SHOCKtober: 424-397
Ayyyy, fancy meeting you here! And boy, what a time to be meetin' here, as we crack the 400 barrier and inch ever closer to movies that earned multiple votes. But for now? More films that received one vote each and await your eyeballs.
424. Cape Fear – 1991, Martin Scorsese
423. Byzantium – 2012, Neil Jordan
422. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) – 1981, William Asher
421. Burning – 2018, Lee Chang-dong
420. Brooklyn 45 – 2023, Ted Geoghegan
419. Braid – 2018, Mitzi Peirone
418. Boys from County Hell – 2020, Chris Baugh
417. Bound – 1996, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski
416. Bones and All – 2022, Luca Guadagnino
415. Bone Tomahawk – 2015, S. Craig Zahler
414. Bodies Bodies Bodies – 2022, Halina Reijn
413. Boardinghouse – 1982, John Wintergate
412. Bloody Birthday – 1981, Ed Hunt
411. Blood Quantum – 2019, Jeff Barnaby
410. The Blood on Satan's Claw – 1971, Piers Haggard
409. Blood of Dracula's Castle – 1969, Al Adamson and Don Hulette
408. Blood for Dracula – 1974, Paul Morrissey
407. Blood Diner – 1987, Jackie Kong
406. Blair Witch – 2016, Adam Wingard
405. Black Zoo – 1963, Robert Gordon
404. The Black Cat – 1981, Lucio Fulci
403. Bit – 2019, Brad Michael Elmore
402. Beyond the Black Rainbow – 2010, Panos Cosmatos
401. Berberian Sound Studio – 2012, Peter Strickland
400. Belzebuth – 2017, Emilio Portes
399. Beloved – 1998, Jonathan Demme
398. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -- 2024, Tim Burton
397. Bad Taste – 1987, Peter Jackson
- Ah, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker...or is that Night Warning...a movie with not one but two "uh...okay? no idea what that means" titles. I'm so glad it's gotten some These Modern Times re-releases because for so long it was hard to find and woefully underseen--though really it's probably still woefully underseen, and that's a crime. It's bonkers and juicy and it goes without saying that Susan Tyrell makes it more than worth your while.
- Nice to see some unexpected films in this list-chunk: Bound and Beloved.
- "Blood of Dracula's Castle" sounds like such a made-up title! I mean, all titles are made-up titles, of course, but you know what I mean. It would have made a fine episode of Ghostella's Haunted Tomb back in the day is what I am saying.
- A reader on the inimitable, unexplainable Blood Diner: "Slapstick gory humor, gratuitous nudity, gratuitous KUNG FU nudity, random talking dummy that everyone acknowledges as a normal human, multiple actors who aren’t actors, several quotable lines. The humans in this movie don’t speak or act like real humans, and that only dials up the cartoonish gore and vaudevillian inspired comedy even more."
- For some reason I've been thinking about rewatching Blair Witch lately. Should I? Apparently one reader would say yes. I saw it in the theatre and didn't like it--was that just because it was 2016? Was it because I hold The Blair Witch Project too dear? I feel like I should give it another chance.
- Goodness gracious I love Bloody Birthday. I really do adore a killer kids flick and I think that's one of the best.
