SHOCKtober: 564-537
I thought it'd be fun today and mix things up a bit by presenting the world with a bunch of readers' favorite horror movies that received one vote each.
Hmm? That's what we've been doing for ten days now, you say? Well then, let's have fun with business as usual, shall we?
564. Karishika – 1998, Christian Onu
563. Just Before Dawn – 1981, Jeff Lieberman
562. Juice – 1992, Ernest R. Dickerson
561. Ju-on – 2002, Takashi Shimizu
560. Ju-on 2 – 2003, Takashi Shimizu
559. Jennifer – 1978, Brice Mack
558. Jaws 2 -- 1978, Jeannot Szwarc
557. Jaws 3-D – 1983, Joe Alves
556. Jakob's Wife – 2021, Travis Stevens
555. Jack Be Nimble – 1993, Garth Maxwell
554. It's Alive – 1974, Larry Cohen
553. It: Chapter One -- 2017, Andy Muschietti
552. Irreversible -- 2002, Gaspar Noé
551. The Iron Rose – 1973, Jean Rollin
550. Intruders – 2015, Adam Schindler
549. Intruder – 1989, Scott Spiegel
548. Infested – 2023. Sébastien Vanicek
547. In the Mouth of Madness – 1994, John Carpenter
546. In the Earth – 2021, Ben Wheatley
545. In Fabric – 2018, Peter Strickland
544. In Dreams – 1999, Neil Jordan
543. Images – 1972, Robert Altman
542. Idle Hands – 1999, Rodman Flender
541. Ichi the Killer – 2001, Takashi Miike
540. I've Been Waiting for You – 1998, Christopher Leitch
539. I, Madman – 1989, Tibor Takács
538. I Can See You -- 2008, Graham Reznick
537. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House – 2016, Osgood Perkins
- That screencap is what comes to mind when I think of Jaws 3-D, so thank you voting reader and thank you Jaws 3-D.
- I spent every day during SHOCKtober 2023 reviewing movies I'd never seen from the 2020 list of readers' favorites and a couple of those are on today's chunk: In Fabric and Images. I really loved both of them, so clearly you guys have great taste and I will probably be doing that review your faves thing again in the future.
- I am on the floor gasping for air shocked that Ju-on only received one vote! But at least it hits hard for that one reader: "Even thinking about it I will probably have nightmares tonight."
- I said it in 2020 and I'll say it again: one time a friend of mine mistakenly called In the Mouth of Madness "A Mouthful of Madness" and I just love that.
- This is the first time I have heard Juice referred to as a horror movie, though I've never seen it. And besides, we play fast and loose with those genre boundaries during SHOCKtober so there!
- Also Karishika is a Nigerian horror film and bless this list because I'm not sure how else I ever would have come across it.
- Infested is apparently a French film about spiders; that alone was enough to get me wanting to check it out, but I doubly want to check it out because the French title is Vermines and again, I just love that.
- I reviewed Jakob's Wife for Rue Morgue and it's pretty fun! Barbara Crampton really has the time of her life in it, so it's worth a watch for that alone.
