SHOCKtober: 144-117

There are so many great movies coming atcha today, even just thinking about it makes me want to puke my pants! While I'm busy with that, get a load-a all the reader faves that caused all the fuss (and muss), starting with these films that received five votes each.

144. The Babadook – 2014, Jennifer Kent

143. Tenebrae – 1982, Dario Argento

142. Scream 2 – 1997, Wes Craven

141. Santa Sangre – 1989, Alejandro Jodorowsky

140. Ready or Not – 2019, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet

139. Pontypool – 2008, Bruce McDonald

138. Night of the Demons – 1988, Kevin Tenney

137. Knife + Heart – 2018, Yann Gonzalez

136. Gremlins – 1984, Joe Dante

135. Gojira (aka Godzilla) – 1954, Ishirô Honda

134. Ganja & Hess – 1973, Bill Gunn

133. Frankenstein – 1931, James Whale

132. Final Destination – 2000, James Wong

131. Creep – 2014, Patrick Brice

130. Burnt Offerings – 1976, Dan Curtis

129. Bram Stoker's Dracula – 1992, Francis Ford Coppola

But soft! What in the heck? We're already onto the movies that got six votes each? Man, we're really truckin'.

128. Titane – 2021, Julia Ducournau

127. The Others – 2001, Alejandro Amenábar

126. The Lost Boys – 1987, Joel Schumacher

125. The Black Cat – 1934, Edgar G. Ulmer

124. Sleepy Hollow – 1999, Tim Burton

123. Scream 4 – 2011, Wes Craven

122. Saint Maud – 2019, Rose Glass

121. Orphan: First Kill – 2022, William Brent Bell

120. Near Dark – 1987, Kathryn Bigelow

119. My Bloody Valentine – 1981, George Mihalka

118. Martyrs – 2008, Pascal Laugier

117. Mandy – 2018, Panos Cosmatos

• A reader on The Black Cat: "I'm in love with Boris Karloff in this deliciously weird movie."
• Scream 2 and 4 making appearances today. Folks really love those Screamses!
• Burnt Offerings always feels like a made-for-TV movie to me, which I guess makes sense as it's one of only, like, three things Dan Curtis directed during his decades-long career that wasn't made-for-TV.
• I was so into Saint Maud from the start and then that final shot! Reader, I gasped. It was incredible.
• A reader on The Lost Boys: "This is one of the very first horror movies I remember watching as a child, and I've seen it so many times I know all the words. It's definitely one of the reasons ten year old me was obsessed with vampires."
• I'll say it right out loud: I am a fan of the works of William Brent Bell and I don't care who knows it! Orphan: First Kill is even better than I anticipated (and I anticipated that it would be perfect, so) and I just vibe with all of his off-kilter flicks.
• It occurs to me that I don't think I've actually seen Tenebrae, that my mind mixes it up with Inferno. Stupid lousy mind!