The Stacks

We're back after an unexpected week off for illness, starting with Sean S. Cunningham's 1980 landmark slasher / body count picture Friday the 13th (discussion going to 1:21:35), followed by Sidney Salkow's 1964 adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price (and discussion continuing to 2:16:47), concluding with an extended Watched Stacks concluding the Spooky Season.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

For the fourth week of this year's Spooky Stacks, Shana and j. are covering the much-maligned Halloween III: Season of the Witch (directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, 1982, discussion running to 1:35:13), followed by the wacky 80s haunted house / creature feature Spookies (1986, with multiple directors in a troubled and disjointed production, discussion continuing to 3:05:26), and as always the final section is The Watched Stacks where we talk about all the other movies we've watched since last week and decide what to cover next.

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It's twins week for episode 69 - first up we continue our exploration through the works of Shinya Tsukamoto with 1999's Gemini (discussion running to 1:31:47), followed by classic Thanksgiving slasher Blood Rage (directed by John Grissmer, shot in 1983 but not released until 1987, discussion continuing to 2:49:15). These are followed by discussion of the many other spooky movies we've watched this October week and decisions on what we're covering next.

The Spooky Stacks are online through October at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/

This week in The Spooky Stacks, Shana and j. talk about David Fincher's 1995 highly influential serial killer mystery Se7en (going to 1:25:22), followed by David Cronenberg's squicky 1975 high-rise body horror film Shivers (aka They Came From Within!, discussing running to 2:40:41), concluding as always with discussion of the various other horror movies watched during the Halloween challenge this week, and decisions on what we're covering next week.

The Spooky Stacks are online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/

As we begin this year's Spooky Stacks, Shana and j. begin with Hitchock's 1943 serial killer mystery Shadow of a Doubt (discussion going to 1:47:54), followed by Jack Bender's notorious 1991 video nasty (despite being quite tame altogether) Child's Play 3 (continuing to 3:02:27), as always followed by discussion of various other movies recently watched.

The Spooky Stacks are online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/

This week, as Shana and j. head on into the spooky season, we start off with Paul Schrader's 1986 impressionist true crime film Patty Hearst (discussion running to 1:20:49), followed by Stanley Kubrick's psychedelic 1968 rogue AI epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (continuing to 2:56:17).

October is horror month and that means all selections are from The Spooky Stacks:

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This week on The Stacks, Shana and j. delve into modern nunsploitation with Paul Verhoeven's 2021 film Benedetta (discussion going to 1:46:49), followed by the 1988 French surreal coming-of-age crime drama Sound and Fury (directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, discussion continuing to 3:14:25), followed as usual with some discussion of other movies we've watched this past week and decision on what we're covering next episode.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week on The Stacks, Shana and j. return to our very gradual coverage of the Zatoichi series with part three, 1963's New Tale of Zatoichi (directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, discussion running to 1:07:58), then get very meta with Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994, discussion continuing to 3:05:19), concluding as always with some discussion of other movies we've watched in the past week and decisions on what to cover in next week's episode.

The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

Shana and j. go extra long this week, starting with the follow-up to The Wild Boys, Bertrand Mandico's 2021 lesbian sci-fi acid western After Blue (aka Dirty Paradise, discussion running to 1:43:26), followed by Stanley Kubrick's legendary 1960 sword and sandal epic Spartacus (carrying on to 4:01:53!), concluding as always with discussion of other films we've watched during the week and decision-making on what to cover on next week's episode.

The live list of The Stacks can be found online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week in The Stacks, Shana and j. talk swingin' malltopia masterpiece Logan's Run (1976, directed by Michael Anderson, discussion running to 1:31:24), followed by the German thriller Out of Order (1984, directed by Carl Schenkel, discussion continuing to around 2:35:35, with maybe a little bit of puppet erotica talk in there too), concluding as always with additional capsule reviews and decisions on what we'll be covering next episode.

The live list of The Stacks can be found online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/