Aside from writing code, one of my favorite pastimes is watching movies, and that’s something that I do quite a lot. So far this year, I’ve seen just under 350 movies in a theater, and I have no idea how many I’ve seen on TV, DVD/Blu-Ray, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or some other format.
From September 23-30, I attended Fantastic Fest, a film festival sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse and Ain’t It Cool News that focuses primarily on horror, thriller, and sci-fi movies. During this eight-day period, I saw a total of 39 different movies (five movies per day for the first week, and then four on the last day). They were all movies I had never seen before, and with the exception of the 1960 version of The Housemaid (which I wanted to see before watching the 2010 remake) they were all new movies that haven’t had any kind of wide release (and in many cases, they won’t ever get one).
Below, you will find a list of all the new movies that I saw during this festival, in order of what I consider to be most enjoyable to least enjoyable. Each is linked to a very short write-up in which I provide a description about the movie and what I thought about it.
- Bedevilled (10/10)
- The Man From Nowhere (9/10)
- Kidnapped (9/10)
- A Somewhat Gentle Man (9/10)
- Undocumented (9/10)
- Drones (9/10)
- Golden Slumber (8/10)
- Bunraku (8/10)
- Richard Garriott: Man On a Mission (8/10)
- Nevermore (8/10)
- Julia’s Eyes (8/10)
- The Housemaid (8/10)
- Mother’s Day (8/10)
- A Horrible Way to Die (7/10)
- Sound of Noise (7/10)
- Carancho (7/10)
- Red Hill (7/10)
- I Spit On Your Grave (7/10)
- Stake Land (7/10)
- Fatso (7/10)
- Hatchet 2 (7/10)
- In The Attic (7/10)
- Rammbock (7/10)
- Cold Fish (6/10)
- Agnosia (6/10)
- Outrage (6/10)
- Corridor (6/10)
- Rubber (6/10)
- Primal (6/10)
- Fire of Conscience (6/10)
- Transfer (6/10)
- Norwegian Ninja (6/10)
- The Dead (6/10)
- Gallants (5/10)
- 14 Blades (5/10)
- We Are What We Are (5/10)
- The Violent Kind (4/10)
- Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (1/10)
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