Third time's the charm for me in the sixth year of this wonderful Letterboxd tradition kicked off by the great Cinemonster.
Let's see how many I'll finish this year, after my pretty successful run last year with 48 Films. I'm trying to Re-View as few as possible. Some Corman Classics and some movies that have sitten way to comfortably on the Watchlist are also included here.
The Rules of the Game for this Year:
6 + 1 countries
(Japan☑, Germany☑, South Korea☑, UK☑, Canada☑, Hungary☑, Italy☑)
6 + 1 decades
('50☑,'60☑,'70☑,'80☑,'90☑,'00☑,'10☑)
6 films from before 1966
(Them!☑, The Wasp Women☑, House on Haunted Hill☑, The Mummy☐, The Little Shop of Horrors☑, Creature from the Haunted Sea☑)
6 + 3 films…
Third time's the charm for me in the sixth year of this wonderful Letterboxd tradition kicked off by the great Cinemonster.
Let's see how many I'll finish this year, after my pretty successful run last year with 48 Films. I'm trying to Re-View as few as possible. Some Corman Classics and some movies that have sitten way to comfortably on the Watchlist are also included here.
The Rules of the Game for this Year:
6 + 1 countries
(Japan☑, Germany☑, South Korea☑, UK☑, Canada☑, Hungary☑, Italy☑)
6 + 1 decades
('50☑,'60☑,'70☑,'80☑,'90☑,'00☑,'10☑)
6 films from before 1966
(Them!☑, The Wasp Women☑, House on Haunted Hill☑, The Mummy☐, The Little Shop of Horrors☑, Creature from the Haunted Sea☑)
6 + 3 films whose year ends in '6'
(Kill Baby, Kill☑, King Kong☑, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer☑, Night of the Creeps☑, Sorority House Massacre☑, The Stendhal Syndrome☑, The Wicker Man☑, A Cure for Wellness☑, Taxidermia☑)
6 films featuring work from the following: John Carl Buechler, Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney and Carlo Rambaldi
(King Kong☑, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood☑, Progeny☑, Beyond Re-Animator☑, Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest☑, Humanoids from the Deep☑, The Thing☑)
The 6th film of a franchise
(Curse of the Puppet Master☑)
1 Reptile Rampage film as tribute to Crawl
(Croc☑)
2 + 1 women directed films
(Sorority House Massacre☑, Humanoids from the Deep☑, Near Dark☑)
The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access.
(Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan☑)
1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day.
(The Church☑)
1 + 1 Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film
(Night of the Creeps☑, The Little Shop of Horrors☑)
1 Classic Universal
(The Mummy☐)
1 film with Dee Wallace in it.
(The Hills have Eyes☑)
1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
(Body Bags☑)
1 film with a black director or predominantly black cast. (NO JORDAN PEELE) (Petey Wheatstraw☑)
1 film from a Mexican director to honor 2 great films from Gigi Saul Guerrero & Issa López. (NO GDT, but it can be GSG or Issa) (Tigers Are Not Afraid☑)
