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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9483432" data-attributes="member: 6671663">I don’t do best-of lists; my brain just doesn’t work that way. Instead, here are ten of the movies I’m most likely to rewatch whenever I find myself with a movie-length chunk of time free.AlienAlien 3, workprimt. These movies are set in the same timeline. Aliens is in a parallel universe of its own. The first and third, with an implicit different version of the second,, make a complete story in which Ripley gets to the only end she could.As Above, So BelowDevil’s PassGrave Encounters. I like found footage. These all have some really haunting moments - the piano and the car in As Above, So Below, the final attempt at escape in Devil’s Pass, the moment where they break through the front door in Grave Encounters. I find it easy to get immersed in these.The Descent, British ending. As someone said above, relentless. Like Poe’s theory of short stories, everything supports the tone and marches toward an awful, excellent climax.Lost HighwayMulholland Drive. Why, this then is hell, nor are any of us ever out of it. Identities don’t last, but guilt and suffering do. Resolution. Stories aren’t for living in. At least, not surviving.Underwater. Just a perfect story of the struggle to survive in terrible circumstances, with escalating horrors making everything worse.Equally worthy candidates: The Thing, both original and prequel; In The Mouth Of Madness; Prince Of Darkness; The Endless; The Cabin In The Woods; Absentia and Oculus; Last Train To Busan: Dawn of the Dead, both versions; The Ring; Scanners, Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Eastern Promises; Rabid, remake.Edited to add: I forgot to add The Changeling, darn it. The shot of the red ball bouncing down the steps…</blockquote>

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