Media Diary

I watch and read a lot. Here’s some of it.

Weirdest #

Possession
Weirdest squid pro quo in cinematic history.

Best Soundtrack #

It Follows
My synthwave obsession started here.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
If I’ve gotta die, I want it to be to this soundtrack.

Most Surprising #

Bones and All
Surprisingly easy to stomach.
Titane
Hear me out, Rosemary’s baby, but a car.

Most Comforting #

The Big Lebowski
Yes, that’s like, my opinion, man.
Addams Family
If your relationship goals aren’t Morticia and Gomez, then please rethink your life.
Shaun of the Dead
Needs no further explanation.

Best Vibes #

Atomic Blonde
HEALTH’s Blue Monday cover is as good as the original, and I will accept no counter arguments.
The Hunger
David Bowie as a vampire plus Peter Murphy doing a performance? Yes, please.
Sleepy Hollow
It’s here that Christina Ricci secured forever her grown as goth queen.

Most “Good for Her” #

Midsommar: Best way to get rid of a toxic ex. Also, is Ari Aster okay? How does someone write this?

The Witch
May we all live so deliciously.

Most Visually Stunning #

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Every frame of this is a painting.
Blade Runner 2049
It’s the cyberpunk dystopia I most want to inhabit.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The use of color and cute 00’s vibes are beautiful.
Mad Max Fury Road (black and chrome)
At least I don’t have to worry about trying to hear Tom Hardy like I do in literally every other movie.

Most Relatable Origin Story #

John Wick
There would be cataclysmic chaos and horror if someone messed with my dog.

Fiction Picks #

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Nonfiction Picks #

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Mind Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
Mind Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Surviving Death by Leslie Kean
Surviving Death by Leslie Kean

2024 #

  • Feeding Your Demons (Tsultrim Allione)
  • Ripe: Tales of Hunger & Desire (Various)
  • Gone to the Wolves (John Wray)
  • Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women (Silvia Federici)
  • Design as an Attitude (Alice Rawsthorn)
  • Lilith’s Brood (Octavia E. Butler)
  • A Light Most Hateful (Hailey Piper)

2023 #

  • Last Days (Adam Nevill)
  • The Black Spider (Jeremias Gotthelf)
  • Silver Nitrate (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) ❤️
  • Halloween Season (Lucy Snyder)
  • Sister, Maiden, Monster (Lucy Snyder) ❤️❤️
  • Outrage Machine (Tobias Rose-Stockwell)
  • Little Eve (Catriona Ward)
  • The Last House on Needless Street (Catriona Ward) ❤️❤️
  • Looking Glass Sound (Catriona Ward) ❤️❤️
  • Dark Delicacies Vol. 1 (Various)
  • Notes on Complexity (Neil Theise)
  • The Handyman Method (Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan)
  • Salem’s Lot (Stephen King)
  • The Destroyer of Worlds (A Return Lovecraft Country) (Matt Ruff)
  • Little Heaven (Nick Cutter)
  • The Deep (Nick Cutter)
  • The Troop (Nick Cutter)
  • Unbury Carol (Josh Malerman)
  • Dead of Night: A Zombie Novel (Dead of Night Series Book 1) (Jonathan Maberry)
  • Queen of Teeth (Hailey Piper)
  • The Butcher (Jennifer Hillier)
  • Chaos Machine (Max Fisher)
  • Mind Gut Connection (Emeran Mayer) ❤️
  • Brain Energy (Christopher M. Palmer MD)
  • Pretty Marys All in a Row (Gwendolyn Kiste)
  • Boneset & Feathers (Gwendolyn Kiste)
  • The Rust Maidens (Gwendolyn Kiste)
  • Reluctant Immortals (Gwendolyn Kiste)
  • Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World (Aletheia Luna )
  • Sundial (Catriona Ward)
  • The Paris Apartment (Lucy Foley)
  • Come As You Are (Emily Nagoski Ph.D.)
  • Even The Worm Will Turn (Hailey Piper)
  • No Gods for Drowning (Hailey Piper)
  • The Worm and His Kings (Hailey Piper)
  • Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing (Hailey Piper)
  • Echo (Thomas Olde Heuvelt) ❤️
  • Hex (Thomas Olde Heuvelt) ❤️
  • Malorie: A Bird Box Novel (Josh Malerman)
  • The Living Dead (George Romero) ❤️
  • How Minds Change (David McRaney)

Horror Picks #

You Won’t Be Alone
You Won’t Be Alone
It Follows
It Follows
The Dark and the Wicked
The Dark and the Wicked
The Wailing
The Wailing

Overall Picks #

The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
Annihilation
Annihilation
John Wick
John Wick
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)

2024 #

  • Poor Things
  • Significant Other
  • Saltburn
  • Careful How You Go
  • Last Voyage of the Demeter
  • Fall of the House of Usher

