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I don't really enjoy the Leprechaun series at all but I think it was smart that it really leaned into the more overt comedy aspects of the first film. I think the films really managed to find a true cult audience that way, even if I don't particularly care for it. I too heard some decent reception for Leprechaun Returns, I haven't seen it though.
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Lubdan the Leprechaun is arguably Warwick Davis' most well-known role

This can't possibly be true over Willow which outgrossed it both in theaters and on VHS/DVD. Or his TV series, or Wicket in Star Wars.

Well I did say it was arguable! I mean you're probably right but I've talked to many people who usually mention Leprechaun first when talking about his movies.
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Outlier

Genny - 28
KBM - 10
Karo - 9
Charon - 8
Inviso - 6
JONA - 4
Johnbobb - 1
Scarlet - 0
Snake - 0

Genny takes a huge leap ahead on this ranking, with little movement for the rest.
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Karo - A father and daughter buy a run down country home only to find out that someone packed a goddamn leprechaun into a crate in the basement and he only just now decides to try and escape instead of just calling out to the real estate agent or something and just fuck it.

The little green munchkin then proceeds to mete out bloody justice to those who took his pot o' gold. Man, if Lucky behaved this way he wouldn't always have those damn kids trying to steal his shitty breakfast cereal.

All the characters are terrible and unrealistic, none moreso than the little boy, who just might be the most stupidly written child character in the history of cinema. The leprechaun himself is not actually scary, but rather just some gross reject from the Garbage Pail Kids.

Not that any of this would really matter, given how every part of the movie is already completely idiotic. Four-leaf clovers are apparently now the bane of leprechauns, when has this ever been a thing? That's like saying the only way to kill Santa Claus is to pound a candy cane through his heart.

Add in a bunch of writers who can't decide whether they want this to be looney tunes or a horror flick and the result is a disastrous mismash of poorly compatible ideas with no direction, no tension, and absolutely no reason for existing.

Johnbobb - "*open on the bedroom from Friends*
Rachel: Hey, look at this gold I found
Ross: *enters, dressed as a Leprechaun*
Rachel: Ross! Leprechauns aren't real!
Ross: Gimme that gold, Rachel.
*audience laughs*
Ross: *stabs Rachel, takes gold*
Rachel: Oh, Ross!
*audience cheers*

I don't watch Friends and also I hate this movie"

JONA - If you want a not scary and unfunny experience dealing with a short person, you should just rather talk to me than watch this movie.

KBM - There are very few things that are more painful to sit through than a bad comedy and fuck me if this isn't one of the worst horror comedies I've ever seen. I felt sorry for Warwick Davis for being associated with this franchise, even though it seemed like he was having fun with the schlocky material. He may have been the only one. Jennifer Aniston is relegated to playing very broad early '90s feminist gags that are so stereotypical and dated it hurts. There's a Precocious Ten-Year-Old who truly scrapes the bottom of the child acting barrel, and seemingly just to add to the bang-your-head-against-the-wall factor, his best friend is a mentally challenged guy where the whole joke is that he's mentally challenged. You would think a movie where an evil leprechaun graphically kills a guy with a pogo stick would have at least something going for it, but it's all so incompetently done that by the time we reach the more... let's say creative... deaths, the movie has had a mind-numbing effect and you're just waiting for it to please be over so you can move on to doing something, anything else.

Scarlet - Bad. 6/100

Snake - Why I Chose It - Though maybe not as big or recognizable as Halloween or Friday the 13th, Leprechaun is a stalwart horror franchise with 5 sequels and a reboot. Lubdan the Leprechaun is arguably Warwick Davis' most well-known role, and Leprechaun also launched the film career of Jennifer Aniston. It has also become a minor part of St. Patrick's Day culture.

My Thoughts - Leprechauns are not funny, and they are definitely not scary. So, what is this movie then? It's a boring slog where practically nothing happens, and this really is one of the most stupid premises for a horror movie. Davis is decent I suppose, but the rest of the performances could be replaced with cardboard cut-outs and I wouldn't know the difference. There's a strange lack of killing here, which could've salvaged it a little. That wouldn't have saved it however from a startling lack of depth though.
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39. Leprechaun

Genny - 16
Charon - 32
Inviso - 35
Karo - 37
Johnbobb - 38
JONA - 39
KBM - 39
Scarlet - 39
Snake - 39

