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part one : films seen (cinema) 1997-2000 
(Jigsaw Lounge started as XLN, January 2000)
ratings are contemporary - i.e. allotted on the day seen. these may not be the same as the ratings allotted to the films reviewed later for Jigsaw Lounge

Affliction   5   18.3.99
Afterglow  8   2.6.98
Albino Alligator   7   6.6.97
Alien : Resurrection   6   Nov'97  
American Beauty   8   3.12.99
The American Soldier   5   19.1.99
Anaconda   4   15.5.97
Antz   8   3.12.98
Armageddon   5   17.8.98
As Good As It Gets   6   2.3.98
Austin Powers : International Man of Mystery   7   10.9.97 & 11.9.97
The Avengers   1   19.8.98
The Battleship Potemkin   6   31.3.98
Being John Malkovich   10   9.10.99 & 9.12.99
Best Laid Plans   4   3.6.99
Best Men   5   5.8.98
The Biggest Heroes   5   2.2.00
The Big Lebowski   8   9.5.98
Big Night   6   30.5.97
The Blackout   6   27.4.98
The Blair Witch Project   7   7.10.99 & 31.10.99 
Blood Simple   10   26.5.98
Bonnie and Clyde   7   23.3.99
Boogie Nights   8   Nov'97 & 23.1.98 & 26.1.98
Bowfinger   5   28.10.99
The Boys   8   22.2.99
Breakdown   6   1.5.98
Breaking the Waves   8   2.9.98
Brighton Rock   8   25.7.99
Bringing Out the Dead   7   11.1.00
Brown's Requiem   3?   8.6.99
Buffalo '66   6   4.11.98
Bulworth   6   31.1.99
Celebrity   5   23.6.99
Chasing Amy   6   14.11.97 & 8.2.98
The Cider House Rules   6   26.11.99
City of Industry   6   5.7.97
Con Air   7   30.6.97 & 2.7.97
Conspiracy Theory   5   31.8.97
Contact   8   10.10.97
Cookie's Fortune   6    7.9.99
Copland   6   14.12.97
Cotton Mary   3   8.10.99
Cradle Will Rock   5   9.12.99
Crash   7   16.7.97
Cube   8   13.11.98
The Crucible   6   11.3.97
Dark City   6   3.3.98
Days of Heaven   6   20.5.99
The Daytrippers   6   5.6.98
Dead Man's Curve   4   12.6.98
Deconstructing Harry   6   1.3.98 & 19.4.98
Deep Blue Sea   4   14.10.99
Deep Impact   4   18.5.98
Deep Rising   4   23.10.98
Le diable, probablement   4   27.8.99
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y   6   26.2.98
Le diner de cons   3   9.8.99
Dobermann   1   30.1.99
Dogma   8   2.12.99 & 29.12.99
Donnie Brasco   6   26.4.97
Don't Look Back   10   28.7.98
Don't Look Now   10   12.11.98 & 18.4.99
Double Team   4   29.3.98
The Dream Life of Angels   7   11.1.99
Election   5   5.10.99
The Empire Strikes Back   6   13.4.97
The End of Violence   6   9.1.98 & 15.1.98
Enemy of the State   5   26.12.98
Event Horizon   5   27.8.97
eXistenZ   7   30.4.99
The Exorcist   8   2.11.98
Extreme Measures   5   31.1.97
Eyes Wide Shut   7   17.9.99
Face   5?   20.10.97
Face/Off   6   7.11.97 & 10.11.97
The Faculty   5   9.4.99
Fallen   1   28.3.98
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas   5   19.1.99
Felicia's Journey   5   20.10.99
Festen   10   25.5.99 & 27.6.99
Fight Club   8   12.11.99 & 18.11.99
Fin aout, debut septembre   6   20.10.99
Funny Games   10   11.6.98 & 29.11.98
The Game   9   12.10.97 & 19.10.97
Gattaca   7   8.3.99
