SHOCKtober: 489-461

 

Guys guys GUYS! HEY GUYS! Today is the last day of the onesies. It's the last time this month I'll type out each of the following films received one vote, so enjoy it, for tomorrow it will be but a distant memory.

489. Undead -- 2003, Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig

488. Under the Shadow -- 2016, Babak Anvari

487. Under the Silver Lake -- 2018, David Robert Mitchell

486. Underwater -- 2020, William Eubank

485. Underworld -- 2003, Len Wiseman

484. Unfriended -- 2014, Levan Gabriadze

483. Unsane -- 2018, Steven Soderbergh

482. Valentine -- 2001, Jamie Blanks

481. Vampire Circus -- 1972, Robert Young

480. Wait Until Dark -- 1967, Terence Young

479. Wake in Fright -- 1971, Ted Kotcheff

478. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- 2005, Steve Box & Nick Park

477. Warlock -- 1989, Steve Miner

476. Waxwork -- 1988, Anthony Hickox

475. Werewolf of London -- 1935, Stuart Walker

474. What Have You Done to Solange? -- 1972, Massimo Dallamano

473. When a Stranger Calls -- 1979, Fred Walton

472. When a Stranger Calls -- 2006, Simon West

471. When a Stranger Calls Back -- 1993, Fred Walton

470. White Zombie -- 1932, Victor Halperin

469. Who Can Kill a Child? -- 1976, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

468. The Wizard of Gore -- 1970, Herschell Gordon Lewis

467. Wolf -- 1994, Mike Nichols

466. Wolf Creek -- 2005, Greg McLean

465. Wounds -- 2019, Babak Anvari

464. Wrong Turn -- 2003, Rob Schmidt

463. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes -- 1963, Roger Corman

462. XX -- 2017, Roxanne Benjamin, Sofia Carillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, & Jovanka Vuckovic

461. Yoga Hakwon (aka Yoga Class) -- 2009, Jae-yeon Yun

• I am always here for Valentine love! If its gore wasn't cut by the dastardly MPAA, t'would be at home amongst the slasher flicks of yore. The characters ain't much, but the cast sure is! I don't need to name any beyond Denise Richards, do I? (No.)
• I really dig Under the Shadow, and I'm glad to see it make the list. I recommend it often and I will continue to do so because it's a creepy little creepfest with a delicious political angle and it deserves attention.
• Strange I haven't yet checked out Wounds, since it's from the same director as Under the Shadow and it stars Dakota Johnson. Can I even call myself the leader of the sovereign nation of Dakotastan? YES OF COURSE I CAN, it is a lifetime appointment.
• Who Can Kill a Child? is top-notch but I admit, every time I've watched it since the first time I watched it, I skip the newsreel opening.
• Bless our great goddess SHOCKtobra, bless our great Reader Whomever that submitted Yoga Hakwon. I had never heard of it before, but a South Korean horror movie about an ex-shopping channel host who joins an evil yoga class? From the director of Wishing Stairs?? YES PLEASE, I am quite literally watching it tonight.
• In the 2010 SHOCKtober celebration, Wrong Turn got six votes. In 2017 and 2020, however, it received but one. It just goes to show, something something.