Genny - I grew up with the Leprechaun movies- all of them so suffice it to say I've seen them at their "best", and I've seen them at their worst. I may be more than a bit biased here, but I found the antagonist hilarious. While sometimes very cheesy, the deaths he deals his victims are often ironic and clever. The real issue herein is the side characters. I can't remember the daughter's name, but she is such a brat it's impossible for me to root for her survival, or for the guy who's so dim he swallows a coin made of gold checking its authenticity. There's probably something to be said about the film exploiting little people, but I'm not gonna be the one to say it. Hell, Flitwick looked like he was having a ball playing this role anyway. 7.6/10

Charon - Quietly one of the least violent films on the list, while Leprechaun isn't for kids its plot will kinda make you believe that maybe it really is. It has a sort of odd charm but at the same time you never really forget that this isn't a very good film. It's complete with a strange romance of course. Aniston's character is introduced as this snobby city girl but she quickly becomes whatever she thinks this dude wants her to be because he's so hot or whatever. It's a little hard to take the villain seriously of course, but that's aided by the fact he basically never really kills anyone. I guess you can count the old dude from the intro later in the movie? I don't know. I think the fact that he isn't much of a threat and gets his ass handed to him a few different times while never getting one over on the protagonists brings this down a bit for me.

Inviso - I WANTED to enjoy this as a cheesy slasher film, but Leprechaun just kinda failed on multiple levels. For starters, the titular leprechaun is a killer who has a motive at least: he wants his gold back. And thats finebut if his sole motive is wanting his gold (and hes generally content to just leave people be when he has it), the fact that hes so insistent on being needlessly obtuse gets a bit frustrating (and it also makes him fail as a horror killer). Theres a scene where like, four people are just whacking him with random objects, and it comes off as goofy when hes clearly supposed to be a threat. Same goes for the whack-a-mole sequence in the kitchen, or any scene in which his movements are sped up for comedic effect. He just doesnt feel scary.

It also doesnt help that the body count is SO low in the film. IIRC, only four people actually die, and one of those is a woman who falls down some stairs. Theres one kill that actually feels somewhat interesting: the pogo stick. Its completely unnecessary, and I feel bad for the victim, because he didnt deserve that. But its wacky and interesting, and feels like it fits the tone the film SHOULD have been going for. Instead, everything else is just lady falls down some stairs, cop, whose role in the film is almost COMPLETELY contrived and superfluous, gets his neck snapped, and guy from the opening scene shows up all bloodied in an elevator. Four kills in a slasher movie. Whole lot of biting and unnecessary injuriesbut seriously? Only four kills? Thats just dumb.
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Night in the Woods
Plants vs. Zombies
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DMC5 by a hair

Wow. Slightly surprised. Although haven't played DMC5 myself

It would've been RE2, but honestly I think they screwed up the B scenario big time. The amount of continuity clashing in the lab scenarios absolutely killed the story for me, I find it difficult to even call this a canon version of the game unlike the original game's remake which is absolutely definitive. Still, it's absolutely excellent and if the game was just my initial playthrough, I think it would win pretty easily.
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Royal Guard (DMC)
Ana (Overwatch)
Nurse (Dead by Daylight)
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Hint for #39: This film had one ranking in the top-half of a list.
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I don't think any film sets out to be purposefully bad. The quintessential proof of that is The Room. There was just a very clear lack of talent on display on Demonic Toys.
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Outlier

KBM - 10
Karo - 7
Genny - 5
JONA - 4
Inviso - 2
Charon - 1
Johnbobb - 0
Scarlet - 0
Snake - 0

KBM makes a strong start in Outlier, with Karo not too far behind. Is this a sign of things to come? We shall see.
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Charon - An unnecessary B-Movie that stands apart from the crowd, in all the wrong ways. While not as offensive as I expected, but still very much so in terms of plot originality and acting. Very poor acting by basically the entire cast of this film, sans the toys which are saved by the fact they just have to be voiced. The baby was funny and times, I liked him. That's about it though. The main villain is a laughable joke and is never interesting or threatening in the least way; speaking of laughable joke, his laugh is a joke indeed. It just seemed like the type of film that didn't need to be on this list. It felt like including one of the DVD sequels on the Disney canon list. While I didn't rank it dead last, it feels wrong to have to rank it at all.

