The Movie Journal: September 2023

I watched 44 movies in September. 40 of them were new to me. 30 of them were made before I was born. 22 of them were British films.

British films were of course my theme of the month. I had a lot of fun with that. I didn’t expect to watch so many British films from the 1930s and 1940s. I didn’t expect to watch so many World War II films. But I did, and I loved it.

I mention this nearly every time I do a monthly movie theme, but the point of doing them is for me to watch movies I might not otherwise watch. That was certainly the case this month as I watched a lot of films I’d never even heard of before.

Humphrey Bogart to number two on my actors list with 6 films watched. He’s my favorite actor of all-time so that makes sense. Boris Karloff still leads the list with 8 films. I suspect I’ll watch another film or two with him in it this month as he did a lot of horror films. The director list looks mostly the same except for Terence Fisher who enters the list with four films watched. He directed a lot of Hammer films and I watched a lot of those last month.

Anyway, here’s the full list.

Gone Girl (2014) – ****
The Return of Doctor X (1939) – ***
Experiment Perilous (1944) – ***
Urban Legend (1998) **/12
Messiah of Evil (1973) – ***
Infinity Pool (2023) ***
Teknolust (2002) **1/2
Ladies in Retirement (1941) – ****
Local Hero (1983) – ****
Marlowe (2022) – ***1/2
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) – ***
Countess Dracula (1971) – ***1/2
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) – ***
Spree (2020) – **
Get Carter (1971) – ****
King and Country (1964) – ****
The Seven-Ups (1973) – ***
The Heart of Justice (1992) – **1/2
Night Train to Munich (1940) – ****
Went the Day Well? (1942) – ****
Contraband (1940) – ****
Tales of Terror (1962) ***1/2
The Purge: Election Year (2016) – ***
The Purge: Anarchy (2014) – ***
Cottage to Let (1941) – ****1/2
Moss Rose (1947) – ***1/2
Little Women (1933) – ****
Wichita (1955) – ***
The Big Knife (1955) – ****
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) – ****
Murder She Said (1961) – ****
The League of Gentlemen (1960) – ****
Night of the Living Dead (1968) – ****1/2
Life (2017) – *1/2
Island of Terror (1966) – ***1/2
Modesty Blaise (1966) – ***
The Wicked Lady (1945) – **1/2
Against the Wind (1948) – ****
They Live (1988) – ****
Borsalino (1970) – ***
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) – ****1/2
Slaughterhouse Rules (2018) – ***1/2
Quatermass and the Pit (1967) – ****
The Innocents (1961) – ****