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Agree with your choices and share your enthusiasm. However, I loved Mark Gatiss' take on the mezzotint, especially the ending; also, loved his Count Magnus.

All your choices are usually best watched slightly pissed on Boxing Day TV 🥃

Thank you for this interesting explanation, I’ve seen the film and while I liked it, I never fully understood it.

Howl of the Werewolf, like gold dust now!

I had the usborne supernatural guides and their Anicent Rome and Greece guides but my favourite was their Detective Handbook

A fun entry here by Sir Ian, very Mad Max, so I'm guessing Ian was a fan.

Thomson and Smith also did the Way of the Tiger series also based in the land of Orb. A very good story arc

Classic Steve Jackson, not sure if you have read them but if you love gamebook horror, then I recommend the Cluster of Echoes series by Victoria Hancox

Can somebody tell me what the ghost story was called when a woman did away with her husband called Emile. She took on a lover and Emile's ghost came back to haunt them ?

Yeah always felt this entry over stayed its welcome. So linear that it felt it would never end!

Love the open world feel to this adventure, something American Jackson replicated in Robot Commando and Demons of the Deep

RIP Mungo

Great review, loved this as a kid but like you tend to favor Jacksons work these days

Hey, loving your channel and just working through your FF reviews. Agree, imagine if Steve had written this entry post Creature of Havoc?

HI Michael, if you've got a spare 4 hours or so, I thought this explanation of twin peaks/the return was pretty spot on.. th-cam.com/video/7AYnF5hOhuM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ALQGj211pnJquYlp

Very good critic of this great movie. The film deserves the praise you give it. This film like many of Val’s films sticks with you. There is always this feeling of having just watched something full of deep meaning, symbols and messages. The films either have so many of these messages or they are so ambiguous that you feel compelled to solve them as if a prize could be had inside a cryptic Chinese box puzzle. One thing I love about all Val’s films is there is almost always a walk or journey that must be taken by someone who is always alone. These long atmospheric and frightening walks always take place in the dark with no dialog and lots of sinister but natural sound effects. In IWWAZ film it’s the long walk through the sugar cane. Cat People was Alice’s walk to the bus stop. Seventh Victim, Jacqueline’s city walknafter an evening with the Palladists. The Lepard Man, Teresa walks across town for corn meal. In Bedlam it was Nel’s walk through the asylum. Curse of the Cat People, when Amy runs away from home and her curiosity about the “big house” etc.

The Gatiss ones get lamer each year and were never tghat good to begin with. Stigma and Ice House are underrated.

Hello. I've just discovered, and am now binge watching, your channel. Thanks for another enjoyable and amusing video - and for reminding me about my teenage crush, Caroline Munro!

A little known fact regarding one of this films cast members --- Erford Gage, who plays the young lovestruck Poet would tragically die less than 2 years after this film's release. He lost his life in service of his country (and the world) battling Japanese soldiers in the Philippines during WWII. The films opening quote _"I run to death and death meets me as fast and all my pleasures are like yesterday"_ could very well have applied to him --- tragic foreshadowing perhaps?. He was quite good and memorable in the part as were most of this fascinating films cast. May he and all the rest of them, now all gone, rest in peace.

I totally enjoyed Your rankings👌 I’m so glad that channels like Yours exist👍👍👍

Hiya, for years, on and off, I've been trying to remember a kids TV drama from 1975/6/7 about a small group of school friends that collected litter in the local community. It must have been a bit more exciting than that and may not have been the subject of every episode. I seem to think it had some quite distinctive theme music, something by Prokofiev maybe. I'm 57 now and have no idea why I keep thinking about this program. Have you any ideas what it might be?

"Broadway Danny Rose" is the best film of all time and especially for Thanksgiving. I want to add a couple points about films (which are tied for #2 on my list} so overlooked and undervalued, even from devoted fans: Deconstructing Harry, a scathingly hilarious film where the artist gets his revenge on everyone who has done him wrong, including himself -- the interplay between his fiction and real life is incredibly brilliant and imaginative -- and it has the brilliant line, "Tradition is the illusion of permanence." Stardust Memories was always a quirky, oddball film, until I finally realized the conceit: the film we are watching is actually a screening for all the principals of the film-within-a-film at the center of the film -- once seen this way, it is the biggest mind-fuck of all his works.

Hi I have dozens of these books I have in my loft. I got them in the early eighties when they were released. Are they worth any money 💰 how do I know which ones are rare

You are so right about the Gatis monstrosities. As you say, it’s all “meta” nonsense! I go along with most of your choices but The Ice House just doesn’t work for me…

Great video,Thanks for posting.You just can't beat those Amicus anthologies - I've watched them literally hundreds of times!!! they're all Classics.

If you’re interested of M. R. James videos: I can point the 3 short Spine Chillers episodes starring Michael Bryant as the Storyteller. The 4 episode shorts by Robert Powell acting as M. R. James telling his stories. Lastly, the 4 episode Christmas Ghost Stories by Christopher Lee as M. R. James. Spine Chillers and Robert Powell shorts can be seen in TH-cam. Christopher Lee’s version is also up in TH-cam, but they tend to be flagged for Copyright, but you can find them in DVD.

Never saw a Pasolini film until I put on Mamma Roma tonight-- and all due to this video. Absolutely wrenching film. Do you plan on continuing this retrospective soon?