Johnbobb - oh fuck off

Scarlet - This, in fact, may be the worst film weve ever watched for a list. When people say a movie is so bad its good, they are lying. Its a way for them to make themselves feel better about liking something that they know is objectively awful. Its an attempt to deflect judgment away from them, absolving themselves of having bad taste because they know, deep down, that their opinions suck. I met someone who said that this movie was an example of that so bad its good mentality. It is, in fact, not. This is the most fundamentally broken piece of shit travesty that has ever been forced onto a list for Gauntlet Crew that Ive ever seen. And I include every single one of Karos pawfuckery TV torture sessions in that. Snake has gone out and said, Let me do my level worst to demonstrate that there is nothing good and true about the notion of films as art. Let me present to all of you the perfect representation of why horror will always be seen as a fourth-rate money grubbing carny genre that drags the greater aspirations of filmmaking into the gutter, proving that there are things so utterly without merit that they by themselves force horror as an entire genre to capitulate to even the toilet humor of straight-to-DVD National Lampoon early-2000s college humor films as the better man. Snake handed us a film with no quality camerawork, no quality effects work, no quality script, no quality acting. This is the definition of no quality. Much like Snake, apparently. Worst user picking worst film. Right here. You cant teach that. Only a lucky few are born with the ability to dig up such base excrement and pass it off as anything other than the most worthless piece of shit imaginable.
Rating: 2/100

Snake - Why I Chose It - Demonic Toys is one of the flagship franchises of Full Moon Entertainment, and one of their biggest hits early on in their formation. It has spawned many sequels and crossovers and has helped paved the modern way for b-movie horror icons like Gingerdead Man and Evil Bong. It was also an early writing credit for David S. Goyer, who would go on to help write the Dark Knight trilogy with Christopher Nolan.

My thoughts - I fucking DESPISE Demonic Toys. I'm humiliated that I own this crapper on DVD. It is downright one of the most boring, slow-paced, horribly acted, terribly shot, cheesy as hell films I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. It takes everything I adore and hold dear about horror, puts in it it's filthy, money-hungry, brain-dead hands,and squeezes it until no life or joy remains. There isn't an original bone in this film's body, and Full Moon is more than eager to rip-off even it's own GOD DAMN PUPPET MASTER FRANCHISE because they've never even heard of the words creativity, or originality, or independent thought. Holy crap. This is deeper than bargain bin trash. There's only a certain place in hell a film like this could ever be made.
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40. Demonic Toys

KBM: 30
Karo: 33
Genny: 35
JONA: 36
Inviso: 38
Charon: 39
Johnbobb: 40
Scarlet: 40
Snake: 40

KBM - Almost every positive thing you can say about Demonic Toys must be qualified with the phrase for a direct-to-video movie. This is some pretty fun gory horror schlock, for a direct-to-video movie. There are some pretty good performances, for a direct-to-video movie. The fact that it all takes place in more-or-less real time is an interesting gimmick that's pulled off fairly well, for a direct-to-video movie. You get the picture. It is pretty fun to see the underrated Tracy Scoggins get a legit leading role, even if it is in something pretty stupid like this. The production values also definitely do not do this movie any favors I understand a movie like this is gonna have some pretty cheap effects, but it's also pretty incompetently filmed a lot of the time and has a really bad, grating musical score that gave me a headache for awhile. And as surprisingly decent as most of the characters are, the girl from the air vents was quite annoying and managed to offset some of the goodwill the movie had built up with me before her arrival.

Karo - Some people get trapped in a toy warehouse for various arbitrary reasons, and unfortunately Satan lives there and has animated the toys to do his bidding. Everyone has a bizarre, unnatural way of speaking like they are Yu-Gi-Oh characters, and they fucking say the fucking word fuck at least fucking twice in every fucking sentence for fucks sake. The toys themselves lack any sort of presence or fear, most of them are literally just puppets straight out of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and can't be taken seriously in the slightest. Hmm, at least we have never had a movie about evil toys that come to life before! Oh, wait. It is just a cheap, unoriginal piece of direct-to-video dreck that is amusing at first but soon gets very old and very boring.

Genny - Demonic Toys is one of few movies on this list that made me question "Snakes... why?" aloud. That said I enjoyed it on some level. I mean the movie is hella dumb, but the titular characters were kind of cool. 4.7/10

JONA - While the movie has its so-bad-its-good moments, a good chunk of the movie is just straight-up bad.

