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Instant Classics:

1. Scream VI
2. M3GAN

Very Solid Offerings:

3. She Came From the Woods
4. Knock at the Cabin
5. Bunker
6. Cocaine Bear
7. 65

Flawed, But Good

8. Infinity Pool
9. Inside
10 Consecration
11. Unwelcome
12. Hunt Her, Kill Her

Some Issues:

13. Children of the Corn
14. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
15. Fear

Not Enjoyable:

16. The Outwaters

Torture:

17. Skinamarink

So we saw Inside... is it a horror film? I still don't know really. The reference sites I use are UHM, which don't list this film, and Bloody Disgusting, which did post a review of the film. The latter does seem a little more loose and global though, and has more namebrand recognition at this point. I decided to put it on my list for now at least because of it's similarity in setup to Fall, which I did include on my list last year and considered one of the year's best offerings. This one isn't as good as that one, and it does lack a few of the scenes that I felt made Fall distinctly horror, but it does focus on the feelings of isolation and confinement just like that one did and does have a few disturbing scenes here and there. The trailers paint this movie as a survival film where the protagonist has to use his wits and ingenuity to try to escape his predictament, and I think those things classify as horror so there we go I guess.

Ultimately though, I do feel the movie is a little flawed. Dafoe is great obviously, and even though he usually isn't in films I would say are superb, his performances are always really great. I know a lot of people here really liked The Lighthouse for example, but I wasn't a huge fan of it. I also don't think it's any closer to be a horror movie than this one was, which is another reason I decided to include it on my list. I do prefer his performance here personally, mostly because as much as I like him, I basically needed subtitles to even understand his character half the time in Lighthouse. He gets a little bizarre here of course as well, but I do like his character much more. I think the film's main weakness is that as others have said about it, it does feel a bit like an endurance test of a film. It lacks that tension Fall had for sure, though it never ventures into the realm of Skinamarink like endurance. It's still a pretty enjoyable movie.