Monday, January 05, 2009

What I Watched in 2008

No elaborate rating systems for me, there's just three categories: Highly Recommended, Recommended and Not Recommended. Your mileage may vary. I know I'm forgetting some titles but this is as close as I'm going to get for a list from '08...

Highly Recommended
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Black Killer
Blastfighter
Bloodsucking Freaks*
Bloody Moon
Cannibal Terror
Dead & Buried
The Fog*
Fright Night*
Halloween III: Season of the Witch*
Hands of Steel
High Voltage
Iron Man
Island of the Damned
King of Kong
Lady Terminator
Lover of the Monster
A Nightmare on Elm Street*
OSS 117
Phantasm II*
Pieces*
The Price of Death
Raiders of the Lost Ark*
The Ruthless Four
Salt In the Wound*
Silent Night, Deadly Night*
Starcrash
Who Can Kill a Child?
Wicked, Wicked

Recommended
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30 Days of Night
American Hardcore
Beast In Space
Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
The Boogeyman
Chosen Survivors
Circus of Fear*
Commando Leopard
Curious George
The Dark Knight (would have made Highly Recommended had I not rewatched it on DVD)
Dawn of the Mummy
Devil Hunter
Double Target
The Dracula Saga
El Conde Dracula*
Evil of Frankenstein
Flashpoint
Foods of the Gods*
The Foreigner
For Your Consideration
Gotham Knight
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Hard to Kill*
The Hellbenders
The Hulk
I Am Omega
I Am Sartana, Your Gravedigger
I Know Who Killed Me
In the Folds of the Flesh
The Incredible Shrinking Man*
Indiana Jones & The Crystal Skull
Juno
Kinski Paganini
Last House on the Beach
Made of Honor
Man, Pride, Vengeance
The Mist
Monster Squad*
Mr. No Legs
The Net (Kinski version, not Sondra Bullock)
Nightmare City
Open Water 2
Opera*
Quantum of Solace
Ratatouille
RE: Extinction
Recount
Rescue Dawn
Return of the Living Dead*
Secret of the Red Orchid
Superbad
That Man in Istanbul
There's a Noose Waiting for You Trinity
Ticker
To Kill a Rat
Urban Justice
Werewolf Shadow

Not Recommended
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Asylum
Destroy All Monsters*
Diary of the Dead
Equinox
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Frontier(s)
I Am Legend
Midnight Meat Train
Mother of Tears
Sex and the City
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2*

* indicates rewatch

1 comment:

Nigel M said...

I was wondering why you weren't recommending asylum which was great then I clicked the link and found it wasn't the delightful amicus asylum with peter cushion (1972)- the 1972 film of same name is great. agree with you about blastfighter too