel original
+ wow right when it starts it's already sooooo bad lmao
+ the puppets look like ASS
+ like holy shit, Six Shooter has visible strings holding his arms together and you can see the freakin stand used to hold him up lmao
+ trash ass movie
+ literally impressive how jank this is
+ trashterpiece?
+ Baby Oopsie... wtf
+ whoever decorated that office should be the next demon sacrifice. it's hideous. considering that lady's atrocious wardrobe, she prob designed it herself
+ wow that girl is really givin her screaming role her whole heart and lungs
+ watched the RLM video for this first and I'm sad they couldn't appreciate this gem the way it deserves

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A Creepshow Holiday Special 1r4f1j 2020 - ½

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:01:18 +1300

The new iteration of super tryhard Creepshow is not for me.

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Noelle i91w 2019 - ★★★½

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:47:46 +1300

Anna Kendrick is so likeable and funny in this she completely carries the whole movie.

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Tiffany Haddish 2y3g1z She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood!, 2017 - ★★★½

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:01:36 +1300

Watched on Thursday November 21, 2024.

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Saw II 32516c 2005 - ★½

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:38:03 +1300

If Donnie had just booped the snoot he would have been fine.

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Over the Garden Wall o393u 2014 - ★★★★½

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:53:51 +1300

I'm so glad this lived up to the hype after the literal years of people being aghast when I told them I hadn't seen it yet.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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The Little House 306r2d 1952 - ★½

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:46:32 +1300

I don't usually care for Disney character designs but I really liked the buildings since the face stylization is so similar to the doorknob and flowers in Alice in Wonderland. Other than that, this is loud and depressing and I get that's the point but it made the whole thing anxiety-inducing and really unenjoyable for me. Really glad I never saw this as a kid.

The voice actor of the Cheshire Cat narrates it though.

Watched here.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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Garfield in the Rough 3o5xw 1984 - ★½

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:25:59 +1300

There's an obnoxious amount of music and I hate that the panther looks like it belongs in a completely different cartoon. But the nature scenes are nice.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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Birdy and the Beast 1d4lz 1944 - ★★

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:34:32 +1300

The cat having human teeth most of the time weirds me out.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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Orphan's Picnic p5i3z 1936 - ★★★½

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:28:50 +1300

- Neat plaid blankie title screen.
- Every single one of the kids is an absolute menace and I would have left them out in the woods.
- Nice watercolor autumnal backgrounds.
- Donald deserved that bee sammie for sticking his finger in a pie to steal filling without washing his hands first and then stacking a bunch of pies on top of each other like that wouldn't crush them to oblivion.
- How has Donald never had an aneurysm?
- Donald momentarily gets away from bees he pissed off but then has to open his mouth to talk smack (talk quack? sounds redundant) and gets karma'd.
- Huge missed opportunity to not say "let beegones bee beegones."

Watched here.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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The Cat's Out 2c504p 1931 - ★★★★½

Sat, 9 Nov 2024 17:11:29 +1300

This cat goes through some serious nightmare scenarios just for being a mischievous lil cutie, but it's kinda hard to feel bad for him with all the silliness (plus his yowling was hella grating). Favorite parts were the 9 lives ghosties, not knowing WHAT was going on with the crows, the dancing scarecrow, the creepy trees, the bats, and all the character designs. We'd never get this kind of surreal spookiness from now-Disney and we're worse off for it.

Watched here.

🖍️🖼️ Anivember 2024

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☀️📼 Summer Watchlist 5b2k3w

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:32:15 +1200

Seasonal interests for summer. This list will constantly be changing as I'll remove things I've reviewed, but they can always be found in the appropriate tags afterward.

See also:
+ films that feel like summer (watched only)

Companion lists:
+ Oh Say Can You Slash
+ Summer Camp Slaughter
+ Terror in the Deeps

...plus 142 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Obscene Phone Calls 483i5a

Thu, 1 Sep 2022 17:22:59 +1200

Horror films with phone calls as a central plot device

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

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Magenta 4c366z

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:37:42 +1200

Where magenta goes, freaky shit follows.

Films where the color magenta appears in some manner, and weird, inexplicable things happen or people lose their damn minds.

