Higher or Lower: Fewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
by Rickinator69 | created - 23 Apr 2020 | updated - 12 Aug 2022 | PublicI did love No Country for Old Men until the confusing, ambiguous, trailing off into the sunset ending. I would love to give it something higher—it's just that endings are important. The Turning was similar, although not nearly as big of a case; it's also not here as I'd rate it higher than 3.7 since it was pretty decent and had potential, as No Country was epic up until that fateful time. The rest of these I rated 1.5 to 6 stars under the IMDb average.
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1. No Country for Old Men (2007)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 1,061,365 | Gross: $74.28M
This by far has the most potential here, and I loved it until the last 15 minutes. If only it had a better, coherent ending, it could easily be an 8 or more. I gave it a 7.
2. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 401,185 | Gross: $112.23M
One of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen.
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer
Votes: 49,506 | Gross: $16.62M
I nearly fell asleep in the theater.
4. Fast Food Nation (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama
Votes: 25,157 | Gross: $1.00M
SuperSize Me was much better.
5. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 111,767 | Gross: $7.08M
With this cast, this should have been so much better.
6. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 97,672 | Gross: $0.24M
This had absolutely no conflict at all for the two protagonists.
7. Barry Munday (2010)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, he learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.
Director: Chris D'Arienzo | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloë Sevigny, Jean Smart
Votes: 4,498
8. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010 Video)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Oleson relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
Director: Ben Ketai | Stars: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 14,308
Vampires not scary. Movie shitty.
9. Uncle Kent (2011)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
Director: Joe Swanberg | Stars: Kevin Bewersdorf, Megan Daalder, Jennifer Daley, Josephine Decker
Votes: 674
10. Vile (2011)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery
Four friends are kidnapped by a madman and locked in a house with six other people. Each of the captives has to endure life-threatening torture to fill a device attached to their heads or they will be trapped inside forever.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes
Votes: 6,607
This lived up to its title.
11. Enter Nowhere (2011)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Three strangers arrive one by one at a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere only to learn they've been brought together for a reason.
Director: Jack Heller | Stars: Katherine Waterston, Scott Eastwood, Sara Paxton, Shaun Sipos
Votes: 12,651
I didn't hate this, it just could have had a lot more excitement; 5
12. Chronicle (2012)
PG-13 | 84 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.
Director: Josh Trank | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly
Votes: 264,592 | Gross: $64.58M
13. It Follows (2014)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Director: David Robert Mitchell | Stars: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
Votes: 269,301 | Gross: $14.67M
This was a run-of-the-mill high school kid's horror; entertaining and not bad at all...just not anything great or different either; 5
14. The Stranger (XII) (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious man arrives in a small American town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.
Director: Guillermo Amoedo | Stars: Cristo Montt, Lorenza Izzo, Luis Gnecco, Ariel Levy
Votes: 3,107
One of the worst here.
15. The Overnight (2015)
R | 79 min | Comedy, Mystery
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family "playdate" becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
Director: Patrick Brice | Stars: Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, Judith Godrèche
Votes: 17,559 | Gross: $1.10M
5
16. Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
R | 92 min | Horror
A small town news team discovers a box of video tapes where a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family... slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the "Operator" has begun to stalk them as well.
Director: James Moran | Stars: Alexandra Breckenridge, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Jake McDorman, Doug Jones
Votes: 3,431
17. Alienated (II) (2015)
TV-MA | 81 min | Drama, Romance
After seeing a UFO, a man and his skeptical wife are forced to confront their relationship issues.
Director: Brian Ackley | Stars: George Katt, Jen L. Burry, Taylor Negron
Votes: 6,220
Another where I totally agree with the low rating in this plodding melodrama about an incessantly bickering couple. Taylor Negron was by far the best thing.
18. Hardcore Henry (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 101,972 | Gross: $9.25M
19. The Hateful Eight (2015)
R | 168 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins
Votes: 660,510 | Gross: $54.12M
This was watchable and okay, but we have all come to expect way more.
20. The Darkness (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A family unknowingly awakens an ancient supernatural entity on a Grand Canyon vacation, and must fight for survival when it follows them home.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz, Lucy Fry
Votes: 17,132 | Gross: $10.73M
So bad.
