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Listography: Top 5 Films

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First off, before I get on to the impossible task of listing my Top 5 films, I would firstly like to say a big Well Done to Kate for her TV appearance – ooo err! One day, she’ll realise she doesn’t want to mingle with the likes of us rabbling lot, so I guess we should appreciate these lists when they are still around… even when they are bloody well difficult.

You see, I am a bit of a film addict. I was sat at work last night seriously wondering which ones I could include. My list went past 10. So now, I have to condense them, and then give why. Frick. It did even make me consider doing a meme -type thing like Ghostwriter Mummy does, only instead of music, do films. There simply is THAT many. It’s worth a thought. Not sure whether people would enter though…

Anyway, my top 5 films, in no particular order, which may or not be my top 5 films because I’ve probably forgotten a couple of corkers…

1. Stand By Me

I adore this film. To me, it’s one of Stephen King’s masterpieces and I adore Stephen King films. But this ones different to a lot of his other ventures. It’s not horror for a start. It’s about adventure. 4 young lads go on a search for a missing teenager, with an absolutely fabulous soundtrack throughout (I love 50s music). So what does this film have? Well, it has River Phoenix in it (before he died). It has Corey Feldman in it (love him). It has Keifer Sutherland in it (a complete hottie) and it has an amazing soundtrack – did I mention that?Oh, and the storyline is brill and the air of friendship is amazing. Love it. Love it love it love it.

2. The Orphanage

I love Guillermo del Toro films. I love Pan’s Labyrinth. In fact, it very nearly sat in this position. But the Orphanage took its’ place. I love a good ghost story. I love films that you can watch and be genuinely chilled. I like how this film does that to me – especially as very few films do that nowadays (I’m a bit desensitised). I tend to love subtitled films. I think foreign films are much more raw than their Hollywood equivalents (For example, Rec, before Hollywood stole it and turned it into Quarantine). Anyway, this film is a fabulous example of a low budget-amazing script-fabulous atmospheric film. It’s basically about a lady who moves back to her childhood home – a home which used to care for handicapped children. Her little boy makes friends with an invisible friend and goes missing. Oh my God. Just watch it. A lot of people (including James) thought the ending ruined it. I thought it made the film. It made me cry in fact. James got TERRFIED at one part of the film, it’s just that good.

3. The Lost Boys

I love a good vampire film. None of this I-sparkle-in-the-sunlight-and-drink-artificial-blood malarkey (no offence to those who enjoy Twilight). To me, a vampire film is about nasty pasty vampires who suck the blood of the living to survive. It’s about hunting at night and causing trouble. It’s about sleeping during the day in coffins/hanging from ceilings. It’s about looking in mirrors and not being able to see their reflection. It’s about an awesome soundtrack. It’s about Keifer Sutherland. It’s basically The Lost Boys.

4. Midnight Express

My mum introduced me to this film. It’s a true story about a bloke who got caught with (a lot of) weed at Turkish customs and got thrown in their not-so-pleasant-without-Sky-TV-and-a-sadistic-prison-guard prisons. Oh my God, it’s brutal. The acting is fabulous. And it has John Hurt in it, and he’s a brilliant actor. It’s about friendship, escape and freedom. To me, it’s the more raw, more real, less Hollywood Shawshank Redemption (I’m not knocking Shawshank by the way – that is in my top 10 films too).

5. The People Under the Stairs

This is one of them films I can watch over and over and over again. I couldn’t write a list like this without including one of my favourite films since I was a teenager. It was made in 1991 and is an offering from Wes Craven (whose films I love). Looking back, I probably didn’t realise some of the vile stuff that’s in the film – there’s lashings of cannibalism, a bloke in a gimp suit that runs around with a shotgun and a slightly insane mother who is very worthy of a straight jacket. But still, I love it. Basically about a white-person family in a black-person neighbourhood  who owns the block and is rinsing them of all their money. The people revolt and try and steal some gold coins, but they find the family are a bit more than they seem when they realise they are keeping children hostage and “getting rid of them” if they see/speak/hear evil. Amazing.

