The Devil’s Backbone is, sadly, a failure. Never liked that film. Nice visuals but the story is honestly just dumb. Especially when all those people get blown up.

I introduced a friend to Dead Alive, and he ended up calling it his new favorite film. Nice.

Event Horizon was pretty fucking stupid.

A Page Of Madness sounds interesting, I’d never heard of it. I don’t know about any OTHER Japanese films from 1926, either!

I think I’ve heard about the original The Vanishing about ten thousand times now and keep forgetting to watch it. I will!

I didn’t know the original Little Shop of Horrors was made in two days. That’s five days less than Detour!

Uh, no, the 2005 remake of House Of Wax is NOT better known than the one from 1953…is it? The one with Paris fucking Hilton getting her head impaled? Really?

I thought The Descent was overrated as hell. Its acclaim doesn’t seem to have gone away either. I still see it name checked. Must just be me.

I thought everyone hated Hostel Part 2. The one with the cheap scene of the guy’s dick getting cut off? Lame.

Near Dark blows. I like Kathryn Bigelow but ND is a very awkward film.

Dr. Caligari is still cool.

I once considered buying the Criterion Godzilla just to have that cover in my collection. Their best!

Red Dragon was probably a bad idea, but Manhunter is still a cruddy movie.

Deep Red is pretty cool, I always thought that was the best Argento movie so it’s nice to see it up there so high.

Opinion has not changed on Hereditary: good visuals, good direction, bad screenplay, the movie ends up being good looking meaninglessness because of it. And it’s surviving in public consciousness because of the poor homely little girl getting decapitated.

I should buy a copy of M.

I never got around to hating The Blair Witch Project (I think the ending still works) but I cannot believe anyone would ever call Heather whatshername’s performance “great.” The three young “actors” in the movie were all terrible and their characters were obnoxious and stupid.

Didn’t know Colin Clive died two years after Bride Of Frankenstein.

Audition was a bore then and it’s a bore now. Except for, yes, the big jump scare that everyone remembers.

I no longer care about most of the gross-outs and shocks in The Exorcist, like the vomit and the head-turning and the profanities–this was what made me want to watch it in the first place when I was a kid (only the crucifix bit remains shocking, just by virtue of being in the film at all) but I think it builds up the suspense pretty well, it hasn’t aged poorly, and it’s really more fascinating as a commentary on the early 70s (I didn’t understand this sort of thing as a kid at all) than as a “shocker.”

I guess I don’t hate TCM, but I never got into it much.