Suggestions welcome, especially if you can point out where in the film the color shows up.

medium.com/swlh/magenta-the-color-that-doesnt-exist-and-why-ec40a6348256

Blood and Concrete
neon-lit dead guy pool
Color Out of Space
literally everywhere
Demons
in the projector room
Howling III: The Marsupials
"It Came from Uranus"
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
around Jake's Bar sign in the last group dream
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Don's Place sign during Jesse's rainy nighttime/nightmare walk + wacky gym corridor; the factory
Suspiria
all over the dance school
Vampire's Kiss
Nic Cage's inexplicable, totally out of place magenta office lamp
Tales of Halloween
Ghoulies II
inside Satan's Den

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

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Practical Effects 6g506c

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:30:12 +1300

Films I've seen or heard of that have great (not just any ole crappy ones) practical effects in them, which will always be superior to cgi no matter how advanced the technology gets. List might get pruned as I watch more of these.

Some films will have notes with links to videos detailing the practical effects/making of process, when I find something interesting for them.

Suggestions welcome!

Companion lists:
+ Stop-Motion
+ Stop-Motion Demons

...plus 389 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🔪 The Real Monsters Are Human 4m1c2

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:54:12 +1200

nothing supernatural, just mean, nasty, batshit human people

This list only includes films I've logged on Letterboxd so far, but I'm always open to suggestions for things to watch and add.

...plus 111 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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It's People... They're Eating PEOPLE! 5b6s1v

Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:36:14 +1200

Cannibals.

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

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Teen Horror 5l4d5m

Fri, 9 Jul 2021 08:29:02 +1200

(Supposedly) high school or college aged protagonists in horror films; coming-of-age horror. The focus needs to either be on the teens/young adults or have a cast (aka murder fodder) largely comprised of them.

A lot of films in this category are pretty trash but for some reason I still find them really comforting! Either idiot kids are being slashed up for being idiot kids, or idiot kids get to live another day despite being idiot kids. There's kind of something for every mood.

This list only has the films I've logged so far, but I have a big watchlist going and suggestions are always welcome. Anything within the franchise of films on this list is definitely already on the watchlist.

...plus 142 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Chick Flicks I Unironically Love 735h5r

Tue, 2 Nov 2021 08:58:53 +1300

including documentaries about women, rom-coms, anti-romances, romantic drama, girl-based camp, and all-around awesome females

Companion list:
+ Amazing Films Directed by Women

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

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Forest 5ty35 Dweller

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:59:57 +1300

Films where a large percentage of the screen time takes place in or on the edge of a forest; lush, green, or dark; frozen forests belong in the companion list.

Suggestions welcome.

Companion list:
+ Frozen Hell

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Desert Setting 4f3k5l

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:03:16 +1300

Every time I see a desert setting in a movie (which doesn't seem to be that often, actually), I want to see more, to watch more films and shows set in deserts with that wide-open, deceptively empty landscape baking under the sun, full of sand and needles and clear skies and the ability to see for miles.

I also have a big love for all things found in deserts, from the intractable plant life to the resourceful animals to the gorgeously-colored rock formations to buildings made of cleverly-used natural materials like sandstone, adobe, mudbrick, and clay. And all the color palettes.

Notes have locations of the deserts filmed in, or as much information as I have on that. It's a work in progress, so I'll be adding to and updating notes from time to time.

Suggestions for any genre very welcome, for desert locations anywhere in the world.

Fun fact: I have an extension on my browser that makes each new tab open as a random color palette rather than whatever things browsers normally open with, stock photos or something, and when I opened one to look up more desert movies to add here, this was the palette. Perfect.

Thanks for coming to my storytime.

Greed
Death Valley's Badwater Basin
Morocco
set in Morocco | filmed outside Los Angeles, California
Five Graves to Cairo
Sahara Desert
Desert Fury
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Durango, Mexico
Africa Under The Sea
Dahlak Archipelago of Eritrea, Red Sea
The Man from Laramie
New Mexico
The Searchers
Bitter Victory
Sahara Desert, Libya
Legend of the Lost
Mojave Desert, California

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

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Not of This Earth 3e83r

Wed, 4 Jan 2023 05:39:30 +1300

Progress for the challenge here for 2025.