Get Carter   9   19.6.99 & 21.6.99
Ghostwatch (TV)   7   4.11.99
The Gingerbread Man   4   9.3.98
Go (1999)   6   5.9.99 & 22.9.99
Gods and Monsters   6   14.2.99
Godzilla   2   17.7.98
Good Will Hunting   8   26.2.98 & 25.3.98 & 29.4.98
Grosse Pointe Blank   5   15.8.97
Gummo   10   3.5.98
Happiness   5   16.5.99
Happy, Texas   3   21.11.99
Hard Men   5   10.4.97
High Art   5   9.7.99
Hilary and Jackie   4   17.4.99
His Girl Friday   7   18.4.97
Holy Smoke   6+   8.12.99
The Honeymoon Killers   8   13.1.98
The Ice Storm   8   1.12.97 & 14.5.98
The Idiots   6   1.6.99
I Know What You Did Last Summer   5   12.12.97
In A Lonely Place   7   Dec'97
In the Company of Men  8   20.2.98
Irma Vep   9   24.4.97
The Iron Giant   8   8.10.99 & 18.12.99
I Went Down  6   27.1.98
Jackie Brown   8   16.4.98 & 21.4.98 & 3.11.98
John Carpenter's Vampires   5?   29.10.99
Junk Mail   6   18.6.98
Kansas City   6   11.5.98
Kes   7   29.11.99
Kiss Or Kill   8   Dec'97 & 16.8.98
Kurt and Courtney   6   2.8.98
L.A. Confidential   8   2.11.97 & 3.11.97 & 19.11.97
L.A. Without A Map   4   25.11.99
The Last Days of Disco   8   27.8.98 & 14.9.98
The Last Time I Committed Suicide   6   13.7.98
Liar Liar   5   19.5.97
A Life Less Ordinary   6   30.10.97
Limbo   6   19.8.99
The Limey   7   7.10.99 & 13.1.00
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels   6   13.9.98
The Long Kiss Goodnight   7   24.1.97
Lost Highway   8   11.8.97
Love and Death on Long Island   7   5.7.98
Love is the Devil   7   10.10.98
Manhattan   7   16.3.97
The Matrix   4   6.6.99
The Merchant of Four Seasons   4   23.3.99
Mifune   8   26.8.99 & 11.11.99
Mimic   6   1.7.98
Men In Black   6   10.8.97
Moon Over Broadway   6   28.2.98
The Mummy (1999)   2   30.6.99
My Best Fiend   7   27.8.99
The Myth of Fingerprints   4   4.2.98
Nowhere   6   8.6.98 
Onegin   4   9.10.99
The Opposite of Sex   6   21.2.99
Out of Sight   8   27.11.98 & 6.12.98
Palookaville   7   25.7.97
Pecker   8   15.2.99 & 18.2.99
The People vs Larry Flynt   6   12.4.97
Pi   4    18.1.99
Pleasantville   6   19.3.99
Plein Soleil   5   12.6.97
Point Blank   10   26.7.98 & 4.8.98
The Portrait of a Lady   7   3.3.97
Private Parts   6   15.6.97
Psycho (1998)   7   24.1.99 & 3.2.99
Pusher   7   13.1.97
Pushing Tin   5   8.10.99
The Real Blonde   6   27.2.98
Regeneration   7   2.2.98
The Relic   6   21.5.97
Return of the Jedi   5   24.4.97
Ride with the Devil   6    9.10.99
Ridicule   7   30.12.98
Romeo + Juliet   5   29.3.97
Ronin   4   22.11.98
Rounders   6   23.11.98
Run Lola Run   8   25.8.99 & 14.11.99
Rushmore   9   11.3.99 & 15.9.99 & 12.10.99
Saving Private Ryan   6   11.9.98 & 21.12.98
Scarlet Street   7+   25.4.00
Scream   8   2.5.97 & 18.5.97
Scream 2   6   28.2.98 & 5.5.98
Scrooge   4   22.12.99
Secret Defense   8   6.10.98
Shadow of a Doubt   5   7.9.98
Shakespeare in Love   6   7.2.99 
She's All That   4   23.5.99  
She's The One   6   12.3.97
A Simple Plan   6   21.5.99
The Sixth Sense   6   8.10.99
