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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.

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

THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE
Predator -- F
Signs -- F
War of the Worlds (2005) -- 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
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