Moose And The Movies

I went 31-for-31 in January -- 31 movies in 31 days. Nine of them were rewatches, which I wrote about here . The rest were movies I saw for the first time, most all of them streaming on Prime Video. I bought a subscription early in the month to see Abigail, which I had heard so much about. So while I was there, I decided to pick off as many watchlist entries as possible before my subscription expires I have a few more days and movies on my Prime watchlist. I'll finish that up soon and move on, back to Paramount+ and my still-growing disc collection. In the meantime, here are my first-watches from last month, ranked bottom to top: 22. Dead End, 2003, directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, streamed on Prime Video, 0.5 star. This is the worst movie I've watched in quite awhile. It fails as comedy, it fails as horror, it fails as mystery, it fails completely. It earns a half-star because it's the minimum rating on Letterboxd. 21. The Calendar Killer, 2025, directe...

I watched eight movies for the first time from Jan. 15-23. Here is how I rank them, from least favorite to favorite. 8. Dead End, 2003, directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, streamed on Prime Video, 0.5 star. Mercy, did I ever dislike this one. Opening scene is a family traveling in a car bickering and attacking each other over dumb shit. I hated all five of them from the top, and it continued for several minutes. I ended up spending about 82 minutes hate-watching this 85-minute film. And I spent a good 70 minutes of that trying to figure out what this film was trying to be before I figured out where it probably was going. Absolutely nothing here worked for me. Even the predictable ending, which did sort of tie everything together, missed the mark. I'm not going to waste any more time on this one. You shouldn't, either. 7. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, 1974, directed by John Hough, streamed on Prime Video, 1 star. This is not the worst movie I saw this month. I enjoye...

These are the eight films I watched for the first time in the first 14 days of January 2025, ranked worst to best:  8. Terrifier, 2016, directed by Damien Leone, streamed on Prime Video, 1.5 stars. This got my attention because of some buzz around Terrifier 3, which hit theaters in October. I stumbled across it on Prime Video and decided to give it a spin. I enjoyed the first 10 or 15 minutes of Terrifier. The staredown scene in the pizza parlor between Art The Clown and Jenna Kannell's character was mesmerizing. Tara could not look away from the freak taunting her, and you just knew unspeakable terrors were about to rain down on her. And then the unspeakable terrors started happening, and they were purely gratuitous and disgusting. The problem was that we were given no context, nothing to make us understand the point of any of it. The entirety of the second and third acts of Terrifier existed solely to shock us. Kudos to the great practical effects, but they meant nothing. Everyth...