Holiday Wish List

Great film which could have used better music. Excellent cinematography and atmosphere.

Great revenge epic. Less sexually explicit than the manga (which is also excellent).

As one of my friends warned me, this film is very, very '70s...and also very, very entertaining. In particular, John LaZar's performance as Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell is brilliant. Plus, I really dug the Carrie Nations' songs. I definitely need to see some more Russ Meyer films.

I enjoyed the film much better the second time I watched it, though I still was grossed-out a bit by some scenes. That said, it is a very good movie, and I can't help wanting to learn more about what was going through Makavejev's mind when he made it. Not for the squeamish, but for people who want to see a truly unique film, this comes strongly recommended.

Magnificent film. Excellently plotted and full of action.

Brilliant beginning to a magnificent series. Great sfx and acting throughout.

Terrific. The zombie film to end all zombie films. My friend Henry Covert says it better than I could over on his profile.

Much less onscreen gore than you've probably heard. One of the best slasher films of all time!

This movie is, IMO, seriously underrated. Yeah, it's not the absolute masterpiece the original was, but I still enjoy it a great deal, over-the-top as it is. Bill Moseley in particular turns in a hilarious performance as Chop Top, one that he would only top (though not so humorously) as Otis P. Driftwood in HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES and (especially) THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. Bill Johnson is a more than adequate replacement for Gunnar Hansen, and Jim Siedow as the cook is his usual delightful self. Dennis Hopper's character is quite fun as well.

Rob Zombie's first film is a real treat for horror fans, with a cast including many familiar genre icons. Even better is...

One of the few remakes of an excellent film that is also damn good in its own right.

A surreal masterpiece. Hard to understand at times, but always impressive.

A slasher film as only Jodorowsky could make it. Has he ever done a bad movie?

Road trip time for Mike Judge's most (in)famous creations. Just all-around enjoyable.

One of il maestro's most unique films, with a girl (a very young Jennifer Connelly) who can communicate with insects and a villain killed by the character you'd least expect to do so (not going to say more than that).

A fascinating look at a disturbed genius with odd parallels to myself.

Tremendously entertaining and completely over-the-top.

Does for Clint what THE SHOOTIST did for John Wayne, in some ways. Nice deromanticization of the old west. It's my mom's favorite western.

Best Batman movie yet. I've seen it 4 times already, once at the IMAX. Ledger's performance blows Nicholson's out of the water.

The best "Vietnam vets contract a viral form of cannibalism and go on a rampage" film. Still wondering why one of them was called Charlie Bukowski, though (yes, really!)

Another winner for Clint Eastwood, with interesting biblical overtones.

Clint's most unusual western. Reportedly based on the Spaghetti Western "Django il bastardo", which I plan on seeing.

Smith's most serious film is also pretty funny when it sets out to be. Why can't Affleck put as much effort into most of his films as he does in most of Smith's films?

It was only a matter of time before Smith's most popular characters got their own movie. Hilarious and at times self-deprecating.

A loving (if somewhat exaggerated) tribute to one of the absolute masters of grade-z filmmaking. Martin Landau is terrific as Lugosi.

Brooks' wonderful parody of Hitchcock. "TAKE THE PAPER! TAKE IT!"

Rather good, gritty spaghetti western. Interesting that the hero uses an axe as his weapon.

A rock-western version of Siddhartha. Yes, really! The Firesign Theatre came up with this little number, only to disown it later on, but it's surprisingly good.

Not up to the level of the first two. The symbiote fx are wonderful, though.

Not very faithful to the comic, but fairly amusing.