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"F" = Fave MOVIES
These are the movies which I absolutely adore, and which would be considered legitimately "quality" films by most standards--i.e. Big budgets, Oscar winners, studio films, good production values, known actors, classics...etc. Some of these are one time only viewings, which so engaged me, they made the list immediately. |
"S" = Fave STINKERS
These are the movies which I absolutely adore, and which would be considered "total crap". I know they're awful, but I can't help loving them. They're cheap, have bad acting and were probably critical and box office bombs; if they weren't already direct-to-video pathetics. Also, some of these may have been considered "good" @ the time of their release, but didn't hold up over time. And yes, there are some big budget flops in here too. |
"D" = Fave DIAMONDS
Called that; cuz they are what I consider "diamonds in the rough". A few prerequisites to attain this status. You've never heard of it. You've heard of it--maybe even seen it--but have less than fond memories of it. I say it deserves a second chance. Finally, a movie you may have heard of (but all bad reviews), but in which I have found something worthwhile. These are the pictures which have fallen through the cracks. |
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80'S CHEESE AT ITS RIPEST!
Better Off Dead -- F Crystal Heart -- S Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #30) Elvira: Mistress of the Dark -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #23) Flash Gordon -- S Girls Just Want to Have Fun -- S Gymkata -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #9) Howard the Duck -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #13) Just One of the Guys -- S Lisa -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #38) Midnight Madness -- S My Chauffeur -- S One Crazy Summer -- F Summer School -- S Three O'Clock High -- D Up Your Alley -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #36) Welcome to 18 -- S Who's Harry Crumb? -- S ACTION PACKED!
Breakdown -- F Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- F Point of No Return -- F Monster House -- F Red Dawn (1984) -- F Southern Comfort -- D COMEDY CLASSICS & SOON-TO-BE CLASSICS
Airplane! -- F Christmas Story, A -- F Clue -- F Coming to America -- F Groundhog Day -- F Legally Blonde -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #35) My Man Godfrey (1936) -- D Noises Off -- F Sister Act -- F Soapdish -- F Stripes -- F Waiting for Guffman -- D COMPLETE DISASTER...MOVIES
Dante's Peak -- F The Day After -- D The Day After Tomorrow -- F The Poseidon Adventure -- F DEFIES CATEGORIZATION
Beetlejuice --F Birth -- D House of the End of Times, The -- D Insignificance -- D Keep, The -- D Talk Radio -- D Triplets of Belleville, The -- D DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR
Blue Velvet -- F Crimes of Passion -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #29) Grifters, The -- F Happiness -- D House of Games -- D Ice Storm, The -- F Kandyland -- S Lady Beware -- S Marnie -- D Season of the Witch (1972) -- D Showgirls -- S Smooth Talk -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #39) Thief of Hearts -- S Whore -- S EPIC ROMANCE
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- F Gone with the Wind -- F Titanic -- F THE EVIL OF THE THRILLER
Deceived -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #18) Fortress -- D Miracle Mile -- D Rapture, The -- D Seventh Sign -- F GHOST STORIES
(ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #3) Poltergeist -- F Poltergeist II: The Other Side -- S Poltergeist III -- S The Haunting -- F Lake Mungo -- F The Others -- F GOOD OL' CHEVY CHASE
Foul Play -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #28) National Lampoon's Vacation -- F National Lampoon's European Vacation -- F National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation -- F HIGH DRAMA
Black Swan -- F Desert Bloom -- D Midnight Cowboy -- F Network -- F State of Grace -- D A JASON VOORHEES CURSE
Friday the 13th -- S Friday the 13th Part 2 -- S Friday the 13th Part 3 -- S Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter -- S Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives -- S Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood -- S JOHN CARPENTER'S BAG-O-TREATS!
Escape from New York -- S Fog, The (1980) -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #15) Halloween (1978) -- F Prince of Darkness -- F Thing, The (1982) -- F "THE JUICE. THE PRECIOUS JUICE."
Mad Max -- F Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #12) Road Warrior, The -- F THE LEGENDARY JOHN HUGHES
The Breakfast Club -- F Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- F Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #20) Pretty in Pink -- F She's Having a Baby -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #6) Uncle Buck -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #22) Weird Science -- F LILY TOMLIN: COMIC GENIUS
All of Me -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #19) Big Business -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #16) Nine to Five -- F MADONNA MOVIES
Body of Evidence -- S Dangerous Game -- D Desperately Seeking Susan -- F Evita -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #37) Madonna: Truth or Dare -- F Swept Away -- D Who's That Girl -- S "THE MAN IN MY DREAMS -- HE'S REAL, ISN'T HE?"
(ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #4) Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) -- F Nightmare on Elm Street 2, A: Freddy's Revenge -- S Nightmare on Elm Street 3, A: Dream Warriors -- S Nightmare on Elm Street 4, A: The Dream Master -- S Nightmare on Elm Street 5, A: The Dream Child -- S Wes Craven's A New Nightmare -- F MUSICAL INTERLUDES
Dirty Dancing -- F Funny Girl -- F Little Shop of Horrors (1986) -- F Mamma Mia: The Movie -- F Urban Cowboy -- F Yentl -- F NATURE GONE BAD & NATURE'S RETALIATION
Arachnophobia -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #27) Birds, The -- F Host, The -- D Isolation -- D Jaws - F Jaws 2 -- F Jaws 3 -- S Jaws: The Revenge -- S Razorback -- D The Reef -- D Tremors -- F |
"NOSFERATU! DAS VAMPYR! A VAMPIRE!"
Fright Night (1985) -- F Fright Night Part II -- S Lair of the White Worm, The -- D Let the Right One In -- D Martin -- D Near Dark -- D Once Bitten -- S NOSTALGIA IS THE NAME OF THE GAME
(ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #7) American Flyers -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #11) Karate Kid, The (1984) -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #2) Murphy's Romance -- F Peggy Sue Got Married -- F THE PSYCHO BITCH MOVIE
Basic Instinct -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #34) Black Widow -- F Last Seduction, The -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #31) Mommie Dearest -- S Serial Mom -- F Single White Female -- F PSYCHO KILLER, QU'EST QUE C'EST?
April Fool's Day (1986) -- S Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #32) Black Christmas (1974) -- F Dead Calm -- F Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers -- S High Tension -- D Scream -- F Silence of the Lambs, The -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #26) Slaughter High -- S PURE WALT DISNEY GOODNESS
A Bug's Life -- F Lilo & Stitch -- F The Lion King -- F THE "ROAD TRIP" FLICK
Duel -- D Fandango -- D (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #14) Goonies, The -- F Labyrinth -- F Lion of Africa, The -- D Pee Wee's Big Adventure -- F River Wild, The -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #21) Something Wild -- D Thelma & Louise -- F Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The -- D SATAN'S COME-A-CALLIN'
Exorcist, The -- F Rosemary's Baby -- F THE SAW IS FAMILY
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) -- F Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, The -- S SCIENCE. WHEN YOU GONNA LEARN?
Back to the Future -- F Fly, The (1986) -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #17) Jurassic Park -- F Nutty Professor, The (1995) -- F Shivers -- D A SMATTERING OF HORROR
American Gothic -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #25) Blair Witch Project, The -- F Creepshow -- F Creepshow 2 -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #40) Descent, The -- F Gate, The -- S Hell Night -- S Hellraiser -- F It Follows -- D People Under the Stairs, The -- S Phenomena (aka Creepers) -- S Sisters (1973) -- D Terror in the Aisles -- D Witchboard -- S SNATCH THIS!
Invasion, The -- D Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -- F Puppet Masters, The -- D STEPHEN KING'S MAGIC FINGERS
Carrie -- F Cujo -- F The Shining -- F Stand by Me -- F Stephen King's The Mist -- F THAT WACKY MERYL STREEP
Death Becomes Her -- F Defending Your Life -- D She-Devil -- F THAT'S SO GAY
Adventures of Priscilla, The: Queen of the Desert -- F Birdcage, The -- F To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar -- F TITS-N-ASS
Bachelor Party -- S Hamburger: The Motion Picture -- S Hot Dog: The Movie -- S Pretty Smart -- S (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #24) Revenge of the Nerds -- F TOTAL INDIE FARE
Absentia -- D Clownhouse -- D Intervention, The -- D Resolution -- D WHAT'S A DRAMEDY?
Dress Code, The -- D Lucas -- F My Best Friend's Wedding -- F Nothing in Common -- F Parenthood -- F Working Girl -- F WHOLESOME SCI-FI BRILLIANCE
Alien -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #5) Aliens -- F Blob, The (1988) -- F Clash of the Titans (1981) -- S District 9 -- F Last Starfighter, The -- S Journey to the Center of the Earth (1954) -- F Star Trek: First Contact -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #10) Star Wars : The Original Trilogy -- F Terminator, The -- F WHY DON'T I JUST COMMIT SUICIDE?
Babe -- F Bridges of Madison County, The -- F Kitchen Stories -- D Map of the World -- D Mask -- F 'night, Mother -- D ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES, EVERYWHERE!
LET'S ALL HAVE A BITE! (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #8) Dawn of the Dead (1978) -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #33) Dawn of the Dead (2004) -- F (ALL TIME TOP 40 -- #1) Day of the Dead (1985) -- F Demons -- D Evil Dead 2 -- F George A. Romero's Land of the Dead -- F Night of the Living Dead (1968) -- F Night of the Living Dead (1990) -- F Re-Animator -- F Return of the Living Dead Part II -- S Shaun of the Dead -- F Shock Waves -- D Zombie -- D |