Sleepy Hollow   7   2.12.99
Snake Eyes   6   6.11.98 & 27.12.98
Sombre   7   14.3.99
Southern Comfort   8   12.7.98
The Spanish Prisoner   5   30.8.98
Sphere   3   7.4.98
Spice World   5   28.12.97
The Spiral Staircase   5   17.8.97
The Spirit of the Beehive   7   17.5.98
Starship Troopers   8   Nov'97 & 1.1.98
Star Wars Ep1 : The Phantom Menace  6   11.7.99
The Straight Story   7   7.10.99 & 15.12.99
Summer of Sam   6?   15.1.99
Sweet and Lowdown   5   10.12.99
The Sweet Hereafter   7   19.19.97
Swingers   10   11.7.97 & 13.7.97
Take the Money and Run   3   2.4.98
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre   8   16.1.99
There's Something About Mary   6   27.9.98
The Thin Red Line   9   5.3.99 (x2) & 3.4.99
The Third Man   10   31.8.99
The Thirteenth Warrior   4   7.11.99
Three Kings   6   6.12.99
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot   4   31.5.98
Tout va bien  4   14.5.98
Trees Lounge   6   15.3.97
The Truman Show   8   9.1.98 & 11.12.98
Two Girls and a Guy   6   25.11.98
Urban Legend   3   3.3.99
Velvet Goldmine   8   28.10.98
Very Bad Things   2   2.2.99
La vie de Jesus   6   9.11.98
Virus   2   10.6.99
Wag the Dog   6   4.3.98 & 13.3.98
Waking Ned   4   29.4.99
Walking and Talking    6   10.2.97
The Waterboy   1   18.5.99
When We Were Kings   6   16.6.97
Wild Man Blues     23.8.98
Wild Things   8   19.5.98 & 1.6.98
Wild Wild West   3   13.8.99
The Wings of the Dove   4   4.1.98
The X-Files   6   21.8.98
Your Friends and Neighbours   6   25.2.99
Zero Effect   8   20.9.98 & 28.9.98

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part two : films seen 1987/8 (cinema); Jan-Jun 1991 (TV/cinema), 1992/3 (cinema)

Ai No Corrida   6   11.2.92
Alien3   6   21.8.92 & 29.8.92
American Graffiti   9   20.2.91
Amsterdamned   7   28.2.91
Angel Heart   10   23.10.87 & 30.10.87 & 14.5.88
Apocalypse Now   8   6.1.91 & 8.2.92
Archangel   1 - walkout   8.9.92
Awakenings   6   2.4.91
Back Roads    6   13.5.91
Bad Lieutenant   6   1.4.93
Barton Fink   7   11.3.92  & 4.4.92
The Bay Boy   6   17.3.91
The Beguiled    6   19.5.91
Belle de Jour   9   2.9.92 & 3.9.92
Billy Liar   7   4.6.91
The Blue Dahlia   8   1.4.91
Brighton Rock   8   7.4.91
Bugsy   7   11.4.92
Camille (1935)  7   27.6.87
Cape Fear (1991)   4   15.3.92
Citizens' Band   6   20.5.91
Cliffhanger   4   25.6.93
Coup de Torchon   8   21.2.91
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)   8   19.1.91
The Day of the Locust   7   23.2.91
The Dead   7   12.3.88
Dead of Winter   6   13.4.91
Deep Cover   7   16.4.93
Don't Look Back   9   15.6.91
Don't Move - Die - And Rise Again!   7   13.12.92
The Doors   3   17.5.91
Drowning By Numbers   7   8.5.91
East of Eden   8   21.8.88
84 Charing Cross Road   4   17.7.87
Escape To Victory   4   31.3.91
Equinox   6   12.7.93
Falling Down   6   6.6.93
Fatal Beauty   4   1.4.91
A Fish Called Wanda   5   29.10.88
The Fly (1988)  6   10.4.88
The Front   7   22.4.91
The Funhouse   3   25.5.91
