October 2020’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

 

Of course October means I’ll be taking in a lot of horror films.  It seems like my PVR did not stop rolling on TCM to get some classic ones in me.  I found out that I really enjoy the monster ones that feature stop motion animation.  As for the slasher flicks… meh.  

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Links will take you to write-ups posted.
• Bold font indicates a write-up is done and scheduled to be posted.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date	Title	Year	My Rating
Oct1	Finding Steve McQueen	2018	NA
Oct1	The Who: Live at The Isle of Wright 1970	2009	4
Oct03	Led Zeppelin DVD	2003	5
Oct06	The Seven Year Itch*	1955	4
Oct10	The Amityville Horror*	1979	2
Oct11	The Blob*	1958	2
Oct12	Van Halen: Live Without A Net*	1987	4
Oct13	The Blair Witch Project	1999	3
Oct14	King Kong*	1933	5
Oct15	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms*	1953	3.5

Date	Title	Year	My Rating
Oct17	The Creature from the Black Lagoon*	1954	3
Oct18	Village of the Damned*	1960	4
Oct19	Carnival of Souls*	1962	3
Oct20	Little Shop of Horrors*	1960	4
Oct20	The Social Dilemma*	2020	1
Oct21	Maximum Overdrive	1986	3.5
Oct21	Ernest Scared Stupid	1991	NA
Oct22	The Nanny*	1965	4
Oct23	Troll 2*	1990	1
Oct23	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*	2020	4
Oct24	Troll Hunter*	2010	3.5
Oct25	Black Sabbath*	1963	2
Oct26	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge*	1985	1
Oct27	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors*	1987	2
Oct28	The Frighteners	1996	3.5
Oct31	Prom Night*	1980	1

How I watched them:
The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 26
The number of first-time watches: 19
Oldest movie: King Kong (1933)
Longest movie: The Amityville Horror (1hr 57m)
Most watched actor: Robert Englund, 2 
The number of movies watched by decade:
‘30s – 1
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 4
‘60s – 4
‘70s – 1
‘80s – 4
‘90s – 4
‘00s – 2
‘10s – 2
2020 – 2

Format:
PVR/DVR – 13
DVD Collection – 2
Blu-ray Collection – 5
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 1
Amazon Prime – 1
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 1
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 3

Genres:
Action – 0
Animated – 0
Comedy – 3
Comic Book – 
Concert – 2
Crime – 1
Documentaries – 1
Dramas – 0
Fantasy – 0
Film Noir – 0
Horror – 18
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Thriller – 0
War – 0
Western – 

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  5s are home runs, 4s and 3s are hits, 2s and 1s are pop or ground outs, an NA (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

I have adjusted my scoring a bit by allowing half points.  I’m going to count 4.5s as homers and 2.5s as outs.  2.5 are movie I fell I didn’t waste my time but didn’t really need to see.

Good Movie Average:  13/19 – .684  (Last month: .750)
Home Runs: 1 – King Kong
Strikeouts: 2 – Finding Steve McQueen, Ernest Scared Stupid 

Awards
Most Under-Watched: The Nanny
Most Fun: King Kong
Most Forgettable: The Social Dilemma
Better than I remembered: Maximum Overdrive
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: King Kong
Most surprising performance: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Most Pleasant Surprise: Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Worst Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Best Movie: King Kong

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!