21. Arrival (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 772,295 | Gross: $100.55M
Nice lady goes in and talks with cool-looking otherworldly creatures. Some interesting sciency language thing happened. And that's basically it.
22. The Girl on the Train (2016)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux
Votes: 199,505 | Gross: $75.40M
23. Faster Than Light (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.
Director: Adam Stern | Stars: Ty Olsson, Karin Konoval, Aliyah O'Brien, John Torrance
Votes: 1,093
24. Cum on Feel the Noize (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Exclusive, long-lost live material from rock's most iconic bands &artists, as well as all-new original interviews with the living legends themselves: This film is your access-all-areas backstage pass to Heavy Metal and Hard Rock history.
Director: Jörg Sonntag | Stars: DJ Ashba, Mick Box, Joakim Brodén, Biff Byford
Votes: 90
Lame rehash.
25. Downsizing (2017)
R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig
Votes: 124,713 | Gross: $24.45M
2
26. The Capture (2017)
78 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of scientists discover a soul guide and perform an experiment on her even though such ungodly act could cause space and time to bend and alter the very fabric of the universe.
Director: Jim Agnew | Stars: Jonathan Howard, Nora-Jane Noone, Jordan Tisdale, Annie Monroe
Votes: 6,864
5
27. Winchester (2018)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey, Jason Clarke
Votes: 36,774 | Gross: $25.09M
4
28. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz
Votes: 113,079
Disappointing. 2.
29. Glass (2019)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy
Votes: 273,743 | Gross: $111.05M
Disappointing. 5.
30. Body at Brighton Rock (2019)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A park ranger spends the night guarding a potential crime scene on a remote mountain trail.
Director: Roxanne Benjamin | Stars: Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus, Miranda Bailey
Votes: 2,723 | Gross: $0.01M
31. Red Letter Day (2019)
76 min | Comedy, Thriller
While adjusting to a new life in a quiet suburban community, a recently divorced mother and her two teens receive mysterious red letters instructing them each to kill or be killed.
Director: Cameron Macgowan | Stars: Dawn Van de Schoot, Hailey Foss, Kaeleb Zain Gartner, Roger LeBlanc
Votes: 742
32. Sea Fever (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Director: Neasa Hardiman | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Dag Malmberg, Jack Hickey, Olwen Fouéré
Votes: 14,116
This is very similar to Flora (2017); 5
33. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,983 | Gross: $5.81M
For all the hype, not enough payoff.
34. The Graduate (1967)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Votes: 288,592 | Gross: $104.95M
Yep, I know. Supposed to be a classic. 4.
35. Raging Bull (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Votes: 380,507 | Gross: $23.38M
Raging Bull? More like Raging Bore; 2
36. Tuff Turf (1985)
R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.
Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: James Spader, Kim Richards, Paul Mones, Matt Clark
Votes: 5,939 | Gross: $9.40M
Pretty weak for a movie with "tough" in the title. I mean "tuff."
37. The Quiet Earth (1985)
R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A scientist awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace
Votes: 27,647 | Gross: $2.12M
Way too quiet.
38. Sea of Love (1989)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker
Votes: 44,928 | Gross: $58.57M
Sea of Catatonia.
39. Fallen (1998)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution, the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 92,724 | Gross: $25.19M
40. The Sixth Sense (1999)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Votes: 1,052,227 | Gross: $293.51M
41. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings
Votes: 301,301 | Gross: $25.14M
I'm saddened by giving this a low score, but the only reason it's even a 5 is Anya Taylor-Joy.
42. The Interior (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A listless young man, upon learning he is ill, leaves his job, girlfriend and city behind, and ventures alone into the British Columbia interior, bringing his fears and anxieties with him.
Director: Trevor Juras | Stars: Patrick McFadden, Jake Beczala, Andrew Hayes, Delphine Roussel
Votes: 324
3
43. The Black Phone (2021)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After being abducted by a child killer and locked in a soundproof basement, a 13-year-old boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies
Votes: 195,034 | Gross: $90.12M
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