Garbo Talks   7   4.4.91
Gilda   6   29.3.91
The Godfather   8   23.2.91
The Godfather Part II   9   2.3.91
The Godfather Part III   7   15.3.91 & 10.4.91
Goodfellas   10   24.3.91 & 8.6.91
The Goonies   7   3.4.91
Green Card   7   6.4.91
Groundhog Day   8   15.6.93
Halloween   10   10.7.88
The Haunted Palace   6   15.2.91
Hearts of Darkness   5   18.2.92
Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer   8   11.2.92
Hidden Agenda   7   1.2.91
Howards End   6   20.8.92
Interrogation   8   16.2.91
JFK   4   26.1.92
Jurassic Park   4   27.6.93
Kitty Foyle   6   26.1.91
Knight Moves   5   10.9.92
The Last Detail   7   9.4.91
The Last Tycoon  3   17.2.91
Little Tough Guys In Society   6   26.1.91
The Long Goodbye   9   21.11.93
The Lost Boys   4   1.1.91
Man Bites Dog   7   29.1.93
Manhunter   4   16.2.91
Mean Streets   4   14.12.88
Miller's Crossing   7   8.3.93
Modern Romance   6   24.3.91
Mommie Dearest   7   9.2.91
Monster In a Box   3   9.2.92
My Own Private Idaho   6   1.5.92 & 9.9.92
Naked Lunch   4   5.8.92
The Name of the Rose   7   2.9.87
Nashville   10   20.9.92 & 21.11.93
The Nature of the Beast   7    23.5.91
Night on Earth   4   27.8.92
Ninotchka   7   28.6.87
The Ninth Configuration   8   18.1.91
Nosferatu (1921)   6   14.3.92
The Omen   7   10.7.88
The Player   9   3.7.92 & 7.7.92 & 5.9.92
Play It Again, Sam   8   31.3.91
Prince of Darkness    8   22.11.88
Queen Christina   9   28.6.87
Querelle   7   14.2.88
The Quince Tree Sun   10   1.5.94
Radio Days   7   10.7.87
Raising Arizona   8   10.2.91
Raising Cain   5   8.1.93
Raw Deal   7   1.2.91
Rebel Without A Cause   8   21.8.88
Reservoir Dogs   9   13.10.92 & 17.1.93 & 23.1.93 & 12.4.93
711 Ocean Drive   6   1.3.91
Saturn 3   5   23.3.91
Scum   7   14.4.91
The Simple-Minded Murderer   7   26.3.91
Singles   2   19.2.92
Sleepless in Seattle   5   27.9.93
Society   4   22.3.91
Something Wild   7    9.6.91
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers   7   28.4.91
Straw Dogs   7   13.2.91
Suburbia   7   16.2.91
Taxi Driver   8   14.2.88
Tremors   8   22.3.91
True Romance   6   30.10.93
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me   8   22.11.92
Two-Minute Warning    7   24.5.91
Unlawful Entry   5   18.11.92
The Vanishing [Spoorloos]   9   28.2.91
The Vanishing   7   11.6.93
Veronika Voss   9   14.2.88
Walkabout   8   28.3.91
Wayne's World   4   26.6.92
We Think the World of You   6   12.5.91
Who'll Stop the Rain?   9   21.5.91
Witness   7   21.6.87
Wittgenstein   5   6.4.93
A Woman Under the Influence   6   23.4.92
WR : Mysteries of the Organism   6   8.4.91
Zelig   7   10.3.91







A   N   C   I   E   N   T       H   I   S   T   O   R   Y

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films seen (TV) 1980/4
rating given is either out of four stars, or out of maximum 100; these somewhat rudimentary scales cannot be compared with the rating-out-of-ten system used above and elsewhere on Jigsaw Lounge (cut me some slack: I was nine in 1980).

