first two episodes were decent, they always can deliver a good first three episodes. But doing 10 episodes of Rosemary’s Baby? how?

How bad is AHS this year? I skipped most of NYC and only watched the first story of Double Feature (the Cindy Crawford Jr. story was just too awful). Which is a shame because 1984 was decent fun.

Without saying anything that happens, it’s a mixture of treatment, the banality of dysfunctional bureaucracy, and the incredibly restrained filmmaking that Wiseman is known for. You don’t forget any part of it.

I admit, I had no idea what was coming up as their #1. I assumed it would be something like A Serbian Film, or Hostel or some stupid torture-porn dreck. I’ve seen a decent number of the films on the list (most, in fact) but had never even heard of Titicut Follies... to be honest, not sure I even want to find out any…

I remember watching Requiem in the cinema and when the lights came back on I felt great pain as my body released out of the clench that it had been in for the final 20 minutes of the film. The first time I re-watched it, that same body response was there. It’s a brilliant, but painfully visceral, film. Everyone in the…

I’ve gotta hand it to AVC: Titicut Follies is an inspired number one. Undoubtedly one of the most upsetting movies ever made. Saw it at a rep screening years ago, knowing only that it was a Frederick Wiseman film, and, uhhh... Jesus Christ. Pretty fucked up!

It’s quite interesting you’re mentioning the “hammer meets a penis” scene of Antichrist and not the “scissors meet a clitoris” one, which is way nastier imho.

Not everyone is so delicate. Old Boy, in particular, is a phenomenal movie. 

Honestly “A Clockwork Orange” is pretty tame compared to most of these. I think this list is meant to rate magnitude of on-screen provocation. “Clockwork,” while a masterpiece, is fairly allusional; it doesn’t actually show a lot of the violence, or the graphic outcome.

“you might think Christianity would be a force for peace...”

Different people will process that movie in different ways. To me it was a grueling exploration of what Christ suffered leading up to his crucifixion, but there were moments so over the top and/or on the nose that it broke the suspension of disbelief periodically. (The antisemitic tropes that were used didn’t help…

Audition is one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s the only film I can think of where the tragic backstory makes the villain more terrifying as opposed to more sympathetic.

The best part is how even-handed the first half is, playing it like a straight romantic comedy and not betraying that it’s a horror film until…

The multiple sword origin stories highlights how there’s a multiplicity of Arthur traditions, many of which contradict one another. And none of it was resolved satisfactorily, even with the publication of Crisis on Infinite Camelots.

I had a mini-panic attack watching Bone Tomahawk.

This site has done this list before, although I thought I rememered Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer on here. Edited - never mind, my browser skipped it.

God forbid I encourage AV Club to have more slideshows, but I almost feel this needs to have separate Starring Role and Supporting Role. Adam Scott was the funniest part of Step Brothers for me, as was Brick in Anchorman, although honestly in Anchorman you could pick half a dozen of the supporting cast and not go…

I always generally liked Statham, but Spy really made me appreciate him.

Love Ryan in Nice Guys, his Tribute to Lou Costello had me laughing way to loud in the theater.

“How to get flagged by the fbi just by clicking on an article”

I feel like I got put on a watch list just for clicking the story link.