Previous years:
+ 2023
+ 2024

Additional links:
+ Amazing Films Directed by Women list (best of)
+ Joshua's 100 Amazing Films Directed by Women list
+ Sakana's WATCHED: 52 Films by Women list
+ enricioni's Recommended: Films Directed by Women list
+ White_light's Favorite Films Directed by Women list
+ directed by women tag (all the films I've seen)

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

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Houses of the Dead 5n2m4s

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:29:47 +1300

funeral homes, morgues, crematoriums, morticians, undertakers, autopsies

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

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🧛 I Have a Soft Spot for Vampires 2a676p

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:45:19 +1300

Vampires have always been my favorite horror creature, whether it's in books or films. It's lovely to find an unusual take on such an aged legend (and hopefully you'll find some of those here), but I tend to enjoy vampire films even if they're super tropey and take advantage of all the usual mechanics and plot devices. The legends have been around for so long now that there's no one right or accepted way to portray them, and even within the same confines, a different actor can infuse new life to a creature supposedly without it.

Companion list:
+ Best Vampire Movies - according to me, with my reasonings (just watch them)
+ Carmilla

...plus 547 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Monster 6p4863 Human Romance

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:34:50 +1300

Or at least attempted romance, from either side. Including dynamics where the "monster" has been a monster all its life, has been hiding as a human for some amount of time, a human has been temporarily cursed to monster form, or one of two humans becomes something much more grotesque over time.

Vampires not included because they have their own list, and many of them involve seduction and/or romance already.

Incubi/succubi/sex demons will be included as long as the whole film isn't just about corruption via carnal pleasure.

Suggestions welcome!

Currently considering:
+ The Beast (1975)
+ Cemetery Man (1994)
+ Dust Devil (1992)
+ Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
+ Possession (1981)
+ Slither (2006)
+ Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
+ The Untamed (2016)
+ White Snake (2019)

Companion list:
+ Phantom Romance

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

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🎃🔪 Halloween Horror o473

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:51:40 +1200

Horror films that take place on Devil's Night or Halloween

...plus 182 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🐸🐊 Bayou Travel Brochure 4w5o17

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:49:55 +1200

Set in Louisiana, not genre-specific. Notes have the area or city, or as close to an approximation as I could find. Some of these will be filmed outside of Louisiana, but that's okay as long as it looks authentic!

🎶⚜️ bayou gothic playlist: swamp grit, water witchery, voodoo, half-hidden bodies, deeds done by the light of the moon, secrets not even the southern sun can reveal, and a bit of southern hospitality

There are also a few TV shows I'd recommend for anyone looking for an expansion to the films on this list, perhaps something bingeable or more digestible in smaller doses. Regardless of taste, if you're looking for more of that Louisiana feel, these may scratch the itch for you:
+ American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014) - New Orleans
+ The Big Easy (1996-1997) - New Orleans + surrounding areas
+ The Originals (2013-2018) - New Orleans + swamps
+ Tremé (2010-2013) - New Orleans
+ True Blood (2008-2014) - primarily fictional southern Louisiana

Companion list from my other home state: The Mighty Mississippi

work in progress, suggestions welcome

Angel Heart
New Orleans + Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation + Thibodoux + Napoleonville
Fieldwork Footage
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Louisiana swamps
Drums O' Voodoo
Louisiana
Jezebel
1852 New Orleans
Son of Dracula
New Orleans
The Mummy's Curse
Louisiana swamps
New Orleans
New Orleans
Panic in the Streets
New Orleans
The Toast of New Orleans
New Orleans + Louisiana bayou

...plus 228 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Mardi Gras Massacre 3k5o17

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:30:53 +1200

Horror films set during Mardi Gras, cause I sure as heck wanna see some murder round that time of year.

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💉 Health Deficit 🔪 626l1y

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:37:02 +1300

Hospital horror, abandoned asylums, death-dealing doctors, murderous medics, psychotic shrinks.

Includes films I've logged + what's on my watchlist, but suggestions are welcome if you think something is good and has a place here.

