Starts seeming like absolute crap but actually ended up not bad for a teenagers-in-a-haunted-house gorefest. It was kind of atmospheric. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it, but it's not as terrible as it starts out, if that counts.

Difficult-to-follow story of a writer who goes to a haunted house with his daughter to try to write a clichéd slasher movie, when the clichéd movie scenes envelop his reality, and the whole movie stops making any kind of sense.

Huge hit when I was a kid. Not entirely sure why now. It's, meh, faintly entertaining, a bit, but pretty corny. Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.

Rewatched this cult classic series that only ran for a season in about 1982. It was alright, I see why we liked it at the time. Fun new wave sensibility. Not sure I'd go out of my way to watch it as an adult, though.

Young couple's housewarming party crashed by a mysterious, very, very, very faintly sinister couple, and proceed to spend 90 minutes talking before restaging "Funny Games" for 10 minutes.

Very talky zero-budget sci-fi about a teen time traveler stuck in a far future where everybody talks and a few of them overact.

Beautifully shot but impossible to follow and perhaps overly artsy sci-fi/horror film. A young woman apparently alone in a town and facing an alien monster has a bunch of hallucinatory episodes, including that bellwether of pretensiousness, an animated sequence.

Well-made enough that it can be forgiven for it's experimentalism, which it pulls off way better than some of these types of movies do, and really is more visually skilled than pretentious. And it certainly looks like a good movie, for most of it. But I honestly can't say. I'm not even sure what it's about.

Folk horror. Probably the best horror outing ever made about leprechauns, which, ok, isn't saying much. But it's decently atmospheric, and well made and acted, except for the parts in the third act where the director forgot it's better to keep the horror offscreen and let the audience use their imaginations than to actually show dawrves dressed in elf costumes fighting people for, seriously, about 15 minutes longer than it should have gone on for.

But, seriously, no, it's actually a better movie than that makes it sound. But, still a shame they didn't play those parts down a little bit.

A supposed time traveler from 2492 talks to the camera for 40 minutes about the future, which sounds totally boring.

Somewhat interesting documentary about "Michelle Remembers", the book that kicked off the "Satanic Panic" and "recovered memory of abuse" trend of the '80s.

Bullhit series about supposed investigations of UFO phenomena at a desolate southwestern range. Kind of on par with those "paranormal investigation" shows where people run around darkened houses freaking themselves out over weird noises and claiming "cold spots" or creepy feelings prove something. Like people feel sick when they approach a certain spot... that's supposed to be some sort of proof of alien phenomena, or something. I might have liked it when I was 8.

Short (40 min) film of an interview with a man supposedly from the year 3036. The man's voice is soothing, but that's about all the good I have to say about it.

Documentary about people who unfortunately believe that Earth is flat.

Documentary about the modern Church of Satan and its origins in the 1960s. You know, it's funny, the Church of Satan has always had some good ideas (and, before anybody assumes anything, the first of them is that the devil isn't real.) But, damn, what a bunch of pretentious hipsters. Cripes, it's exactly what you'd expect from a religion founded in San Francisco by a former carnival showman, if you'd lived in San Francisco as long as I have... lots of counterconformity, lots of fashion sense, lots of showmanship and people who dress and act like Hollywood's idea of a satanist, lots of tattooed and pierced people, and of course a burlesque revue in there too, because all those people are into burlesque. Still.

Maybe a couple of sincere people in there here and there also. But mostly, ugh.

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Ponderous early '70s Austrialian film which apparently all the critics at Cannes loved. I don't get it.

Billed as a "thriller", a schoolteacher gets stranded at an outback mining town, gambles, gets drunk, shoots kangaroos, and fights. And that's about it.

Other than the ambient menace that always seems to suffuse any movie featuring rural Australian locals, I don't know why this is a thriller. I don't even know if it's a story.

Fairly watchable Canadian sci-fi series about a time traveling cop from the future trying to prevent a terrorist attack in her day. Watched it a while ago, don't remember it clearly but I recall liking it well enough, just jotting it down here for completeness.

Ok, google "Hostel". And the,n think of any movie you've ever seen whose title ends in "III". Now you know.

Truth to tell, it's actually probably a hair more fun than the original, it's got a ridiculous, cartoonish element to it and doesn't dwell on the torture quite as much, there's a passing nod to actual relationship dynamics between the characters, however shallow, as opposed to the original, which was just "these guys are traveling together, they get tortured".