50. Creep (Patrick Brice - 2014)
This found footage, low budget flick set in the middle of nowhere resulted in what is certainly up there with the most tense hour of my life, it's a slow burner, and takes a short while to get into, but is more than worth the wait in my opinion.
The film follows a videographer (if that's a word) named Aaron (Patrick Brice, who is also the producer and writer in addition to starring and directing. But this isn't a red flag like it usually is) who is hired to follow an enigmatic man named Josef, who lives in the wilderness, in order to video messages for his unborn son. But Josef's demands slowly become odd, he commands Aaron to film him naked in the bath, is repeatedly caught contradicting himself, and is reluctant for Aaron to leave when night falls, and then a whole lot more.
It's truly shocking, because it's actually quite original and refreshing. Josef is off his rocker, but he's highly perceptive and intelligent, and always manages to re-assure us and Aaron that he's just a little unstable, and lonely, but is desperate to change.
I don't want to give too much else away. But this is anything but a Blair Witch rip off like the vast majority of found footage films, and it isn't a cheap imitation of Psycho like most films with maniacal antagonists are.
49. The Editor (Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy - 2014)
This ode to European giallos that have long since died out is a rare breed of film to me. It's a horror-comedy I actually like
it manages to spoof the giallo sub-genre with sardonic wit. The sometimes too obvious misogyny, over the top characters with even more ridiculous acting, and the just unbelievable circumstances are all put under fire here.
But it's stylish, violent, and the only modern giallo I can think of, so as much as it is a spoof, it's all tongue in cheek, and quite a nice love letter to the 70s. It also has Tristan Risk, and Laurence Harvey, both of whom are criminally under exposed. And both of them deliver here, and steal their respective scenes. Especially Ms Risk... who displays literally everything on various occasions!