october 23 review

[devinwolfi]

This was certainly a month. I dropped a class but it was for the best, the professor was hmm... not the best let's just say. So I'll have to take the class next term and I'm thinking about taking it at my previous institution with a professor I like. But all's well. A lot of exams this month also, for classes I still have a hard time studying for, which is the perfect segway into the fact that I watched 23 films this month! A different film every day. So clearly with my 90-minute to two-hour allotment of goof-off movie time, I am working very hard on my schooling.

Also this month I decided to buy a planner. I tried the bujo thing but it was too high maintenance. I think having to actually draw the spreads, even if they were very minimal, was creating a barrier to my planning. I ended up going with the Hobonichi Weeks after seeing some videos on youtube. I plan to use the left-hand pages for my actual planning, mostly assignments, and the right-hand pages for writing about the films I'm watching that week.

To start, I watched all the Saws. I saw part of the first one years ago and finally ended up watching the rest and I am so sad to say they were not as good as I thought they would be. By the time I hit Saw IV I ended up making a graph of the franchise ratings to cope and to ensure I wasn't just getting a bad grade in movie opinions. That being said- I have become so obsessed with them. I always say that in order for the brain rot to take hold, a piece of media has to be a very special type of bad and these certainly qualify. Number one films. to me.

1. Saw (2004)
   
2. Saw II (2005)
   
3. Saw III (2006)
   
4. Saw IV (2007)
   
5. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
   
6. Saw V (2008)
   
7. Saw VI (2009)
   
8. Saw 3D (2010)
   
9. Jigsaw (2017)
   
10. Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
    
11. The Lighthouse (2019)
    
12. Friday the 13th (1980)
    
13. Scream (1996)
    
14. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
    
15. Train to Busan (2016)
    
16. Paranormal Activity (2007)
    
17. Sleep Tight (2011)
    
18. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
    
19. Videodrome (1983)
    
20. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
    
21. V/H/S/85 (2023)
    
22. Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
    
23. Saw X (2023)

I watched a few others but they were either 1) not horror, or 2) rewatches. I was really hoping to crack 31 films this month but I took a week off and couldn't catch up :/ but I had a lot of fun! I'm usually not a big movie watcher but I'm into it now. I even finally started using Letterboxd. Love love being able to look at all the film posters together

I also listened to some cool music this month. And by listened to I mean put on repeat for like 3 hours each-

Home on the Rage (Album) by Nick Shoulders (Bandcamp)

Invisible Hand (Track) by ††† (Crosses) (Youtube)

KILLER (Track) by Black Angel (Bandcamp)

Abstract (Psychopomp) (Track) by Hozier (Youtube)