With every top 10 list comes a bottom 10. I’ve seen some really awful movies this year but thankfully not many of them have been released in 2011, which made the task of finding 10 movies quite difficult for me. Most were decent, far from awful, but these few were truly terrible.
A few on the list are present because of expectation more than anything else, some directors should know better.
This list is compiled of my favourite older movies seen for the first time in 2011.
In addition to the many new releases that I have caught this year, I have also seen well over 200 older movies for the first time. Some completely blew me away, others bored my eyes to the point of sleep. Thankfully these handpicked titles are the better ones.
I found it far too difficult to cut the list down to just 10, hopefully you can forgive me.
Although there are tons of movies that still haven’t made it to British screens, plus the possible list breakers that I have yet to see – Hugo, Snowtown, The Skin I Live In, Midnight In Paris, The Tree of Life, Melancholia and Take Shelter, to name but a few.
The following movies are the ones that have made the biggest impression on me throughout the year.
As we go to press, I have currently seen 124 new movies this year.
My Top 10:
The immensely talented guys over at Last Exit to Nowhere are currently holding a 30 second homemade movie competition on their site. My brother-in-law and I decided to enter it, the theme was always going to be VHS related.
Plot:
A VHS collector accidentally takes the last exit to nowhere when he watches an obscure pre-cert VHS tape.
Shot on location inside my mini video vault of obscurity.
It’s no great secret that I have become increasingly more obsessed with the memories of my local rental store, Video Vision. The place that I would visit every Friday and Saturday night with my best friend at the time, and rent the most obscure titles. Obviously we were seriously under age, so his Mom would come along with us to get the tapes. We would spend an age in the horror section scanning the racks to find the most attractive box art, films which we knew would be terrible, but we didn’t care, the artwork did as it was intended and had us sold. Films like Lurkers, Frenchman’s Farm, Lucifer and Nights of Terror.
I find it hard to believe that my old place of worship is now a Curry house, and the horror section reduced to nothing more than a drinks bar. In memory of my old rental store i’ve been compiling a few pictures of other video stores that were based around the UK.