Pop over to Kate’s blog for some other fantastic lists by some fantastic people. Reading some of their lists really made me question mine, especially when Kate said she nearly included Dead Man’s Shoes on her list – that film definitely narrowly missed this one. Fantastic film by one of my favourite directors, Shane Meadows. Raw British talent and a really heart-strings-pulling storyline. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

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  1. kate (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 10:02 am) (Reply to this)

    A true film lovers list. Pan’s Labyrinth is awesome – have never heard of the Orphange but fear it may be too scary for a wuss like me?? Stand by me nearly made my list too. x


    • Hannah (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 10:02 am) (Reply to this)

      I don’t think so. It’s a Ghost story but in Guillermo’s lovely artistic way. It’s a little chilling at times, but a lot of it isn’t properly scary – it’s absolutely brilliant x


  2. Jayne (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 10:02 am) (Reply to this)

    Oh god, Stand by Me, I can’t believe I missed that off of mine! I wish it could have been a top 10…or 20…argh, I’d never stop!


    • Hannah (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 11:02 am) (Reply to this)

      So difficult isn’t it!


  3. A Farmer's Wife (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 11:02 am) (Reply to this)

    Stand By Me was a great movie. Have you ever read the Stephen King novella (or very long short story!) it was based on? It is called “The Body” – it is also very, very good. I adore Stephen King’s writing.


    • Hannah (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 11:02 am) (Reply to this)

      I have read it yeah – I love Stephen King’s writing too. I have read quite a few of his books. This one made a fabulous film x


  4. QWERTY Mum (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 01:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I love Stand By Me with the beautiful River Phoenix. Such a tragedy that he died so young.


  5. SAHMlovingit (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 08:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    What a fab list! And we share one too :)

    I adore Pan’s Labyrinth but I’ve never seen The Orphanage so I’m off to check that out now. Thanks Hannah xx


  6. Jennie (Tuesday 15th February 2011 @ 09:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    Stand By Me and The Lost Boys are two of my favourites and your list has also reminded me of Sleepers, another film that I love.


  7. Christina (mummybeadzoid) (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 10:02 am) (Reply to this)

    Havn’t seen the other 3 but put me in the Stand By Me fan club, and definitely the Lost Boys. Also love that the latter contains a great version of People are Strange by Echo & the Bunnymen :) x


  8. lexie martin (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 12:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I HEART Keifer Sutherland. Totally should have put Lost Boys on my list.


  9. Mañana Mama (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 05:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I feel like an out of touch cultural lame-o now, because I haven’t seen a single one of these!!! But they all go in the rental queue…


    • Hannah (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 06:02 pm) (Reply to this)

      Oh dear… you’re missing out!! And only one of these is recent – the rest are from the ’80s and ’90s! They are all fab! Hope you watch them eventually :) xx


  10. Minty (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 08:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I went to see the Orphanage at the cinema and – wow! Shat meself, but yet the ending was so sad and kind of beautiful too. it was one of the best fims I’d ever seen! There’s not enough you can say is there? Just go see it! I would have put this /pans lab in my list but I shall re-think. All keifer things are good too :-)


    • Hannah (Thursday 17th February 2011 @ 08:02 pm) (Reply to this)

      Brilliant isn’t it? I found it so chilling, but so beautiful at the end. Brilliant film x


  11. Circus Queen (Friday 18th February 2011 @ 03:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    These are all films that I’ve meant to see but never have. Pathetic, huh? May use the rest of this month to rectify that.


    • Hannah (Friday 18th February 2011 @ 03:02 pm) (Reply to this)

      Definitely worth watching! Over and Over! :)


  12. This Mid 30s Life (Friday 18th February 2011 @ 08:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen any of these. And there I was, calling myself a film buff! I’m a fake!

    x


  13. Scribbling Mum (Sunday 20th February 2011 @ 02:02 pm) (Reply to this)

    I know all the words to Stand by Me. True. And did you know that, had he not met with an untimely death, River was going to marry me. God, I love him.


    • Hannah (Sunday 20th February 2011 @ 04:02 pm) (Reply to this)

      No he wasn’t! He was gonna marry me I tell you! ME! :D xx


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