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

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Hawai'i 2x2qj

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:00:03 +1300

Films include some or all of:
+ Hawaiian filmmakers
+ set and/or filmed on the islands
+ predominantly Hawaiian cast
+ showcases culture

- does not include a bunch of white mainlanders stopping by the islands for a vacation

Suggestions welcome!

Companion list:
+ Indigenous North America

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

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Mythology 5z5s5u

Thu, 8 Sep 2022 06:44:03 +1200

Mythological adaptions and inspirations.

This is very much a work in progress since I know there are a ton of films not on here. But currently it includes both watched films and those on my watchlist. Recommendations welcome!

Companion lists:
+ Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and the In-Between
+ Kingdom of Legends for Arthurian tales

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

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❄️📼 Winter Watchlist a4s1p

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:37:01 +1300

Seasonal interests for winter. This list will constantly be changing as I'll remove things I've reviewed, but they can always be found in the appropriate tags afterward.

See also:
+ snowy films (watched only)
+ Christmas films (watched only)
+ New Year's films (watched only)

Companion lists:
+ Cozy Winter
+ Deck the Halls with Blood n Guts
+ Frozen Hell

...plus 541 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🧚🌱 Folk Tales 116p3s Fairy Tales, and the In-Between

Thu, 8 Sep 2022 06:43:58 +1200

Folk tale and fairy tale adaptations, films based more loosely on either but still with identifiable source material, films that have the feel of these but may be new stories, as well as some documentaries and films about interstitial, between-world places.

This is very much a work in progress since I know there are a ton of films not on here. But currently it includes both watched films and those on my watchlist. Recommendations welcome!

Companion lists:
+ Folk Horror
+ Kingdom of Legends for Arthurian tales
+ Mythology
+ Wonderland

...plus 163 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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The Worst Things I've Ever Seen 3d5l4k

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:29:43 +1200

I watch a lot of films that turn out to be not very good, but usually get something out of them, no matter how slight the profit. Everything on this list can very easily be called one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life, films that made me actively angry at multiple types of ineptitude, or worst of all felt like a waste of time to even see. There might be tiny, TINY bits of good in them but they're so outweighed by the bad it doesn't matter.

Every one of these might have defenders even among my group of LB friends, but you'll never change my mind on them.

Not in order of terribleness since they're all half-star ratings. Just in order of when I had the deep misfortune of watching them.

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🎨🖼️ Films with Visual Artists 2g3748

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:31:03 +1200

mainly of the painter and illustrator variety, but a few more may be thrown in (sculptors, graffiti artists, photographers, etc)

Being an artist myself, I love seeing others' artwork show up in films, even when it isn't the main focus. I don't come across it very often, though, so I felt it deserved a list to help me collect them.

...plus 211 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🔮 Tools of the Trade 4w5m6w

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:19:01 +1200

Witchy and spiritualist implements in film as either a central plot device or a meaningful scene: tarot cards, ouija boards, crystal balls, etc. Séances and palmistry also count.

There are probably a ton of these I'm missing cause 1 out of every 10 films seems to have Amityville or Ouija in the title from what I've seen, and there's probably even some crossover there.

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Horror Documentary 6i616b

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:41:08 +1200

Vampir Cuadecuc

Making 'The Shining'

Terror in the Aisles

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait

Full Tilt Boogie

Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Apocalypse Soon: The Making of 'Citizen Toxie'

Masters of Horror

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection

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

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🎄 Deck the Halls with Blood n Guts 61485y

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:35:07 +1300

Yule/Christmas/New Year's/winter holiday horror

For non-holiday-specific horrific films set in icy lands, see the Frozen Hell list.

...plus 309 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Castlegasm 6i5h48

Sun, 3 Oct 2021 04:27:41 +1300

castle porn; will probably tend toward horror and the gothic

Films set in castles, but not just any castle will do. We want the best castles, real or fabricated. Palaces, mansions, and other houses need not apply. We're looking for fortifications, stone walls, and a chance for breezy hauntings or brunching with vampires.

Suggestions welcome.

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🐟🍟 Around the World 13g2r England

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:03:41 +1200

films made or set in England that I've seen

+ has the feel of the country/countries, whether through setting, theme, or cast
+ not overly Americanized
+ doesn't include partial production credits from the country if above criteria aren't met

Suggestions welcome!

