Best/Worst of 2016

2016 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2016:

1.         Clown

2.         Kubo and the Two Strings

3.         The Monster

4.         The Conjuring 2

5.         The Shallows

6.         The Neon Demon

7.         Green Room

8.         Kicks

9.         Holidays

10.       Ouija: Origin of Evil

Honorable Mentions:  Hardcore Henry; Siren; The Land; Take Me to the River; Fender Bender; Southbound; Storks; Monsterland.

Worst of 2016:

1.         High Rise

2.         Independence Day: Resurgence

3.         Cabin Fever

4.         They Found Hell

5.         Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice

6.         The Mermaid

7.         Broken Vows

8.         Come and Find Me

9.         The Disappointments Room

10.       The Girl in the Photographs

Dishonorable Mentions: Andron; The Darkness; Careful What You Wish For; Restoration; Home Invasion; The Bride; Yoga Hosers; Midnight Special; The Offering.

Other Superlatives:

Coolest Title:  The Devil’s Dolls

Good-but-not-as-much-as-the-hype:  The Witch; Don’t Breathe

Not-as-bad-as-they-said (still not necessarily good):  Suicide Squad; Shut In

Biggest Disappointment:  Rob Zombie’s 31

Most Unnecessary Sequels:  Independence Day: Resurgence; Kindergarten Cop 2

Most Unnecessary Remakes:  Cabin Fever; The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Most Overrated:  Deadpool; Lights Out; The Girl on the Train

Best Comeback:  Phantasm: Ravager

Needs a Comeback:  Kevin Smith

Commentary:  Like the year itself, 2016 didn’t seem to be a very good year for movies.  Come to think of it, the last couple years weren’t.  I’m thinking about just making lists for movies I watched during that year no matter how many times I’ve seen them or when they came out.  Realistically, Clown wouldn’t be best picture of the year; I haven’t seen a really good evil clown movie in a while, that’s why I gave it the honor.  Kubo and The Monster are probably tied for second.  Holidays actually was a worthy anthology film so I included it in the top ten.  Ouija: Origin of Evil making it on the list goes to show there weren’t many movies to choose from; I thought it was much better than the first so I snuck it on the end.  Southbound and Monsterland were decent anthology films so I included them in the honorable mentions.  Storks was much better than I thought it would be so I gave it some recognition.  Cabin Fever was probably the worst remake I’ve seen in recent memory and was the worst movie of the year for a while.  However, at least I was able to follow it unlike High Rise which wins for being worst of the worst.  I lost interest in Independence Day: Resurgence long before it was over, that’s why Cabin Fever shockingly wasn’t at the top.  I’m getting picky with modern movies.  I need a new hobby!  Or should just stick to movies I know are good beforehand.  2/5/2017

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2015

2015 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2015:

1.         Hellions

2.         Jurassic World

3.         It Follows

4.         Inside Out

5.         Krampus (minus the gingerbread men)

6.         The Hateful Eight

7.         The Green Inferno

8.         The Visit

9.         Sinister 2

10.       Zombeavers

Honorable Mentions:  Wild Tales; We Are Still Here; Tales of Halloween; A Girl Like Her; Crimson Peak; Straight Outta Compton; WolfCop; Digging Up the Marrow

Worst of 2015:

1.         The Anomaly

2.         Coven

3.         The Perfect Guy

4.         Devil May Call

5.         The Redwood Massacre

6.         Jurassic City

7.         Air

8.         Re-Kill

9.         Krampus: The Reckoning

10.       Pan

Dishonorable Mentions:  Mad Max: Fury Road (how the eff did this movie get so many Oscar nominations?); Hot Tub Time Machine 2; Mutant World; The Intruders; Evangeline; Black Box; The Blood Lands

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2014

2014 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2014:

1.         Found

2.         The Lego Movie (really don’t know how this wasn’t included in the best animated feature                   category)

3.         Almost Human

4.         Honeymoon

5.         Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

6.         Coherence

7.         Beneath

8.         Willow Creek (one of the better recent found footage flicks)

9.         Borgman

10.       The Guest

Honorable Mentions:  Ping Pong Summer; Free Fall; Stranger by the Lake (had to include two gay movies that were actually good); Under the Skin (better upon each viewing); Wrinkles; The Purge: Anarchy; The Battery; Proxy

Worst of 2014:

1.         Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2.         The Forbidden Girl

3.         Sleeping Beauty (some stupid live-action one)

4.         Devil’s Due

5.         Locke

6.         A Field in England

7.         Christmas Bounty

8.         Mas Negro Que La Noche (Darker than Night)

9.         The Hunted

10.       No Good Deed

Other Suckers:  Fields of the Dead; Vampire Academy; In Fear; Ouija; Child of God; See No Evil 2; Parts Per Billion

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2013

2013 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2013:

1.         V/H/S 2 (prob the best horror anthology film I’ve seen in a long long time and every single short was good)

2.         Prisoners (really more of a tie with V/H/S 2, it really comes close and should’ve been nominated for lots of Oscars)

3.         Blackfish

4.         Stoker (I didn’t even know Wentworth Miller wrote this until after the fact, the fact that I                     liked it so much and that he wrote it is awsum)

5.         The Way Way Back

6.         Stitches (had to put an evil clown flick on here, just had to)

7.         The Place Beyond the Pines

8.         Aftershock

9.         The Kings of Summer

10.       Insidious: Chapter 2 (as far as sequels go, this nailed it and yes I slightly enjoyed this more                 than The Conjuring)

Honorable Mentions:  Spring Breakers (dared to be different and succeeded); Nothing Left to Fear; Curse of Chucky; Dark Skies; This is the End; Resolution; Hello Herman; Monsters University; The Conjuring.

