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S Tier:

1. Scream VI
2. M3GAN
3. Evil Dead Rise

A Tier:

4. Re/Member
5. She Came From the Woods
6. Knock at the Cabin
7. Bunker
8. Cocaine Bear
9. Renfield
10. 65
11. The Pope's Exorcist

B Tier

12. Infinity Pool
13. Malum
14. Inside
15. Nefarious

C Tier

16. Enys Men
17. The Strays
18. Consecration
19. Trinket Box
20. Spoonful of Sugar
21. Unwelcome
22. Hunt Her, Kill Her

D Tier

23. Leave
24. Children of the Corn
25. Fear
26. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
27. The Outwaters

F Tier

28. Skinamarink

Two films. First we watched Shudder's exclusive "Leave", and well out of all the movies I've seen this year... it was one of them. Pretty underwhelming stuff. The premise is interesting and I was engaged at around the 20 minute mark but things really fizzled out in the second half. I was looking for something a lot less grounded in reality. I think the biggest flaw in the film was the acting though. Not that most of the cast wasn't fine, but the lead actress could not hold an accent properly. I know this movie was filmed in Norway and the cast is mostly European but seriously, don't write your film and say that your main character is American then. It's just not going to work if you don't have someone talented enough to hide their natural accent, and she just couldn't do it.

Secondly, tonight we checked out Evil Dead Rise. It delivers on what you think it should; a bloody, gory mess that pulls very few punches. Did I mention blood? It's a great revisit to a franchise that I'm usually not sure what it wants to do. There are very few of those "zany" moments that Army of Darkness introduced, though I can think of one little callback to that perhaps. But it's dark, twisted and again, very bloody. It's definitely firmly in the realm of what most people would think about being classically horror, at least in modern times. Tons of great moments and over the top disturbing delights.