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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❄️🤍 Winter Canon 3i1r5i

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 19:20:51 +1300

Favorites for the winter season.

Not on Letterboxd:
+ Olipop's stop-motion short introducing their winter yeti mascots

See also:
+ all of my winter lists
+ snowy films (watched only)
+ Christmas films (watched only)
+ New Year's films (watched only)

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

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❄️☕ Cozy Winter 5q40

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:02:15 +1300

This list is meant to contain cozy or feelgood films with winter themes, whether that be around various holidays or just in chilled, snowy settings. I want this collection to feel like a good accompaniment to warming things like soft sweaters and hot cocoa, coffee spiked with bourbon, a roaring fireplace, and watching the world be covered in a faintly sparkling blanket of seasonal magic.

The list will be pretty curated and only include things I personally have seen and liked and feel are worth a recommendation, but as always, suggestions are welcome.

Not on Letterboxd:
+ Olipop's stop-motion short introducing their winter yeti mascots

Companion playlists:
+ winter jazz - for that cozy indoor mood when it's cold out, you're full of warm drinks, and the sky is full of stars and twinkle lights
+ winter lofi

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🎨 Animation 3q3wz

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:38:32 +1200

Films I've seen, in all animation forms - hand-drawn, cgi, stop-motion, etc

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

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❄️💈 The North Pole 20578

Wed, 6 Dec 2023 09:55:19 +1300

Depictions of the North Pole and Santa's Workshop on film + relevant views of Lapland.

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

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Feminist Horror 3u4q48

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:24:27 +1200

Horror films dealing with or portraying feminist issues. Not an exhaustive list; watched and watchlisted films; also a work in progress.

Suggestions are welcome, particularly if there's something essential you think I'm missing! But not everything may be included here.

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🔪♀️ Favorite Final Girls 6rx34

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:27:05 +1200

Scream

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Halloween

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Alien

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

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🎞️ 52 Films by Women 5c6cq 2024

Fri, 5 Jan 2024 15:58:27 +1300

Watched films, listed in order of viewing. I'll be pulling from this list. I still have a lot I need to add to both that and my normal watchlist, but recommendations for anything you think I need to see are welcome in the comments either here or over there.

Previous years:
+ 2023

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

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Amazing Films Directed by Women 4i6e1e

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:54:53 +1300

+ shamelessly stolen from Joshua
+ solo directed or co-directed
+ in no particular order other than color arranging posters
+ limited to what I've seen
+ always growing!

Suggestions for your favorite women-directed films very welcome! Tell me what I'm missing. My watchlist needs to be fed.

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🍂📼 Autumn Watchlist j1l2f

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:59:43 +1300

Seasonal interests for autumn. This list will constantly be changing as I'll remove things I've reviewed, but they can always be found in the appropriate tags afterward.

See also:
+ films that feel like autumn (watched only)
+ Halloween films (watched only)
+ Thanksgiving films (watched only)
+ all my autumn lists

Others' lists:
+ Autumn Canon from Gentry
+ Autumn • Fall 🍂≠🎃 September • October • November from 𐕣 🅥 X
+ autumnal from newarchive
+ Favorite Horror Films to Watch in October from Gregory⛧Joseph
+ Personal Halloween Canon from SpOoky Lukey Video 👻📼🎃
+ Rustling Leaves, Grinning Jack O’Lanterns, and Eerie Shapes: Films with Ambiance from SilentDawn

🎞️ 52 Films by Women 5c6cq 2023

Wed, 4 Jan 2023 05:39:32 +1300

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🧙‍♀️✨ Spellbound and Starry 1ei3t Eyed

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 05:26:39 +1200

witches, voodoo, magick

This list only includes films I've logged on Letterboxd so far, but I'm always open to suggestions for things to watch and add.

