As a movie nerd I’m often asked for recommendations, so I’ve decided to recommend a movie I’ve rated a 9 or 10/10, one each day Daily movie recommendation number 68: Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, is a deserving Best Picture Winner, that's sadly rarely mentioned. Have you seen it?

My review of my rewatch of Lucio Fulci's messy, irrational but thoroughly awesome City of the Living Dead. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/ci…

As a movie nerd I’m often asked for recommendations, so I’ve decided to recommend a movie I’ve rated a 9 or 10/10, one each day Daily movie recommendation number 67: Perhaps the greatest all nighter film ever made, Walter Hill's hypnotic The Warriors. Have you seen it?

My review of American giallo The Seduction, with a smoking hot young Morgan Fairchild, from the brutally underrated David Schmoeller. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/th…

As a movie nerd I’m often asked for recommendations, so I’ve decided to recommend a movie I’ve rated a 9 or 10/10, one each day Daily movie recommendation number 66: Dario Argento's elevation of the giallo into a transcendent work of art, Deep Red. Have you seen it?

My review savaging the profoundly overrated sanctimonious misery porn masquerading as horror, that is Saint Maud. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/sa…

As a 35 year metalhead with eclectic tastes, I've been a victim of gatekeeping more times than I can count. Sometimes by fans 10 or 15 years younger, who are the purity test crowd. Because how dare I like Carcass, Darkthorne and Bon Jovi! That's gatekeeping in its purest form. Same thing constantly occurs with political parties. What's happening around horror could arguably be described as gatekeeping in reverse. Many newer younger fans, who deem themselves elitists, because they've been raised on meta or elevated horror. Even though horror has been elevated since it's silent film inception. Are dismissive and have no respect for the classics whatsoever, or the fans of the classics. So like the vandals they frequently are, they look down with contempt on franchises like Friday the 13th and Halloween. Viewing them as cheesy, cliche filled, lowest common denominator garbage. They mock the acting and the special effects. Usually deem them problematic, roll their eyes at happy endings. Now days, everything simply must be grim and dire! Therefore, when old school hardcore fans open our mouths, complaining about the remakes. We're told to be quiet, and called no good Boomers, even though most of us are Gen X or Millennials. While claiming that we desperately cling to nostalgia and refuse to get with the times. When in reality, we'd more than welcome a new Friday the 13th or Halloween film. As long as it remains relatively loyal to the source material, is respectful of the original films and captures their tone and essence to perfection. Case in point, very few people complained about Doctor Sleep. Which had the highest of high bars to crest. Personally, I loved it. We hold remakes and reboots to incredibly high standards, yes... because of our emotional attachment to the earlier films. We're very very passionate! So we can get nitpicky when the reboot undermines the originals to such a great extent. We want them to remain loyal and build on the mythology, not render it obsolete by erasing it altogether. But the moment we object, we're dismissively called gatekeepers and told to be quiet. So it can be argued that it's a generational battle for the heart, soul and future of horror between two completely different mindsets. The Old Ways Gatekeepers vs. The New Ways Gatekeepers. So it goes far deeper than some petty "I'm more hardcore than you" nonsense.

My review of Sean S. Cunningham's so-so A Stranger is Watching. Which is like a cut rate Night of the Juggler, but nowhere near as fun. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/a-…

I forgot to add The Furious, since it's listed as 2025, because it played at the TIFF. But, picture now, slotted in at number 7!😆

As a movie nerd I’m often asked for recommendations, so I’ve decided to recommend a movie I’ve rated a 9 or 10/10, one each day Daily movie recommendation number 65: Raise the Red Lantern, to me, the second finest film from Zhang Yimou, behind To Live. Have you seen it?

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As a movie nerd I’m often asked for recommendations, so I’ve decided to recommend a movie I’ve rated a 9 or 10/10, one each day Daily movie recommendation number 64: Roy Ward Baker's lesbian vampire masterclass with the iconic Ingrid Pitt, The Vampire Lovers. Have you seen it?

My review of the underwhelming Schizoid, with that sweaty bug-eyed psychopath Klaus Kinski. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/sc…

My review of The Last Horror Film, with that bug-eyed, pockmarked and perpetually sweaty genius Joe Spinell! #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/th…

My review of the night time soap, dramedy, slasher film mess that is Deadly Games. #31DaysofHalloween letterboxd.com/cst80/film/de…