BEST HORROR MOVIES FROM 2023

[@bbwlanas]

great list ! I have seen most of these,but you gave me some new movies to check out.

[@vermithraxplays1615]

after seeing the schlafwandler thing in the background i find myself trying to read the dvd titles and which ones are in german. cool video too. basically thank you for the movie suggestions.

[@jplopp7388]

I agree with Knock at the Cabin. I haven't finished Totally Killer or when Evil Lurks. I'll probably do that after I finish the LOTR extended editions (it's a slog).

[@culturefan]

I wondered if you'd seen Skinamarkink? It was somewhat noted or controversial this year. I tried to watch it, but seemed to be going nowhere. I might try again to see if it hits. I enjoyed No One Will Save You, Cobweb, Evil Dead Rise, Infinity Pool, Knock At the Cabin The Boogeyman, Megan, and I still need to see many others. Thanks Kasha.

[@kashahorrorreviews]

I did watch Skinamarkink but did not enjoy it. I was also bored. It was just not for me 😅

[@culturefan]

Lol, I only watch part of it, and didn't finish it.

[@kashahorrorreviews]

@@culturefan I am a completionist and put myself through that suffering to the end hahaha

[@andreas-ni8iv]

2023 was a good year for watching movies with a total of 211 movies watched, 184 horror, and 40 of them from 2023. On your list there are ten movies I have not watched yet. And I agree that 2023 was not the best year for horror movies. But usually, these are years where you get first or sophomore movies by very promising writers and directors. And from the amount of very good or great movies I got to watch, I feel very good about the future of the horror genre. My favorite horror movies from 2023 were: Totally Killer / The Blackening (2022/23) / There's Something Wrong with the Children / There's Something in the Barn / From Black / Til Death Do Us Part / Five Nights at Freddy's / No One Will Save You / Talk to Me (2022/23) / The Elderly (2022/23) / When Evil Lurks A few honorable mentions, movies that, I felt, went a bit under the radar, but promise a really good time and/or make you feel uncomfortable: Influencer (2022/23) / The Mill / Unseen / Mother, May I? / Night of the Hunted / Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor I also thought Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman was a stellar piece of writing and movie, and I'm eager to watch her 2023 movie. The writer/director I became a fan of in 2023 was Brea Grant, with several smart premises that are socially relevant and would make Rod Serling proud. A huge thank you for pointing me in the direction of many great movies again! 🙂

[@TheRICKY85]

I watched 54 movies this year, all of those new ones to me, but only 36 released in 2023. Only 12 of the 54 were horror and only 7 of those released in 2023. 😅 In no rating order Godzilla Minus One There's Something in the Barn Totally Killer Renfield Evil Dead Rise Scream VI Knock at the Cabin (only one I didn't enjoy) My top ten movies of 2023 #1 - Godzilla Minus One Evil Dead Rise The Creator Oppenheimer Killers Of The Flower Moon No Hard Feelings Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse The Boy And The Heron The Whale was released in Australia in 2023, but not everywhere else. It would have been tied for first and I would remove Mission Impossible. (edit) I'm only just noticing that Letterboxd has Talk To Me as released in 2022.... that throws my list off. 🙄 I'd remove No Hard Feelings and/or Mission Impossible, to make room for it. 🙃

[@andreas-ni8iv]

I envy you for having the chance to watch the new Studio Ghibli movie by Hayao Miyazaki. 🙂

[@TheRICKY85]

@@andreas-ni8iv has it not released in your country? It was my first Studio Ghibli movie as well. I want to try the rest, but I don't know where to watch them all and would prefer the subtitled versions, because the dubbed one was a bit too monotone.

[@andreas-ni8iv]

​@@TheRICKY85 It must have been in the early Oughties, when Spirited Away had come out and a retrospective of all Studio Ghibli movies was shown in Germany. I know it was offered in Cologne and Hamburg and they could not show Porco Rosso and Princess Mononoke. All other animes were shown from dvd copies. They even made sure to offer Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro on the same bill (as on their original release in 1988); the first one is very sad and when shown as a double feature the second anime is totally uplifting. Only Yesterday in particular was a stunning experience to watch for me as it's an anime that could have easily be made with real actors, and you can hardly believe they went through all the effort to make it this way. In case some local festival decides to make a retrospective, I can only encourage you to watch them on a big screen. Most of the Studio Ghibli animes are available on dvd and bluray in the US and UK in Japanese and English and with English subtitles. The French editions only have French subtitles and the German editions only have German subtitles. There's also an inexpensive box set with 25 animes on 9 dvds available in Germany and the US, but I don't know about the quality or if it's legit (Ghibli #1-22 plus the earlier Hayao Miyazaki animes: Nausicaä, The Castle of Cagliostro and Panda! Go Panda!, with audio in Japanese, English, Cantonese, and Mandarin and subtitles in English and Chinese). I could look for a copy and send it to Australia, but with postage it would be EUR 80. It looks like The Boy and the Heron is scheduled for the first week in January 2024 in Germany. I saw articles in today's newspapers. 🙂

[@TheRICKY85]

@@andreas-ni8iv it looks they are all available to watch on Netflix here, so maybe I'll have to re-subscribe soon. My support worker is German.