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

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🐺🌕 By the Light of the Moon d6n1g

Wed, 19 May 2021 13:00:53 +1200

werewolves, shapeshifters, and transformations; primarily were-animals

This list only includes films I've logged on Letterboxd so far, but I'm always open to suggestions for things to watch and add. For other shapeshifting creatures, ask me in the comments or check out the companion lists. c:

Companion list:
+ I Have a Soft Spot for Vampires
+ Jekyll and Hyde
+ My Body Is Not My Own - body snatchers, replicants, deception

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

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✨ Mid 5d4l5v Century Aesthetics

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:43:32 +1300

I love mid-century art styles and am trying to learn more about them to begin incorporating elements of it into my own work. This is just a little list of things I've seen (probably mostly animation) that showcase some of what I'm looking for, as an easy reference to pull from in the future.

Suggestions super welcome.

Companion list:
+ Mid-Century Art Research

The Snowman
Drums West
The Stonecutter
The Green Slime
Feedin' the Kiddie
Don Driscoll background painting
Christmas Tree
Let's All Go to the Lobby
Claws for Alarm
Alice in Wonderland
Steal Wool

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

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🖍️ Rubber Hose and 1930s Animation 6o6rm

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:03:41 +1200

Snow-White

Betty Boop's May Party

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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📼🦜 Animation Aesthetic Watchlist 151835 Pirate + Tropical

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:46:07 +1300

Buccaneer Bunny

A Star Is Bored

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle

Garfield In Paradise

Idodo

The sound of the sea

Laika & Nemo

Love, Death & Robots: Bad Travelling

Cruise Cat

Muscle Beach Tom

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

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✨ Mid 5d4l5v Century Art Research

Tue, 8 Nov 2022 13:44:57 +1300

Watchlist for art research aimed at mid-century modern styles and aesthetics, mostly of the illustration, painting, and animation variety but also in personal styling, physical backgrounds, and props on occasion. Notes contain reasons films have been added to this specific list.

Right now I'm particularly interested in the cartoon gouache backgrounds painted by Don Driscoll and Robert Gentle since I just discovered them and they're tippy top tier.

Also looking into:
+ Art Lozzi
+ Irv Wyner
+ Hawley Pratt
+ Philip DeGuard
+ Tom Yakutis
+ John Didrik Johnsen

Once watched, films that fit what I'm looking for are removed from here and go on the companion list.

Resources:
+ Internet Animation Database
+ Robert Gentle IMDB
+ looneytunesbackgrounds Instagram

If you have an idea what I'm going for and have suggestions, please leave them in a comment!

Companion list:
+ Mid-Century Aesthetics

Good Will To Men
Don Driscoll background painting + Robert Gentle background painting
The Egg and Jerry
Don Driscoll background painting
Millionaire Droopy
Don Driscoll background painting
Cat's Meow
Don Driscoll background painting
Tops with Pops
Don Driscoll background painting
Give and Tyke
Don Driscoll background painting
Shearing Animation
Jim Henson abstract cut-out stop-motion
Puss Gets the Boot
Robert Gentle background painting
Tee for Two
Robert Gentle background painting
The Cat Concerto
Robert Gentle background painting

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Serial Killers 4z131i

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:00:56 +1200

The Stepfather

Stepfather 2

Stepfather 3

Zodiac

Se7en

Copycat

The Silence of the Lambs

The First Power

Fallen

Hannibal

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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🎷🎺 Jazz 2w666m

Fri, 6 Jan 2023 03:49:14 +1300

Jazz documentaries, films with jazz soundtracks, and experimental or animated shorts set to jazz.

Includes films I've seen and ones on my watchlist.

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

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Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:45:56 +1300

Actual Dungeons & Dragons movies, movies where people are playing a TTRPG and call it something else but we all know it's freakin D&D (lookin' at you, Mazes and Monsters), documentaries about the game, D&D parodies, movies that use D&D as a major plot device, and movies that have a scene of people playing D&D.

Not including films that are just inspired by or feel like a D&D campaign or that are better D&D movies than that shitty 2000 monstrosity without actually being a D&D movie (lookin' at you, The Sword and the Sorcerer), because that could be literally every fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and some rom-coms, plus anything even remotely related to Tolkein's universe since D&D probably wouldn't exist as we know it without that.

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

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⚰️ Movies LB Friends Have Said Feel Like an Episode of Tales from the Crypt 5k6at

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 06:41:40 +1300

I, Man

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Bordello of Blood

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

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