Inviso - This movie was so fucking stupid. It felt like a direct attempt to capitalize on thesuccess? I guess? Of Childs Play. You can definitely see the influence in having a baby doll with a knife who swears a lot. But yeah, everything about this movie is cheesy and bad, but not in a so bad its good sort of way. The movie fucking STARTS with a couple finding out that the woman is pregnant, only to then reveal that theyre both cops, undergoing a sting operation. The male cop is killed, and for whatever dumb reason, the film shifts into a toy warehouse, where apparently a demonic presence has taken control of some toys. Then a cast of random misfits gets involved (psycho criminal, asshole chicken delivery boy, fat guard, random homeless girl), most of whom ONLY exist to be killed off. Its really dumb, and it gets dumber when it turns out that the demon wants to take over her unborn babys body. Who the FUCK thought this was a good idea? This was fucking TERRIBLE
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Hint for #40: This film only has two rankings outside the bottom 5.
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These are the total point scores of all 40 films, determined by adding up each individual list's placements.

35
41
52
71
74
83
107
110
116
126
129
130
136
138
150
159
159
163
183
185
191
200
203
206
218
226
229
233
234
242
243
243
255
256
260
269
269
274
286
314
331

In addition to the main ranking, there is also an outlier contest to determine the most "out-there" opinions and the person who ranked most safely.
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Hello Gauntlet Crew and Board 8 alike, and welcome back to the latest installment of Gauntlet Crew Ranks! Collectively, we watched, ranked, and wrote-up 40 influential horror films from the 90s curated by myself, spanning all manner of sub-genres from slashers to sharks to the cerebral. As always, since this group isn't the biggest of horror fans in general, I appreciate everyone's participation and for giving these films a fair and open-minded shot! Following scarlet's sci-fi example, I will also be explaining why I chose these films in particular. I would like to see more future gauntlet crew projects do this too!

The fine people of gauntlet crew who participated this time are as follows: Charon, Genny, Karo, Inviso, scarlet, JONA, Johnbobb, KBM, and of course, myself!

And the 40 films we ranked:

Jacobs Ladder (1990)
Misery (1990)
Tremors (1990)
Arachnophobia (1990)
Flatliners (1990)
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Nightbreed (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Candyman (1992)
Bram Stokers Dracula (1992)
Dead Alive/Braindead (1992)
Demonic Toys (1992)
Army of Darkness (1993)
Cronos (1993)
Leprechaun (1993)
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Wes Cravens New Nightmare (1994)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Cemetery Man (1994)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Seven (1995)
Species (1995)
Scream (1996)
The Frighteners (1996)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Event Horizon(1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Wishmaster (1997)
Cube (1997)
Anaconda (1997)
Mimic (1997)
Urban Legend (1998)
Ring(1998)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Audition (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)

I hope everyone enjoys the list and has a spooky-good time!
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DMC5 by a hair
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T. Swift
RedLetterMedia
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1. The Wall
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Dark Side of the Moon
4. The Division Bell
5. Ummagumma
6. Animals
7. Atom Heart Mother
8. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
9. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
10. Meddle
11. Obscured By Clouds
12. More
13. A Saucerful of Secrets
14. The Final Cut
15. The Endless River

Something like that
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Doom (1993)
RollerCoaster Tycoon
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Tag
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Murphiroth
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Charon
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Dante (Devil May Cry)
Elasti-Girl (DC Comics)
Ug (Critters)
Mary Brady (Sleepwalkers)
Kyle Abbot (DC Comics)
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Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry)
Classic survival horror vs. Action horror (Resident Evil)
Country Taylor Swift vs. Pop Taylor Swift
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The Djinn (Wishmaster)
Elongated Man (DC Comics)
Tall Man (Phantasm)
Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
The Entity (It Follows)
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Alien Bounty Hunter (The X-Files)
The Beldam (Coraline)
Charlie (Legends of Tomorrow)
Morgan Yu (Prey)
Pennywise (IT)
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Eddie Van Blundht (The X-Files)
Clayface (DC Comics)
Plastic Man (DC Comics)
Jennifer Tate (Primal)
Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
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Overwatch
Terminator
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Carnage (Marvel Comics)
The Thing (The Thing)
Irena Dubrovna Reed (Cat People)
Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Lizard (Marvel Comics)
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Diana Walter (Lights Out)
Power runs out (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Basically everyone (Devil)
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Haven't seen Sound of My Voice, but it sounds really good!

I think Marling is really fantastic in The OA.
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Melancholia is definitely the most depressing film I've ever seen.

There's another film from the same year called Another Earth that works as a great companion piece to it. But that might be too much depression to go through back-to-back.

