Last (x) movies you saw (II)

the spooky month so far:
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1972) 5
Someone's Watching Me! (Carpenter, TV, 1978) 6
Humanoids from the Deep (Peeters and others, 1980) 4
The Entity (1982) 8
Christine (Carpenter, 1983) 6
The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984) 7
The Toxic Avenger (Kaufman & Herz, 1984) 5
The Toxic Avenger Part II (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger Part III (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie (Kaufman & frat boys, 2000) 2
The Stuff (Cohen, 1985) 8
Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8
Alien Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997) 5
The Faculty (Rodriguez, 1998) 6
Saw (Wan, 2004) 6
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (Aster, 2011) good
The Vast of Night (2019) 7
Gatlopp (2022) 4
Beetlejuice x2 (Burton, 2024) 7

Cemetery Man a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore is my discovery of the month: something like a combination of Possession and Dead Alive.

also:
Will & Harper (Greenbaum, 2024) 6

Spooktober viewing (although I didn't totally limit myself to spooky movies)

The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934) 8/10
The Asphyx (Newbrook, 1972) 6/10
Angst (Kargl, 1983) 9/10
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10
Duck, You Sucker (Leone, 1971) 8/10
Old (Shyamalan, 2021) 4/10
The Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977) 8/10
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986) 7/10
Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) 8/10
El Conde (Larrain, 2023) 5/10
*Tetsuo The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989) 8/10
Rap World (O'Malley, 2024) 7/10

i watched Spike Lee's Malcolm X for the first time on monday, despite owning it on VHS for 32 years...

spook cinema:
* Hundreds Of Beavers (Cheslik, Tews 2024 [2022-2023 festivals])
I Know Where I'm Going! [BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger 1945)
My Old Ass (Park 2024)
Ravenous (Bird, Griffin 1999) 📽️
Les Yeux sans visage (Franju, Boileau-Narcejac, Redon, Sautet, Gascar après Redon 1960)
Blade (Norrington, Goyer 1998)
A Matter Of Life And Death (Powell and Pressburger 1946)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton, Gough, Millar 2024)
Megalopolis (Coppola, Coppola 2024)
Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger 1947)
Blade II (del Toro, Goyer 2002) 📽️
Opera [4K Severin restoration] (Argento, Ferrini 1987)
Bell, Book and Candle (Quine, Taradash after Van Druten 1958)
The Red Shoes [UCLA restoration] (Powell and Pressburger and Winter and Helpmann et al 1948)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024)
† The Evil Dead (Raimi 1981)
Demon Knight (Dickerson, Bishop, Reiff, Voris
1995) 📽️
The Fall [4K restoration] (Tarsem, Gilroy, Soultanakis after Petrov 2006)
The Small Back Room [FF/BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger after Balchin 1949)

happy home:
Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder, Diamond 1964) 💿
Bones And All (Guadagnino, Jajganich after DeAngelis David Kajganich after Camille DeAngelis 2022)

Trap (2024) 2.5/5
* Let's Get Lost (1989) 4.5/5
* Play Time (1967) 5/5
Anora (2024) 4.5/5
High Sierra (1941) 3.5/5
* The Brood (1979) 4/5
The Crazies/Code Name: Trixie (1973) 4/5
Rap World (2024) 4/5
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 3/5
Martin (1977) 4/5
* Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 2.5/5. I hate the scene with the little people in jars A LOT.
Distant Sky (2018) 4/5. Nick Cave concert film
The Facts of Murder (1959) 3.5/5
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) 4/5
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 3/5
Q (2023) 3/5. Documentary on Criterion Channel about the director's mother, a longtime member of a Lebanese religious cult
The Church (1989) 3.5/5
Christine (1983) 3.5/5

“Curse Of The Werewolf” is such a bizarre Hammer: Spanish setting, rape, cursed offspring of that crime as main protagonist, Ollie Reed as one of the coolest looking werewolves in cinema but onscreen for - iirc - a small fraction of the film. Still - prob my fave werewolf flick.

The Ring (Verbinski, 2002)
The Substance (Fargeat, 2024)
The Blob (Russell, 1988)
His Three Daughters (Jacobs, 2023)
Saturday Night (Reitman, 2024)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)
Emilia Perez (Audiard, 2024)
Heathers (Lehmann, 1989)
Hard Truths (Leigh, 2024)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023)
It Follows (Mitchell, 2014)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
Anora (Baker, 2024)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945)
Conclave (Berger, 2024)

Call Jane (7.0)
Adventureland (9.5)
Crooklyn (6.5)
Eno (7.5)
Megalopolis (4.5)
Joker: Folie à Deux (5.0)
Apartment 7A (5.5)
The Comeback (7.0)
The Color of Money (7.5)
Rounders (8.0)

Took me over two months to watch that much.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Camp 2022)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang 2020)
Rebel Ridge (Saulnier 2024)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi 2023)
La Prisonnière (Clouzot 1968)
The King of the Jews (Rosenblatt 2000)
The Evil Eye (Bava 1963)
Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos 2024)
The Substance (Fargeat 2024)
The Taste of Things (Hung 2023)
Strip Nude for Your Killer (Bianchi 1975)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960) definitely done with Fellini now
Hearts of Darkness (Bahr, Hickenlooper, E. Coppola, 1991)
Out of the Blue (Hopper 1980)
Kung Fu Jungle (Chan 2014)
Desert Fury (Allen 1947)
*Paper Moon (Bogdanovich 1973)
Deadpool and Wolverine (Levy 2024)
*Scarface (DePalma 1983)
Man of Steel (Snyder 2013)
Pulse (Kurosawa 2001)
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass 2024)

lots of noirs. not intended to be a noirvember but it ended up like that.

They Drive by Night (Walsh, 1940) 7/10 feels like 2 movies tacked together -- only the first is good
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) 5/10
Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) 9/10
The Prowler (Losey, 1951) 8/10
Human Desire (Lang, 1954) 8/10
Hobson's Choice (Lean, 1954) 8/10
*The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) 9/10 up from 7/10
Time Without Pity (Losey, 1957) 8/10
*Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958) 9/10
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) 7/10

...And Justice for All (Jewison, 1979) 7/10
*Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) 8/10
The Road to El Doracdo (2000) 6/10
*Zoolander (Stiller, 2001) 8/10
*Elf (Favreau, 2003) 7/10 i watched the first half only -- it gets way worse after they leave the north pole
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023) 6/10
Late Night with the Devil (2023) 7/10
Conclave (2024) 7/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (the night at the museum guy, 2024) 7/10
Spin the Bottle (2024) 3/10
Dear Santa (Farrelly, 2024) 5/10

The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) (5/10)
A Different Man (Schimberg, 2024) (6/10)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) (8/10)
Memoir of a Snail (Elliot, 2024) (5/10)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet, 2023) (5/10)
Babes (Adlon, 2024) (5/10)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) (9/10)
Anora (Baker, 2024) (8/10)
All We Imagine as Light (Kapadia, 2024) (8/10)
Memories of Murder (Bong, 2003) (9/10)
Blast of Silence (Baron, 1961) (10/10)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024) (5/10)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, 2003) (7/10)