I watched 26 films in the month of May. Twenty-one of those films were new to me. Thirteen of them were made before I was born.
I had originally intended the theme of this month to either be Pre-Code films or erotic thrillers. Neither of those became a reality. The theme this month became that there was no theme this month. And that’s ok.
My brother-in-law died early in May. Naturally, that threw everything out of whack. We spent a week in Nashville and I didn’t watch anything. In the weeks that have followed, I’ve remained a bit out of sorts. I’m still trying to get back into the groove of things here on the blog. As you’ve probably noticed I haven’t been writing any movie reviews, or anything else really. I will make a better effort in June.
I hate how callous that sounds. Of course, a death in the family has impacted my movie-watching and blog writing. These things are completely secondary to the well-being of my wife and mourning with her family. I’m not complaining about not being able to watch as many movies this month as I usually do. Not at all.
But this is a post about the movies I did watch and so I mentioned it as a way of explaining why I didn’t watch as many movies.
I did watch the new Scream movie. Actually, before I watched the new one I went back and rewatched the six movies that came before it. I had really planned on doing a whole write-up on them, maybe even doing one of those dumb Ranked posts you see all over the Internet. But I just couldn’t get it done.
The Scream franchise did do a number on my most-watched actors of the year list. Four of those actors (Courteny Cox, Roger Jackson, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell) are now in the top five. James Coburn is the only non-Scream actor on that list.
The Director’s List remains mostly the same except for Wes Craven taking a spot due to him directing several of the Scream films.
Here’s the complete list:
Spy Hunt (1950)
Appointment with a Shadow (1957)
One Way Street (1950)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Undertow (1949)
The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)
Fear in the Night (1972)
Outside the Wall (1950)
Hold Back Tomorrow (1955)
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (1988)
Sister, Sister (1987)
Bullet Train (2022)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
Eight Hours of Terror (1957)
The Babysitter (2017)
Psycho III (1986)
Safe in Hell (1931)
Scream VI (2023)
Scream (2022)
Scream 4 (2011)
Scream 3 (2000)
Scream 2 (1997)
Honor Among Lovers (1931)
Scream (1996)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
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