Top 10 Favorite Rewatches of 2023

 Still slappin'

[posted to IG on January 3, 2023]

​​A bit late to list-season, but it’s not a party I’d ever miss. Kicking it off with my favorite rewatches. Hyperbole commence!

​A sleek ultra-stylish surreal slow-burning retro cosmic horror nightmare with gauzy synths swirling with equal parts terror and vibes. A singular debut.

​​Thrilling and emotional with fantastic performances, Signs is an all-timer of family-friendly horror flicks that recalls the best of decades past.

Charles Laughton delivers one of early horror cinema’s most compelling villains with his performance as Dr. Moreau, a psychotic mad scientist with a terrifying god complex.

​Renoir’s patented mix of comedy and cynicism was rarely more potent than this breakthrough hit, La chienne: the climax is chilling.

Despite its low budget and simple premise, legendary director Akira Kurosawa’s debut immediately displayed his stunningly bold and brilliant visual language - his images oozing poetry.

​A hyper-imaginative blend of animation and live action made this shockingly raunchy and disturbing 80s classic one of the most unique neo-noirs ever made and one of the most adult PG-rated movies ever released.

​An unparalleled experience of cataclysm and existentialism: still as gut-wrenching and deeply meaningful as the first time I watched it.

Cosmatos’s visionary cosmic horror mood piece stands proudly with the best of the pulpy and nightmarishly psychedelic Euro art-horror films of the 70s and 80s that inspired it.

With its masterful mood and imagery, the deliriously dreamlike Vampyr basically set the template for modern slow-burning atmospheric horror. Essential.

​Silent filmmakers knew nothing but the image, and the visual language of F.W. Murnau’s Faust is staggeringly masterful in comparison to any era. Full of breathtaking spectacle and genuine dread, it’s the greatest horror epic ever made.