Murders in the Zoo 1933

Grindhouse movies from 1920 to 1940. Source: The Grindhouse Cinema Database
*Last update 21/11/2023

Ultimate Spooktober List

As a counterpart to the fairly mainstream TSPDT top 1000 list, the Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own list has been created. The movies on this list had as its solely criterium: they must be mentioned at most once in a top list. 250 film critics/film makers got to choose exactly one of the aforementioned movies.

The list hadn't been on the website of TSPDT for several years and hadn't been updated for many years as well. In January 2019 the owner of the site sent [iCheckMovies] a new update. It's not listed on his website, but you can view the spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJKX9yOpKk3dT9BizPambwxhbjfMd7QAWxzlT31l4f8/edit?usp=sharing

The list contains 253 titles instead of 250, because the vote for Buddha's Palm consists of four parts.

Note: Missing "Sorority Sex Kittens 3" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155196/

Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.

With their startlingly perverse themes, lurid psychosexual undertones, and often-grisly violence, the horror films made in the early 1930s before the enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code still have the power to shock. Unbound by any concessions to family-friendly morality and influenced by the heightened visual style of German expressionism, these sordid tales of mad scientists (Doctor X, Island of Lost Souls), sadomasochistic satanists (The Black Cat), twisted revenge (Murders in the Zoo, Freaks), and supernatural terror (Svengali, Thirteen Women) brought primal fear to the screen with a daring creativity and explicitness that wouldn’t be seen in Hollywood again for decades. Highlights include a pair of early Technicolor wonders by Michael Curtiz: Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum.

A curated collection of pre-code movies that are cited as 'inspiring' the hayes code and/or just look like a good ol' time. Lots of badass lady stories.

Sources: pre-code.com, tasteofcinema.com, meandering around google

Horror featured on the Criterion Channel. Updated weekly.

Movies to Watch.

Full lenght movies watched and rewatched in 2022.

Before the Hollywood Production Code went into effect in 1934, movies were allowed to show sex, drugs, violence, homosexuality... and that crime did, in fact, pay.

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Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.