I hated Exorcist. Cos I found it way too disturbing.

Andy wrote:

The longest I ever managed was a few months in 2017, when I was planning to do it for a full year, and use it to address some of the gaps in my viewing history. It got tedious at one point (shift work made it hard) so I stopped.

1994 and1997 I tried to do a full year with theatrical releases.

I didn’t manage it, crapped out at a little over 200 for ‘94 and 230 for ‘97.

They were both pretty good years for film but damn I saw a lot of shit as well.

I recommend just the OG version of The Exorcist over the version Blatty oversaw, though they are both good. I really should hunt down the sequels, though I've seen the most famous scene in 3 a bunch of times.

I might try Sean McTeirnan's Hundreds of Dead Bodies podcast this October, though I am already 2 days behind and I have a few busy weekends coming up so I might just pick and chose.

His list is definitely not fully horror, but like Calling All Units each episode will probably explain why he picked each film.

What was the one with yer man Hopkins and the ventriloquist dummy? Only saw that once as a kid but it left an impression.

First one is decent yeah. Then they tore the arse out of it.

Grave Encounters is better than any Paranormal Activities.

You’re a ghost?

Like The Eyes of My Mother and November.

List isn't changing, I went and got links, so that was moderate effort

Taxidermia
Well we're off to a fine start here, Eastern European fuckedupery but in no way a horror. Plenty of gore very little in terms of suspense, peril or even jump scares. It's a black comedy with no reason to be on the list, except for gore of which there's plenty, and it does inspire body horror style disgust at many points

Three generations of a family, starting with a wartime wanker, literally, he'll wank anywhere, through a competitive eater, and all the vomit that entails, ending with a taxidermist with huge commitment to his craft, and whose narcissism does match his forebears, if only eventually. A social commentary on the largesse of the baby boomers, and the current generation reliance on technology to live their lives through, probably

I don't claim to have understood everything that was going on, but didn't totally trust my translation, as it obfuscated up my favourite joke in the film about a fellow competitive eater choking to death on foie gras. So in all I'm glad I've seen it, I think the final few minutes are unneeded as an exposition overkill but maybe it's intentionally calling the audience stupid. Funny, yes; uncomfortable, certainly; essential, not really; horror, not in my world [6] 

edit: actually 6 was harsh, but that was as much to not belonging on this list, as film in and of itself it gets an 8 I think

yeek

Watched Paranormal Activity the other week.  Wasn't brilliant but I enjoyed it more than the likes of The Conjuring/Insidious.

I was surprised I hadn't seen it already, it's the sort of thing I'd cross paths with all the time. The opening act reminded me of Sauna, especially the bath and it being the centre of the people's lives, and made me hanker to rewatch it. Sauna is a bloody good wartime horror movie that would have been a much better fit for this list

Blocks100 wrote:

No love for The Blair Witch? The originator of the 'found footage' genre. I can watch it cos its not that scary. Pretty ground breaking at the time.

Amazing film

Drag Me to Hell
Not the first time I watched this, but not been back to it for a long while. I'd be intrigued to see what, if anything, I said about it first time around, though I think I either watched it with company or in amongst other films and it got a bit lost. The chase aspect has been ruined a bit by exposure to the Ginosaji, which has made almost all "slow chases" redundant. But you get into the main characters head quite easily and her own inner conflict is laid pretty bare. At least this one actually should be on the list [8]

Funnily enough, I saw The Exorcist when I was about 14 and I didn't think it was scary at all. It's maybe the only horror that has got progressively scarier the older I get. Now it scares the shit out of me.