SHOCKtober: 424-397

Ayyyy, fancy meeting you here! And boy, what a time to be meetin' here, as we crack the 400 barrier and inch ever closer to movies that earned multiple votes. But for now? More films that received one vote each and await your eyeballs.

424. Cape Fear -- 1991, Martin Scorsese

423. Byzantium -- 2012, Neil Jordan

422. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) -- 1981, William Asher

421. Burning -- 2018, Lee Chang-dong

420. Brooklyn 45 -- 2023, Ted Geoghegan

419. Braid -- 2018, Mitzi Peirone

418. Boys from County Hell -- 2020, Chris Baugh

417. Bound -- 1996, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

416. Bones and All -- 2022, Luca Guadagnino

415. Bone Tomahawk -- 2015, S. Craig Zahler

414. Bodies Bodies Bodies -- 2022, Halina Reijn

413. Boardinghouse -- 1982, John Wintergate

412. Bloody Birthday -- 1981, Ed Hunt

411. Blood Quantum -- 2019, Jeff Barnaby

410. The Blood on Satan's Claw -- 1971, Piers Haggard

409. Blood of Dracula's Castle -- 1969, Al Adamson and Don Hulette

408. Blood for Dracula -- 1974, Paul Morrissey

407. Blood Diner -- 1987, Jackie Kong

406. Blair Witch -- 2016, Adam Wingard

405. Black Zoo -- 1963, Robert Gordon

404. The Black Cat -- 1981, Lucio Fulci 

403. Bit -- 2019, Brad Michael Elmore

402. Beyond the Black Rainbow -- 2010, Panos Cosmatos

401. Berberian Sound Studio -- 2012, Peter Strickland

400. Belzebuth -- 2017, Emilio Portes

399. Beloved -- 1998, Jonathan Demme

398. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -- 2024, Tim Burton

397. Bad Taste -- 1987, Peter Jackson

• Ah, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker...or is that Night Warning...a movie with not one but two "uh...okay? no idea what that means" titles. I'm so glad it's gotten some These Modern Times re-releases because for so long it was hard to find and woefully underseen--though really it's probably still woefully underseen, and that's a crime. It's bonkers and juicy and it goes without saying that Susan Tyrell makes it more than worth your while. 
• Nice to see some unexpected films in this list-chunk: Bound and Beloved. 
• "Blood of Dracula's Castle" sounds like such a made-up title! I mean, all titles are made-up titles, of course, but you know what I mean. It would have made a fine episode of Ghostella's Haunted Tomb back in the day is what I am saying.
• A reader on the inimitable, unexplainable Blood Diner: "Slapstick gory humor, gratuitous nudity, gratuitous KUNG FU nudity, random talking dummy that everyone acknowledges as a normal human, multiple actors who aren’t actors, several quotable lines. The humans in this movie don’t speak or act like real humans, and that only dials up the cartoonish gore and vaudevillian inspired comedy even more."
• For some reason I've been thinking about rewatching Blair Witch lately. Should I? Apparently one reader would say yes. I saw it in the theatre and didn't like it--was that just because it was 2016? Was it because I hold The Blair Witch Project too dear? I feel like I should give it another chance.
• Goodness gracious I love Bloody Birthday. I really do adore a killer kids flick and I think that's one of the best.