Really? I felt it took away the suspense, the idea of everyone around the world actually seeing it was a good concept I just I don’t know the way it came out was ehh, but still enjoyed the film a lot. I’ve always wanted a ”Chupacabra” creature feature.

Awesome!!!

While I don’t think The Pod would make my top 5 or 10 list, it wasn’t actually too bad for just randomly stumbling upon on Netflix. So, maybe in the minority for putting it at #1 but it was a decent film.

Last Shift was pretty good as well.

and so shall I. thank you, god sir.

You better believe it. I loved it, but it also got better-than-average reviews with 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s got a mediocre 55 MetaScore but still, that means some people enjoyed it!

I loved Unfriended too!

Oh no you misunderstand. I REALLY liked the last 10 minutes because I thought it was unconventional. I liked how the world found out about it and all that jazz. I thought everything before, while entertaining, was just sort of blah.

I have indeed! I liked it a lot. You may see it on one of my other lists tomorrow….

Have you checked out ”The Hallow”?

I agree on that the last 10 minutes kind of threw off the whole vibe the film had going, but before that I thought it was pretty good I liked how the Chupacabra wasn’t to exposed till they kind of screwed it up at the end.

You know, I seem to be in the minority with Pod. I think it’s a great movie, but it mostly made my tops spot because it scared the crap out of me. You might find The Visit to be more entertaining, but I would still suggest giving Pod a try.

trace, is it true that pod is very similar to bug? i loved bug but its been years since I’ve seen it. pod get slammed on imdv so I’m a little apprehensive. should i bite or watch the visit instead? i only have 2 hours to live.

Even MORE interesting. I HATED The Gallows. Like, absolutely hated it. And while I enjoyed Exeter and thought it was a lot of fun, I don’t necessarily think it’s a good film.

Interesting. I thought Indigenous was pretty by-the-numbers until the final 10 minutes.

I’m glad you liked it!

I feel the exact opposite. I played right into the trap and just assumed it was going to be some alien/paranormal twist. The fact that it was just a pair of mental institution inmates made me love it (mostly due to its simplicity). I see where you’re coming from though. That would have been a very different film, but probably just as compelling!

Fair enough.

It’s a genre film, so I qualify it, but I can see why you disagree. It was reviewed on this site, so I considered it for placement on all of my lists.

My argument is that The Gift is not a Horror film. It’s even listed as a Thriller/Mystery on IMDB which should matter if Rotten Tomatoes matters to you.

The Gift has 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and 77 on MetaCritic. Out of all the films on this list, that and It Follows are the ones that “deserve” to be on this list. I just really like the other 3 as well.

It seems to be love-it-or-hate-it. I went in with zero expectations and loved it. I think I gave it 4.5/5 in my review.

The Gift being on this list automatically invalidates it.

I actually enjoyed The Final Girls more.

I agree with what you are saying for the most part, but there were jumpscares. If I remember correctly they were mostly fake outs.

Cool. Looking forward to the next list.

Honestly, there just weren’t 10 movies that I absolutely LOVED this year, which is why I only made it five films. I do have a “Most Surprising” list coming out later this week which are films that exceeded my expectations though. Basically, films I liked a lot but didn’t necessarily love.

I think she was decent, i do feel they needed to give her more character development. She and the crazy(is he) brother where the ones that got interesting, the other brother was just a douche bag

I beg to differ, I would have provided more links if I would have been allowed to.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/12/05/box-office-krampus-tops-friday-with-6m-spike-lees-chi-raq-on-track-for-1-1m-debut/

Yeah, not too many people seem to like ‘The Lazarus Effect’ for whatever reasons. I’m not sure why ‘Sinister 2’ didn’t get more praise, I thought it was a decent continuation of the first movie. And I found the main characters to be much more likable than Ethan Hawke’s character in the original. ‘Bone Tomahawk’ was a little long and a little slow, but the payoff at the end was worth the wait. This wasn’t a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I really liked Matthew Fox and Kurt Russell’s characters. When the dying Kurt delivered the line “Say goodbye to my wife for me, and I’ll say hello to your wife.”, I got tears in my eyes, I’m not going to lie. Maybe this movie wasn’t technically perfect, but I really enjoyed this movie and the characters. Not a great year for horror in terms of quantity, but there were a few high quality movies that I really had a fun time watching….

I actually liked Sinister 2 and thought the critical beating it received was unwarranted. And I did like Bone Tomahawk quite a bit too! I HATED Lazarus Effect though lol.

I feel like he’s always playing the underdog/nerd/Michael Bluth character (except in Bad Words and Juno I guess). Very rarely does he step out of that character type.

I don’t know…that science teacher getting killed in the classroom, the bitchy old lady getting thrown out her window….Gremlins is pretty dark. But you’re right! It’s all subjective.