2023 #

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Anna and the Apocalypse
  • Bottoms
  • Escaping Twin Flames ❤️
  • Talk to Me ❤️❤️
  • TMNT: Mutant Mayhem ❤️❤️
  • Asteroid City
  • What We Do In the Shadows (s5) ❤️
  • Foundation (s2) ❤️
  • River ❤️
  • The Descent 2
  • The Blackening ❤️
  • The Lost Boys
  • Return to Seoul
  • Squaring the Circle ❤️
  • Oppenheimer
  • Barbie ❤️
  • Evil Dead Rise ❤️
  • Scream VI
  • The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
  • Come to Daddy
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Scream VI
  • Renfield
  • Hellbender
  • One Cut of the Dead
  • The Devil to Pay
  • Evil Dead II
  • The Sadness
  • M3GAN
  • Bones and All ❤️
  • Logan
  • TÁR
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • Triangle of Sadness ❤️
  • The Conjuring
  • The Babadook
  • Halloween
  • World War Z
  • The Neon Demon
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Zombieland: Double Tap
  • The Purge
  • Crimson Peak
  • Scream 4
  • Alien: Covenant
  • Creep
  • I Saw the Devil
  • The Dead Don’t Die
  • Evil Dead
  • The Nun
  • Velvet Buzzsaw
  • Warm Bodies
  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe
  • Annabelle
  • Annabelle: Creation
  • The Cloverfield Paradox
  • Annabelle Comes Home
  • Child’s Play
  • Unsane
  • Apostle
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • The Curse of La Llorona
  • Let Me In
  • Resident Evil: Retribution
  • Slender Man
  • The Invisible Man
  • Smile
  • Candyman
  • The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
  • Army of the Dead
  • Halloween Kills
  • The Menu

2022 #

  • The French Dispatch
  • Antlers
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • Nightmare Alley
  • In the Earth
  • The Batman
  • Fresh
  • Licorice Pizza
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Dune
  • Don’t Look Up
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Medium
  • Raw
  • Titane ❤️
  • The Northman
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Night House
  • Green Room
  • The Ritual
  • The Dark and the Wicked
  • Censor
  • Malignant
  • Happy Death Day
  • Possum
  • Caveat
  • Saint Maud
  • Mandy
  • Get Out
  • Last Night in Soho
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • The Lighthouse
  • Spree
  • Relic
  • Ready or Not
  • X
  • It Comes at Night
  • 12 Hour Shift
  • Come True
  • The Invitation
  • His House
  • Possessor
  • Don’t Breathe
  • Color Out of Space
  • In Fabric
  • Till Death
  • The Handmaiden
  • Prey
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Incantation
  • The Blob
  • The Descent
  • Hair Wolf
  • Fight Club
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Gone Girl
  • Knives Out
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Inception
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • The Shining
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Lady Bird
  • The Godfather
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Little Women
  • The Social Network
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Black Panther
  • Her
  • Donnie Darko
  • Drive
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • The Matrix
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • 1917
  • Thirst
  • Blood Quantum
  • You Won’t Be Alone ❤️❤️❤️
  • Glass Onion
  • Home Alone
  • Nope
  • Pearl
  • Barbarian
  • Interstellar
  • Joker
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  • The Addams Family ❤️
  • Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon ❤️
  • Run
  • The Woman King
  • The Black Phone
  • Moonage Daydream
  • The Tinder Swindler
  • Crimes of the Future
  • Funny Pages
  • Men
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On ❤️
  • After Yang ❤️
  • Scream
  • Bodies Bodies Bodies
  • Hellraiser
  • See How They Run
  • Bad Santa
  • A Christmas Story Christmas
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Promising Young Woman ❤️
  • House of Gucci
  • I Care a Lot
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth ❤️
  • The Woman in the Window
  • The Social Dilemma
  • The Hunt
  • Decision to Leave

2021 and before #

  • The Wailing ❤️
  • The Perfection
  • Ravenous
  • Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum ❤️
  • A Tale of Two Sisters ❤️
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • #Alive
  • Train to Busan
  • Peninsula
  • Fear Street: 1994
  • Black Widow
  • No Sudden Move
  • Zola
  • Cruella
  • In the Heights
  • Parasite
  • A Quiet Place Part II
  • Bo Burnham: Inside
  • Atomic Blonde
  • Fear Street: 1978
  • Slaxx
  • John Wick
  • John Wick: Chapter 2
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
  • Gunpowder Milkshake
  • A Classic Horror Story
  • Fear Street: 1666
  • Midsommar
  • Orpheus
  • Mayhem
  • Vicious Fun
  • Jurassic Park
  • An Unquiet Grave
  • The Beyond
  • Ringu
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • Rosemary’s Baby
  • A Quiet Place
  • Us
  • Black Swan
  • It
  • American Psycho
  • Alien
  • The Witch ❤️
  • Annihilation ❤️
  • Jaws
  • mother!
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The Thing
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • It Chapter Two
  • Zombieland
  • Halloween
  • It Follows ❤️
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Blood Red Sky
  • Lucky
  • Jungle Cruise
  • Hereditary
  • The Stylist
  • Malevolent
  • 28 Days Later
  • Insidious
  • Sinister
  • Shutter
  • Before the Fire
  • Animal House
  • The Host
  • Jennifer’s Body
  • Resident Evil: Afterlife
  • Rubber
  • Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • The Crazies
  • Lords of Chaos
  • Life After Beth
  • Cargo
  • Black Christmas
  • The Lords of Salem
  • The Silence

See also #

  • Updated & © September 1, 2024