A Desert doesn't come together fully, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Zachary Ray Sherman was great in it and David Yow showing up was fun.
I thought Shelby Oaks was fine and enjoyed it more than I didn't. I don't know anything about Stuckmann though, and it's not like it will make my end of the year list
finalized top fifteen Bring Her Back Sinners Frankenstein 28 Years Later Weapons Companion Final Destination: Bloodlines Presence Together Keeper Good Boy M3GAN 2.0 Predator Badlands Black Phone 2 Until Dawn
I have not purchased from them yet, but they're the same distributor with a Bloody Muscle Body Builder From Hell release that I really want.
Pleased to present Chorus.fm's Top Horror Films of 2025 :) 1. Weapons (Zach Cregger, HBO Max) 2. Sinners (Ryan Coogler, HBO Max and Prime) 3. Bring Her Back (Danny and Michael Philippou, HBO Max) 4. Companion (Drew Hancock, Prime and HBO Max) 5. Final Destination: Bloodlines (Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, Prime and HBO Max) 6. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, Netflix) 7. The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt, Shudder and Hulu) 8. The Long Walk (Francis Lawrence, VOD) 9. Together (Michael Shanks, Hulu) 10. Black Phone 2 (Scott Derrickson, VOD) Honorable Mentions: It Ends (Alexander Ullom, Letterboxd Video Store Only Until January 9th) The Monkey (Osgood Perkins, Hulu) Clown in a Cornfield (Eli Craig, Shudder) V/H/S/Halloween (Various, Shudder) Silent Night, Deadly Night (Mike P. Nelson, Coming to VOD Soon) Some notes: - This was calculated using a weighted point-system applied to all lists given, including my own finalized list - Some very close "ties" (The Long Walk and The Ugly Stepsister, SNDN and Influencers, most of the honorable mentions) - All films here received at least 22 votes from four people and upwards of 151 votes from 11 people - The Conjuring seems like a notable film, having received zero points from anyone in this thread So what do you still have yet to see, what are you happy about making the list, what do you disagree with, and what are your thoughts on the year? Personally, I think this is a damn good list with the exception of Together (not to yuck any yums) and I am particularly excited to rewatch The Ugly Stepsister. And I hope more people give Black Phone 2 a chance if it wasn't on their radar, because it really blew me away. Two more that I'd just like to highlight from my personal list since they weren't noted by anyone else are Harvest Brood (grungy, kind of cosmic shot on video slasher that's under an hour long) and Queens of the Dead, which is just a total blast as a send-up of classic Romero's film from the director's daughter featuring an incredible ensemble of queer actors. That one is on Shudder, and you can watch Harvest Brood here:
lol I originally had Conjuring on my list too before I remembered 28YL and bumped it. I mean it definitely wasn't good by any means
Not trying to scare you away at all. I genuinely loved it, the acting was fantastic. It’s a film that could’ve gone way, way wrong with different actors. I’d still recommend watching it once.
I also don't think it's dark in the way that like, Martyrs or Inside or some shit is dark. The violence is graphic in the sense that you are seeing young people shot on screen and in detail, but it's not excessive or grotesque. It's really the story itself that is harrowing (and also totslly engrossing, and heart-warming, and a gamut of other things), but not in a shock value way. My TL;DR on it would be that yes, it is dark and it will not leave you feeling great for a day or so, but it's also a lot more than that, and you will be glad you watched it. It is very worthwhile and inspiring, even. Has more in common with The Stand than something like The Mist.
the sweetness of the main relationship really does counterbalance the dark stuff imo. probably the best on-screen representation of that patented King character writing since... like Stand by Me imo Jonsson is going places too, dude is a phenomenal actor
I really didn't think it was that much of a bummer.It's not like disturbing or anything, just affecting because you get to care about the characters, but there's also a positive, humanistic theme to it. It's not like Hereditary or anything.