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)   86   (28.8.83)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)   *** (15.1.82) "very good"
The Amityville Horror (1979)   **   ('83) 
Baron Blood (1972)   ***   ('83) 
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)   **   (11.8.80)
The Beast Must Die (1974)   95   (1.9.80 & 21.10.83)
The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)   **   (5.7.80)
Bedlam (1946)    ***    (1.8.81)
Before I Hang (1940)   *   (26.11.82)
The Black Cat (1934)   88   (27.8.83)
Blackmail (1929)   92   (31.7.82)
The Black Room (1935)   ***   (3.12.82)
Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)   97   (23.4.82) "excellent"
The Body Snatcher (1946)   ***   (22.8.81)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)   96   (16.7.83)
The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)   83   (23.9.83)
Broadway (1942)   ***   (9.1.82) "good gangster musical"
Bug (1975)   ****   (1.8.81)
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1972)   ***   (4.8.80)
Cat People (1942)   **   (11.7.81)
Cat People (1982)   ****   ('83) 
Chamber of Horrors (1966)   ***   (5.7.80)
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957)  **   (2.1.82) "fairly good"
A Child's Voice (1978 short)   ****   (11.12.82)
     "an excellent piece of spine-chilling terror. TP McKenna is, as always,
     superb. Very unnerving : one to see"
Citizen Kane (1941)    **   (17.4.82) "fair, but what a BORE"
The Crazies (1973)   *   (25.7.81)
Crime of Passion (1956)   *   (16.1.82) "sends one to sleep"
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)   ***   (15.8.81)
Curse of the Werewolf (1961)   **   (26.7.80)
The Darker Side of Terror (1979 TVM)   82   (6.2.82) "fair"
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TVM)   *1/2   ('83) 
Dark Passage (1947)   **    (13.12.82) "good"
Daughters of Satan (1972)   **   (19.7.80)
Dead of Night (1977)   90   (10.4.82)
     "scary horror compendium - third and last is best"
Death Wish II (1982)   ***   ('83) 
Demented (1980)   ***   ('83) 
The Devil Commands (1941)   **   (19.11.82)
The Devil Doll (1936)   **   (19.7.80)
Dial M For Murder (1954)   93   (25.7.82)
Doomwatch (1972)   *** (14.5.82) "very good"
Dracula (1931)   62   (9.7.83)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)   82   (23.7.83)
Dressed To Kill (1946)   **    (16.4.82) "good"
Dressed To Kill (1981)   ****   ('83) 
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)   **   (14.5.82) "fair"
Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965)   ***   (12.7.80)
Echoes (1983)   **   ('83) 
The Evil Dead (1981)   ***1/2   ('83) 
Eye of the Cat (1969)   ***   (15.8.81)
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)   84   (16.9.83)
Family Reunion (1981 TVM)   ****   (27.6.82) "superb, excellent"
The Final Conflict : Omen III   (1981)    ****    ('83)  
Frankenstein (1931)   88   (9.7.83)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)   87   (6.8.83)
Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981)   **   ('83) 
The Frightened City (1960)   *   (20.2.82)    "sleeper. zzzzzzz."
From Beyond the Grave (1973)   85   (26.7.80 & 5.11.83)
From Russia With Love (1963)   ***   (31.10.82)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)   87   (30.7.83)
The Ghoul (1975)   **   (29.6.80)
Halloween (1978)   99   (3.2.82)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)   ***1/2   ('83) 
The Haunting (1963)   93   (6.3.82) "excellent and scary"
Honeymoon Horror (1982)   *   ('83) 
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)   *** (8.1.82) "classic tale. very good"
House of Dracula (1945)   88   (20.8.83)
House of Frankenstein (1944)   87   (13.8.83)
The Howling (1981)   **   ('83) 
I Confess (1952)   90   (14.8.82)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979)   ***   (12.6.82)
Invisible Agent (1942)   86   (14.8.83)
The Invisible Man (1933)   92   (17.7.83)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)   86   (24.7.83)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)   91   (21.8.83)
The Invisible Woman (1940)   85   (10.9.83)
Isle of the Dead (1945)   ****   (25.7.81)
I Walked With A Zombie (1943)   **   (4.7.81)
Journey Into Fear (1942)   ****   (24.2.82) "superb"
The Leopard Man (1943)   *   (8.8.81)
The Lost Continent (1968)   89   (29.1.82) "corny Hammer"
The Mad Ghoul (1943)   **   (12.7.80)
Mad Monster Party (1967)   87   (10.4.82) "good puppet horror"
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)   ***   (18.4.82) "very good: better than Kane"
The Man in Half Moon Street (1943)   85   (23.1.82) "fair horror"
The Manitou (1978)   ***1/2   ('83) 
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)   *   (12.11.82)
Marathon Man (1976)   ****   (26.6.82)