Worst of 2013:

1.         30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (parodies are dead)

2.         Heebie Jeebies

3.         Upstream Color

4.         Antiviral

5.         Scary Movie V (did I mention that parodies are dead?)

6.         Escapee

7.         Berberian Sound Studio

8.         Apartment 1303

9.         Shiver

10.       Daddy, I’m a Zombie

Dishonorable Mentions:  Mischief Night; A Haunting at Silver Falls; The Dinosaur

Project; The Mooring; Love Me; Crush; The Wicked; Home Sweet Home; Unlucky

Charms; A Resurrection; Magic Magic.

Commentary:  These bad movies really are forgettable.  Most of the dishonorable mentions are drawing a blank after just 3 years!  I did like The Conjuring better after another viewing.  1/30/2017

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2012

2012 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2012:

1.         Killer Joe

2.         Frankenweenie

3.         The Dead

4.         The Cabin in the Woods

5.         Turn Me On, Dammit!

6.         Excision

7.         The Loved Ones

8.         Moonrise Kingdom

9.         Compliance

10.       The Innkeepers

Honorable mentions:   The Day; The Woman in Black; Juan of the Dead; The Hole; Sound of My Voice; Bait; Don’t Go In The Woods; Rabies; The Tall Man; Piranha DD; Vamps.

Worst of 2012:

1.         12/12/12

2.         Stormhouse

3.         Keyhole

4.         Parasitic

5.         Attenberg

6.         Mutant Girls Squad

7.         Snowmageddon

8.         Wanderlust

9.         Beyond the Black Rainbow

10.       The Perfect Student

Dishonorable Mentions:  John Carter; Prometheus; 7 Below; Apartment 143.

Commentary:  Paranorman should absolutely, positively, without a doubt be on the top ten list.  I didn’t see it until the end of the year nor have enough time to love it upon successive viewings.  I almost wanna alter history to put it up there.  Killer Joe wasn’t as good the second time.  Piranha DD was a runner-up?  LOL  1/30/2017

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2011

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2011:

1.         We Are What We Are

2.         Paranormal Activity 3

3.         Red, White & Blue

4.         Attack the Block

5.         Take Me Home Tonight

6.         Hesher

7.         The Troll Hunter

8.         Insidious

9.         Horrible Bosses

10.       Another Earth

Honorable mentions:  Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Hobo with a Shotgun; Stake Land; Rubber; Wake Wood; Brotherhood.

Worst of 2011:

1.         The Green Lantern

2.         Hyenas

3.         Choose

4.         Stag Night

5.         The Roommate

6.         Needle

7.         Just Go With It

8.         Fall Down Dead

9.         Cars 2

10.       The Resident

Dishonorable mentions:  Quarantine 2: Terminal; Revolucion; Bread Crumbs; Siren; Scar; River of Darkness; Terror Trap.

Commentary:  Horrible Bosses on the top ten?  I’m amazed.  Stake Land should switch positions.  I hated The Green Lantern that much?  Again, some of those movies on the worst lists don’t ring a bell.  1/30/2017

---Sean O.

Best/Worst of 2010

2010 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2010:

1. (tie)  Black Swan

            Shutter Island

2.         1981

3.         Grimm Love

4.         Buried

5.         Cropsey

6.         Burning Bright

7.         Best Worst Movie

8.         Frozen

9.         Toy Story 3

10.       The Kids Are All Right

Runners-up:  Daybreakers; Survival of the Dead; How to Train Your Dragon; Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!; The Book of Eli; Kick-Ass; Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief; Entre Nos; Piranha 3D; The Last Exorcism

Worst of 2010:

1.         The Killer Inside Me

2.         Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated

3.         I Am Virgin

4.         Paintball

5.         Blood on the Highway

6.         The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

7.         The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It

8.         Life Blood

9.         Suicide Girls Must Die

10.       And Soon the Darkness

Almost Made It:  Vampires Suck; The Square; Damned By Dawn; Knife Edge; Dinoshark; Tell Tale; Cry of the Owl; Homecoming; Spring Break Massacre; Stolen; The Uninvited; Don’t Look Up; Spike; Dorian Gray; Mandrake; Damage; The Stranger; 7 Days; Assault Girls; Ninjas vs. Zombies; Mirrors 2; Valentine’s Day; Chain Letter

Commentary:  Where to begin?  First, Frozen is NOT the Disney movie (that came out three years later).  Burning Bright would probably be #1.  This looks like the first time I ever had a tie on the top TEN list (I technically cheated with 11).  Both of those movies were very good that year.  As for the worst list and it’s runner-ups:  I counted at least 13 of those titles I don’t even remember watching.  Just 6 years makes me forget them that quick?  Hmm…1/30/2017

---Sean O.