Wooohoo we got another Another Earth fan here!

Another Earth is my favorite movie of all time!

It's funny, when I first watched back in 2011 I didn't really care for it all that much, but it has really grown on me over the years. It's really such a quiet and contemplative film, and it's interesting how the sci-fi aspects are just background dressing to tell this really human story of redemption.
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Zoolander
Anchorman
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Punisher for the theme and Jessica Jones for the visuals.
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61. Just You and I
Origin: Twin Peaks (Episode 9/Coma, S2E2, 1990)
Nominated by: Axl_Rose_85 (2/4 remaining)


There are two types of Twin Peaks fans. Those who adore this scene, and those who despise it. I lean much towards the former! It's classic Lynchian weirdness, and a hallmark of his work featuring all the way back as far as Eraserhead. I could see why the falsetto vocals grate on a lot of people's ears. The composition of the scene is just as weird, with Donna and Maddy set-up on the floor awkwardly while James looms just above them, bent at the knee. Taken at face value, someone could interpret this scene as pure cringe with a stupid song, but there's so much going on, as a burning love triangle rages silently in the background of the whole affair. I give so much credit to Lara Flynn Boyle and Sheryl Lee here, they absolutely nail the subtle facial expressions needed to make this work as much as it does. Yes, the song itself is artificial and sickeningly sweet, but to just look at it for that alone is to miss the point.
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Damien Karras (The Exorcist)
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Yeah you'll either love or hate Red State most likely.

It's hard because I do love The Shining a lot AND the original Elm Street, like they would definitely make the top 50. My big "hooks" that really get me to really love a horror film are high-quality atmosphere, genre subversions and transitions, and great central characters which can sometimes be lost in the shuffle of shock and gore.
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Infinity War is super quotable.

Underrated quote in point:
What master do I serve? What am I supposed to say, Jesus?
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Every boss in Devil May Cry 2
Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Birkin Stage 5 (Resident Evil 2)

HMs:
Verdugo (RE4, if you use the Rocket Launcher)
Deathstroke (Batman: Arkham Knight)
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Rocket League
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
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@Nelson_Mandela @CasanovaZelos

Really great to see Rosemary's Baby on both of the lists! Going by top 10 only I prefer Zelos' list by a hair due to Caligari and Possession. Though none of the ones I mentioned actually make my top 25.

This is my personal current top 25:

1. Pontypool (2008)
2. American Psycho (2000)
3. The Endless (2017)
4. From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
5. The Mist (2007)
6. Resolution (2012)
7. Repulsion (1965)
8. Suspiria (1977)
9. You're Next (2011)
10. Cat People (1942)
11. Red State (2011)
12. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
13. The Devil's Rejects (2005)
14. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
15. Kill List (2011)
16. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
17. The Love Witch (2016)
18. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
19. Nosferatu (1922)
20. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
21. Peeping Tom (1960)
22. The Thing (1968)
23. Bone Tomahawk (2015)
24. Videodrome (1983)
25. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

I left out a couple that could be considered fringe like They Live and The Guest.
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The toilet flushing is probably even more important! The protagonist switch has always been my favorite part of Psycho though.

I still think Vertigo is Hitchcock's best!
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Melancholia is definitely the most depressing film I've ever seen.

There's another film from the same year called Another Earth that works as a great companion piece to it. But that might be too much depression to go through back-to-back.
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I didn't realize Avengers covered the series. I will change my vote to Avengers.
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62. - "I thought you said you were a beekeeper?"
Origin: Toast of London (Addictive Personality, S1E1, 2013)
Nominated by: The Code is Bosco (1/4 remaining)


Normally, "beak-keeper" would be a horrible cheesy pun and worthy of an eye-roll, but this Toast of London clip really makes it work. Morgana Robinson does a great job of playing this unhinged fling, nonchalantly dismissing troubling things such as a dark, bloody stain on the carpet while casually talking about having stabbed her boyfriend. I love dark comedy, and this really hits my humor center perfectly. Going back to the pun, it really puts the visuals of the beak collection in a new, more terrifyingly weird light. Some things I don't like as much is the flat as hell lighting, camera work, and Matt Berry's performance, which is serviceable but not spectacular (and it's strange, because I usually enjoy his work). Also, some of the jokes like forgetting your trousers don't land for me as much as the black humor stuff. Still, there's a good bit to like here and I'd be remiss to say I didn't enjoy it.
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Spongebob
Napoleon
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Hotline Miami
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