Hi Michael! This kind of video is the reason why I favour TH-cam over TV these days. A lovely experience. Thank you! 👊

This is very stupid. Top 10 out of 14? Youre an idiot!

1. The Signalman..2 Treasure of Abbot Thomas...3 ..Lost Hearts.... 4.Warning to the curious.

Absolutely excellent and insightful.

Love this place, great memories!

Agree with a lot of these. Robocop's my fave, the satire's amazing, the violence is deliberately OTT and the Judge Dredd similarities are overt.

How cool it must be to live in the shadow of an ancient, ruined castle like that.

I enjoyed your summary of Ozu's work, - I knew nothing about him until I discovered his post-war films on Prime and watched every one. I like his films very much and your commentary makes me appreciate them even more. And I agree with your Top 10, WITH ONE HUGE EXCEPTION. Sorry Criterion and Letterbox, and in the spirit of fun debate, this mundane midwesterner thinks Good Morning is lousy (I gave it a 4 on IMDB). I never saw "I Was Born But," but I think your short description of that 1930s movie may have added more luster to your opinion of Good Morning than it deserves. Anarchic kids (prewar) who find out their big bad dad is a toady adds a critical dimension that Good Morning completely lacks. These kids aren't anarchic, they're bratty baby boomers. There's no depth to any of these characters as there is in all the rest of the films you list. It's boring, tedious, and tells no story other than in the 1950s Japanese kids were turning into as big a brats as their American counterparts. I read that Ozu called this a slapstick comedy. Uh huh - I bet he was a barrel of laughs at parties. He can do subtle humor perfectly, slapstick - not so much. The fact that the running "big" joke of the movie is about wet farts !?!, - this movie is as deep as a petri dish. Think about what you're really saying. There are no fleshed out humans in this movie. In his other movies he could give one of his actors 2 minutes and they could be brilliant. Never here. You seriously can't say every movie he made is a masterpiece. That can be said about no one. I'll watch the rest of his films over and over. Pair this with Jacques Tati and I wouldn't need to leave the couch. Speaking of Tati - I find the scores of Ozu's movies to be very similar to Tati's, that little bouncy French postwar music. I've re-watched it - I don't get it - it turns from a building into a robot?

Great view. It reminds me a bit about of corfe castle, when I was there. I wish I had seen more of the UK

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Great episode! My favorite Lem's novel is His Master's Voice, about impossibility of ever understand aliens. Out of modern western science fiction writers, Peter Watts distinguishes himself by his utter pessimism, especially in his novel Blindsight.

I'm thinking about buying this from time to time, but the illustrations are subpar. Definitely not what I'm used to.

I started reading Stephen King at age 13. 😂 You're 💯 correct that the films that have the director's vision rather than King's were the best. Dickens is also an author I didn't get in my youth and have come to appreciate. David Copperfield is my favorite by a mile, and I was just commenting on another channel that I think it's my middle-age that makes me love it so - as the beauty of it is in how David is looking back on his youth with compassion and love. I truly hope you enjoy it.

I only read the The Deptford Trilogy a few decades ago and The Fifth Business was by far the best one in that series. I wasn't inspired to read anymore by Davies.

So I stumbled upon your channel because I'm reading (listening on audio) The Gormenghast Trilogy for the first time, and it's etched in my brain. We share several favorites on this list, and I look forward to your other recommendations.

Love the sound of the water!

Maybe try the format with clips of the topic and narration using a condensor microphone?

The Jenson Code was written by Rex Harrison son Carey

Spot on analysis and but how do you best 'Dirty Harry'..? The last two films became, as you say, another in the long line in the franchise; 'when is the moment Harry is going to pull out his .44' and plaster the gangster all over the wall? In the last film, Harry gets so bored using his pistol that he nails the baddie with a very phallic weapon, a massive harpoon... of all things !! Jumping the shark? Very much enjoying your videos, your enthusiasm and immense knowledge; keep them coming!

5) Midnight in Paris 4) Crimes and Misdemeanors 3) Interiors 2) Manhattan 1) September

1.2001 or American Werewolf 2. Sideways or The Servant 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. 5. The Empire Strikes Back as a kid/ The Tenant as an adult 6. Gone with the wind 7. Rape (Yoko Ono/John Lennon short film) 8. The Lord of The Rings films 9. A Shock To The System (1990) 10. Anything by Tim Burton 11. Yellowbeard-so weird and uncommercial, it's hilarious 12. Vertigo-Bernard Herrmann or Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith) 13. Citizen Kane or The Trial 14. All the Monty Python films 15. Connery's 007 16. Evil Dead Trilogy or Polanski's Apartment Trilogy 17. The Village and Tron Legacy 18. Dead Man's Shoes (2003) or The Mist (2008)-I knew nothing about either at the time, other than the DVD covers. 19. Evil Dead (2013) 20. The Woods (2006) 21. When the wind blows (1986) or A day at the beach (1970) 22. Peter Watkins (must be 90 now?) ,Tarantino or Fincher 23. Fantasia 24. Grease (all done on lunch break off the top of my head!!!)

Great that you include EDGE OF THE WORLD in you top 10...a wonderful little film. I don't dispute your admiration for BLACK NARCISSUS, though I guess I'd have BLIMP as no.1 and I'd have THE RED SHOES above A MATTER OF... that one doesn't work well for me...And I love PEEPING TOM, but not sure where I'd place it myself, certainly in the top 3...as always I like your thoughtful comments on them all