Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes

10.) 5 Characters in Search of an Exit

9.) A Kind of a Stopwatch

8.) The Masks

7.) The Invaders

6.) Where is Everybody?

5.) The Howling Man

4.) Eye of the Beholder (Of course the version from the original show silly, but I can't find it on Youtube.) 

(So here's the remake.)

3.) The Changing of the Guard  (Yes it's Dr. Loomis from "Halloween" in possibly his finest performance.) (CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS, but it's like 60 years old so get over it.) 

2.) Death Ship (*Subtitles) 

1.) No Time Like the Past . . . . .

*The Gift (Dumbest episode)

The Silence & Night Call (Biggest downers…nobody wins) 

(*Night Call*) 

(*The Silence*) 

"Kill List" Review

A lot of films ascribe themselves as some sort of nightmare. As if the filmmaker is trying to say that their film has some either surreal or extremely over indulgent artistic moments that it's easier to describe the film as a nightmare. Rather than say a film has some sort of artistic embellishments.

Aside from 'Dreamscape' cinema (aka; The Nightmare On Elm St. series, that are actually about dreams, I think there are only 3 real films I would call . . . (outside of the extremely art house) dreams. . . Jacob's Ladder, An Andalusian Dog, and Ben Wheatly's unusual hit-man for hire horror film "Kill List".)

The plot of "Kill List" is very simple an out of work hit-man for hire and his friend team up for a job . . . assassinate 4 people; a priest, a librarian, a politician, and a hunchback. And there in lies the puzzle. Our main hit-man has an obvious temper and a family. But his temper is out of control, he fights with his wife, his friend, and ultimately channels his rage violently on the people he's meant to assassinate creating much of a mess. During the job they were hired to do a bunch of weird stuff happens, like the man they hired him to to the job with cuts our main hit-man's hand open. They are bound to finish this job. And both men are evil. Despite the fact that it seems like they are assassinating other evil men we get no real sense of goodness in the film. During the hits they take on one by one they discover a sick underground cult that our main hit-man becomes obsessed with eradicating. It's strongly hinted at that this cult indulges in rather sick rituals. And as they get deeper in their quest they they become entangled with the cult to an ending that if it doesn't shock and disturb you it's destined to puzzle and intrigue you.

This film is dreamlike in the simple way it's shot and edited. Moment's dissolve and flood into other moments almost arbitrarily. It takes it's time at some points . . . and then cuts directly to other points, it's incredibly disorienting. But for horror fans looking for a film with a different vibe and dare I say different 'message', check it out. It's very bizarre but gets my moderate thumbs up.

My Top 100 Movies (I've done this before I know, but now it's more consolidated.)

1.) Oldboy

2.) Godfather 2

3.) A Clockwork Orange

4.) Quills

5.) The Third Man

6.) All that Jazz

7.) Dr. Zhivago 

8.) Dead Poets Society
 

9.) Deliverance

10.) Casablanca

11.) The Usual Suspects

12.) LA Confidential

13.) The Silence of the Lambs

14.) The Deer Hunter

15.) The Taxi Driver

16.) Primal Fear

17.) Goodfellas

18.) Blazing Saddles

19.) The Last Emperor

20.) The French Connection

21.) Rosemary's Baby
 

22.)The Shinning

23.) F For Fake

24.) Hearts of Darkness A Filmmakers Apocalypse

25.) Crumb

26.) Dark City

27.) The Devils 

28.) Man on Wire 

29.) Battle Royal 

30.) The Wicker Man

31.) The Rocky Horror Picture Show

32.) Delicatessen 

33.) The Departed

34.) The Warriors (original cut)

35.) Jacob's Ladder

36.) The Sting  

37.) Jaws

38.) Rope

39.) Cabaret

40.) 2001 A Space Odyssey

41.) If . . . . 

42.) Alice In Wonderland (1953)

43.) All the Presidents Men 

44.) The Fountain

45.) Jesus Christ Superstar

46.) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 

47.) Sleuth

48.) The Birds

49.) Ryan

50.)  Lenny

51.) Altered States

52.) Allegro Non Troppo

53.) Little Big Man

54.) Oktopodi

55.) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

56.) Live and Let Die

57.) The Bridge on the River Kwai

58.) The Wild Bunch (Director's Cut)

59.) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

60.) Logan's Run

61.) Gangbang Attack Squad Number 7 (Actually this film doesn't exist - to my knowledge, but I was just wondering how many people were really paying attention.) 

62.) Fantastic Planet

63.) Vincent 

64.) Clue

65.) The Fairies of Blackheath Wood

66.) The Horrors of a Malformed Man

67.) Who Can Kill a Child

68.) Naked Lunch

69.) Y Tu Mamma Tambien 

70.) The Week Before

71.) Dancing 

72.) Alice

73.) Frenzy

74.) The Realms of the Unreal

75.) Wizards

76.) The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

77.) Subspecies 

78.) Irreversible

79.) Let the Right One In 

80.) Timecrimes

81.) The Puppetmaster

82.) Fritz the Cat

83.) The Social Network

84.) American Psycho

85.) True Lies 

86.) Alien

87.) The Dark Crystal

88.) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

89.) Muppets Take Manhattan

90.) Koyaanisquatsi

91.) Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors

92.) Dumplings 

93.) Aliens 

94.) Troll Hunter

95.) Rushmore

96.) Total Recall

97.) An Innocent Man

98.) Inception

99.) Amadeus

100.) Drive 

*61.) The Adventures of Robin Hood