Marnie (1964)   92   (28.8.82)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)   ***   (10.12.82)
The Medusa Touch (1978)   96   (4.2.82) "excellent"
The Mummy (1932)   86   (30.7.83)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)   83   (20.8.83)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)   75   (27.8.83)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)   ***   (11.7.81)
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)   84   (16.4.82) "poor"
The Night of the Hunter (1955)   ***   (30.10.82)
Night of the Demon (1956)   ****   (29.6.80)
Night of the Lepus (1972)   ****   (11.8.80)
Night of the Living Dead (1969)   *   ('83) 
A Night To Remember (1944)   ****  (6.2.82)
          "superb, excellent, funny - don't miss it"
Notorious (1946)   89   (7.8.82)
On Golden Pond (1981)   ****   ('83) 
Peeping Tom (1960)   90    (28.10.83)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)   95   (23.4.82) "superb silent classic"
Poison Pen (1946)   ** (27.3.82) "quaint mystery"
Psycho (1960)  99   (24.7.82)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)   ** (2.4.82) "good Holmes"
Race with the Devil (1975)   **   (18.7.81)
The Raven (1935)   60   (27.8.83)
Rebecca (1940)   99   (2.10.82)
Rich and Strange (1932)   92   (21.8.82)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)   97   (19.11.83)
Scanners (1980)   **   ('83) 
Scared Stiff (1953)    **   (8.5.82)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)   **** (12.3.82) "one of the best Holmes"
Secret People (1944)   ***   (30.1.82) "moving"
The Seventh Victim (1943)   *   (18.7.81)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)   94   (31.7.82)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)   **   (29.1.82) "fair"
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)   ** (12.2.82) "good. a few nice twists"
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)   **   (22.1.82) "updated but good"
The Shuttered Room (1966)   96   (8.8.81 & 12.11.83)
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)   ** (13.3.82) "good Ealing film - the last"
The Skull (1965)   *   (25.8.80)
Son of Dracula (1943)   85   (13.8.83)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)   81   (23.7.83)
Son of Kong (1933)   88   (31.3.82) "not bad sequel to classic"
Spellbound (1945)   93   (18.9.82)
Spider Woman (1944)   *** (5.2.82) "superior Holmes"
Stage Fright (1950)    92.5   (11.9.82)
The Stranger (1946)   **   (25.4.82) "good"
Strangers on a Train (1951)   95   (24.7.82)
Suspicion (1941)   93   (21.8.82)
The Telephone Box (1972 TVM - short)   ****   (25.7.81)
Terror By Night (1946)   ****    (26.3.82) "the best Holmes"
Theatre of Blood (1973)   ****   (22.8.81)
The Thing (1982)   ****   ('83) 
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)   93   (4.9.82)
Torn Curtain (1966)   93   (9.10.82)
Touch of Evil (1958)   *   (15.5.82) "poor"
Tower of London (1939)   *   (25.8.80)
Under Capricorn (1949)   91   (21.8.82)
Under the Gun (1950)   **   (26.6.82)
The Undying Monster (1942)   ***   (3.6.84) "low-budget lycanthropy"
Valley of Gwangi (1968)   **   (9.6.82) "good horror"
Vampira (1974)   91   (24.3.82) "good spoof - Peter Bayliss very funny"
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)   83   (30.9.83)
Where Time Began (1976)   83   (12.4.82)
The Wicked Lady (1945)   **** (13.2.82) "moving, romantic, funny"
The Wolf Man (1941)   85   (6.8.83)
The Woman in Green (1945)   ** (5.3.82) "fair"
A Woman's Vengeance (1946)   **** (27.2.82) "great murder mystery"
The Wrong Man (1957)   91   (25.9.82)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)   **   (1.11.82)
Zoltan : Hound of Dracula (1977)   ***   (4.7.81)
Zombies : Dawn of the Dead (1979)   *1/2   ('83) 


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Top 10 horror films, 24th April 1982
1 : The Omen (1976)
2 : Halloween (1978)
3 : Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 TVM)
4 : Jaws (1976)
5 : Theatre of Blood (1973)
6 : The Medusa Touch (1978)
7 : Night of the Lepus (1972)
8 : Horror Express (1972)
9 : Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)
10 : Salem's Lot (1979 TVM)


Top 12 horror films, 21st May 1983
1 : Don't Look Now (1973)
2 : Damien - Omen II (1978)
3 : The Omen (1976)
4 : The Final Conflict - Omen III (1981)
5 : Halloween (1978)
6 : An American Werewolf in London (1981)
7 : Alien (1979)
8 : Halloween II (1981)
9 : The Thing (1982)
10 : Dressed to Kill (1981)
11 : The Evil Dead (1981)
12 : Psycho  (1960)

NB : Ratings and comments on this page are "contemporary" (date on which film was seen is provided) and thus for information only (the more recent they are, the more reliable). In some instances they differ from those to be found elsewhere in Jigsaw Lounge (including the Hall of Fame etc).

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